Murder confession signed by Annie Bruce in Wyoming trial
In Evanston Wyoming on April 9 Annie Bruce a Smoot Mormon girl is on trial for murder after signing a confession that she poisoned her father James Bruce with strychnine in March 1907 The confession written with witnesses present claims Annie placed poison in peach pies and her mother allegedly helped by disposing of evidence The case pits Prosecuting Attorney D G Thomas Sheriff Jonathan Jones and Deputy William Delaney against defense attorney J H Ryckman with rival testimony from Laurence Bruce and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
Wyo
Annie Bruce
Smoot
J. H. Ryckman
Salt Lake
D. G. Thomas
James Bruce
Star Valley Country
Bruce
Annie E. Bruce
Thomas
Jonathan Jones
William Delaney
Laurence Bruce
Ryckmian
Crocker
Uinta County
Wyoming
Aherif
Annie Bruch
W. C. DeLaney
D. A. Preston
Rock Spin
J. G. McBrown
Laramie
Ryckman
John Bagley
Salt Lake City
Two Women Rob Salt Lake Jewelry Heist
Two women robbed Boyd Park jewelry store in Salt Lake City of a tray of diamonds and other stones valued at 6000 dollars while the shop was crowded. They fled as the clerk serving them turned away and are believed to be part of a gang headed to San Francisco for coast crowds during the battleship squadron visit.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Boyd Park
San Francisco
Murder Arrest Raised Over Sneering Remark
In St Louis Missouri on April 19 Dr. Enoslehardt Vperator Jr former chief physician at the city dispensary was arrested on the charge of killing Reese Bell a 25 year old paperhanger early this morning.
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Louis
Enoslehardt Vperator, Jr
Reese Bell
Voorster
Coroner Bell Killed During Escort After Party
Bell, coroner of St. Louis County for three terms, was killed while guiding a woman and two daughters home from a party. He sang as he walked, exchanged words with a man and a woman, and insulted the stranger before the assailant fired. The murderer fled the scene.
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St. Louis
Bell
Bel
McKee Case Heard In Four Day French Trial
In Paris Maltre Barboux defending Mrs Kee urged her innocence and condemned Hart McKee as fabricating and padding bills to the Tevis estate. He accused Baron Aliotti of using correspondence to weaponize against her while alleging past acts hidden until now.
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Paris
Maltre Barboux
Kee
Tue
Maitre Barboux
Maitre
Charming
Guglielm
Varennes Chateau
McKees
Barboux
Baron Aliotti
Aliotti
McKee
United States
Hart McKee
Hugh Tevis
Tevis
Green River Navigation Company Formed For Regional Transit
Articles filed in the secretary of state's office establish the Green River Navigation company with 25000 capital stock. It aims to run a light draft steam packet between Green River Wyoming and Elgin Utah via Colorado northwestern corner, serving Lahore Colorado with low cost freight and passenger service. Notes winter season navigation uncertain though year round soundings show suitability for the projected steam craft.
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Green River Navigation Company
Green River
Wyo
Elgin
Utah
Colorado
Lahore
Colo
Wyoming
Hughes Delegations From Greater New York Pick Hughes Slate
In New York the party chose a largely solid Hughes delegation for the Chicago convention. Of eighteen district conventions thirteen instructed delegates to vote for Hughes until nomination or withdrawal. Two instructed to vote and work for Hughes. Three offered no instruction.
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New York
Hughes
Chicago
Ernest Croston Weds Kathryn Burne in Ashland Oregon
Ernest Croston formerly a Union Pacific brakeman from Cheyenne and recently married Miss Kathryn Burne of Ashland Oregon. He now works as a conductor for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company based in Ashland.
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Ernest Croston
Oregon
E. R. Croston
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Ashland
Ore
Kathryn Burne
Oregon Railway & Navigation Co
Thomas Hunton Named Justice of the Peace at Wheatland
The county board appointed Thomas Hunton as justice of the peace at Wheatland to replace Otis Scoville who has moved to Torrington and formed a business partnership there.
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Thomas Hunton
Jubtion
Wheatland
Board of County Commisioners
Otis Becoville
Scoville
Torrington
Pittsburg Meat Market Owner Confesses After Frenzied Killing
William F. Reisa, owner of a meat market at Economy near Pittsburgh, was found unconscious with a bullet wound and his wife dead from a bullet. He confessed after dying, saying he shot her during a quarrel and then tried to kill himself. A murder charge was filed as a guard stood by his hospital bed. Friends cite a possible deranged mental state.
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Pittsburg
William F. Reisa
Economy
Here
Ita
Reiss
Electric Car Kills Five In Carriage Near Maywood
Four women and a driver die after a Chicago Elgin & Aurora line collision near Maywood. Victims include Mrs. Rohloff 65 and daughter in law Mrs. Rohloff 29 and Mrs. Dreasti Minnie Ponthoffe 50. Carriage severed, rear section dragged along tracks before stop.
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Chicago
Chicago, Elgin & Aurora Railway
Maywood
F. Rohloff
Inlaw
Paul Rohloff
Open shop policy to govern Great Lakes vessel labor
The lake carriers association in Cleveland adopts an open shop policy for boats on the Great Lakes this season. The plan affects more than 40,000 men and is to be implemented immediately. Union opposition is uncertain as their representatives were not at the meeting.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Great Lakes
Lake Carriers’ Association
Mining operators charged with embezzlement in Nevada case
Henry and Arthur Webber prominent mining operators were arrested in Goldfield Nevada on April 9 charged with embezzling twenty thousand dollars from the Doctor Mining Company treasury. Bookkeepers said to have destroyed the company ledger.
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Goldfield
Nev
Henry and
Arthur Webber
Nevada
Doctor Minine Company
Webber
Summers Knocks Out Burns In Thirteenth Round
Johnnie Summers of England defeated Soldier Burns of Baltimore in the thirteenth round of a bout originally slated for fifteen. Summers dominated the fight with clear superiority throughout.
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Summers
Burns
Baltimore
Johnnie Summers
England
Soldier Burns
Smmers
Washington Weather Bulletin for April 4 1908
General forecast for warm fair days in Wyoming. Local 24 hour data shows high 61 and low 44 with no precipitation.
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Washington
D. C
Wyoming
Senate Passes Liability Measure for Common Carriers
Washington April 9 The Senate passed the liability bill for common carriers including railroads without amendment or division. The measure would relax strict common law liability for employee injuries and allow recovery for injuries caused by a co worker while limiting recovery by the contributory negligence of the injured party. Democrats forced a quorum in the House earlier and sent several bills to conference, including army and fortifications and revenue cutter service measures. The Indian appropriation bill was returned to conference.
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Washington, D. C
House of Representative
Senate
Dolliver
Committee On Education and Labor
House
United States Supreme Court
Tellera
Cannon
Williams
Revenue Cutter Service
Earl the New York Artist Remarries His Affinity
New York city report says Ferdinand Pinney Earle and Julia Dean Gee wed in Italy after France divorce. Earle plans to live in New York and may remarry locally. He stands to receive a $50,000 bequest from his grandmother who died March 13.
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New York
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
France
Earle
Italy
Julia Dean Gee
Mr. Earle
Wedding in Wild West Style at Thermopolis
Miss Lizzie Morrison and George Brown wed at Superintendent Paulus home on the Hot Springs Reserve. Each wore wild western attire with riding boots spurs and chaps. Rev. Ira McConaughy officiated in a ceremony reflecting their ranching upbringing.
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Thermopolis
Wyo
Lizzie Morrison
George Brown
Paulus
Nunn To Elect Officers Next Tuesday
Considerable interest in Nunn Colorado where Cheyenne men organized the town. Local property holders dominate the electorate as two ticket factions the wets and the drys compete in a heated campaign ahead of next Tuesday’s city election.
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NUNN
Cheyenne
Colo
Cheyennes Gardening And Planting Trees
The gardening season is in full swing in Cheyenne with most residents busy adding garden patches planting trees and making improvements around the home.
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Cheyenne
Hard-up miners to help Hanna disaster widows
Frontier Wyoming April 9. Mine workers in the small coal camp of Frontier organize to donate to the Hanna disaster relief fund amid wage cuts and reduced hours. The local miners union has opened a commissary to aid unemployed families, and Mrontler’s contribution is expected to be substantial.
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Frontier
Wyo
Western
Wyoming
Hanna
Miner's Union
Mrontler
Pardons Extended to Four by State Board
Acting on the pardons board's recommendation Governor B B Brooks signed paroles for Doyle Clark and Roy Ferguson in the Golden Colorado Industrial School. Robert Caldwell's sentence was commuted from one year in the penitentiary to eight months and Max Giolla's from three and a half years to three years.
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State Board of Pardons
B. B. Brooks
Doyle Clark
Roy Ferguson
Golden
Colo
Robert Caldwell
Max Grolla
Apple merchant robbed. $130 stolen from home business
J. B. Baldwin, an apple peddler, told police and the sheriff that his room was entered last night and $60 in cash plus a Citizens National Bank draft for $70.75 were stolen. No suspects named.
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J. B. Baldwin
Omg
Person
Citizen's National Bank Draft
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M'Kee
Cornelia Baxter
Ténis
Greater New York
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Gar
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Earl
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