Miss Isabel Pope testifies in Shepherd murder trial
Miss Isabel Pope described her flight from a planned marriage with Billy McClintock and the Shepherds generosity turning cold as Billy fell ill. She said Shepherd studied typhoid and planned the license condition to secure the McClintock estate. Her testimony, amid defense objections, added drama to the trial as she prepared to finish her account.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Shepherd
Isabelle Pope
Billy” McClintock
William Darling Shepherd
Billy
McClintock
Miss Pope
Shepherds
Zon
Wisconsin
Young McClintock
Dartmouth College
Joseph P. Savage
Prayer makes knees of women in Spain prettiest
New York World News Service reports Spanish portrait painter Jose M Vidal Quadras arrived on the Deutschland and declared Spanish women's knees are the firmest and most beautiful because they pray more than in other countries.
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New York World News Service
New York
Jose M.vidal Quadras
Spain
Floods kill three and cause $1.25 million loss in Iowa towns
Three lives lost and property damage totaling about 1.25 million dollars after torrential rains and river floods hit Dubuque Delaware and Buchanan counties. In Cascade an elderly woman and her daughter drowned when their home washed away and a mechanic died after a boat capsized while crossing the street. Large areas remained at risk as churches and dozens of homes were damaged or endangered.
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Dubuque
Delaware
Buchanan
Anna Russell
John Cowan
Cascade
Edward Bell
Bell
Maquokueta
Baptist Church
Mary Cole
Little Turkey Creek
Colesburg
Manchester
Dyersville
Garber
Osterdock
Haynes Favors Conspiracy Code In Prohibition Enforcement
Washington reports Prohibition leaders will ignore Circuit Court Judges urging to stop using the conspiracy provision to punish liquor violators and urge Commissioner Haynes to continue prosecutions under that law. Haynes defends the practice citing its effectiveness alongside the padlock law in enforcing the dry act. DOJ officials expect DAs to follow judges' suggestions, while Wayne Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League argues heavy penalties under the Volstead act suffice unless extraordinary cases arise.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Circuit Court
Haynes
Prohibition
Department of Justice
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Dorothy Perkins Cool On Witness Stand In Slaying Trial
Seven teen-year-old Dorothy Perkins continued testimony in the trial for the killing of Thomas Templeton. She described her father calling her a name and slapping her, then a gunshot occurred after she reached the top of the stairs. She professed lack of memory about pulling the trigger and said she loved Templeton and his memory.
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New York
Dorothy Perkins
Thomas Templeton
Sydney Lk. Lash
Tommy
Templeton
Dorothy
Bomb Hurts Two Policemen in Lisbon Incident
Two police officers were seriously injured by a powerful bomb thrown at them during the night. Revelers leaving a dance found the officers lying in the street.
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The
Associated Press
Lisbon
Doctor Bougrat Caught as Dual Life Murderer Suspect
Paris reports Marseilles police say Dr Bougrat, a respected social figure, led a double life as a cultured professional and a violent criminal. They link him to scientific murders and unexplained deaths, with patients recounting subcutaneous injections that left them unconscious and robbed of cash.
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Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
Marseilles
Bougrat
Rumebe
N. Y
American Girl in Paris Ends Life With Instructions
Miss May Alice Crumpton, an American, died by suicide in a taxi in Paris’s Bois de Boulogne. She left notes directing her coffin details and forbidding American doctors, asking for a rose adorned ebony coffin and specific burial arrangements. The hotel owner cited a past failed operation as a trigger, with no American friends in Paris beyond business contacts.
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Associated Press
Paris
Miss May Alice Crumpton
Bois de Boulogne
Miss Crumpton
United States
Paris Jeweler Loses 30000 Pearl Heist by New Yorker
A man calling himself James Benjamin Silver of New York robbed Hindu jeweler Schilk Savai chant in Paris of 1320 pearls worth 30000. He pretended to represent a New York firm and sealed an envelope with the pearls in the safe but never returned, leaving only a packet of artificial pearls.
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Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
James Benjamin Silver
New York
Silver
Schilk Savaichant
N. Y
Boy held for killing sleeping father in Buchanan Ga
Ollie O. Golin a 40 year old Horazon County planter was shot dead while asleep. His son Hoke 15 confessed I had to do it claiming the father struck him with a hammer twenty minutes earlier. Golin had recently been tried and acquitted of murdering his brother in law Delamar Holcombe.
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Buchanan
Ollie O. Golin
Horazon County
Hoke
Ollie Golin
Delamar Holcombe
Rediscovery of Tempel's Comet Reported from Copenhagen
The International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams announced to Harvard Observatory in Cambridge that Tempel's second comet, first found in 1873, has been rediscovered. Discovered by Tempel of Milan, the twelfth magnitude comet appears about once every five years and lies in the Serpens constellation, visible only through a telescope.
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New York World News Service
Cambridge
Mass
Tempel
Harvard Observatory
International Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams
Copenhagen
Milan
Two Children Die After Bathwater Accident
Mrs. Josephine Preston left a partly filled tub of boiling water in the kitchen yesterday morning as her two sons played outside. The boys Carl 8 and Harley 2 fell into the tub, keeping their faces above water but suffering fatal burns. Carl died at General Hospital yesterday. Harley died last night. Mr. and Mrs. Cather Preston reside at 4019 Gulow Street.
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Cather Preston
Gulow Street
Carl Preston
General Hospital
Harley
Josephine Preston
New French Note in Berlin Today
Samuel Spewack reports from Berlin that Paris will deliver a French note to Foreign Minister Stresemann at noon. The note seeks a diplomatic conference to discuss a security pact, disarmament, and Cologne evacuation, with the league of nations as a point of special discussion but not a prerequisite for pact entry.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
Germany
Stresemann
Cologne
League of Nations
Reich
League
Geneva
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Russia
Britain
France
Izvestia
Asia
N. Y
One Dead Five Missing After Molokai Vessel Capsize
Honolulu dispatch reports seven teen passengers aboard the Samoan vessel capsized off Molokai last night. One person is known to have drowned and five others are missing. eleven passengers were rescued.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Molokai
Judge Jails Klan Chief in Income Tax Case
Federal Judge Symes sentenced Dr. John Galen Locke Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to ten days in jail and a $1500 fine for contempt of court for failing to produce his books for examination by government agents reviewing his income tax returns in Denver.
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Denver
Col
Symes
John Galen Locke
Ku Klux Klan
Locke
Dentist is Charged in Beverly Glen Murder Plot
Los Angeles June 15 A coroner inquest finds Dr Thomas W Young a dentist planned premeditated murder of wife Grace Grogan. He allegedly used lethal gas and strangulation after forcing her to sign blank papers to obtain bonds and cover his tracks. A bigamy probe ties to three women linked to Young.
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Cal
Thomas W. Young
Grace
Patrick Grogan
Olive Millionaire
Young
Charles Riemer
Young Cottage
Beverly Glen
Here
A. F. Wagner
Dr. Young
Keyes
Pearl L. Koebig
Riverbank
Modesto
Katherine G. Young
Inez Irene Hoghe
Attica
Seneca County
Katherine GW. Young
Katherine
Girders Fall Dozens Hurt In New York Building Accident
Twelve workers were injured when seven 800 pound steel girders slipped a cable and crashed fifteen stories to the ground at Fourth Avenue and Thirty Second Street. Four are reported seriously hurt with one man knocked into a wall by the swinging derrick.
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New York
Fourth Avenue
Thirty-second
Peking Faculty Sends Manifesto On China Riots
Chinese university faculty in Peking cables a World News Service statement condemning British actions in Hankow and Shanghai. They accuse premeditated measures by British officials, cite child labor abuses in foreign factories, and describe a peaceful strike and boycott as nonviolent protest against brutality.
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National University of Peking
World News Service
China
New York World News Service
Peking
Hankow
Shanghai
Amritsar
India
Everson
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
International Settlement
Torture case faces court over alleged chain abuse
Mrs Randolph Stelle testified in Yonkers County Court defending her father William MacClaymont and her husband a Newark bond broker accused of torturing William Holland of Haworth New Jersey until he promised to stop paying court to Stelle formerly Marion MacClaymont The defense called Walter B Bell of Harris Forbes Co as character witness Holland denied threats and said MacClaymont lured him to a June 25 1924 office visit where he was overpowered chained and tortured A physician described his injuries and bleeding wrists while the chain used was identified in court
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White Plains
N. Y
Randolph Stelle
William MacClaymont
Yonkers
Newark
N. J
William Holland
Haworth
Stelle
Marion MacClaymont
Holland
Harris, Forbes & Co
Steele
MacClaymont
Day in Washington Signals Returns to Normal and Trade Rise
Official dispatches say all Americans are safe at Canton. New regulations for industrial alcohol are under consideration. May foreign trade figures show a substantial year over year rise. News of W W MacKenzie’s killing by snipers shifts attention to Shanghai. Indications suggest a note to Mexico but no public statement from President Calles.
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Mexico
Calles
Heat Wave Overcomes Three in Cincinnati as Humidity Tops 76
A Cincinnati heat wave pushed humidity to 76 percent and 93-degree highs. Three people, including Joseph Mueller and Alpert Freybl er, were revived at General Hospital after collapsing on streets and at work. A chimney was destroyed by a lightning strike but no fire reported.
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Cincinnati
General Hospital
Joseph Mueller
Main Street
Vine Street
Thill Street
Alpert Freybler
Dennis Street
Corryville
Dana Avenue
Norwood
William Marshall
John Street
Rose Hill Avenue
Reading Road
Rose Hill
Tyan Street
Weather Bureau
W. C. Devereaux
Mercury
Heat Fatality Near Portsmouth Claims Mrs Delia Johnson
Temperature reached 97 in Portsmouth on June 15 when Delia Johnson a 67-year-old widow was overcome by the heat during a fishing trip near the city and died within minutes authorities said.
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Portsmouth
Delia Johnson
June 15 Heat Sets June Record In Cleveland
The 91 degree Fahrenheit high on June 15 marks the hottest June 15 in 54 years of Weather Bureau records in Cleveland.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
the Mercury Today
Weather Bureau
Heat Wave Grips State. Weather Calls For Showers
Columbus reports a 91 degree high by 3 PM as a heat wave bakes the state. Relief expected late today with predicted thunder showers that should lower temperatures after a 90 degree Sunday.
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The
Associated Press
Columbus
Mercury
Heat Claims Two Lives in New York as Heatwave Eases
New York reports two deaths and eight heat related illnesses as the second heatwave of June ends. The day’s peak reached 87 degrees by early afternoon, nine degrees below the previous wave, with cooler air arriving and thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow.
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New York
Associated Press
Girl Killed in Mine Dressed Six Years as Man
Anna Smoley aged 23 dies after slate fall crushes her in a Bridgeville area mine where she had worked in male clothing for six years alongside her family. Her father says he urged a change but she persisted. Neighbors struggled an hour to reach her. county investigators to study the death.
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Pittsburgh
Bridgeville
Anna Smoley
Auto Steered by Girl Ends in Ditch After Fatal Attack
In Shanghai on June 15 British subject William M. MacKenzie, an electric department worker, was killed by Chinese assailants on the Great Western road. Miss Mary Duncan, slightly wounded, drove the car more than a thousand yards to safety after MacKenzie was shot, steering as the car tipped into a six foot ditch while residents were alerted.
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Shanghai
William M. MacKenzie
Electric Department
MacKenzie
Miss Duncan
Center of Disorder Shifts Back to Shanghai
Washington reports the June 15 killing of W. W. MacKenzie and wounding of Mary Duncan by Chinese snipers. The incident heightens tensions as anti foreign violence looms, with Beijing pressured to respond and Chang Tso-Lin moving troops to preserve order.
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Shanghai
Associated Press
Washington
W. W. MacKenzie
Mary Duncan
Canton
China
Peking
Chang Tso-Lin
MacKenzie-Duncan
Anti Foreign Feeling Persists Across China Amid Unrest
Reports from across China show no letup in anti foreign sentiment as strife continues. Foreign powers and Chinese authorities boost protection for foreigners while strikes disrupt shipping and demonstrations press for severing ties with Britain.
Leap from truck fatal in Harmony crash
Alesio Domato, 31, a resident possibly of Dayton or Cincinnati, was fatally injured when he leaped from a motor truck crowded into a ditch by other cars at Harmony near Springfield. He died a few hours later in the city hospital.
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Alesio Domato
Dayton
Cincinnati
Harmony
Pea
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