Court stance on anonymous tips sparks Prohibition clash
Columbus report notes State Prohibition Commissioner McDonald considered shifting prosecutions from municipal to county courts over Judge Bell’s rule against anonymous informants. Judge Bell defends policy citing constitutional rights. Anti-Saloon League leader Jarvis condemns withholding informant names and questions fines suspensions on home brew cases.
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Associated Press
Columbus
B. F. McDonald
Samuel W. Bell
Jnsist
McDonald
Judge Bell
Bell
United States
State of
Ohio
Thomas B. Jarvis
Anti- Saloon League
Jarvis
Cincinnati
Anti-Saloon League
McDonald’s
Columbus Dispatch
Hamilton County Women's Christian Temperance Union
William D. Alexander
Alexander
Bullet Kills Dog and Wounds Watcher
Conrad Rechel 57 of 138 Mulberry street leaned from a second story window to watch a stray dog confront Officer Bluerock. The dog was killed by a single bullet, which also ricocheted and struck Rechel’s left hand. Dr. Thomas Hays treated the wound.
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Conrad Rechel
Mulberry Street
Rechel
Bluerock
Policeman Bluerock
Rebhel
Thomas Hays
Vinestreet
Movies Blamed For Marital Woe In Divorce Suit
George Wormus of 1011 Depot Street sues for divorce from Alva Wormus of 509 Wade Street citing her nightly moviegoing with their two young children as the cause. He alleges a change in affection and an affair with an usher since May 13, 1925, after their 1921 marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wormus
Depot Street
Alva Wormus
Wade Street
Marta
Wormus
Divorce Granted by Domestic Relations Court
Judge LeBlond in Domestic Relations Court granted Mrs. Elizabeth A. S. Hueb scher, daughter of W Kesle Schoepf, President of the Cincinnati Traction Company, a divorce from Captain Carl P. Huebscher of the Swiss Legation, who is now in Quebec Can.
Wife sues for divorce after alleged abuse by husband
In May 1924, Florence Nicholas filed for divorce from Robert L. Nicholas of 4254 Colerain Avenue. She alleges he cursed her to “lie there and rot” during illness and once tried to strike her while she was bedbound. The couple married December 9, 1922.
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Florence Nicholas
Robert L. Nicholas
Colerain Avenue
Suit for Divorce Alleges Cruelty and Desertion by Dethlefs
Mrs. Ella Fredericka Dethlefs files for divorce claiming since May 17, 1925 Peter Co. Dethlefs has failed to support her. She says he bought only two pairs of stockings, beat their child, associated with other women, wrecked the automobile with another woman on July 29, and repeatedly lost jobs due to drink, spending earnings on liquor.
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Bertha Rhodes
Hopkins Street
Charles Rhodes
West Sixth Street
Rhodes
Peter Co
Dethlefs
Ella Fredericka Dethlefs
Covington Man Sentenced to Five Years for Burglary
A Covington Kentucky man William H Mason was given a five year term in the Ohio Penitentiary by Judge Ryan for burglary related to the Lockland Station Big Four Railroad break in. An iron safe was blown during the incident. Previously Henry Joseph was sentenced to two years for obtaining $1000 from Albert Bejach on May 1 1925. William Dowell was convicted of robbing Clifford Nitzel and faces another indictment for a separate robbery.
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Ohio
Ryan
Criminal Court
William H. Mason
Covington
Mason
Lockland Station
Big Four Railroad
Albert Bejach
Hearne Street
Henry Joseph Yesterday
LeBlond
William Dowell
West Sixth Street
Clifford Nitzel
First Avenue
Price Hill
Fourth and
Smith Streets
Dowell
Arthur Fix
Sullivan Carfelow
Kossuth Street
WANTS $25 000 FOR HURTS IN CHESTER PARK SWING
Nicholas Wagner thirteen year old son of Conrad Wagner sues for damages in Common Pleas Court over injuries from a defective swing at Chester Park swimming pool on August 24 1924. He fell striking his head and suffering a torn scalp and serious skull neck and spine injuries after paying admission.
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Chester Park
Nicholas Wagner
Conrad Wagner
Common Pleas Court
Edwin G. Becker
Receiver Sought for Albers Brothers Garage
Hawkeye Tire and Rubber Company asks Common Pleas Court to appoint a receiver for the Albers Brothers Garage operated by Gus J Alberg and Joseph H Alber Jr at 7439 Carthage Avenue. The May 2 1924 judgment for 120 dollars leaves 70 dollars unpaid, and the company warns assets may be dissipated without a receiver.
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Albers Brothers
Gus J. Alberg
Joseph H. Albers, Jr
Carthage Avenue
Common Pleas
Hawkeye Tire and Rubber Company
Hawkeye Company
Sheriff reports warrant for Harold Sproule over abandonment
Sheriff Richard B. Witt and Magistrate Herman Buse ordered service of a warrant on Harold D. Sproule draftsman at Columbia Power Co Cleves Ohio. Sproule’s wife Alvereta accuses him of abandoning her and their two year old son with no funds or food. They live in a cellar 3608 Newton Ave Evanston. Council of Social Agencies investigates.
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Richard B. Witt
Herman Buse
Millcreek
Harold D. Sproule
Columbia Power Company
Cleves
Sproule
Alvereta Sproule
Newton Avenue
Evanston
Buse
Council of Social Agencies
Hilsinger to Be Freed on Parole from Prison
United States Courts report Michael Hilsinger former Schaller Brewing Company receiver at 1622 Main Street will be released on parole after serving a sentence of eighteen months.
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Hilsinger
Michael Hilsinger
Schaller Brewing Company
Main Street
Prisoner Hilsinger Ill in Atlanta Penitentiary
Word from Washington says Hilsinger, serving seven months of a Federal Volstead Act sentence, is ill at the Atlanta penitentiary. He began his term on December 4, 1924, and his wife and two sons Walter and Clifford live at 1703 Chase Street, Northside.
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Federal
Atlanta
Washington
Hilsinger
Walter
Clifford Hilsinger
Chase Street
Northside
Court notes dismiss peanuts suit and bar admission
The United States Court noted the dismissal of a $13.80 freight suit by Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway against Sam Bros. Co. Meanwhile farmer William A. Hauer of Camp Dennison faced a not guilty plea for selling and possessing and will have a hearing August 19 with a $1,000 bond. Anthony P. Conlin sought admission to the federal bar. Three Collins brothers faced liquor charges. Howard and Bart Collins were bound over to the grand jury on $1,000 bonds, Edward Collins was dismissed.
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United States
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company
Sam Bros. Company
Cincinnati
United States District Court
Yester
William A. Bauer
Camp Dennison
Hauer
Gregory
Nthony P. Conlin
East Third Street
Howard J. Collins
Glagstone Avenue
Bart Collins
Oregon Street
Federal Grand Jury
Edward Collins
St. Gregory Street
Wll
Cincinnati firm seeks receiver in Boys' Shop bankruptcy case
The H A Seinsheimer Company of Cincinnati, one of three firms filing involuntary bankruptcy against the Boys' Shop, asked Judge Hickenlooper yesterday to appoint a receiver for the firm.
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H. A. Seinsheimer Company of
Cincinnati
Boys’ Shop
Hickenlooper
New Suits Filed In Common Pleas Court No 196287 196303
A list of civil cases filed including divorces and alimony demands such as Bertha Rhodes vs Charles Rhodes and Loretta Mechley vs George Mechley, damages claims against American Railway Express and The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, and real estate sales actions. Additional items include injunctions and a petition in error, with case numbers 196287 through 196303.
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Common Pleas Court
Bertha Rhodes
Charles Rhodes
Lizzie Morgan
George Morgan
Chester Franzell & Co
American Railway Express Company
Edward Hertlein
Wheeling & Lake Erieilway Company
George Wormus
Alva Wormus
Nicholas Wagner
The
Chester Park Company
Loretta Mechley
George Mechley
George W. Mapheth
Charles Longenberger
Andrew Hochstrasser
Joseph Levine
Bose
Hawkeye Tire and Rubberany
George J. Albert
Clifford L. Stephanson
Lafayette Anderson
Squire Stransser
Lockland Valley Electric Company
Clifford Winans
James Cooper
Hulbert K. Ferog
Boy Scouts Entertain Rotarians at Camp
Rotary Club members attended an outing at Camp Edgar Friedlander watched Boy Scouts vacationing there perform a beauty show in bathing suits and costumes. The event included a magician’s act by Leslie Guest and stunts. William Licht spoke on Rotary work. William Fosdick led. Carl Pettmann honored guest.
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Rotary Club
Edgar Friedlander
New Mess Hall
Leslie Guest
William Licht
Rotary Boys’ Work Committee
William Fosdick
Carl Petermann
Fourth Street taxi stands discontinued by Tudor
Safety Director Tudor ordered six taxi stands on the Fourth Street side of the Linton discontinued after complaints from hotel management and guests about chauffeurs conduct. Vine Street stands will continue for now. Tudor said drivers resisted vacating spaces, preferring to serve race track patrons.
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Fourth Street
Linton
Tudor
Vine Street
Mrs Tower Granted Divorce by Paris Courts
Mrs Roderick Tower formerly Flora Payne Whitney was granted a divorce in Paris today on grounds of abandonment by her husband. The couple wed in New York on April 19 1920.
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Tower
Associated Press
Paris
Roderick Tower
Powder Blast Kills Nine at Lugo Factory In Italy
In Lugo Italy an explosion at a powder factory killed seven women workers and two men including a customs guard. The other man’s identity was not available.
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Associated Press
Ravenna
Italy
Lugo
Judge rules against dividing child custody in Dill case
Probate Judge William H. Lueders rejects Solomon style time division for Evelyn May Dill, six months, in a custody dispute between Dill grandparents and Kruse relatives after Floyd and Ellen Dill died in a car crash near Chillicothe Ohio. The court postponed hearing until August 18.
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Solomon
William H. Lenders
Lueders
Evelyn
May Dill
Floyd
Ellen Dill
Chillicothe
Dill
Benjamin Dill
Edna Dill
Hves
Lower River Road
William Kruse
Foley Road
Kruse
Henry Beebe
Kruses
Dills
Group to greet new archbishop in Ohio
A large Catholic delegation will travel from Detroit to Eaton Ohio to meet Archbishop Designate John T McNicholas aboard a special train. The group will escort him to Cincinnati with Knights of Columbus joining by car, arriving Norwood Heights at 534 PM for a reception before the installation at St Peters Cathedral. Cardinal Mundelein Archbishop Dowling and others attend with tickets issued by parish size for Music Hall seating.
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Eaton
John T. McNicholas
Detroit
Cincinnati
Norwood Heights
Knights of Columbus
Mt. St. Mary Seminary
George Mundelein
Chicago
Austin Dowling
St. Paul
St. Peter's Cathedral
Cardinal Mundelein
Joseph G. Pinton
Superior
Wisconsin
Music Hall
Thas
Death by own action ends life of local shoe repairer
The body of Herman Massel aged 48 a shoe repairer of 633 Richmond Street who leaped into the Ohio River from the steamer Island Queen Monday afternoon after losing his money on horse races was recovered yesterday at Point Isabelle East End Massel father of seven children aged 5 to 16 years was identified in the recovery effort
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Herman Massel
Richmond Street
Ohio River
Point Isabelle
East End
Massel
Two Motorists Fined in Traffic Court
Judge Woeste fined two motorists $100 each for reckless driving and liquor transport. Additional drivers received $50 fines for reckless driving or tag registration failures. Names include Harold Roewer and Philip Speiss, with details of vehicles and addresses.
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Stevens
Frank Morgan
Milton Street
Vine Street
Central Parkway
Samuel Schwartz
Provident Bank
West Sixth Street
Seventh Street
Freeman Avenue
Earl Johnson
Prospect Place
Eastern Avenue
Woeste
Fred Bissinger
Main Street
Roy Morris
Rogers Place
Plan to raise 500000 for Deaconess Hospital unit
A Cincinnati meeting in the Business Men's Club discussed a campaign to raise 500000 for a new hospital unit at Deaconess Hospital Clifton viue and Straight street. A 250 member canvass will operate October 6 to 16 to fund the project with committee members named.
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Deaconess Hospital
Cliftonviue
Straight Street
Business Men’s Club
Cincinnati
George J. Gruen
W. E. Fox
Joseph Benning
Sol H. Freiberg
Woman Found Hid in Fields After Escape from Cruel Husband
Mrs Eleanor Bayer 24 left Cincinnati with her year old baby and five year old son Anthony to flee alleged abuse. Wandering through Ohio and Indiana for three weeks they survived in fields and towns. She was found exhausted in Lawrenceburg Indiana and returned to Cincinnati for medical care while investigators pursue the case. Her husband Anthony Bayer denies the charges.
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Eleanor Bayer
Mohawk Street
Cincinnati
Anthony
Ohio
Indiana
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Miami River
Elizabethtown
Lowe
Lammel
Catherine Booth
Beecher Street
Bayer
Anthony Bayer
Schneller Explains City Manager Plan at Drugists’ Outing
Fred Schneller city clerk and council candidate spoke on proportional representation and the city manager plan at Bass Island. About five thousand people attended the Ohio Valley Druggists’ Association event. He was endorsed for council by the Cincinnati Guild and Hy Pure Druggists, a state branch.
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Schneller
Fred Schnfller
Ohio Valley Druggists’ Association
Bass Island
Cincinnati Guild, Hypure Druggists
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