17 Jun 1925
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
1
A courtroom in the lurid case of typhoid oysters at a party unfolds with testimony about a girl affianced to a millionaire orphan. The reading of love letters becomes a dramatic focal point and the trial proceeds with no other party affected.
Chicago June 16 William Darling Shepherd faces murder trial in McClintock case with typhoid germ plot while Miss Isabelle Pope testifies about a 50 50 estate split if the will is broken. Foster mother Julie Shepherd alleged involvement questioned amid defense and prosecution clashes. witnesses discuss sale of the home and a prior will drawn for the boy’s mother.
A brief classified ad under Furniture for Sale in The Commercial Tribune prompts quick buyer interest as the listed item finds a ready purchaser soon after the notice appears. The piece demonstrates how want ads can efficiently move goods.
Signore Benandi of Faenza Observatory predicts two quakes soon. The first to hit tomorrow night will be felt in the Far East, the second on the night of June 18 19 in Central Asia. The forecast is reported by the New York World News Service from Rome.
In Cleves the April riot case involving Wade Rininger and Crassius Pate was settled after Casper Rininger and Pate pleaded guilty to a property charge. Judge Hurley suspended a $50 fine and urged youths to avoid moonshine and stay home. Mayor Gwaltney testified about the village’s liquor problem and praised the judge’s admonitions to citizens.
James Thayer, head of the Veterans' Bureau supply division, is killed when his car plunges 75 feet from Klingle Bridge near Connecticut Avenue into a boulder strewn creek. His wife Lois Virginia Macias dies, and his son in law Joseph A Macias is seriously injured. His granddaughter Marian Macias, 2, is briefly injured. Thayer served as a Navy commander during the war.
Charles H. Strong, secretary of the Bar Association of New York City, joins the Dayton Scopes trial defense as observer for the Unitarian Laymen's League. The group backs Clarence Darrow and others while affirming constitutional, scientific defense against Tennessee evolution laws. Strong plans to file a brief if the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison said there is absolutely no truth in reports that her husband would go to Tennessee as a volunteer witness in the Scopes evolution trial. The inventor sat expressionless beside her at Llewellyn Park home in West Orange New Jersey.
A Bulgarian press statement claims Pancho Mikhailoff, a Macedonian revolutionary leader, was killed yesterday by order of the committee that had sentenced him to death three months prior. The note says execution was postponed due to his prior services and hope for reform.
Twenty three defendants in six states are named in complaints before U S Commissioner R E Wible charging they unlawfully mutilated defaced or injured a bronze tablet at the Forty fourth New York state monument on Little Round Top. The acts occurred about June 1 and are misdemeanors.
Senator Borah signals opposition to U S involvement in China while urging withdrawal of extra territorial rights. State Department notes China’s improving conditions as tensions persist across Shanghai Swatow Chungking Nanking and other ports with strikes and student demonstrations.
Germany rejects any security pact that allows sanctions and calls for arbitration instead. A government spokesman reiterates that negotiations must resolve difficulties, not force, and Germany wants entry to the League of Nations to follow the pact's signing.
Unidentified gunman fires at State's Attorney staff in Chicago City Hall. Sergeant Curran escapes unharmed after firing back. Police hunt a swarthy, black-haired man linked to Genna gang. Deputy Crowe leads probe as 89 gangsters arraigned for Volstead Act violations. Genna brothers and others buried amid funeral contrasts.
New Jersey wreck killed 57 Germans en route home from Chicago and left many injured. Survivors described heroic rescue efforts led by nurses and farmers, with sheets used as bandages and improvised hospitals in the observation car.
Edward E. Curtis former Canton Safety Director lost his appeal in the State Supreme Court from a bribe conviction. He was arrested by deputy sheriffs at the prosecutor's request and jailed. He will be taken to Columbus to begin a two year sentence once the Supreme Court mandate arrives.
An Express dispatch from Nairobi reports American writer Stewart Edward White fought a wounded leopard with bow and arrows in Tanganyika. White was bitten on the arm and a native gunbearer was bitten in the head before the leopard was killed. The party also killed six lions with steel tipped arrows despite charges.
Otto Bauer of Chicago slept through the Delaware Lackawanna and Western special train wreck that killed thirty six and injured many. His wife awoke him and informed him of the fate of victims in the coaches ahead. he was in a Pullman at the rear of the train.
A court finds two Saoke Ha Ound guilty of torture charges. The verdict follows a weeks long trial with prosecutors detailing abusive acts and jurors delivering a decision amid the courtroom.
Mrs. Randolph Stelle of New Jersey and her father William MacClymont of Yonkers were found guilty of second degree assault on William Holland in a case tied to a planned marriage. Each faces up to five years or a fine. they await sentence as Holland alleges torture with chain “twisters” to deter his attentions. The trial featured the girl seated beside her husband and father. the defendants claimed Holland provoked the encounter and threatened to defame Stelle.
A county grand jury indicted Dr. Thomas W. Young, a Beverly Glen dentist, for the murder of his wife Grace Grogan Young by lethal gas. Investigators seek a woman described as young and handsome who aided in administering the gas. The body was found in a cistern beneath Young's cabin.
A seven car Delaware Lackawanna & Western special carrying 182 passengers derailed near Rockport Lag, Hackettstown, as a thunderstorm washed gravel onto tracks. Thirty six died and many more were injured across Easton Pa Phillipsburg Morristown Dover hospitals.
Eric Sheets, convicted of staying in February his relative Aaron Sheets at his home, was sentenced today to one to twenty years after a motion for a new trial was overruled. He said he shot Aaron when he found him attacking his wife.
June 16 in Toledo William Young 72 obtained a license to marry Ethel Mead 23 a Toledo resident. Mead is forty nine years his junior and the couple are Toledoans.
Federal and county officials intensified a search for John Worthington of Chicago alias Wolf of LaSalle Street after evidence of a plot to market stolen bonds from Chicago Kansas City and St Louis surfaced. Worthington disappeared from a sanitarium earlier last week.
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