Delays Execution of Becker Until Friday
Becker's execution was postponed to Friday after Justice Ford postponed the decision on a new trial. Becker’s wife, supporters, and court officials followed the hearings as attorney Taylor challenged new affidavits while Cochran argued for exoneration. The warden and court agreed to push the death date to Friday at 5:45 AM.
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Justice Ford
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing
Warden Osborne
Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Ford
Cochran
Jack Rose
Whitman
Mr. Cochran
Benham
Court of Appeals
Big Tim Sullivan
Harry Applebaum
Big Tim
Wallon
Rose
Webber
Schepps
Whitiman
Harlem
Rosenthal
Tenderloin
King’s Bench
England
Kaufman
Cockran Rose
Supreme Court
Cockran
Osborne
Samuel Haynes
Haynes
John Harrison
Patterson
Putnam County
Becker Seeks Details on Postponement of Execution
In Ossining New York on July 26 Charles Becker learned from Assistant Warden James Johnson minutes after 6 p m that, at the request of Supreme Court Justice Ford, the date of his execution had been ...
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Ossining
N. Y
Charles Becker
James Johnson
Supreme Court
Ford
Noted writer Masterson taken to Bellevue for examination
Kate Masterson, once a prominent writer, was removed from Chief Magistrate McAdoo's office to Bellevue Hospital Psychophonic ward for a sanity examination. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon and public officials received her rambling letters alleging grievances against labor unions. She is sister to Supreme Court Justice William J. Kelly and authored several works.
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New York
Kate Masterson
McAdoo
Bellevue Hospital
Thomas W. Salmon
Salmon
Mitchel
Woods
Masterson
Burglars Loot Medford Home on return from vacation
Mr and Mrs Frank P Bond of 34 Central avenue Medford returned home last evening to find their residence entered with false keys and ransacked. A dress suitcase clothes jewelry and a diamond stick pin were taken and the incident was reported to the police.
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Frank P. Bond
Central Avenue
Medford
New Controversy on Leelanaw Sparks Diplomatic Battle
Questions over the destruction of the American steamer Leelanaw continue amid U S German tensions. Officials cite 1828 Prussian American treaty and William P Frye precedent to challenge German claims about contraband voyages and vessel destruction. The Leelanaw carried flax from Archangel to Belfast when torpedoed off Scotland. crew reached Kirkwall as the Barn Line paddle steamer's legacy endures.
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Germany
Berlin
United States
London
William P. Frye
Prussia
Frye
Leelanaw
State Department
Dennison
Dundee
Scotland
Archangel
Belfast
Ireland
Kirkwall
Orkneys
Barn Line Steamship Company
Philadelphia
Colon
Steamship Company
Norfolk
Leelanaw Once Barnwell Torpedoed Steamship Details
The Leelanaw once the Barnwell was torpedoed. Captain Eugene B. Delk led seven officers and 34 crew aboard the 1923 ton steel steamship owned by Harley Steamship Company New York. Built in 1886 at New Castle England the ship formerly sailed as Barnwell with home port San Francisco. No New England crew members were aboard.
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Eugene B. Delk
Harley Steamship Company
New York
A. H. Bull Company
Bridge Street
New York City
Boston
New England
America
Leelanaw
Newcastle
England
San Francisco
Barnwell
Leelanaw captain's wife spared voyage as ship torpedoed
The Leelanaw, torpedoed off the White Sea, sank with all aboard saved. Captain Delk had declined to let his wife join the voyage from Galveston to Archangel, after previously sailing with cotton to Bremen and running the English blockade. Delk, a Virginian master mariner aged 84, had commanded several Luckenbach and Southern Steamship vessels and took command of the Leelanaw last February.
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Philadelphia
Kirkwall
Delk
Fiftyfourth Street
Leelanaw
Eugene Delk
Edythe Delk
Belfast
William P. Palmer
Southern Steamship Company
Francis Hyde
Harry Luckenbach
F. J. Luckenbach
Luckenbach Steamship Company
Cuticura Soap Heals Eczema in Children
A Boston mother reports two children suffered seven months of head eruptions and itching before using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After trying the products the girl's and boy's heads healed completely, with an offer of a free sample by mail and skin care book.
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