Electric current turns tide in elevator attack at City Hall
Bob Mathieson, an elevator operator at the First District Police Station, describes a knife assault by Robert Jenkins in a stalled elevator between floors. After a struggle, the current was cut and Mathieson subdued the attacker, saving his life during a 15 minute fight.
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Bob” Mathieson
First District
Bob Mathieson
First District Police Station
Robert Jenkins
Detective Headquarters
City Hall
Miss Alice Robertson declines rebuilding fund offer
Miss Alice Robertson of Muskogee former Congresswoman declines funds from the Oklahoma City Times Tulsa Tribune and Muskogee Phoenix to rebuild her Sawokla home after a Tuesday fire. She urges donations to an orphanage fund for American soldiers' children instead, noting insurance suffices to cover mortgage.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Alice Robertson
Muskogee
Oklahoma City Times
The
Tulsa Tribune
Muskogee Phoenix
Sawokla
the Times
Alice
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Commercial Tribune
Police puzzled as berry pickers vanish in bogs
New York police dispatched two Missing Persons Bureau detectives to New Jersey after Thomas Carleton and William Kohler vanished while berry picking near Lakehurst and New Egypt. Kohler returned home alone, saying little of Carleton’s fate, and neither man was heard from after Kohler left again.
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New York World News Service
New York
Thomas Carleton
William A. Kohler
Brooklyn
New Jersey
New Egypt
N. J
Missing Persons Bureau
Lakehurst
Kohler
Carleton
Automobile Tragedy Strikes Lauxterman Family Near Coney Island
Warren Lauxterman eight dies after sliding from a car on Spring Grove avenue near the Carthage pike. Three sisters ride in back. mother distraught as hospital reports list skull fracture and multiple injuries. Two more boys hurt when Thiel car crashes while yielding to a bus. Additional incidents include a taxi collision and a bank crash with injuries.
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Coney Island
Warren Lauxterman
Jackson Street
St. Bernard
Spring Grove Avenue
Carthage Pike
Clarence Lauxterman
Warren
General Hospital
Hamilton County
Kellogg Avenue
California Water Works
Joseph Thiel
cDowell Street
Joseph Thiel, Jr
Raymond Dreher
William Dreher
Sycamore Street
Thiel
Raymond
Harvey Meyers
Wallace Avenue
Covington
E. T. Crotty
Linwood Road
Dreher
Familly
Manuel Cohen
Race Street
St. Mary’s Hospital
Charles Chacksfield
Bevisavenue
David Street
William Blevins
Denman Street
Lawrence Hogan
Clark Dixon
West Front Street
Wade and
Freeman Streets
St. Mary's Hospital
Hopkins Avenue
William Henderson
Stockton Road
Glenwood
Anna May Henderson
Frank Nagel
York Street
Newport
Henderson
Reading Road
Paxton Avenue
William Sprinkle
Springfield Pike
Glendale
Five Year Old Girl Dies After Window Fall in North College Hill
Emma Ginn five from 1926 Catalpa avenue fell from a second story window at home when a screen gave way. She died five hours later at Good Samaritan hospital after doctors attempted an operation. Her skull was fractured in three places. Her father Jess Ginn and mother are seen by neighbors, with a 27 month old son at home.
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Emma Ginn
Catalpa Avenue
North College Hill
Good Samaritan Hospital
Jess T. Ginn
Mr. Ginn
Harry G. Brown
Harry Hines
Ms. Ginn
Laborer Believed Killed by Train at Addyston
David Rhodes 68, Addyston laborer, found beside Baltimore & Ohio tracks before daylight. Coroner cites crushed chest and neck fractures as cause of death from a train strike. Survived by three daughters, with Maurer as son in law. Rhodes spent time in Delhi where he worked granite blocks.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Addyston
David Rhodes
Rhodes
William Maurer
Delhi
Handley
Maurer
First Street
William Harrison
Nett Rudisell
Woman killed after dispute over child in cherry orchard
Peoria Illinois August 23 Virginia Buchanan 29 was shot and killed by neighbor Scott Harris on a farm near Peoria after an argument between Harris's wife and Buchanan about a child who played in the Harris cherry orchards Harris surrendered at once Mrs Harris and Buchanan confronted at the orchard edge a quarrel and blows followed Harris fired a buckshot into Buchanan just above the heart causing instant death
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Associated Press
Peoria
Virginia Buchanan
Scott Harris
Harris
Buchanan
Harrie
Mrs. Buchanan
Boy Drowns in Canal Fulton Cistern
Clare Gilcher aged 3 the son of William E Gilcher of the Gilcher Lumber Company drowned today in Canal Fulton Ohio after tripping and falling into a cistern his father had just uncovered moments before. His brothers Leslie and Zane accompanied their father to check the water level.
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Canal Fulton
Clare Gilcher
William E. Gilcher
Gilcher Lumber Company
Clare
Leslie
Zane
Four or Five Die in French Train Collision Near Sens
Four or five people were killed and about a score injured when the Paris Evian Express rear ended the Paris Cette Express near Sens. It marked the fourteenth railway accident in a month on French railways, with total deaths at 34 and injuries near 300.
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Paris
Sens
Aviators Die in Greenbrier Crash After Washington Visit
At White Sulphur Springs West Virginia Captain Frasier Hale of the Army Air Service and his mechanic Private Earl Norris were killed when their plane crashed on the Greenbrier golf course fairway and burned. Hale, a White House aide, had visited Washington and stayed with Atlanta residents, attending the horse show events prior to the fatal flight.
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Frasier Hale
White House
White Sulphur Springs
New York World News Service
W. Va
Army Air Service
Earl C. Norris
Washington
Hale
Thomas B. Paine
Atlanta
Greenbrier
Army
Leavenworth
Kansas
Fatal beating near Parise home shocks Chicago
John Klasinn a 26 year old University of Chicago pre med student and Gamma Rho member was beaten to death by Archie Carlini and four youths after a confrontation with Inez Parise's companions on a city street. Mitcham another pre med student was attacked. Carlini Bassa and Deghetti were arrested and confessed involvement.
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Chicago
John Klasinn
University of Chicago
Mankato
Kan
Archie Carlini
Inez Parise
James R. Mitcham
Klasinn
Mitcham
Ft. Worth
Tex
Carlini
Sloree
Parise
Klassinn
Gamma Rho
Victor Bassa
Carl Deghetti
Shot bursts end dispute between Bell spouses. gunman flees
After a quarrel outside a home in which Meddard Bell was struck by his wife Esther Bell, a masked gunman fired five shots from a taxi, wounding Bell in the leg and arm. He fled the scene in a taxicab with another man.
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Stranger
Wrangler
Weilder
Meddard Bell
Sycamore Street
General Hospital
Jennings
Bell
Esther Bell
Trained Coon Welcomes Clients to Speak Easy
Federal agents raided E. B. Wilson's Sulphur Springs inn on the Baltimore Washington boulevard after a tip about a speak easy. They found a trained raccoon named Jimmy, secret panels, a steel door, and a wallpaper coded mash formula. Jimmy allegedly recognized regular patrons and warned strangers, aiding attempts to obtain liquor without a warrant.
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New York World News Service
Baltimore
Jimmy
E. B. Wilson
Sulphur Springs
Baltimore-Washington Boulevard
H. C. Robinson
Mystery Collar Maker Guards Ambushed by Enemies in New Jersey
Red Bank New Jersey August 23 Three miles from town a stocky red faced collar maker Max Phillips sits with a pistol awaiting unseen foes. Detectives Rue and Kent say the case involves two women posing as a Russian countess and a socialite with her maid plus a New York detective agency head on $36500 bail. Authorities hint at family links and a bankers scheme. Phillips claims rivals and a yacht related plot threaten his life and business. He plans to press on as a New York banker allegedly backs the plot. The countryside around Red Bank Eatontown Freehold Seabright Asbury Park holds 700 acres and 13 polo ponies with 15 police dogs guarding the property as night surveillance continues.
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New York World News Service
Red Bank
N. J
Max Phillips
Conan Doyle
Law
Rue
Kent
New York
Monmouth County Grand Jury
Margaret Campbell
Phillips
Eatontown
Freehold
Seabright
Asbury Park
Stone Road
Mr. Phillips
Gunman John Troy Banks New Aides in Worcester Raids
Worcester detail by detail tracks bandit chief John Troy and two new accomplices as police hunt him after raid spree. Derosier dies, Britt desertes, Troy escapes with a stolen car. Aiding evidence shows Troy recruiting a 17 year old and vowing to kill the officer who killed Derosier.
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New York World News Service
Worcester
Mass
Dennis Britt
Walter Derosier
John Troy
Johnny Troy
Troy
Derosfer
Britt
Pinky” Britt
Northbridge
Derosier
Packard Motor Company
Cat Licks Grow Hair on Bald Head in Quirky Discovery
Rudolph Althans of East Elmhurst claims his cat Mike has grown a quarter inch of hair on his bald scalp after licking it for three months. The 60 year old retired druggist notes hair growth began after he adopted Mike two years ago and the cat became his constant companion. Minnie the Hairdresser is the renamed feline tester and Althans says the remarkable result came after years of failed remedies.
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New York World News Service
New York
Rudolph Althans
Flushing Bay
East Elmhurst
L. I
Mike
Althaus
Rudy
Uncle Rudy
Altans
Althans
Mik
World News Service
Minnie
Five Minutes to Say Goodbye Before Execution
Mitzi Lederer and her husband Gustav were executed after being convicted of murdering and dismembering Franz Kudelka, owner of a Budapest sausage factory. The court allowed a five minute farewell as the sentence was carried out in a suburb of Budapest.
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Associated Press
Budapest
Mitzi Lederer
Gustav
Franz Kudelka
Church Saved by Jew's Gift in Long Branch
Ernest Levy of Long Branch and New York paid $600 in city taxes to stop the sale of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church known as the Church of the Presidents. The church, once visited by six presidents including Garfield and Grant, was near sale after dwindling membership and debt. Bernard Sandler presented the funds to the bishop on behalf of Levy, calling it a national shrine and a safeguard against sacrilege.
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Long Branch
N. J
St. James Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
Ernest Levy
New York
Grant
Garfield
Arthur
Hayes
McKinley
Wilson
Francklyn Cottage
Guiteau
Bernard Sandler
Long Island
Albion N. Knight
New Jersey
Levy
Fifteen Burned in Army Test at Camp Grant
An explosion of a phosphorus grenade during a gas attack demonstration by the Chemical Warfare Service injured fifteen spectators at Camp Grant. Leo Flanders of Rockford, age 30, suffered critical burns. fourteen others received first aid and were sent home.
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Rockford, Tl
Chemical Warfare Service
Camp Grant
Leo Flanders
Rockford
Infant Dies in Kerosene Explosion in Youngstown Home
Edward K. Morris, 17 months old, died when a can of kerosene near a stove exploded and sprayed the crib with fire. His mother, Mary Morris, 25, is in critical condition after leaping from a second story window to escape the blaze.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Edward K. Morris
Mary Morris
Morris
Jazz girl guilty in manslaughter verdict
Dorothy Ellingson, seventeen, confessed to killing her mother on January 13 after a dispute over attending a jazz party. A jury convicted her of manslaughter in San Francisco, with sentencing set for Wednesday before Judge Harold Louderback.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Harold Louderback
Dorothy
A. R. Drathman
St. Ignatius Church
Joseph Ellingson
Napa State Hospital
Sir Lee Stack Murderers Hanged In Cairo
Seven men convicted of killing Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Sudan, were executed in Cairo with forty five minute intervals. One conspirator’s sentence was commuted to life for turning state's evidence. Nine others convicted of complicity faced prison terms. The murder strained Anglo Egyptian relations and helped trigger a new Egyptian ministry.
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Associated Press
Cairo
Egypt
Lee Stack
Sudan
Abdel Fattah Enayat
Shafik Mansour
Sir Lee
Alexandria
President's Lobsters Halt Store Closing
In Lynn Massachusetts Aug 23 1922 Acting Chief Reeves of Swampscott rescinded a Sunday closing order for Charles H Martin's fish market after a possible White Court request for lobsters for the Presidents Sunday dinner. the Selectmen had earlier mandated Sunday closure but police found a statute prohibiting Sunday openings. Permission was granted to keep the market open Sundays until the President returned to Washington.
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New York World News Service
Lynn
Mass
Swampscott
Charles H. Martin
Martin
White Court
Washington
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