Complex Life Insurance Policy Dispute Involving Williams Estate
Connecticut Mutual Life and New York Life face a court fight over 17500 dollars in Williams policies. Emma Wellington seeks 12500 as assignee, Norwood and Hunt also claim, while Sadie Williams as widow is excluded by multiple transfers and pending probate. The case asks the court to determine rightful beneficiaries and whether insurers should pay into court.
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George E. Williams
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Suffolk Superior Court
Emma Wellington
Williams
E. Williams
Emma R. Wellington
New York Company
Milton
John Ek. Norwood
Lawrence
Atherton Hunt
City
Aaron Hailparn
Brookline
Sadie E. Williams
Braintree
Hailparn
New York Life Insurance Company
Georse FE. Williams
John K. Norwood
Annie
Wadsworth
Augusta M. Bibber
Bath
Eastport
Abby B. Kilburn
Ethel N. Williams
Miss Wellington
Norwood
New York Insurance Company
Jess
Insurance polices disclosed in Suffolk court suit
Answers from New York Life Insurance Company showing policies totaling 2500 and from Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company with no policies totaling 5000 were filed in Suffolk Superior Court in a suit against Williams widow Mrs Sadie.
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Answers
New York Life Insur@ce Company
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Suffolk Superior Court
Williams
Sadie
Tariff Protested by Woman in Treasury Case
Mrs May Van Alen Thompson wife of Griswold A Thompson a New York Philadelphia banker and daughter of J J Van Alen faced arguments before Assistant Secretary Hamlin at the Treasury Department as former Assistant Secretary Curtis argued the customs case.
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Washington
May van Alen Thompson
Griswold A. Thompson
New York
Philadelphia
J. J. van Alen
Hamlin
Treasury Department
Curtis
Mrs Van Alen Thompson Challenges Boston Duty Levy
Mrs Van Alen Thompson via her cousin protests duties on a necklace, laces and other articles imported at Boston claiming non residency and that adornments owned by herself and her maid are not dutiable. Mr Hamlin to rule in a few days. Mr Curtis notes she has spent seven or eight years in England and has visited the U S only once or twice in that period.
Mrs Thompson Enters England Resident Goods Duty Case
In England, Mrs Thompson the wife of an American banker, entering the country for the first time since her marriage, faced Boston customs issues. Mr Curtis argued most articles were bought in America and offered purchase memoranda. He said residents may import $100 duty free, while non residents may import as much as their station allows.
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Mr. Thompson
England
Boston Customs House
Man Crushed by Turntable at Boston Transit Yard
Patrick W. Maloney 49 a widower from South End was instantly killed when caught in the sweep of an electric turntable at the Boston Transit Commission yard 14 Cypress Street South Boston. Byron Bacon of Northampton a fellow worker was held on manslaughter charges after police reviewed the scene with the assistant medical examiner.
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Patrick W. Maloney
Whitmore Street
South End
Boston Transit Commission
Cypress Street
South Boston
Maloney
Richardson
Byron Bacon
Northampton
Broadway
Man on trial for old jewelry robbery
Samuel Rosenberg of New York, last of four men arrested for entering the S. A. Alban jewelry store on Washington Street in February 1910, was tried before Judge McLaughlin and a Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday on charges of breaking and entering and larceny.
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Samuel Rosenberg
New York
S. A. Alban Washington Street
McLaughlin
Suffolk Superior Court
Mystery Letter Aims at Hotel Bellevue Death Identity
A typewritten note postmarked in Washington arrives at Suffolk Superior Court, possibly revealing the name and relatives of a young woman who died by her own hand last July by leaping from a window at the Hotel Bellevue. The only clue previously was the name Mrs. Strader, New York, on the hotel register.
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Washington, D. C
Suffolk Superior Court
Hotel Bellevue
Unclaimed Body Remains At North Grove Morgue
The body stays unclaimed at the North Grove street morgue as numerous visitors seek relatives, but none can recognize the young woman. Earlier, Newport police Chief Boyle visited the morgue seeking leads.
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North Grove Street
Chef Boyle
Newport
Wealthy Family Seeks Clues To Missing Newport Woman
A city resident aided by a photograph of a missing Newport woman failed to disclose the subject’s name. He could not identify the death by his actions from the photo or the detailed description he provided to attendants.
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Newport
Trolley Car Kills Woman at Cambridge Junction
An unidentified woman, aged about 65 to 70, was struck and killed by an inward bound trolley car at the River Street and Western Avenue junction in Cambridge. Motorman John Co. Cronin and Conductor W. M. Rollins were on the car. Cronin claimed he did not see the woman. the car stopped after feeling grinding under the wheels. Cronin was arrested on a manslaughter charge and released on $1000 bonds.
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River Street
Western Avenue
Cambridge
John Co. Cronin
W. M. Rollins
Central Square
Cronin
Sylvia Pankhurst Released From Holloway Under License
Sylvia Pankhurst was freed on license from Holloway jail. She is enfeebled from a week long hunger strike after her Oct. 14 arrest while entering Poplar Town Hall to address suffragettes. The prior night she led a confrontation between police and a crowd at Bow Baths in East End London.
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London
Sylvia Pankhurst
Holloway
Poplar Town Hall
Miss Pankhurst
Bow Baths
East End
Women as arbiters in New Haven row
Mrs. Robert La Follette spoke to about 3000 in Huntington Hall urging women to engage in New Haven issues on tariff pure food currency child labor and social reform. The meeting sponsored by the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government featured ushers in white with Votes for Women sashes and a mixed audience of men and women.
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Robert la Follette
Wisconsin
Huntington Hall
New Haven
Boston Equal Suffrage Association For Good Government
Internal Bath Promises Health Through Colon Cleansing
Advert says the colon traps waste causing biliousness and disease and promotes a product named J. B. Li. Cascade as the only internal bath to keep the colon clean. It claims thousands use it and doctors prescribe it worldwide, with a booklet offered at Riker-Jaynes drug stores in New England.
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J. B. Li
Lt Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
New England
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