Bank Clerk Dies After Poison Confession of $147,100 Embezzlement
Omer Patterson a 54 year old bookkeeper at Citizens State Bank Noblesville died after taking poison following a confession of embezzling about 147000 dollars over years. The bank closed by order of the state banking department as directors prepared to reorganize. Patterson had not taken a vacation in ten years and was unmarried. His life insurance policies totaling about 350000 were assigned to the bank.
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Noblesville, Inc
Omer Patterson
Citizens State Bank
State Banking Department
Patterson
Fall from truck kills motorist near Springdale
Lloyd Kamman, 35, Springfield Pike Springdale bus driver, fell from a truck on the Dixie Highway near Springdale late last night. He died at Bethesda Hospital from a fractured skull and internal injuries, the fifty fifth auto fatality in Hamilton County this year. Emma Tritschler, 33, of Findlay Street, driver of the automobile, was arrested on manslaughter charges. her husband Jacob Tritschler faced intoxication charges. A second couple in the car was not arrested. Tritschler said the truck zigzagged and she tried to pass, leading to the crash.
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Dixie Highway
Springdale
Lloyd Kamman
Springfield Pike
Bethesda Hospital
Hamilton County
Kamman
Emma Tritsbhler
Findlay Street
Menzer, Greer
Clyde Smith
Jacob Tritschler
Paragon Refining adopts plan to pay back dividends
Paragon Refining Company stockholders approve a reorganization that calls in common stock for exchange into no par value stock and provides back dividends on preferred stock totaling about 50 dollars per share. The plan creates a corporate surplus of around 2 million dollars and aims to stabilize control in Edwards Omwake and Hinsch.
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Paragon Refining Company
Paragon Preferred
E. W. Edwards
John Omwake
Charles A. Hinsch
Ohio man retains farewell address of Gen Lee
Xenia Ohio June 22 A paper claimed to be Gen Robert E Lees farewell address to his army dated April 9 1865 stayed in David Jonsons possession after a probate suit with Nettie Farr Cedarville as plaintiff. The court directed a verdict for the defendant ending the case.
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Xenia, O
Robert E. Lee
David Jonson
Xenia
Johnson
Nettie Farr
Oedarville
Judge Criticizes Ohio Supreme Court Over Freeman Case
Dayton June 22 The judge who presided over Roy Freeman's murder trial against Police Officer William Horn denounces the Ohio Supreme Court for alleged casual review and quantity over quality in granting a new trial Freeman was sentenced to the electric chair under a special statute that elevates the killing of a officer in the line of duty to first degree murder.
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Dayton, O
State Supreme Court
Roy Freeman
Dayton
Ohio
Supreme Court
Freeman
Dead and injured in two-year Jalisco insurgent fight
Guadalajara dispatches report ten federal soldiers and twenty-two insurgents killed in an eight hour battle near Las Huertas in Jalisco. About 300 federal troops clashed with nearly 400 insurgents with heavy casualties on both sides and reinforcements arriving. No official War Department confirmation yet.
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Guadalajara
Excelsior
Las Huertas
Jalisco
Los Altos
War Department
D A R Expels New England Woman Over Blacklist Controversy
Washington June 22 Mrs Helen Tufts Bailie of Cambridge Mass was expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution for circulating statements injurious to the organization The National Board of Management voted unanimously to expel her after an executive hearing that cleared the blacklist charge but found she disturbed the society s harmony The case began last April with nineteen members filing charges and the board said no blacklist had been authorized by the national society
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Washington
Helen Tufts Bailie
Cambridge
Mass
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bailie
D. A. R. National Board of Management
Cambridge Womman
National Board of Management
William Sherman Walker
Society
National Defense Committee
House Naval Committee
Walker
Alfred J. Brosseau
Connecticut
National Society
Indictments in Chicago Voter Terrorization Case Rise
A Chicago grand jury indicted four teens and eight others in a terrorism probe tied to the April 10 primary. Charges include assault with intent to kill, kidnapping, and perjury. Police officials and the Crime Commission sparred over cooperation and training amid ongoing election violence probes.
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Chicago
George Hartigan
Johnny Armando
Abe Silverman
Michael Hughes
Frank J. Loesch
Cook County
Chicago ‘‘Coppers
Loesch
Chicago Crime Commission
Hughes
Police Department
Crime Commission
Grand Jury
Eight Die as Blast Hits Belgian Scrap Storehouse
An explosion in Bruges caused eight deaths and forty injuries when a bursting shell in a scrap metal storehouse detonated. The blast wrecked the building and nearby shacks, set ruins ablaze, and raised fears of further explosions as more shells were found in the area.
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Bruges
Belgium
Six year old Betty Hinkle tortured by foster parents in Camden
Betty Hinkle, six, accuses Allen Robertson and wife Stella of burning her, hanging by wrists, hair pulling and beating. Grand jury scrutiny falls on Camden officials as inquiry widens. Betty’s father Augustus Hinkle and aunt Mrs. Higgins reveal custody, hospital care, and threats that delayed complaints.
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New York World News Service
Camden
N. J
Betty Hinkle
Allen Robertson
Stella
Joseph Varbalow
Helen Higgins
Senator Warren Named Defendant in Cheyenne Bank Suit
United States Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming and father in law of Gen. John J. Pershing is named defendant in a $1,850,000 negligence suit over the defunct First National Bank of Cheyenne. The filing accuses Warren and other directors of neglecting board duties and failing to properly examine loans, leading to the bank's 1924 failure after years of mismanagement.
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Cheyenne National Bank
New York World News Service
Cheyenne
Wyo
United States
Francis E. Warren
Wyoming
John J. Pershing
First National Bank of
George E. Abbot
A. D. Johnston
Warren
Directo
Senator Warren
West
Stephenson Seeks Writ to Talk Privately With Lawyer
David Co Stephenson former Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader filed a mandamus suit in La Porte Circuit Court asking for a writ to force prison officials to allow private attorney conversations. He alleges a conspiracy by Warden Daly trustees Foley Andrew Moor man Deniston and Gov Jackson to block such talks while he serves life at Michigan City Prison.
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Walter H. Daly
Michael Foley
Jess Andrew
John L. Moorman
Arthur Deniston
Ed Jackson
Moore
Peace Hangs on Leader Raditch Recovery in Jugolavia
Civil strife in Jugoolavia mounts as Stefan Raditch, peasant leader wounded in Parliament, sinks toward death. Four die, six dying, hundreds hurt in riots. a Vienna physician flies to attend the leader. Quiet now awaits the outcome and potential peasant upheaval.
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Jugo-Slavia
Stefan Raditch
Raditch
Vienna
Riots Erupt in Belgrade Deputies Funeral Crowd Grows
In Zagreb six thousand and more gather as the bodies of Paul Raditch and Dr Basaritchek are borne from the Belgrade railroad station to the Democratic Peasants party headquarters. Troops maintain order though anger remains with calls for cabinet resignation and new elections after the Chamber of Deputies killings.
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Jugo-Slavia
Paul Raditch
Basaritchek
Chamber of Deputies
Belgrade
Democratic Peasants Party
Radith
Pacific
Lone thug robs New York Central Express in Toledo
A lone gunman boarded New York Central train No. 14 at Adrian Michigan and robbed express messenger Robert Carrouthers of 500 dollars in cash and securities worth about 1000. He fled as the train slowed near Blissfield, firing three shots and triggering a statewide manhunt.
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Adrian
Mich
Robert Carrouthers
Carrouthers
Blissfield
Homes Open for Public Inspection Sunday by Four Finest Builds
Four architecturally distinct residences the Hillcrest English brick and stone Hillcrest drive off Oliver Wyoming Chateau white stucco French design on Reilly road Wyoming Old Orchard two story brick and stone 6274 Orchard Pleasant Ridge American Beauty Colonial 1347 St James Park Avondale Heights open Sunday afternoon and evening with eight day run for three homes Hillcrest Chateau Old Orchard last days Kennedy Halloran Boake Bruce Peters Miller featured in Commercial Tribune Sunday details.
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Hillcrest Drive
Oliver Road
Wyoming
George W. Miller
Boake & Bruce, Inc
Reilly Road
Orchard
Orchard Lane
Pleasant Ridge
John W. Peters
St. James Park Avenue
Avondale Heights
Kennedy & Halloran
The
Commercial Tribune
Jeffersonian Leaders Strive for Harmony in Prohibition Debate
Houston June 22 The reaction to Norman E Mack statement on prohibition favors Gov Alfred E Smith. Leaders including Pat Harrison Cordell Hull Bayard urge calm and party harmony noting Smith cannot repeal the Eighteenth Amendment or Volstead Act. Mack's aim was to push platform ideas ahead of the Jackson Day dinner speech.
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New York World News Service
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Norman E. Mack
Alfred E. Smith
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Mr. Smith
Texas
Mack
Harrison
Mississippi
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Bayard
Delaware
Democratic National Committee
London night club queen jailed for liquor licence breach
Mrs Kate Evelyn Merrick, famed London night club queen and mother-in-law to two peers, received six months imprisonment at Bow Street for selling liquor without a license at her Forty-Three Club. Costs of 300 dollars were levied. The club was struck from the register for five years. Thirteen men and nine women in the club faced fines.
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London
Kate Evelyn Merrick
Bow Street
Mary Ethel Merrick
Earl of Kinnoul
Richmond
Lord Kinnoul
N. Y. World News Service
ON. Y. World Press Pub. Co
Solid Smith Special Train Leaves Boston With 100 Delegates
The Solid Smith Special, carrying 100 New England delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Houston, left South Station with all delegates pledged to Gov. Smith. Gen. Charles H. Cole led the party and Sen. David I. Walsh would join in Washington. Tammany cheers echoed as 10,000 people gathered to see the train depart.
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Solid Smith
Boston
Charles H. Cole
New England League For
Smith
David I. Walsh
Washington
Hoover Victory Certain In Wets Fight
Secretary Hoover the Republican Presidential nominee has nearly finished pre campaign talks with party leaders and plans to leave Washington between July 2 and 5 for Palo Alto to receive formal nomination notification. He may visit President Coolidge in Wisconsin on the westward trip and it is unclear if he will resign from the Cabinet then or later.
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Hoover
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Coolidge
Wisconsin
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Indictment of six Texans in Powell lynching case
Six men, including John Kent and Allen Kent, were indicted for murder in the lynching of Robert Powell, a 24 year old Negro who was hanged from a bridge after being taken from a hospital where he had been treated for wounds from a gunfight with City Detective A W Davis. A.B. Wheeler, who named the others, was not indicted. Powell was killed after a second fall from the bridge when the rope was tightened following an initial drop.
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Tex
Robert Powell
A W. Davis
John Kent
Charles Oldham
F. T. Shuck
Howard Minton
T. J. Reese
Allen M. Kent
Kent
A. B. Wheeler
Davis
Wheeler
Powell
Ohio Governor thrust into Houston by friends and advisers
The Ohio governor finds himself in Houston, guided by close allies and political advisers. The visit centers on shaping policy reception and rallying support ahead of upcoming events. Local outlets note the entourage and strategic discussions amid broader campaign considerations.
Ohio Governor Donahey Sought as Democrat Nominee
Ohio Governor Gary A V Donahey faces Southern push to nominate him for president at the Houston convention while he discourages the bid. His son in law will attend to block a vice presidential run as Donahey plans to stay at Indian Lake. Gov Smith notes possible direct line to Houston from Albany.
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Gary
A. V. Donahey
Ohio
al Smith
New York
Houston
Alabama
South
Donahey
Gov. Donahey
James W. Huffman
Rhode Island Delegation Backs Hull for Vice Presidency
Rhode Island delegates to the Democratic National Convention departed Providence led by Patrick H. Quinn with Cordell Hull of Tennessee named as Quinn's choice for the Vice Presidential nomination.
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Hull
Providence
R. J
Patrick H. Quinn
Houston
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Col. Quinn
Smith and Anti Smith Forc es battle over Gavel in Houston
In Houston on June 22 the Smith and anti Smith factions clash over the Democratic convention and the fight for the nomination of the New York Governor. Anti Smith seek to block withhold one third of delegates over ballots while Smith backers insist first ballot victory is possible. Farm relief pressure grows with calls for an extra congressional session to tackle the farm problem. George N Peek and other farm supporters confer with Democratic leaders but not yet releasing firm plans.
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Congress
George N. Peek
Peek
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