Embezzlement Trial Nearing Verdict in Channer Sawyer Case
Defense rested without calling defendants. The case concerns alleged embezzlement of 100 shares of Charngold stock belonging to Mrs. Virginia Guilfoyle of Wellston C. The jury of seven men and six women is expected to hear closing arguments today. Judge Ryan limited witness testimony and barred Merz from testifying as a spectator witness.
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George A. Sawyer
Herbert I. Channer
Fred G. McLaughlin
Channer & Sawyer
Charngold Corporation
Virginia Guilfoyle
Wellston
Charles S. Bell
Louis Schneider
Nelson Schwab
Oseph Heintzman
A. B. Benedict
Coleman Avery
Ryan
Grayson
Schwab
Sanford Headley
H. G. Murglar
Union Trust Company
Albert Swing
Ormond Merz
Merz
Bell
Stinson Subpoenaed in Grand Jury Probe of Miller Daugherty
Roxie Stinson, once linked to the Daugherty investigation, has been subpoenaed to testify before the Federal Grand Jury in New York. She may discuss deposits and transfers connected to Alien Property Custodian Miller, Jess Smith, and the Daughertys, and their relation to the American Metals Company asset awards. She previously testified to Brookhart committee about deposits by Miller and Smith.
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Daugherty
New York World
New York
Roxie Stinson
General Daugherty
Federal Grand Jury
Miss Stinson
Columbus
Washington D. H
Miller
Jess Smith
Mal Daugherty
Harry M. Daugherty
Malagherty
Washington
American Metals Company
Brookhart Committee
Department of Justice
Smith
John T. King
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Visa ban on Karolyi wife reported by State Department
Reliable information indicates the State Department again refused a passport visa for Countess Catharine Karolyi to visit American friends in Paris, citing alleged Communist ties similar to those used to gag her husband last April. Kellogg reportedly authorized Paris officials to deny the visa while Hughes had allowed the Count to visit.
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New York World News Service
Washington
State Department
Karolyi
Catherine Karolyi
Paris
Charles E. Hughes
Count Karollyi
Hungary
Kellogg
Hughes
Borah and
Johnson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Link Turnaround in Texas Road Scandal Involves Jim Ferguson
New York World News Service reports Austin investigation by a county grand jury into highway contracts. Fergu son era linked as adviser to Gov Ma Ferguson and owner of Ferguson s Forum. Witness count tops thirty with calls for a possible special session by the Texas House.
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New York World News Service
Austin
Tex
Grand’ Jury
State Highway Commission
Jim” Ferguson
Dan Moody
Highway Commission
Ferguson
Ma” Ferguson
Ferguson's Forum
Commission
Lee Satterwhite
Last Victorian Peer Lord Ribblesdale Dies
Lord Ribblesdale, last of the Victorian era peers, died in London aged 70. His wife Lady Ribblesdale, formerly Mrs John Jacob Astor, was with him. No heir remains, as both sons predeceased him. The barony could pass to his daughter Lady Wilson if the crown consents.
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Lord Ribblesdale
John Jacob Astor
London
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
Lady Ribblesdale
Switzerland
Riviera
Ribblesdale
Somaliland
Gallipeli
Wilson
Yorkshire
Matthew Wilson
Oxford
Margot Asquith
Sargent
National Portrait Gallery
Edward
N. Y
Aiding Chapman escape case upheld for transfer to Georgia
The U S Court of Appeals sustained an order directing Dominick Di datao and Abraham Silverstein to be taken to Georgia to face indictments charging them with aiding Gerald Chapman to escape. They challenged removal claiming only accomplices in actual escapes are covered, while Chapman was wounded during the Athens hospital escape from Atlanta Penitentiary.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Cotter
Dominick Didatao
Abraham Silverstein
Georgia
Gerald Chapman
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Ane Trent
Chapman
Athens
Atlanta
Detective in Plaza jewel theft seeks indictment
New York October 21 Mrs Jess ie Woolworth Donahue testified before a grand jury in the $683000 jewel theft case from the Plaza Hotel. Prosecutor Pecora plans indictments for felony conspiracy and obstruction of justice tied to Noel Scaffa and an unnamed thief agent identified as Layton.
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Associated Press
New York
Jessie Woolworth Donahue
Hotel Plaza
Sam Layton
Brown
Noel C. Scaffa
Pecora
Scaffa
Donahue
Frank W. Woolworth
Charles 8. ‘Whitman
Banton
Whitman
MeGoeNger Killed By Bus At Terminal
Louis Schaeffer 65, a Cincinnati Postoffice special delivery messenger, was killed instantly after being struck by a North Fairmount bus and crushed by a South Norwood bus at Fifth Walnut and Government Square. Rainy conditions hindered visibility as drivers were arrested on suspicion. Schaeffer lived at 308 Oregon Street and leaves a widow, Elizabeth.
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Louis Schaeffer
Cincinnati Postoffice
Fifth
Walnut Streets
Walnut Street
Government Square
Schaeffer
Oregon Street
North Fairmount
Thomas Bolger
Blue Ash Road
Deer Park
South Norwood
General Hospital
Clyde Clutterbuck
Goodman Street
City Transit Company
White Motor Company
Clitterbuck
Bolger
Schuler
Vide Street
Sixth
Juvenile to Murderer Aided by Parole Fear and Crime
John Edwards 21 fatally shoots Policeman Allen J. Althoff while being taken to jail for theft. Edwards had a troubled history starting with a 1920 bicycle theft at age 16, two prison terms, and parole in 1923 before committing the killing in Monroe, Michigan. Authorities note extreme criminal depravity and suggest fear of parole violations motive.
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John Edwards
John
Lancaster Reformatory
Monroe
Mich
Michigan Reformatory
Ione, Mich
Edwards
Allen J. Althoff
Department of Public Safety
Robert Dunning
Bertillon
Jennie McGibbons
Blackmailers Target Chicago Bootleggers And Others
Blackmailers have extorted over 1 million dollars from Chicagoans defying the law. Victims include bootleggers and gamblers like Dan Perry and H J Callan who settled and fled, and a car equipment dealer who faced a 5 000 dollar demand. Federal probes and arrests are anticipated as authorities pursue the case. Louis Smith reported threats by men tied to the Genna gang now on trial for a policeman’s murder.
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Chicago
Dan Perry
Florida
H. J. Callan
Canada
Louis Smith
Albert Anselmi
John Sealice
Genna Gan
Smith
Hooded Chiefs in Haunted House Haunts Capital
An ominous tale centers on the cap ital building at Seventeenth and I streets, now the Ku Klux Klan’s base, famed for tragic deaths. The structure’s grim past includes the deaths of its builder Anthony Pollack and his wife, and Senator Frank Brandegee’s fatal gas incident.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Ku Klux Klan
Klath
Seventeenth and I
Frank B. Brandegee
Anthony Pollack
Mr. Pollack
Nova Scotia
Brandegee
Hiram
France to Make Another Offer on Debt Settlement
Paris reports Finance Minister Caillaux drafts a new counter proposal for France’s debt to the United States. Premier Painleve and Caillaux discussed the plan at luncheon with the French debt mission, aiming to secure a final bargain before Parliament debates the provisional Washington pact. The cabinet prefers a definite agreement to parliamentary ratification, with Caillaux seeking safeguards against undue payments if France’s financial recovery stalls.
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Paris
Caillaux
France
United States
Washington
Painleve
M. Caillaux
American Debt Funding Commission
Chamber of Deputies
America
Chamber
Senate
Snowstorm Claims Two Boys in Michigan
Waimo Maki, 14, of Diorite, was found dead in a severe snowstorm near Ne gaunee after being missing since Sunday. Aino Johnson, 17, wandered into a farmhouse near Clarksburg Tuesday with frozen feet and a swollen face, declared mentally deranged after the trip from a camp.
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Negaunee
Mich
Waimo Maki
Aino Johnson
Clarksburg
Prisoner Gives Blood to Aid Inmate at Sing Sing
Ossining N Y October 21 A fellow prisoner risked his life to save Matthew Grid dick at Sing Sing by giving a pint of blood. Grid dick had been treated last week with another pint from a prisoner, but his condition worsened. William Kinney serving a manslaughter term donated a second pint today.
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New York World News Service
Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
Matthew Griddick
Griddick
William Kinney
Frey Wife Testifies in Suit for Alienation of Affection
Mrs. Katherine Frey testified in Nassau County Supreme Court that her husband Charles C. Frey ejected her from their New York apartment in July 1923 after hearing a woman's voice she believed was Miss Wilda Bennett. She described a confrontation with Frey, being dragged downstairs, and later seeing Frey with Miss Bennett in a maroon sport car as she sought $100,000 in damages.
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Mineola
N. Y
Katherine Frey
Supreme Court
Wilda Bennett
Charles C. Frey
New York
Miss Bennett
Frey
Louisville
Saratoga
Captain Clews Shot Aboard Melita In Antwerp
Captain A H Clews commander of the Cana dian Pacific liner Melita was shot and killed in his cabin as he slept. First officer Thomas Towers was arrested charged with murder and to be handed to British authorities at Southampton. Two other officers David Gil mar and John Holliday were wounded and treated in Antwerp hospital. Towers also shot engineer Holliday in the lungs and was overpowered by crew after the attack.
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Antwerp
A. H. Clews
Thomas Towers
Southampton
Clews
Henry Clews
Wall Street
America
David K. Gilar
Glasgow
Enineer
John Holliday
Bootle
England
Holliday
Towers
Gilmour
Two Shot In Rum Battle At Rio Grande Frontier
Liquor smugglers attempting to run the border blockade near El Paso were repulsed by U S customs guards. Two men were wounded one probably fatally and five band members were captured. Many shots were exchanged along the Rio Grande and twenty cases of liquor were abandoned.
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EL Paso
Tex
International
United States
Rio Grade
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Walnut
Klan
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Kentucky
Melita
W. R. Green
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Ways and Means Committee
Iowa Tax Clubs
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Congress
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American Medical Association
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Mah Jong
Iowa
William S. Baird
M. B. Pitt
Frank Shame
Clem Kimball
Chicago Stock Exchange
William ‘S. Bennet
American Bankers’ Association
W. H. Baden
O. K. Davis
National Foreign Trade Council
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