Thaw courtroom drama as sanity trial proceeds
In White Plains on July 12, Harry K Thaw faces the insanity trial before Justice Mills. Thaw refuses Evelyn as a witness, greets his mother, and declares “We will win this time.” Relative observers include his sisters and his mother as testimony begins with Richard Lansing noting Thaws rationality.
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White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Isaac N. Mills
New Hall of Justice
Evelyn Thaw
Thaw
Harry
Roger Clark
Winslow
Westchester County
Mack
Dutchess County
Jerome
Copley Thaw
Yarmouth
George L. Carnegie
Mary Thaw
Charles Morschauser
Richard E. Lansing
Poughkeepsie
Lansing
Hubbard
Bridge City Loan Approved Amid Taxpayers Protest
Loan orders totaling 258 500 dollars approved by both branches of the Cambridge city government and protested by the Taxpayers League comprising over 1000 of the city's largest taxpayers. Mayor Brooks signed the orders yesterday. Rumors said the league would push the case to the Supreme Court.
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Cambridge
Taxpayers’ League
Brooks
Supreme Court
St Stephen’s Parishioners Plan Annual Picnic at Oak Island Grove
Parishioners of St Stephen’s Church in the North End will hold their annual picnic at Oak Island Grove on Wednesday. The event invites all members to gather for food and fellowship at the park.
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St. Stephen's Church of the North End
Oak Island Grove
Taxi Driver Is Pushed Five Feet By His Own Cab
John Sitting a Charlestown taxi chauffeur, was shoved 75 feet then run over by the cab he drove at Bunker Hill and Lexington streets. William H. Fissell his wife Elizabeth and their three year old daughter of 1133 Broadway New York escaped serious injury due to patrolmen McAllister and Fitzpatrick who shut off the cab power in time.
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John Sitting
Bunker Hill
Lexington
Charlestown
William H. Fissell
Elizabeth
Broadway
New York City
McAllister and
Fitzpatrick
Taxi Crash Leaves Sitting Injured in Boston Streets
Sitting, 33, suffered a bad gash under the left eye and bruises after a taxicab ran him down on Lexington street near Bunker Hill monument. He was taken to Relief Hospital by police ambulance. The incident followed Sitting guiding the Fissell party to view the yacht America and the monument, as two electrics stopped to avoid a collision and the cab finally halted after Patrolman McAllister grabbed the emergency brake.
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Sitting
Fissell
Bunker Hill Monument
Boston
America
Chelsea Bridge
Monument
Chelsea Street
Lexington Street
Bunker Hill Street
Fitzpatrick
McAllister
Caced
McAlister
Roxbury Street
Roxbury
Dying After Horse's Dash in New Hampshire
William Irving of Hampton Falls was pinned by a heavy milk wagon in a runa way accident at Kensington on July 12. He had one hand amputated at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport and suffered severe cuts and bruises. he is listed as on the dangerous list.
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Kensington
N. H
William Irving
Hampton Falls
Anna Jaques Hospital
Newburyport
May Cut Tax Upon Business
Representative Samuel W. Mc Call of Winchester leads New England in Taft tariff revision debate. He is seen as the region’s mouthpiece for removing duties, and leather and shoe interests press for free hides to keep shoe prices from rising.
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Samuel W. McCall
Winchester
New England
Taft
Congress
McCall
Time of Historic Tariff Confere nces
Washington July 12 Taft presided as negotiators agreed to drop the corporation tax rate from 2 to 1 percent and revise the measure to address objections from mutual life insurance companies facing income losses. Taft urged conciliation between House and Senate in the tariff talks.
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Washington
White House
Taft
Tariff Conferees Progress Amid Senate House Clash
The President meets tariff conferees for updates while conferences press ahead. Lawmakers discuss tax implications for mutual insurers and long term contracts. House opposition stalls lead bullion amendments and chemical item settlements as talks extend to acids and lighting carbon duties. Continued on Page 12-Second Column.
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Aldrich
Wickersham
Burrows
Smoot
Fordney
Cannon
Senate
Wrights Flight At Fort Myer Sets 40 MPH Pace
Orville Wright完成 a five minute forty second flight at Fort Myer Virginia in the Wright aeroplane reaching about 40 miles per hour. He circled the parade grounds six times covering roughly three and a half miles amid a crowd of prominent officials. Winds delayed the trial and the motor showed occasional issues prompting a short landing. The Wrights plan brief flights until bearings and motor are perfected before the government test.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Wright
Fort Myer
Wright Brothers
Count von Bernstorff
Wrights
Nicholas Longworth
George von L. Meyer
Navy
Francisco de la Barra
Lodge, Lafollette and
Shiveley
Joseph Lester
Ramsdall
Huntington Wilson
Phillips
Mr. Wright
Pictorial News Co
Hartford Man Arraigned in Wife Murder Case
William B. Roberts was arraigned in Hartford on murder charges after his wife Augusta Roberts was found dead at home a month after a reported carriage accident. A neighbor testified Roberts admitted the murder and attempted suicide, saying he would not mind a rope around his neck.
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Hartford
Conn
Augusta Roberts
William B. Roberts
Roberts
Otis Hall
Columbia
Hall
Tornado injures twenty in Butler county procession
A tornado in northeastern Butler county during a funeral procession at Seven Mile Station injured more than twenty people. Five carriages carrying twenty mourners were thrown across a road into a fence with all occupants hurt but none severely.
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Hamilton
Butler County
Seven Mile Station
Sarah Lloyd
Blaze Destroys Ropes Drug Plant on Blaney Street
A two and a half story building housing the Ropes Drug Company on Blaney street was wiped out by fire. Discovered at 11:40 PM the blaze triggered a general alarm and drew all city equipment to the scene.
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Salem
Ropes Drug Company
Blaney Street
Lake boat collision sinks Cowle with fourteen aboard
In heavy fog off Whitefish Point Lighthouse Lake Superior two steel steamers Isaac M. Scott and John B. Cowle collided. The Cowle sank in 50 fathoms with 14 crewmen lost. the Scott returned to Sault Ste. Marie with some Cowle crew. The Scott was on its maiden voyage and escaped serious damage.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Isaac M. Scott
John B. Cowle
Lake Superior
Whitefish Point
Cowle
Scott
Fire razes Ropes Drug Company building
Firefighters fought a blazing wood structure housing the Ropes Drug Company as flames spread rapidly and forced spectators to gather from miles around. The cause remains unknown and losses are expected to be heavy with extensive drug and chemical contents fueling hazardous conditions.
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Ropes Drug Company
Lynn
Essex County
New Cambridge Subway Begins Construction
Work starts on the Cambridge subway project with excavation at Bay Street and Massachusetts Avenue. Crew plans tunnel from Bay Street to Putnam Square then to Central Square, with a 45 by 60 by 40 foot shaft sunk to begin tunneling the Dana Hill district.
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Cambridge
Bay Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Putnam Square
Central Square
Dana Hill
Green Street
Collision sinks Cowle on Lake Superior in 1902 flagship
The John B. Cowle and the Scott nearly collided. the Cowle penetrated by 15 feet and sank within three minutes after water rushed into the great opening. A boat or line was thrown from the Scott. three men escaped. Survivors list engineers, firemen, deck hands, the second cook, porter and an oiler. The Cowle, 445 feet long and 50 feet beam, was owned by Cowle Transit Co of Cleveland and began service in 1902. Captain Rogers of the Cowle was rescued by the Goodyear. Names of the dead could not yet be secured.
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Scott
Cowle
Lake Superior
Une
Goodyear
Rogers
John B. Cowle
Cowle Transit Company
Cleveland
Wife of Local Man Claims English Millionaire Heir
Middleboro July 12 Edward C Reed asserts his wife is a direct heir to the English estate of Charles Morrison valued at 75 million Morrison a Reading England bachelor and Reading native was great uncle to Reed's wife and brother to her grandfather
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Middleboro
Edward C. Reed
Charles Morrison
England
Reading
New Hampshire
Doctor George Cutler Sued For Breach Of Promise
A sensational breach of promise suit for 25000 dollars was filed yesterday in Middlesex Court, East Cambridge, against prominent Back Bay physician Dr. George Cutler. His whereabouts were unknown, with secrecy at his offices in Tremont Street. Gertrude A. Eisenhauer, seriously ill, holds an attachment at 15 Sawyer Street Dorchester.
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Gertrude A. Eisenhauer
Sawyer Street
Dorchester
Middlesex Court
East Cambridge
Back Bay
George Cutler
Boston
Tremont Street
Dorchester Family Quiet Over Young Woman's Suit Against Doctor
In Dorchester the Eisenhauer family keeps to Gertrude Eisenhauer at her bedside as the 19 year old, once employed by Dr. Cutler, faces a $25,000 legal suit amid illness since February. Father James Eisenhauer and sister Florence say little, while Dr. Cutler recently moved his practice to Brighton.
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Dorchester
James E. Eisenhauer
Florence
Gertrude
Miss Hisenhauer
Dr. Cutler
Florence Replied: “I Suppose She Knew What She Was About.” Dr. Cutler
Gertrude Eisenhauer
Brighton
Gertrude Eisenhawer
Sawyer Street
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Morrill
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Dingley
Payne-Aldrich
Pennsylvania
Bond
Greer
F. R. Holmes
Bristlen Showers
Orville ¢At
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