Early lives laid bare of arch fiend and pal
New York police tie Hans Schmidt, killer of Anna Aumuller, to the Chicago slayer Johann Hoch by suspected kinship and shared aliases. They also identify Dr. Ernest A. Muret as Schmidt’s counterfeiting partner, using false names and possibly the dentist alias August Held.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Hoch
Schmidt
Hamburg
Muret
Herman Arthur Heibling
Nakel
West Prussia
Posen
Berlin
Dr. Muret
Chicago
Land drawing attracts thousands of women to Ft Peck
Special Dispatch reports in Glasgow Montana that 10000-plus applicants registered for the Ft Peck land drawing ahead of September 23. More than 10 percent are spinsters widows or divorcees with many teachers among them. Wives not heads of families were barred. About 8000 farms of 160 acres will be allotted and over 700 go to women.
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Montana
Commercial Tribune
Glasgow
Mont
Ft. Peck
Grace Pittorf
Great Falls
Miss Pittorf
Plains
Uncle Sam
Ft. Benton
German Leader urged to join Panama Exposition
Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri urged Germany to participate officially in the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. He argued Germany’s nonparticipation deflects from William II’s policy of strengthening ties with the United States and warned it would show Germany as less friendly than England.
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Berlin
Richard Bartholdt
Missouri
Bad Herzburg
Cologne
Frankfort
Germany
San Francisco
William
America
England
Youth Confesses to Rochester Girl Murder in Cemetery
Philadelphia report says Jacob Wolfson, 18, confessed during a third degree interrogation to strangling 17 year old Anna Schumacher in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery near Rochester four years ago. He led detectives to a shallow grave by the Genesee River and described the assault and burial.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Jacob Wolfson
Rochester
N. Y
Wolfson
Cameron
Schumacher
J. Wolfson
Barnett
Beeweest
Anna &Chumacher
Holy Sepulchre
Charlotte
Genessee River
Plan to impeach Sulzer trial opens with witness hints
Albany dispatch reports Speaker Alfred E Smith and Clerk Wannamee to be first sworn in the Sulzer impeachment trial. Defense questions whether Assembly notice for impeachment articles violated rights, cites telegram attendance notices but no formal notice. attorneys discuss possible stripping of initial articles and remaining bribery and obstruction charges.
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Albany
N. Y
Alfred FE. Smith
George A. Vannamée
State Assembly
Sulzer
High Court
Louis Marshall
Smith
Wannamee
Slavery Report Claims Philippine Children Sold for 100
Secretary Garrison reviews the Phipps board report on Philippine slavery. It cites dozens of cases of children sold into peonage and outright slavery, with girls worth about 100 and boys about 60, under a system justified by some families.
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Philippines
Liberal protest against dry law phase heads to Supreme Court
Columbus, Sept. 2 A Cincinnati taxpayer M L Alexander contests submission of a dry law phase to voters claiming it violates the due process clause. Antisaloon League backs the measure restricting liquor shipments into dry territory while liberals say it denies rights to own or have liquor. If Secretary of State approves, the case may reach the U S Supreme Court.
Mary Bileb Brokaw Wins Divorce and Alimony
In New York on September 20 the Supreme Court granted an interlocutory decree of divorce to Mary Bileb Brokaw against W Gould Brokaw the Mineola millionaire. Mrs Brokaw awarded fifteen thousand dollars yearly alimony. The couple had been separated for two years and earlier attempts at divorce failed.
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New York
Supreme Court
Mary Bileb Brokaw
W. Gould Brokaw
Mineola
Fatal Honeymoon Fire Claims Young Couple
In Boston on September 20, Mr and Mrs T H Hurley a newlywed couple were burned to death in an incendiary apartment fire on Past Brookline Street. The blaze swept a three story brick building with several residents making narrow escapes before rescuers failed to reach the couple in time.
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Boston
T. H. Hurley
Brookline Street
Hurleye
First Navy Floating School Opens Aboard Des Moines
Washington reports the first of Secretary Daniel's floating schools for naval personnel is active on the cruiser Des Moines off the Dominican coast. Thirty seven men enrolled to study English history arithmetic and geography, with one hour of daily instruction and mandatory attendance for volunteers.
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Washington
Daniel
Navy
Des Moines
Green Hosiery Poisoning Suspected In Youth
Pittsburg report says sixteen year old Walter Linn nearly died after wearing green stockings. An analysis by Prof. F. T. Aschman links blood poisoning to irritation from coal tar dyes and possible arsenic traces in the acid green hosiery, while physicians condemn bright colors.
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Commercial Tribune
Pittsburg
F. T. Aschman
Walter Linn
Young Linn
Aschman
Four Girls Accuse Justice Borchardt Sentenced
Milwaukee Wisconsin September 20 Colonel Francis J Borchardt 63 a Justice of the Peace long known in Wisconsin politics and National Guard circles was sentenced to nine months at the House of Correction by Judge Page for contributing to the delinquency of girls Four young girls testified but were not called due to a guilty plea they said the judge noted Borchardt gave money made improper remarks and had them appear nude before him no criminal attack occurred Borchardt had served in the State Assembly CaptainKosciusko Guard and Governor Rusk staff and was a former district judge candidate opposing Judge Page
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Francis J. Borchardt
National Guard
Wisconsin
House of Correction
Page
Yockey
Borchardt
State Assembly
Kosciusko Guarda
Rusk
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