Jury clears host in Miss Payne yacht death inquest
Seattle coroner's inquest into Miss Violet Payne's death aboard F Nelson's yacht returns an accidental death verdict. Jurors brand the male party as cowards and morally responsible but find no criminal action. Nelson and three others freed on bail while officials resume the inquest.
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Seattle
F. Nelson
Violet Payne
Nelson
Miss Payne
James Kinney
Kinney
A. J. Peterson
Daniel Johanson
Lake Union
E. E. Barrington
Seattle Yacht Club
Barrington
W. H. Carson
Winona Gorman
A. F. Bell
Bell
Mrs. Gorman
Yacht Club
Payne
Gorman
Lina Cavalieri Divorced From Lucien Muratore
Paris reports that noted opera singer Lina Cavalieri has been granted a divorce from fellow opera star Lucien Muratore. The suit cites abandonment and failure to resume married life as grounds. Cavalieri, famed for beauty and voice, had followed Muratore into military service during their marriage.
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Paris
Lina Cavalieri
Lucien Muratore
Mme. Cavalieri
France
Rome
Indiana scandal flares as boxes of documents surface
The Indianapolis Times reports a renewed Marion County prosecutor case involving D. C. Stephenson era links and a bribery claim. William H. Remy handled unopened boxes of agreements and checks, while Ed Jackson allegedly offered $10,000 for McCray to secure McDonald’s appointment and aid in avoiding conviction.
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Jackson
McCray
Marion County
Indianapolis
Indiana
D. C
Stephenson
Michigan City
Ind
Emsley W. Johnson
Remy
L. G. Julian
Evansville
Washington
Johnson
Indianapolis Times Today
Warren T. McCray
Atlanta
William P. Evans
Times
Ed Jackson
James P. McDonald
Bank Held Up by Teller's Kin in Mt Jackson Robbery
In Mt Jackson Shenandoah County Virginia a bank robbery netted about $2000 when a man identified as Kirby B Dellinger and two unidentified women entered the Mt Jackson National Bank. They confronted staff with pistols, collected cash from the drawer, and fled in an automobile. The teller C I Dellinger said the suspect was his cousin and that the women were 30 to 35 years old and not masked.
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Winchester
Mt. Jackson National Bank
Mt. Jackson
Shenandoah County
C. I. Dellinger
Kirby B. Dellinger
Child killed as he walks on Walnut Thirteenth street
The sixty sixth automobile fatality in Hamilton County this year followed the death of Frank Underwood also known as a negro of 1026 Oehler street after being struck by William Penrod’s car at Walnut and Thirteenth. The boy died several hours after admission to Betts Street Hospital. Witnesses said the accident was unavoidable as he walked into the path of the car from behind a parked truck.
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Hamilton County
Frank Underwood
Oehler Street
William Penrod
Eastern Avenue
Betts Street
Penrod
Jacob Buck
Milton Street
Walnut
Thirteenth Streets
Miss Besse Reynolds
Race Street
Thirteenth Street
James Pusey
Rapid Runpike
Joseph Pierce
Walnut Street
Pusey
Alexander
General Hospital
Police Nab Pair as Swindlers Targeting Catholics in Ohio
Detectives arrested John Sullivan and Frank Schmidt, both from the Hotel Hudson, for a months long swindle that duped Catholics in Cincinnati and nearby areas. The pair allegedly used forged Reverend identities to solicit funds for a non existent Catholics Knights of Ohio entertainment fund, prompting a fraud probe after a McDonald Printing Company call led to their capture.
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John Sullivan
Frank Schmidt
Hudson
West Sixth Street
Joseph Brink
Albert Genter
Cincinnati
McDonald Printing Company
Opera’ Place
Race
Elm Streets
John F. Hickey
St. Xavier Church
Catholic Knights of Ohio
Senators Push for Extra Session to Start Tax Cut Plan
Two senators Smoot of Utah and Harrison of Mississippi urged President Coolidge to call Congress into extra session to begin tax legislation. They debated the amount of cut, with Smoot proposing 300 million dollars and Harrison favoring half a billion. Harrison outlined a program including flood control, tax relief, farm aid, Muscle Shoals, Boulder Dam, and tariff revision.
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Harrison
Coolidge
Congress
Washington
Utah
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
al Smith
South
New York
War Department
Garrett
Tennessee
House
Garner
Texas
Ways and Means
Edwards
Dem
N. J
Muscle Shoals
Boulder Dam
Senate
London to protest to Kellogg over anti British matter in American press
The Rt Rev Mgr Joseph M Denning 60 former US diplomat and consul general at Tangier Morocco died at Jewish Hospital after an operation following four weeks illness He served as pastor in Cincinnati and Marion Ohio where he befriended Warren G Harding He was appointed to Tangier in 1922 the first Roman Catholic priest to hold a US diplomatic post He later resigned in 1924 He leaves two brothers and funeral arrangements pending advice from Archbishop McNicholas
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London
Kellogg
U. S
Mgr
Joseph M. Denning
Glenway Avenue
United States
Tangier
Morocco
Jewish Hospital
Mer. Denning
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Wilder Avenue
Newport
Harding
St. Mary’s Church
Marion
Warren G. Harding
Mgr. Denning
Cincinnati
St. Xavier College
St. Mary’s Seminary
Aoe
Oxford
Hillsboro
Lawrence Denning
Hamilton
Federal Prohibition Campaign Moves Against Home Brew
Federal Prohibition Agent E. Davis announced a vigorous campaign against all law violations relating to home brew beer. Authorities raid four Little Miami River camps near Plainville and charged four alleged proprietors with possession and sale of beer and whisky, each with bonds set at 1500 dollars.
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E. Davis
Federal Prohibition
Davis
Haroth E. May
United States
Little Miami River
Prohibition
Plainville
Hamilton County
Smith
Roger Davis
Joseph Justice
Broadway
John Norris
Dewey Avenue
Frank Miller
Keep Defenses Wilbur Advises Thomaston
In Thomaston Mo on July 25 Secretary of the Navy Curtis D Wilbur urged ending uncertainties in national defense saying progress is costly but essential for liberty and security He laid a wreath at the Knox Memorial and noted Gen Henry Knox born in Boston 177 years ago today died here in 1806 Gen Herbert M Lord attended but did not speak Randall J Condon urged patriotism in youth linking Knox to manhood and sacrifice
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Thomaston
Curtis D. Wilbur
Wilbur
Knox Memorial Association
General Knox
Gen
Knox
Boston
Herbert M. Lord
Randall J. Condon
Cincinnati
Gen. Knox
Triplets Born to North Fairmount Couple
Fred C Strittholt a North Fairmount tailor and his wife welcomed triplets two boys and a girl weighing six pounds five pounds two ounces and five pounds respectively. The couple already have two older children age four and two and the mother recovers well from delivery.
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North Fairmount
Fred C. Strittholt
Carll Street
H. A. Springer
Colerain Avenue
Fred C., Jr
Arthur William
Anne Marie
Strittholt
Mr. Strittholt
Eight youths escape reformatory. one killed in gunfire
Eight boys escaped from the State Reformatory at Granite Oklahoma, were recaptured near Sayre after an officer shot and killed Eddie Shaw, 19, who opened fire. Two other escapees were wounded slightly. Warden Mrs Waters said the eight first termers had been cutting weeds when they overpowered guard Bert Johnson. Shaw, convicted of burglary in Oklahoma County, was killed. the group seized a motorist before being stopped by Beckman County officers.
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Bert Johnson
Johnson
Sayre
Shaw
Oklahoma
Chauffeur slain in Newport restaurant over bitter feud
Clarence Reichert known as Fat Maz, 28, was shot dead inside Creighton’s restaurant at 411 York street Newport by gambler Harry M Kapelson alias Harry Miller, 35. A witness and Miller’s brother-in-law, Walter Creighton, said Reichert telephoned threatening Miller and his wife before the killing. Miller was arrested on murder charges. the feud reportedly dated back months and revolved around Reichert’s threats and past gambling links at the restaurant.
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Clarence
Fat Maz” Reichert
Elm Street
Newport
Creighton
York Street
Harry M. Kapelson
Harry Miller
Monmouth Street
Kapelson
Miller
Reichert
Johnson
Inlaw
Walter
Tuttie) Creighton
Edward Moran
East Fifth Street
Covington
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Theodore Myers
Ethel Tierney
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Schmidt
Sullivan
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Geneva
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