Six Cincinnati officers admit guilt in graft cases
Six defendants pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge in the federal graft probe, including a police officer and several city agents. Judge Smith Hickenlooper deferred sentencing and warned that perjury charges await anyone lying on the stand as the trial of remaining defendants proceeds.
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Cincinnati
Mquor Court
United States District Court
Smith Hickenlooper
John J
Jack) Dempsey
Non Avenue
John Seebohm
Sylvester Brockman
McMicken Avenue
Harry Miller
Hollywood
Fla
Loveland Liquor Court
Arthur W
Red) Murray, Jr
Vine Street
Newtown Liquor Court
William Kuehling
Roe Avenue
Madisonville
Milford
Newtown
Weiler
Manss Avenue
North Bend
Hickenlooper
Ckéenlooper
Hareth E. May
United States
Carpenter Sandy Buchanan Slain and Robbed in Belmont
The body of Alexander Buchanan known as Sandy was found in an abandoned excavation near McLean Hospital Belmont. He was strangled with a Canadian gas mask tied over his mouth and robbed. Police estimate 3 to 4 assailants and note he was last seen Friday evening after visiting his sister and mother in Boston.
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Associated Press
Belmont
Mass
Alexander Buchanan
Sandy
McLean Hospital
Buchanan
Dow
Cambridge
Christiana
South End
Boston
Charles Buchanan, Jr
Alt
Mental illness progress seen toward medical control says Cotten
Dr Henry A Cotton of New Jersey State Hospital tells Cincinnati physicians that mental diseases will be almost wholly controlled by doctors in coming years as science uncovers causes and cures. He notes heredity and brain injury as factors but emphasizes specific organ growth abnormalities as key.
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Henry A. Cotton
New Jersey State Hospital
Trenton
Daniel Drake Society of Physicians of Cincinnati
Medical College
Cotton
Cottom
Borah Warns Against Bureaucratic Government Power
Senator William E Borah spoke to the Izaak Walton League in Chicago warning that organized propaganda and political expediency are creating an expensive burdensome and arbitrary bureaucratic state. He criticized centralization arguing it erodes local control and threatens democratic principles foundational to the Constitution.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
William E. Borah
Izaak Walton
Borah
Washington
Hamilton
Jefferson
Lincoln
Fifty Zulus drown in Red Sea miracle attempt
London scene reports that fifty Zulu men died when a group led by a Christian leader attempted to marshal a Red Sea crossing. After praying and striking the flooded drift with an iron rod, the waters overpowered them and swept the party away into a raging torrent.
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Red Sea
Johnl. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Capetown
Sunday Express
Zululand
N. Y. World News Servce
N. Y. World) Press Publishing Company
Girl abducted as crowd watches in city streets
A man in a sport model car abducted a young woman at Seventh and Walnut streets at 8 30 last night. By Standers John Verkamp and Harry Tompkins pursued the car through Walnut, Court, Webster and Main before losing the trail. The captor’s vehicle violated a one way street. The victim wore a sweater and had a frightened demeanor.
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Walnut Streets
John Verkamp
Jonathan Avenue
Verkamp
Harry Tompkins
Houston Avenue
Norwood
Walnut Street
Court
Tompkins
Webster and
Main
Walnut
Bank Hold Up Nets $14000 in Grafton Savings
Two unidentified men robbed the Grafton Savings and Banking Company as closing approached in Cleveland. They fled with $14,000 after forcing bank president John Knechtges and his four children Eugene 22 Mabel 20 Robert 19 Edward 9 into a teller cage. The bank said it is unsure if an automobile was used and asked police to monitor roads out of town.
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Cleveland
Grafton (Co.) Savings and Banking Company
John Knechtges
Eugene
Mabel
Robert
Edward
Knechtges
Robbers Fail to Rob Keedysville Bank in Md
Two armed men tried to rob the Keedysville Bank during banking hours in Keedysville Maryland but fled empty handed after an alarm sounded. A posse was dispatched from Hagerstown to pursue the fugitives.
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Maryland
Keedysville
Ford
Richard Ace Tine Uty Apertt
Washington
Hagerstown
Possejand
Capital Levy Demanded By Herriot Amid Capital Flight
Paris April 4 Premier Herriot faces capital flight with a confiscatory capital levy. The plan aims to balance the budget first and prohibit new loans, with a likely 10 percent levy on accumulated capital. The government may authorize more francs via the Bank of France to back the move while Socialist support grows and opposition accuses it of inflating prices.
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Herriot
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Millerand
Seine
Herriott
World News Service
Anatole ™ de Monzie
Socialist Party
Bank of France
Temps
Journee Industrielle
N. Y
N. Y. World
Press Pub. Co.j
Smith’s New York Victory Strengthens Democratic Swing
Special Correspondent David Lawrence reports Al Smith’s surge in New York politics as a pivotal shift dissolving party lines. Smith’s third term, radio outreach, and press support widen his influence, while a separate Hopkins piece outlines a covert Washington effort to consolidate power against Smith and the New York wing through a South West bloc and convention rule changes.
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David Lawrence
The
Commercial Tribune
New York
Smith
Empire State
al Smith
Mr. Smith
Coolidge
Washington
Democratic Party
Democrats of
John W.davis
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Connecticut
Alfred E. Smith
Ku Klux Klan
New York World
Congressional Press Service
Fourteenth Street
M. L. Fox
Chapman to be hanged June 25 for Skelly murder
Long legal saga unfolds with Chapman sentenced to death for the Skelly killing, an appeal planned by counsel as details emerge from Illinois and surrounding cases.
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Chapman
Skelly
Wood scores first sale after wall street ruin
Osborne C Wood smiles at a Tampa sale of a Davis Islands lot to Mrs. Hastings for 7150 dollars earning a 357 dollar commission. A telegram from General Leonard Wood offered sympathetic advice as he vows to work hard to rebuild his fortunes after losing most of a fifty thousand dollar fortune on a prior European venture.
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Osborne
New York World News Service
Tampa
Fla
Osborne C. Wood
Wall Street
Leonard Wood
Wood
Davis Islands
Robert G. Hastings
Milwaukee Sleuth Slain Near Police HQ
Detective Harry Schmidt of the Milwaukee Police Department, 33, was shot and killed instantly near headquarters by an unidentified assailant who fled. Witnesses saw two men loitering nearby minutes before the shooting as police suspect Schmidt recognized them as wanted men and was shot as he approached.
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Milwaukee
Associated Press
Wis
Harry Schmidt
Milwaukee Police Department
Coomage Picks On Cheney In Coolidge Administration
President Coolidge selects Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney to succeed Cole Ciance O. Sherrill as senior officer in Washington on April 4. Household names and official postings frame the cabinet style appointment.
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Coomage
Cheney
Associated Press
Washington
Coolidge
Sherwood A. Cheney
Cole- Ciance O. Sherrill
Chapman Identified as Perpetrator of Multiple Crimes
Hartford April 4 Gerald Chapman's image looms large as witnesses link him to many robberies and thefts. Alleged crimes include the Randolph Savings Bank robbery in 1919, an American Express truck theft at Niagara Falls in 1921, a Fulton New York post office robbery, the Abbottstown State Bank robbery near Chambersburg in 1924 with a trooper killed, and a Long Island Railroad mail car hold up in 1925. James J. Cadoo, a mail clerk, identified Chapman. Cadoo was arrested, convicted, and serves twenty five years in Sing Sing.
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New York World News Service
Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
Randolph Savings Bank
Randolph
Mass
American Express
Niagara Falls
Postoffice
Fulton
N. Y
Abbottstown State Bank
Chambersburg
Long Island
Bellmore
Merrick
N.Y
Chapman
James J. Cadoo
Sing Sing
ELOPING PACT INVOLVES OHIO PASTOR AND SISTER
In Xenia Ohio on April 4 187 year old W W Culp a former pastor and father of ten eloped again this time with his brother Clio Culp s wife 22 year old Dorothy Culp The pair previously disappeared with a church choir leader and later were found in a Michigan city The case led to Culp being fined 500 and jailed a year but released after a few days due to papers error Authorities in Indiana are still seeking them
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Chicago
The
Herald and Examiner Tonight
William D. McNally
Harry Olson
Emma Nelson McClintock
William McClintock
Oscar Olson
William D. Shepherd
Young McClintock
McClintock
Olson
Judge Olson
Herald and Examiner
Blaul
Pieurenany Tt
Charles Kruesmarck
K. L. Thorsgaard
South Side
Luella Rheabell
National University of Sciences
Charles C. Faiman
Shepherd
Wolff
Faiman
Rheabell
Properias
Illinois Supreme Court
Xenia
W. W. Culp
M. E. Church
Spring Valley
Wright
Dorothy Culp
Clio Culp
Nappaunee
Ind
Culp
South Bend
Indiana
Michigan City
Greene County
Ohio
First Vote Frees Life for Chapman on First Degree Verdict
Hartford April 4 Gerald Chapman, dubbed the country s most dangerous criminal, is ordered to forfeit life after being found guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Policeman James Skelly on October 12 1924 He faces a June 25 hanging pending appeals and possible retrial The verdict and sentence drew mixed reactions as defense counsel plans further action and State officials weigh next steps against Shean connection and potential new trials.
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Hartford
Conn
Gerald Chapman
James Skelly
Chapman
Frederick J. Groehl
State Supreme Court
Shean
Wdlster
E. Shean
Springfiel
Mass
Hugh M. Alcorn
Davidson & Leventhal
New Britain
Safeshean
Skelly
Jennings
Bonds Recovered in $1.7 Million Rondout Robbery
Post Office inspectors announced the recovery of 31000 in bonds stolen in the June Rondout mail robbery. Bonds were traced to Cleveland attorney Samuel T. Haas who says he received them in good faith from Charles Drucker. Drucker died in Cleveland. Arnstein and Drucker named as associates in the case, with further estates and probate questions noted.
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Cleveland
Rondout
Post Office
Samuel T. Haas
Haas
Charles
Punk) Drucker
Jules
Nicky) Arnstein
Drucker
Goodman
Fixing Crooked Faces Reported With Success
New York April 4. Facial imperfections in children are being treated with success by Dr. Harry H. Shapiro, a facialist, who headed to Bermuda on the Ft. St. George. He claims seventy five percent of New York children have malformed faces or teeth and cites improving outcomes from his methods.
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New York World News Service
New York
Harry H. Shapiro
Bermuda
Ft. St. George
Dr. Shapiro
Jurors Reveal Deliberations In Chapman Case Verdict
Ex state senator Arthur E. Bowers and other jurors release details of the Chapman case to show no deadlock. They describe eight hours spent studying 75 exhibits and a secret ballot at 9 PM before a unanimous guilty verdict.
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New York World News Service
Hartford
Chapman
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