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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
6
Joda Hamilton, a 20 year old Missouri farmer, murdered Barney Parsons and his wife and three children on October 12. He shot Parsons, killed the family, dumped the bodies in a creek, and confessed before being hanged in Houston, Mo.
A man named Frank Fred Ellerbrook, 53, attempted to shoot Judge Cutting in the Criminal Court rotunda as the jurist prepared to enter an elevator. The attacker, identified by Cutting as a probate case witness, was seized and held at Chicago Avenue station. He claimed fraud in a $30,000 estate.
The Parish Church at Baldernock near Glasgow, a prereformation structure with an outside stair and watch towers used to guard the dead, was burned. Roosevelt ancestors are linked to the site.
Curtis Jett was found guilty of the assassination of James Cockrell in Jackson Kentucky four years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment. He confessed during the trial at Cynthiana that he alone killed Cockrell. Jett is already serving a life term for complicity in the murder of Attorney Marcum years earlier.
Henry Davis known as Henry Chambers, a colored man who confessed to a felonious assault on Mrs. John Reid of Brownsville near Annapolis Maryland, was taken from Annapolis jail by about sixty masked men and lynched. He was strung up and shot multiple times.
Max Kaftle a Russian man killed his wife in Butler Pennsylvania by striking her on the head with an iron He injured a young daughter and a boarder Kaftle told police I have a right to kill my wife It s nobody s business but my own
Henry White, an African American man who killed Marshal Bashore at Franklin Ohio and escaped from Lebanon jail, was found guilty of murder in the first degree according to court verdict.
Five week old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Jones of Indianapolis Indiana fatally burned when its bed clothing caught fire. Authorities reported the incident as a tragic accidental fire in the residence with the infant succumbing to burns.
A Wells Fargo express box said to contain $30,000 was stolen from the Wells Fargo office in Reno Nevada. Police investigate the heist as the missing box prompts a money theft inquiry.
Governor Higgins of New York commuted Albert T. Patrick's sentence for the murder of William Marsh Rice. Patrick, now in Sing Sing's death house, will serve life imprisonment.
A masked bandit fatally shoots Joe Dale a Denver Rio Grande ticket agent in Leadville Colorado then robs the cash drawer and escapes. Detective work begins as authorities search for the culprit and secure the depot and surrounding area.
President Roosevelt delivers a lengthy message defending the Panama Canal project. He critiques foreign slander, praises sanitation progress, reveals on site observations in Panama and Colon, notes health gains, labor mix including Jamaican and Spanish workers, and emphasizes contracting strategy and national significance.
Towboats departed Pittsburg harbor with 2,500,000 bushels of coal bound for southern points, part of about 6,000,000 bushels sent south in two days.
The British House of Lords failed to agree on the education bill prompting discussion that the government may withdraw the measure.
Senate failed to convene on Saturday while the House passed 350 invalid pension bills and an urgent deficiency appropriation of 581 500 dollars. The session set January 20 for Senator Bate's death and discussed Indian affairs, child labor, and Jamestown exposition funding. Adjournment planned for early January 1907.
Representative John S. Little resigns from Congress for Arkansas governor elect status. President Roosevelt hosts New York governor elect Hughes at the White House. Panama Canal bid opening delayed from December 12 to January 12. Senator Frye withdraws compulsory pilotage bill from Senate calendar after House defeat. House rejects bill validating 20 000 naturalization certificates due to clerical errors on anarchist questions. measure to be reintroduced. Jane Addams and Mary McDowell urge immigration bill review before excluding aliens. Senate asks judiciary committee if Congress can ban interstate commerce in child labor made goods under the commerce clause. Trouss committee reports a favorable bill to validate 20 000 questionable naturalization certificates. U S meat and dairy exports rise 60 percent in ten years reaching 250 million this year per Commerce and Labor. Senators Cullom and Hopkins push to appoint Oliver Be Pagin as assistant attorney general. Dover, New Jersey, selected for government powder factory site with $165 000 budget. Roosevelt and family dine with Fairbanks and Cannon, Reid. reception includes several dignitaries. Nobel of St Petersburg sends peace prize congratulatory cablegram to Roosevelt.
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