Stokes Testifies in Baltic Letters Blackmail Shooting Case
Stokes described his New York office meeting with Miss Conrad and Miss Graham as they demanded the 18 letters he had written to Mrs Graham. He testified of being shot in the leg and stomach as they threatened him with death or a $25,000 payment. He recounted the three assailants, including three Japanese, assaulting him in the hall.
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Stokes
Graham and
Conrad
Graham
Sullivan
Mtiss Graham
Miss Graham
Seattle
Los Angeles
New York
Miss Conrad
Ethel
Wwe
Stokes Testimony On Payments To Girls Ties To 18 Letters
Stokes described giving money to two girls and $200 for steamship tickets on condition the 18 letters were returned. While he spoke, the two defendants at the counsel table admitted shooting him, yet claimed a different motive. They sat in blue suits, often whispering to attorneys, seeming close to bursts of mirth.
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Stokes
Cat
Letters From Stokes To Miss Graham Revealed
New York July 6 letters from Stokes to Miss Graham disclose advice about life and marriage. One December 1909 letter warns the stage offers a heartless social life and urges marrying a rich young man for lasting companionship. Other missives from Chicago discuss age, divorce, and plans to seek a widow or divorcee, with notes on a 40 year old fortune and a Memphis telegram praising health and looks.
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New York
Stokes
Miss Graham
Graham
Chicago
Auburndale Avenue
Memphis
Tenn
Chaplain to King Is Wed in London
The Rev Frederick Percival Farrar rector of Sandringham and chaplain to the King married Miss Nora Davis at St Andrew’s Westminster. Guests included Ambassador Reid, Mr and Mrs John Hays Hammond, Sir William Osler and others. The couple will reside at Sandringham after a continental trip.
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London
Frederick Percival Farrar
Sandringham
Nora Davis
St. Andrew's
Westminster
L. Clarke Davis
Philadelphia
Richard Harding Davis
John Hays Hammond
Charles B. Davis
Anthony Hope
Hope
Louis Starr
Starr
Anthony J. Drexel
William Osler
Osler
King George
Queen Mary
Alexandra
Prince of Wales
Princess Victoria
Princess Mary
Reid
South End Children Depart for Summer Camps
More than 150 South End children left yesterday for two months at South Athol camps run by Boston Morgan Memorial. They rode the Fitchburg train amid cheering crowds as physicians nurses and ministers selected them from hospitals and crowded tenements to seek health close to nature this summer. Rev. W I Shattuck led the trip and officials noted many were highly promoted students despite illness from city conditions.
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South End
South Athol
Boston Morgan Memorial
North Station
Morgan Memorial
Fitchburg
L A U D S E D D Y C U L T I N S E N A T E
Senator Works of California defended Christian Science in the Senate addressing a counter to Senator Owen’s health department bill. He argued the AMA seeks to control medicine and praised Christian Science for saving his life aiding his wife and curing his son of the drink habit.
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Washington
Scoffer
Senate
Senator Works
California
Owen
Department of Public Health
Works
Department of Health
American Medical Association
Christian Science
Life guards save sinking swimmer off North End pier
Michael De Nutti, 23, of 178 Endicott Street North Fe End, was rescued yesterday afternoon by Life Guards Burke and Swanson after cramps pulled him underwater off the North End pier. He rested at Relief Hospital.
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Michael] de Nuttii
Endicott Street
North FE End
Burke and Swanson
de Nutti
Relief Hospital
North End
Raffles for Food Nabbed in Brooklyn Burglaries
Lt Karl Von Metz Meyer of the Norwegian army admitted to about twenty burglaries in Brooklyn's fashionable residential area to obtain food and shelter. He faced $2900 bail for the grand jury. Police found 3000 marriage inquiry letters, a paper cutter stiletto and a silk mask in his room while he posed as a society gentleman.
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New York
Karl von Metz-Meyer
Brooklyn
Leutenant
von Metz-Meyer
Norway
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Stores
Lillian
Miss. Conrad
Lillian Graham
W. E. D. Stokes
G. G. Bain
Che
Tunnel
J.G. Small CO
Washington St
the Small Co.’S
Conalescents
W.I. Shattuck
Morgan Memorial Hall
Washington and
Franklin Streets
Tremont St
Priestley Cravenettes
Washington St. Cor. Franklin
Army Society Exquisite
Comic Section
Sherlock Holmes
Han Haskell Dole
PD Pato
Penelope
New England
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