Six Lions Rampage in Theatre, Several Shot Injured
Lions escaped during a show, roaming the auditorium from gallery to lobby. Trainer La Belle Andree keeper C. A. Turnquist and manager George H. Hamilton were arrested. A pistol battle with police left multiple officers wounded and the lioness Alice killed after a two hour siege. The bandit Holt was killed as police pursued him after a bank robbery and bank cashier Hughes identified him. Lulu Hohl was arrested as the widow of the bandit but money was not recovered.
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la Belle Andree
C. A. Turnquist
George H. Hamilton
Francis Ferari
Kansas City
Howe
Hohl
Lulu Hohl
Frank Hohl
Auto Bandit Robs Banks Then Is Shot At Two Banks
A bank robber at the West End Provident Savings Bank fires twice at cashier Edward Hughes, takes 8000 dollars, and escapes in a stolen car. Over an hour later he hits Liberty Banking and Savings Co on Freeman Avenue, shoots at cashier George Winters, and grabs 5100 dollars before fleeing.
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West End
Provident Savings Bank and Trust Company
Eighth
Freeman Avenues
Edward Hughes
Hughes
Liberty Banking and Savings Company Bank
Liberty and
George Winters
Winters
Bandit's Career: Hohl's Bank Robbery Tactics Then and Now
In Altoona Pennsylvania December 17 a report recounts Frank G Hohl using a stolen taxicab to rob the Union Bank in March. He forces the teller, wounds the cashier, takes 3000 dollars, fires on bystanders, and flees by taxi. He was later arrested in Salem Ohio after matching cartridges found at the boarding house.
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Altoona
Penn
Frank G. Hohl
Union Bank
Cincinnati
Frank Wilson
Hohl
Salem
Pittsburg
Escape from Hollidaysburg Jail by Rope Tied to Chimney
Hohl escaped from Hollidaysburg jail on April 12 by making a rope from a mattress cover and slipping through a barless eight inch gap. He shed clothing, soaped bars, climbed to the roof, then lowered to the ground using the improvised rope. His criminal career began in Harrisburg as a boy.
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Hohl
Hollidaysburg
Harrisburg
Defence for Metcalf Opens as Trial Begins
Providence December 17 The defence of Edward P Metcalf former president of the Atlantic National bank and Henry E DeKay a New York broker on trial for alleged misapplication of funds was outlined Walter Barney counsel for Metcalf said notes and drafts were proper transactions and amply protected when processed He noted on March 31 1913 Metcalfs last day at the bank two drafts 35000 and 12500 were approved by Percy W Gardner successor as president and funds had not left the bank as claimed by the government He added the aim is to show Metcalf was not dishonest and did not intend to steal any money.
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Providence
Edward P. Metcalf
Atlantic National Bank
Henry E. DeKay
New York
Walter Barney
Metcalf
Percy W. Gardner
Barney
Harvard appoints O'Meara and Ellis to lecturing posts
Police Commissioner O'Meara is reappointed lecturer on police administration at Harvard and will begin duties in Cambridge in the second half of the college year. David A. Ellis, ex-Boston school board member, is named lecturer in school administration at Harvard. Paul J. Sachs named assistant director of the Fogg Art Museum resigning from Goldman, Sachs & Co. to serve Harvard.
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Boston
Harvard
O'Meara
Cambridge
David A. Ellis
Bofton School
Paul J. Sachs
Fogg Art Museum
Goldman, Sachs & Co
New York
Moroney Taken to Charles Street Jail After Cyanide Incident
John A E Moroney the attorney who drank cyanide in a detention room at the Superior Court Monday night was moved from Haymarket Square Relief Hospital to Charles Street jail. The district attorney will determine today when Moroney will be brought into court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. E. Moroney
Stuperior Court
Haymarket Square
Charles Street
Moroney
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Tme
Turngist
Madame Andree
Turnquist
Keeeps
Peter Cahill
Lion
Edward J. Nitzburg
Mark McDermott
Alice
Eighty Sixth Street
Third Avenue
Abraham Glaser
Alfred Winter
Glenn
Edward H. Keaveny
James M. Craig
Keaveny
Craig
Blazes
Harry Buckshorn
West Ninth Street
H Edward Knoul
Holt
Provident Bank
Bandit
Altona
Fee
Liberty
Counsel Claims Bank
O’meara
Rik
Eastman
Kodaks
Kodak
Loonen
Waterman’s Fountain Pens
Gillettes
Gem Jr
Durham
Ingersol
Iyxtra Baney
Washington St
United States
Ker-Jaynes
Riker-Jaynes LI
Dickens
Hugo
Shakespeare
Dumas
Heart Songs
Guernsey
Ramekins
Oxford
King’s
Lisle
Earl & Wilson
Prato
Wonder
Steiff Teddy Bears
Kestner Bisque Dolls
Meccano
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