Irregular Charges Plague Smithwyck Hearing
Rt Rev Charles S. Smithwyck faced additional charges of irregular conduct before the old county bar grievance committee. Hearing adjourned to Friday as complainants Cavallo and Henry Griffin testified to unsettled sums. Fein of Malleable Iron Works intervened, arrest followed, cash bond set at 50, Griffin’s attempts to secure writ noted.
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Charles
Smithwyck
Old County Bar
Canfield
Ittee
Cavallo
Smith
Henry Griffin
Slithywyck
Iffin
Bron’ Works
Tax collector records reveal forged checks in service dispute
A fragmented report shows Griffin demanding $5 owed for services and receiving a $445 check that bounced. He later obtained funds from Smithwyck and a $15 balance via two more checks, which also failed to clear. Smithwyck did not appear before the committee to answer new charges.
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Griffin
Smithwyck
Maury Pickford
Supreme Court bars Beverly strike at United Shoe plant
Boston March 4 The full bench of the Supreme Court affirmed a decree enjoining the International Association of Machinists from maintaining a strike at the United Shoe Machinery Corporation plant in Beverly. The court held the union intended to interfere with existing contracts.
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Boston
Supreme Court
International Association of Machinists
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
Beverly
Caruso Brother En Route To New York Bedside
Giovanni Caruso, brother of the famous tenor, arrived in Boston from Italy aboard the Caronia and headed to Enrico Caruso's bedside in New York. He learned of the singer's improving condition during his Atlantic crossing.
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Giovanni Caruso
Italy
Cunard
Enrico Caruso
New York
Atlantic
Arrested for Draft Evasion in Hartford
James W. Ashton, arrested in Albany North Carolina, charged with falsifying a 1917 questionnaire under the selective service law. He was brought to Hartford for a hearing before US Commissioner Corbat. Co-defendant Dennie Davis, who posed as his wife, was arrested in Philadelphia and will be brought to answer complicity in draft evasion.
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James W. Ashton
Albany
N.C
New Haven
Hartford
United States
Corbat
Pends
Ashton
Dennie Davis
Philadelphia
Fire destroys fur shipment near Danbury, $10,000 loss
A large fur shipment valued about $10,000 burned near Danbury on the Norwalk road south of the city. Marel 4,-C loss cited in the blaze that occurred during transit from Danbury to New York. The fur was shipped by the Mutual Par Gutting Co. of Danbury. An unconfirmed estimate notes the marketable herring age could range from three to seven years based on scale rings.
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Danbury
New York
Norwalk
Mutual Par Gutting Co
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