Kelcher to Lay Blame on Officials of Bank
In a Cambridge court the defense accuses George W Coleman of misapplying bank funds with William J Kelcher as an aider and abetter. The 10 counts allege Coleman failed to inform officials of insufficient funds for a 3500 check while Kelcher is said to have aided the alleged crime. Testimony covers Earle business, Lombard deposits, police notes, and telegrams to Kelcher.
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Kelcher
Coleman
William J. Kelcher
Frank Ly
Earl
Frank Lyman Earl
George W. Coleman
National City Bank of
Cambridge
National City Bank
Nime
Earle
Lombard
Frank Lyman Earle
George
George Ughs
Cambridge Police
Boston Post
Winslow
Suffolk County
District Attorney’s
Exchange Takes Action After Bank Looting Incident
The Boston Stock Exchange committee voted to bar taking or carrying speculative accounts by any clerk of a bank trust company or insurance firm without consent. The move appears linked to the National City Bank looting involving George W. Coleman, a $12 weekly clerk, and aims to curb conflicts of interest in speculative trading.
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Boston Stock Exchange
National City Bank
George W. Coleman
Roosevelt rejects substitute word sentim entality in Guildhall speech
London June 4 The Times prints Mr Roosevelt’s letter in reply to a reader who urged replacing sentimentality with sentiment in his Guildhall address. He defends his use of senti mentality to analyze British rule in Egypt and cites the dangers of sentimentality versus the value of sentiment in guiding life.
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London
the Times
Roosevelt
Guildhall
Egypt
Britain
Cambridge Milliner Declares Bankruptcy Amid Bank Collapse
Reed, owner of La Breque millinery at 715 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, filed a voluntary bankruptcy in US District Court. Liabilities total about 12 299.78 with assets of 2335.23. She lost 175 tied to the wrecked National City Bank of Cambridge and gained notoriety as Marguerite L. Taylor’s companion during exposure of the bank case in New York.
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Albina S&s. Reed
National City Bank of Cambridge
la Breque
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
United States District Court
Miss Reed
Bail for Strosneider “Big Lem” in $10,000 Bond
John Strosneider known as “Big John” and “Big Lem” was granted $10,000 bail as a hearing on his alleged role in siphoning funds from the National City Bank of Cambridge was postponed to June 25 to allow Boston witnesses to testify. He was arrested in Flatbush Brooklyn a week earlier.
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Election Commissioners
John R. Marshall
Charles F. Ames
Western Union
State Street
Marshall
Boston
Western Union Telegraph Company
Racing Dept
Elmer Chickering
Martin J. Walsh
Coleman
Miss Hightower
Kelcher
Walsh
D. J. McGillicuddy
Kansas City
New York
John Strosneider
Big John
Big Lem
Strosneider
Flatbush
Brooklyn
George W. Coleman
National City Bank of
Cambridge
Brookline High Seniors Hold Class Day on Cypress Street
Brookline High School held its class day with about 600 attendees on the Cypress street playground. Activities included a wand drill, ivy planting, and a tug of war won by juniors, followed by indoor exercises in Shailer Hall with addresses, prophecies, poems, an oration, and the class song.
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Cypress Street
Brookline
Brookline High School
H. A. Carroll
Elizabeth Barnes
Frederick Hunter
Shailer Hall
Alan M. Hay
Edwin S. Smith
Madeline Crandall
Arthur Jacobs
Miss Crandall
Sylvia T. Goulston
Philip Russell
Miss Goulston
Katherine Nordell
Arthur W. Roberts
Alan L. Dexter
Elsie Pike
Francis O'Hearn
POST
Carolyn Burdett
Vera McDonald
Francis O’hearn
Depositors Aim to Reclaim Lost Cash From Bank Scandal
Attorney Choate outlined a plan to reimburse Southbridge Savings Bank depositors looted by treasurer John A. Hall. The fund would come from Hall's bond recovery of 20 000 dollars plus 28 000 to 30 000 in property returned to the bank and about 40 000 dollars in interest on bank assets.
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Southbridge Savings Bank
John A. Hall
Choate
Sheldon
Judicial plan to shift losses to bank depositors debated
Judge Sheldon questioned a decree to make depositors bear the loss after 3175 of 6022 depositors signed for a 15 percent pro rata reduction totaling 1 615 522. Attorney Choate pressed the petition while the Supreme Judicial Court would consider the matter.
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Choate
Sheldon
Peru and Ecuador Withdraw Troops On Frontier
Washington reported that Peru and Ecuador would withdraw tomorrow the troops they had mobilized along their shared frontier. The move follows a long stand over the boundary dispute between the two South American nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Peru
Ecuador
Senator Reed Smoot Arrives for Brookline Visit
United States Senator Reed Smoot of Utah arrives in Boston and will visit Brookline to read a paper tonight at the Brookline Thursday Club hosted by Mrs Howard at 2a Amory Street. The visit is described as brief and social.
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Senator Smoot
United States
Reed Smoot
Utah
Boston
Brookline
Igh Howard
Amory Street
Brook
La France Drifted Aground After Hull Breach
The 100 ton schooner La France, from Halifax with provisions for Bay of Islands, drifted ashore nine miles west of Port Au Basque waterlogged. After two days in small boats the crew reached Port Au Basque and recounted that a sunken rock had split the hull six days earlier.
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ST. John's
N. F
la France
Halifax
Bay of Islands
Port Au Basque
Grads Addressed by College Dean at Chickering Hall
The Massachusetts College of Osteopathy with three artists presented graduation exercises at Chickering Hall. Dr Wilford H Wallace dean delivered the welcome address and Dr Charles Hazzard of New York read a paper on The Medical Revolution.
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Massachusetts Collegg of Osteopathy
Chickering Hall
Wilford H. Wallace
Charles Hazzard
New York
Man shoots wife then kills himself in Hyannis
Adovardo Aleonette fired five shots from an .88 caliber revolver at his wife during a long argument and then killed himself. The wife, found unconscious, is in serious but hopeful condition after the attack on the stove. no witnesses reported anger.
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Aleonette
Burrage
Alionette
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