Sidna Allen trial nears verdict as gunman accusation rises
Wytheville Virginia November reports conclude three witnesses in the Sidna Allen murder trial at Hillsville. Defense and Commonwealth close rebuttal evidence and prepare final instructions. Testimony includes a dying declaration accusing Dexter Goad of the Hillsville back shot and a witness recounting Sidna Allen’s gunfire outside the courthouse. The case nears jury deliberation with possible first or second degree murder outcomes.
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Wytheville
Sidna Allen
Massie
Hillsville
Ben
Commonwealth
Willnesses
J. K. Kearn
Roanoke
Hillsville Court
Alice Thompson
Allens
Bettie Ayres
Miss Thompson
Miss Ayers
Dexter Goad
Court House
Staples
C. B. Nichols
Victor Ailen
Floyd
W. G. Harris
Sidna
Harris
Willis
Floyd Allen
Friday the Thirteenth Is Doomsday for Allens
Floyd Allen and his son Claude Swanson Allen faced execution for Hillsville courthouse murders. The date was moved from November 23 to December 12 to allow Claude to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on double jeopardy grounds. Governor Mann granted a respite after Judge Staples requested the delay. Floyd was condemned for killing Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. Claude Swanson was first jailed for a judge’s murder and later sentenced to death for Foster’s killing.
Miss Farley Tells Her Story at City Park Shooting Trial
In Columbus on November 19 hundreds of spectators, mainly women, packed the criminal court room to hear Miss Cecelia Farley, the stenographer, recount her life during the long stalled trial over the May shooting of Alvin Zollinger, advertising solicitor, in City Park.
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Miss Farley
Columbus
Ohio
Alvin Zollinger
City Park
Cecelia Farley
Fateful shooting links to years with Zollinger and arrest
A timeline traces the years from when she first met Zollinger to the fatal shooting that led to the arrest of the woman and her fence Jerome Quigley. The article outlines key events and the progression of the case.
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Zollinger
Jerome Quigley
Retail Merchants Convene to Defend Prices in High Cost Era
In St Louis on November 19 a national convention of the National Federation of Retail Merchants opened at Planters Hotel. The slogan promises a square deal for the small retailer as leaders protest being blamed for high living costs. Martin J. Maloney of Detroit presides. Senator Jonathan Bourne Jr. of Oregon will discuss parcels post. Charles Nate of the commerce and labor department will address Sherman act amendments.
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St. Louis
Planters
National Federation of Retail Merchants
Martin J. Maloney
Detroit
Wll
Jonathan Bourse, Jr
Oregon
Charles Nate
Commerce and Labor
Three Die in George's Hotel Fire in Los Angeles
A hotel fire in Los Angeles at George's Hotel killed three people and injured twenty. Residents jumped from upper floors as flames rose from the second floor. A mother saved her year-old baby from a fifth story window by leaping into a net but perished moments later.
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Los Angeles
George's Hotel
Could Earn Money Blowing Up Bridges Trial Testimony
Indianapolis reports at the dynamiting conspiracy trial detail W Bert Brown of the Kansas City iron workers union and James B McNamara alleged to plan a Missouri River bridge explosion. Charles Brown testifies he met McManigal who offered $200 to blow the bridge and recounted meeting Bert Brown.
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Indianapolis
Kansas City
W. Bert Brown
Iron Workers
Jas. B. McNamara
Missouri
Los Angeles
Charles Brown
McNamara
Ortie McManigal
Brown
William McCain
Federal commission must be supreme in interstate trade
Washington on November 1 1931 the chairman of the interstate commerce commission urged that there be no state line in U S commercial interests and called for the federal commission to be supreme to regulate traffic and prevent any state from gaining advantage over others in trade.
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United States
Washington
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Association of Railway Commissioners
Federal Commission
Woman testifies on Greenwood Lake tragedy witness accounts
Mrs Emmanuel Benninger of Paterson New Jersey testified for the state in the Burton W Gibson murder trial recounting how she glimpsed the July drowning of Rosa Menschik Szabo from the shore using opera glasses. Her testimony aimed to counter Gibson’s defense from the preliminary hearing.
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Goshen
N. Y
Greenwood Lake
Rosa Menschik Szabo
Burton W. Gibson
New York
Emmanuel Benninger
Paterson
Gibson
Dibson
Robbers Blow Safe in Bowling Green Heist
Robbers used nitroglycerine to blast the safe of Munn Brothers Bark and escape with 4000 dollars in Bowling Green Ohio on November 19. Four charges were used and residents were aroused by the explosions.
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Bowling Green
Ohio
Munn Brothers
Four gunmen condemned to death chair in Rosenthal case
Gyp the Blood Lefty Louie Dago Frank and Whittie Lewis were found guilty of murdering Herman Rosenthal and face the death penalty at Sing Sing. The jury deliberated twenty minutes and the defendants planned appeals while remaining in custody with Lieutenant Becker’s men.
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Herman
Rosenthal
Chas. Becker
New York
Gyp
Lefty Louie
Dago Frank
Whittie Lewis
Herman Rosenthal
Tare Gambler
Charles Hecker
Ecker
Goff
Whitey Lewis
Weeping thief dies in Bronx hotel standoff with detectives
Henry Voel known as the weeping thief and saint dies fighting detectives in a Bronx hotel. Autopsy shows he fired on officers and killed one man while wounding four. a pistol bullet from a detective revolver killed him. A companion woman also died from detectives fire. Authorities note Voel’s large gang of servants and loot were found in trunks with jewelry and weapons. a fragment hints at suicide among conspirators.
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New York
Henry Voeel
Bronx
Vocel
Irl
War spoils worth ten million dollars seized in Monastir
A Belgrade dispatch reports three days of fighting at Monastir leaving about 20 000 dead or wounded including 5 000 Turks. War spoils are estimated at 10 000 000 dollars with 100 000 rifles and 81 wagons of ammunition. Lack of artillery hindered Turkish resistance.
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Monastir
Belgrade
London
Kumanova
Servian Montenegrin Troops Capture Alessio Town
In Montenegro on Nov 19 the combined Servian and Montenegrin forces occupied Alessio on the Adriatic coast. Alessio had been the chief supply base for the Turkish garrison at Sentari, making its seizure strategically important for the Allied advance.
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Ricka
Montenegro
Alessio
Adriatic
Sentari
Charleston Strikers Battle Strikebreakers in Cabin Creek Dispute
In Cabin Creek district martial law trials proceed as federal and state authorities seek to restore order. A woman is beaten with a club during clashes as two men, thought to be strikebreakers bound for Chicago, are attacked by striker sympathizers. Joe Raines faces charges of intimidation and blocking a train. Charles Jarrell and Dan Chain are tried for threats against workers. About one hundred strikers seek aid to return home. over fifty sleep in Charleston city hall.
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Charleston
W. Va
Noy i
Cabin Creek
Montgomery
Chicago
Joe Raines
Cabin Creek Junction
Raines
Charles Jarrell
Dan Chain
Glasscock
Chesapeake and Ohio
New York
Second Lynching Reported Near McIntosh Florida
A second lynching tied to the Berges murder and the Stevenson killing near McIntosh was reported in Jacksonville. A black man found hanged near the crime scene was identified as John Archer of Boardman, said to have helped plan the murder by Preech Neills, who had been lynched earlier.
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Jacksonville
Fla
James Berges
Mary Stevenson
McIntosh
John Archer
Boardman
Preech Neills
Sherman law must be amended or ended
Rochester New York November 19 all day discussion of the Sherman amendment to the anti trust law as interpreted in the Danbury Hatters case prevented the AFL committee of education from considering its report on industrial unionism. The convention debated methods to combat the law with radical and conservative wings diverging over political action versus electing labor men. The sentiment was that the law should be amended or ended and Socialist plans to defeat it drew rebuke from President Gompers.
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Rochester
N. Y
Danbury Hatters
American Federation of Labor
Committee of Education
Committee On
Gompers
Congress
Gowpers
Federation
Policy Clash Over Federation Prosecution Sparks Debate
Fragmentary passage shows a policy opposed by President Gompers and others arguing it would invite the prosecution of the federation under the same law. The text hints at internal disagreement within a labor movement historical context.
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Gompers
Reversed Order of Foreign Marriages Celebrated in London
An international marriage reversed the usual pattern as Countess Camilla Hoyos wed Charles Short Jr. of Orton at Holy Trinity Church Salone Street. The couple, with a large society turnout, plans to reside in Boston.
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London
Holy Trinity Church
Salone Street
Camilla Hoyos
Chas.hort, Jr
Orton
Count Hoyos
Short
Brussels
Onderland Place
Count George Hoyos
Fiume
Austria
William Whitehead
Herbert Biemarck
Mr. Fhort
Cincinnati
Harvard
Boston
Six Die in Seaboard Wreck Near Granite N C
Richmond reports six killed and many injured in a head on collision between Seaboard Air Line Florida Cuba specials near Granite North Carolina. Trains 81 and 84 north and south bound from New York to Jacksonville and Tampa. Injured include conductors Tilghman and Shannonhouse.
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Richmond
Granite
N. C
C. H. Beckham
W. A. Falson
Ooth
Raleigh
O. W. Priddy
Boykins
Vaxpress
King
New York
Jacksonville
Tampa
Taft's Secretary Appointments In Washington
Carmi Thompson will be appointed United States treasurer within days to succeed Lee McClung who resigned. Charles D. Hilles returns and resumes his post as the president's secretary in Washington.
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Carmi Thompson
Washington
Taft
United States
Lee McClung
Chas. D. Hilles
Roosevelt’s Assailant May Not Face Trial
Milwaukee reports that John Schrank who shot Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on the night of October 13 will likely be deemed insane by five alienists appointed by Judge Backus. If found insane he cannot be tried for attempted murder and would be confined at the hospital for the criminal insane in Oshkosh.
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Milwaukee
John Schrank
Theodore Roosevelt
Backus
Schrank
Mexico City Shaken by Four-Minute Earthquake
A Mexico City tremor today lasted about four minutes with limited damage and two deaths reported. The quake hit hardest in the State of Mexico with eight small towns damaged. several church towers fell and Pinkston village was nearly destroyed with numerous deaths reported.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Pinkston
Charge Against Johnson Dismissed
The abduction charge against Jack Johnson was dismissed by Judge Hopkins due to the prosecution’s inability to prove that Lucile Cameron, a white girl, went with Johnson of her own free will.
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Johnson
Chicago
Jack Johnson
Hopkins
Lucile Camerlon
Hnd
Special jury panel drawn in National Cash Register case
The National Cash Register Company faces 30 defendants charged with conspiracy to obstruct and monopolize the cash register business under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Dayton leaders Paterson Deeds Edgeter Browns Muzzey Pflom Thomas cited along with many branch managers. Indictments cover a three year period as the government alleges monopoly methods including patent threats, imitations called knockers, tampering, counterfeit companies, patent seizures, buyouts, and bribery.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
National Cash Register Company
Wilson
United States District Cour
Federal Grand Jury
John H. Patterson
Edward A. Deeds
George C. Edgeter
W. F. Browns
William H. Muzzey
Willian Pflom
Alfred H. Thomas
Dayton
Kansas Agricultural Congress Opens Near Hutchinson
Agricultural experts and progressive farmers gathered in Hutchinson Kansas for the Kansas Agricultural and Industrial Congress. The sessions will last two days with topics on increased yields better highways improved marketing and strategies to keep the farmer on the farm drawing most attention.
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Hutchinson
Kas
Kansas Agricultural and Industrial Congress
Watson Indicted in Federal Court for Obscene Mailings
Augusta Ga November 19 E Watson longtime Peoples party candidate and editor of The Watson Jeffersonian was indicted by a federal grand jury on sending obscene matter through the mail. The articles attacking Catholicism were deemed obscene and improper for court records. Watson bound over to the grand jury previously in an $800 bond. He will not be rearrested and the ban lasts until the March term. trial likely to follow.
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Augusta
E. Watson
Peoples Party
United States
Watson Jeffersonian
Watson
Grand Jury
Wire Tappers Indicted In Multi-State Swindle Case
Seven men arrested in New York for wire tapping swindle were indicted for grand larceny in the second degree. Chas Gendrith dubbed king of the wire tappers faces charges related to a $35,000 fraud on Major Gray Pemberton of Palm Beach Florida and a $23,000 swindle of J C Pidbury and Dr J W Powell of Wilmington North Carolina.
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New York
Chas. Gendrith
Gray Pemberton
Palm Beach
Fla
J. C. Pidbury
J. W. Powell
Wilmington
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Claude
Federal Supreme Court
J. B. McNamara
McManigal
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Convrete
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Sing Sing
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Webber
Wallon
Schepp
Rosen
Metropole
Servia
Tehatalja
Nazim Pasha
Turkey
Bulgaria
Tehatalia
Adriatovle
Hurazzo
Scutari
Durazio
Balkan
Europe
Paris
Henry Vocel
Constantinople
Nazim
Mahmoud Mekhtar
Sofia
Federation of Labor
Danbury Hatters Case
South
Carolna
Roosevelt
Tom Watson
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