Hlouse Of Mystery Homicide Scene In Wilton
In Wilton Connecticut at The House of Mystery on Belden Hill John Carrieri of South Norwalk was shot to death by a shotgun held by caretaker Augustin Bebali. The wound tore a two inch hole through his side as he walked to a neighbor’s home, dying after two hours. Police question Bebali’s account of firing at a light in a kitchen, believing the shooting occurred at close range. Coroner’s inquest to begin. autopsy by S H Huntington to be reported. Carrieri had been living on the property a week. a blood stained letter to Mrs John Carrieri tied him to the scene.
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Wilton
Conn
Belden Hill
John Carrieri
South Norwalk
Augustin Bebaldi
Secret Service
Jeasue
Lupo the Wolf
Thomas Leatherland
John H. Flake
Bebali
Trig
Carbett
Norwalk
John J. Phelan
New York
S. H. Huntington
Phelan
Wilson
Salberino Vec-chione
Brooklyn
N. Y
Frank Virelli
Oak Street
South
Bridgeport
L W. W
Py Nile Tellow
TW. W
Matilde Fe
Binowicz
Brideport
Uty Shértie
Shelton
Olgen
Birmingham
Wiler Vollmer Todas
Moyer on Highway to Recovery After Calumet Attack
Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners is reported out of danger after a hospital stay following the Calumet assault. Surgeons will decide if the shoulder bullet should be removed as investigations begin into the Christmas Eve copper country panic that killed 72 and the forced ejection of Moyer from Hancock.
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Chicago
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Calumet
Mich
Miners’ Organization
Houghton County Grand Jury
Hancock
Moyer
John B.densmore
Department of Labor
Governor Ferris
Big Rapids
Moyer’s Arbitration Plan Submitted to Mine Operators
Calumet Mich Dec 23 Moyer offers a settlement method for the strike after the Ja disaster killings. The letter cites burial eve and victims as context. Continued on Page Two.
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Moyer
Calumet, Mich
Jennings v City Court decision dissolves injunction
Judge Bennett of the superior court dissolved the temporary injunction Jennings had obtained against the City of Bridgeport. The suit sought to stop changing Him street grade near Jennings Bros factory, alleging potential damage and compensation claims. The memorandum states damages need not be prepaid and no taking of property is contemplated.
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Bennett
Superior Court
Edward A. Jennings
Bridgeport
Jennings Bros
Edoward A. Jennings
Pullman
Fire Devastates Block As Water Fails in Montreal
Fire swept a block of stores and houses at St Hiubert and Ontario in Montreal when a water main break halted the city’s fire service. By 2 30 p m, about twenty small buildings were destroyed and firemen prepared to use dynamite to check the blaze.
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Montreal
St. Hiubert
Ontario
Two Deaths in Westport Reported by Special to the Farmer
Westport records two fatalities from the previous day. Thomas Gregory of Cranbury Plains district died at home after a brief illness at 65, leaving several grown children. Anna Marie Morris died at Greens Farms in the early hours, aged 11 dec. no, the text notes age but unclear. likely a misprint. local report records her death in Greens Farms.
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Westport
Thomas Gregory
Cranbury Plains
Health boards plan two incinerating plants in city
At a special meeting the health board voted to ask the board of apportionment to establish two incinerating plants for garbage reduction one to be built in the West End and the other on the East Side The board argues complete destruction of refuse is the practical solution Representative Jeremiah Donovan of Connecticut's 4th district was in town renewing acquaintances.
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Health Board
Board of Apportionment
Board of Health
Jeremiah Donovan
Connecticut
Outlook Bright For New Year Says Dunning
E W Dunning Bridgeport Bradstreet manager cites a hopeful 1914 for local manufacturing, with nationwide optimism despite bank lending pullbacks and currency bill concerns. Bradstreet's survey notes a countrywide 18 percent drop in building, yet Bridgeport's November 1918 permits rose 28 percent from 1912 and outpaced national averages.
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Bridgeport
E. W. Dunning
Bradstreet Company
Bradstreet
United States
Canada
North America
Congress
Bradstreet’s
Medy
Bridge Port
America
James Spargo Will Probated With Several Bequests
James Spargo's will is probated with Elizabeth H. Spargo as chief beneficiary receiving 20000 dollars and all furniture. Other gifts include 100 to Lakeview Cemetery, 500 to Washington Park M B church, 3250 to Women’s Visitation for needy Sunday School children, 100 to siblings, 5000 for a trust to Mary A. Treweek, 2000 for a trust for Edward C. Spargo Jr., 500 to Lila Spargo, and the rest to son Edward C. Spargo. Edward C. Spargo named executor, with Beardsley and Chaffee appraisers.
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Elizabeth H. Spargo
James Spargo
Lakeview Cemetery Association
Washington Park M
Man Found Frozen to Ground in Willow Brook
Westport December 23 a colored man Thomas Hill was found early this morning frozen to the ground in Willow Brook. He appeared dead but at a doctor’s office he was found alive and afterward moved to his home. A bar had to be used to detach him. He is under medical care today and cannot recall how he arrived at the spot.
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Westport
Thomas Hill
Willow Brook
Hill
Mangled corpse found in gutter near Clinton and Broome
New York December 29 a man’s mangled body tied in a sack was dumped in a gutter near Clinton and Broome streets East Side residents say two men left it in a pushcart. Hartford December 29 cattle commissioner Jeffrey O Phelps says he has asked the Connecticut Humane Society to help stamp out glanders among horses statewide due to lacking local health officer cooperation.
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New York
Clinton and
Broome Streets
Hartford
Jeffrey O. Phelps
Connecticut Humane Society
G O P Accused Of Playing Upon Voters Purses
Washington notes from a conservative New England paper describe Republican leaders betting on prosperity to win votes as tariff and currency bills pass. The piece predicts heated House debates, calamity-laden speeches, and a vigorous Progressive challenge that could oust Republicans from the next House if the economy fails to revive.
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Washington
New England
House
Congress
Wreck Leads to Four Damages Suits Against Railroad
Four suits for ten thousand dollars each were filed in Winsted against the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Co over the Canaan wreck of last June. Plaintiffs include Dr Francis H Olin and his wife Mrs Caroline S Olin of Falls Village plus Mrs Eva Morrison and her husband George Morrison of Salisbury. The coroner blamed Patrick F O’Brien, a New Haven Road brakeman, for the crash that backed a train over a crossover and struck a freight train, injuring several and killing one.
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Winsted
Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co
Canaan
Francis H. Olin
Southbridge
Mass
Caroline S. Olin
Falls Village
Eva M. Morrison
Salisbury
George E. Morrison
New Haven
Rich Philadelphia Woman Sued for Unpaid Bill
Emilie Carstairs Ferguson, once a defendant in a Stamford divorce case, is sued for 3000 dollars by Abercrombie and Fitch Co. of New York. The firm already holds a New York judgment of 2277 dollars it cannot collect. In the divorce case Ferguson named a half breed Maine guide as co respondent.
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Emilie Carstairs Ferguson
Philadelphia
Walton Ferguson, Jr
Stamford
Abercrombie &Fitch Co
New York
Ferguson
Fire at Housatonic Rubber Works destroys scrap valued at $3000
A fire in the rubber plant at Knowlton and Stillman streets caused serious damage this morning. The blaze gutted rubber scrap valued at about $3000, with flames reported around o clock.
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Housatonic
Nine Arrests Follow Strike Riot in Shelton
Shelton, Dec. 29. A riot erupted at 6:30 this morning as strikebreakers and special agents clashed with striking weavers at the Sidney Blumenthal Company mills. Nine arrests were made after stones were thrown and a bystander, Stephen Micklosz, was injured.
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Shelton
Sidney Blumenthal Company
Winchesters
Davis Succeeds Ambler in Hartford Tax Office Shuffle
Officials take office January 1 as Internal Revenue Collector James J. Walsh names deputies displacing current staff. Charles W. Bagley heads Waterbury field with 1200 salary. Edward T. Mullen heads New Haven field at 1200. James J. Devine stamp at 1200. J. P. Whitaker office New Haven 800. William I. Davis field Bridgeport 1200. William H. Farrell field New London 1200. John F. Clancy stamp Bridgeport 720. Edward J. Gildea in charge of denatured alcohol at 1200.
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Hartford
Internal Revenue
James J. Walsh
Charles W. Bagley
Waterbury
Edward T. Mullen
New Haven
James J. Devine
J. P. Whitaker
William
William H. Farrell
New London
John F. Clancy
Bridgeport
Edward J. Gildes
Danbury
Messrs. Whitaker
Clancy
Bagley
Frank C. Hill
Gildea
J. D. Williamson
Norwich
Avon
Walsh
Washington
William I. Davis
Stam
Board of Appraisal of Benefits and Damages
Frank G.mooney
John Clancy
Housatonic Avenue
Wealthy merchant weds housekeeper after divorce
Warren E. Smith of the New York clothing firm Smith Gray & Co. married Grace Alger, his housekeeper and co respondent in his wife’s cross complaint, after a sensational divorce trial. Judge Bennett found no truth in the charges against Miss Alger.
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Warren E. Smith
New York
Smith- Gray & Co
Pretty Grace Alger
Seery Held on Mail Secreting Charge in Hartford
William J. Seery, a clerk at the East Bridgeport post office, appeared before Judge Edwin S. Thomas in U.S. district court in Hartford on a bench warrant charging secreting mail matter. He was held on $500 bond with no hearing date set.
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Hartford
William J. Seery
East Bridgeport
Edwins. Thomas
United States District Court
Explosion Kills Three At Indiana Mine
Three men were killed and four injured when a gas explosion ripped through the Indian Creek Mine four miles south of Bicknell Indiana today. The blast occurred mid morning and emergency crews rushed to the scene. Investigators sought the cause of the deadly incident as families awaited word.
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Bicknell
Ind
Indian Creek
Here
Death Fatality Stakes In Stratford Auto Crash
Investigation continues into the death of Rosa Fierabend who was killed by Louis Harvard’s car on Stratford avenue near Baird Machine Tool. Harvard, bound over in Stratford Justice Court, claims glare from headlights caused the accident. Fierabend, a Bridgeport merchant, once ran a prominent costuming shop on Main Street.
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Louis Harvard
S. Loewith & Co
Stratford
Harvard
Bridgeport
Fierabend
A. G. Doty
George Arnold
Bridgeport Hospital
Garlick
Cohen
Bartlett, Keeler
Postal boom and funeral notices echo city life
Postal workers report a 100 percent rise in December handling 400 000 more pieces than last year with 6086 sacks in regular mail up to December 26. Meanwhile funeral services were held for Georgoula Milley at St Vincent hospital and for Frances Burt with interments at Park Cemetery. Jane Standish 7 died after a few days in Grace hospital. Josephine Monson’s service was at Henry Bishop chapel with burial at Pere.
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Statisiler
Tt T
Georgoula Milley
St. Vincet Hospital
Frances L. Burt
Richard Cheereman
Portland Street
Park Cemetery
Jane M. Standish
Gee
Grace Hospital
Neerave
Ujres
Shele
Tyrere Brother
J. M. Standieh
Thie City
Joseph T
Chicago
Josephine Monson i
Henry Bishop
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Mystery” Scene
Montreal City
Health Boards
Congressman Donovan
Robbins
Vollmer
Sidney Blumenthal Co
Tight
Alexander Filipeak
Filipcak
Stephen Micklosz
Patterson
William Vollmer
Alexander Filpeak
Andrew Matewitz
Anton Villiger
William Pawlowski
John Hoschinski
Anton Grabowski
Stephen Flewey
Dillon
Joseph Shapiro
P. B. Sullivan
Derby
Davis
Ambler
Glerkship
Collector of Internal Revenue
Fairfield County
Seery
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