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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
5
Railroad time and local society notes list north bound trains at 3 40 p m and Ro 101 arrivals while many citizens and merchants from Kurten Harvey and Rock Prairie visit the city. Numerous sales and shop ads feature men and boys suits shoes and dresses with local names and towns in Texas.
Coroner's jury finds Sanford White died of gunshot wounds inflicted by Harry K. Thaw. Lionel Lawrence testifies that Mrs Thaw rushed to Thaw and declared loyalty, while Thaw told the crowd he had avenged his wife. Grand jury proceedings follow as Mrs Thaw declines to testify.
Packed with people, Mrs Thaw could not pass the doorway at the Tombs prison. Six officers fought the crowd and twenty more were summoned to push a path to the corridor after she waited twenty minutes. The gathering was among the largest seen at the famous prison.
A spokesman for the Equitable Life Assurance society says Stanford White held policies totaling 199000 dollars issued over the past twenty years with 90000 in premiums paid. Policies were made payable to his wife. He may have other policies as well. none with the Equitable appeared to be new.
The grand jury returned an indictment against Thaw charging murder in the first degree. He will plead to the indictment before Justice Cowan. A separate report notes a $60,000 jewelry robbery at the Thaw home in Pittsburg on June 28.
Milwaukee June 28 platform prepared by resolutions committee presented for ratification at the state convention. It endorses W J Bryan for president in 1908 and calls for enforcement against trusts and monopolies and a revision of tariffs. Fort Worth reports four mill man dies and Yale wins freshmen eights in New London regatta with times for Yale and Harvard.
A white male corpse was discovered in the Trinity river bottom ten miles northwest of Dallas on June 28. Authorities released no identification and began an inquiry into the death.
Dublin, Texas forms a local military company. In Ardmore, Robert Edwards’s child died after a horse kick to the stomach. Captain Scramm of San Antonio bought the 3,000 acre Wilson ranch in Bexar County for 29,987 dollars. Rock Island railway acquired 20,000 acres of land including Raymondsville townsite. At Barstow, Texas, L Hernandez was shot and killed and his wife wounded. another Mexican shooter fled.
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