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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1925
Page
7
Joy Louise Leeds, age 12, adopted daughter of tinplate magnate Warner M. Leeds, inherits more than 4 million dollars plus a future 4.9 thousand from another estate. Guardian Henry H. Abbott named. Trust holds funds until she turns 21, with full principal at 35. Will urges culture, education, and charitable giving.
Alfred Harding, sought by Connecticut for arson with intent to kill, was held without bail by Supreme Court Justice Young in White Plains. Harding, of Lynbrook Long Island, is named as one of four men who bound and gagged Bethel Connecticut night watchman George H Gilbert on April 2, then set fire to the Excluse Auto Truck company building. Gilbert was rescued by a passer-by.
John James Landers, a World War II era veteran who disappeared Monday afternoon with 1600 dollars, returned to his Providence home at 2 AM minus the money and dazed from a head wound. He says he was held up and beaten and then taken to Newton hospital. He could not offer a coherent account due to the injury.
Shrewsbury Mass April 10 The Haven house a famous old time tavern on the Boston turnpike was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin causing a loss of 39000 partly insured The hotel once served as central Massachusetts headquarters for horsemen owner escaped by leaping from the plaza roof
Greenwich April 10 Special reports James O Mahony who fatally shot his sweetheart this week sprang toward a photographer as he was led from the lockup to Bridgeport jail. Handcuffed to Captain P J Flanagan and Detective James H Fitzroy, he lunged in a football fashion but was restrained by the restraints and continued toward Bridgeport.
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