Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Trial Witness Hummel Hearings
In New York Special Prosecutor Jerome presses for Hummel's complete affidavit story from 1903 accusing Stanford White of drugging and beating Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Judge Fitzgerald sustains objections as Delmas questions Hummel about prior convictions and connections to the district attorney. Nesbit testifies about arrangements for photographing the affidavit and delivery to White amid revived testimony and legal maneuvering in the Thaw case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delmas
White
Evelyne Thaw
Stanford
Whit
New York
Delinas
Jerome
Abraham Hummel
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Hary K. Thaw
Stanford White
Hummel
Hummel. 12S Came “During the Afternoon Session of the Trial and Mr. Delmas
Patie Fitzgerald
Jerome Y
Fitzgerald
Jérome
Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
Heribe
Hethad
Nesbit
Miss Nesbit
Hum
Not the Missing Boy in Salt Lake City Report
Two women and a man were taken from a southbound train in Salt Lake City as police investigated a possible link to a missing son of Dr. Horace Marvin of Denver. Detectives from Chicago traced the trio, but authorities released them after failing to establish a connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Horace Marvin
Denver
Cal
Chicago
Meeting notices and transfers of quarantine control
The article reports on the next meeting to be held in Jamestown with multiple committees of the supreme commandery of the Society of the Golden Cross, plus a shift of quarantine station control to the U S Marine Hospital Service after a station sale. It notes a $100,000 bond issue for Chattanooga streets and city improvements, a tree-cutting accident in Trenton, immigration act implications, and various local notices including a Rhodes scholar allotment and other items from Harrisburg and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme ‘Commandery
Society of the Golden Cross
Inecti
Tenn
Jamestown
Sone
Orleans
Lsnc
Mississippi River
United States
Board of Health
Marine Hospital Service
Louisianageosst
Chattanooga
oChattamooga
Murder Stirs Charlotte Area as Kimball Aides Arrested
A white man named Stephenson was killed near Charlotte Sunday night in a road dispute. J T E Kimball, an employee of Queen City Brick Works, was arrested after allegedly confessing to his employer and Sheriff N W Wallace. The case hinges on an unwritten law defense as investigators piece together motive and the sequence of events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephenson
M. J. Stephenson
Fort Mill
Kimball
Griffits
Wadssworth
Sven
S. C
Sams Ross
Iim
A. N
York County
South Carolina
Kamball
Charlotte
Griffiths
Osear Hunter
Oscar Hunter
Charleston
Joseph D. Rivers
Meeting Street
West Street
W. S. Schiffhauer
Swift & Co
Schiffiauer
Archdale
J. Henry Stuhr
Ranchman Murders Sweetheart and Two Women in Mexico
Special dispatches from Rio Verde state report Juan Futano, a prominent ranchman of San Luis Potosi, murdered his sweetheart the landlady and her daughter at her house. Jealousy is cited as the motive for the killings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Luis Potosi
Mex
Rio Verde
Juan Futano
Prosecution of Peonage Get New Deputy US Attorney
United States Attorney General Bonaparte appoints Varance S. Houghton of this city as deputy United States attorney to aid in prosecuting peonage cases. He will assist Mary G. Quackenbos who was named assistant district attorney to handle the prosecutions. Houghton previously led the etnings branch of the U S district office in this city. Judge Rawlings and jurors congratulate Humphreys after verdict of not guilty in murder case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aews
New York
Sree
United States
Bonaparte
Viorance
S. Houghton
Pesieral Tor
Goverer
Mary G. ‘Quackenbos
Oughton
Mille, Gr
R. EE
Humphreys
J. B. Daniel
Humphrey
Rawlings
Man Kills Cornice Worker Then Surrenders in El Reno
W R Rhea a cornice maker returns from Fort Worth and shoots A Newell proprietor five times inside a confectionery on principal street, killing him instantly. Rhea then extinguishes a powder fire on Newell’s clothing and surrenders to police saying he would end the man who ruined his home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Reno
Okla
W. R. Rhea
Fort Worth
A. Newell
Rhea
Newall
Toulon Tragedy Toll Grows From Naval Explosion
Scores feared dead as fires burn aboard a battleship after an explosion near Toulon. Authorities confirm about 120 missing or dead, with 50 bodies recovered and many unrecognizable. Ministers inspect wreckage as survivors are tended and the crowd mourns. The Prince of Asturias arrives to offer condolences to the French navy and visit the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulon
Wtties
Tena
Naval Hospital
Marine
Thomson
Princes of the Asturias
Alfonso
Spain
Manceron
Five Cent Stamp in Jamestown Tercentennial Series
The post master general plans a five cent stamp featuring Pocahontas in blue as part of the Jamestown tercentennial commemorative issue. Eight million stamps will be produced to meet foreign postage demand. A green portrait of Captain John Smith will appear on the one cent stamp with ten million printed, and the two cent stamp will show a red scene titled The Founding of Jamestown with fourteen million issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John Smith
Jamestown
Island
Locke Wins Rhodes Scholarship for Pennsylvanian Yale Hopeful
Philadelphia special to The Inquirer reports Negro student Allen Leroy Locke of Philadelphia, set to graduate from Harvard in June, awarded the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford for the year, with Pennsylvania as the state allocation. A committee led by University of Pennsylvania Provost Harrison selected Locke over four contenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeromie
Hummel
Harry K. Thaw
Allen LeRoy Locke
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Harvard University
Rhodes
Oxford University
of Pennsylvania
Harrison
University of Pennsylvania
Locke
Holmes Sentenced to Four Years at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Holmes former trustee in bankruptcy for McArthur Sons company piano and music dealers of Savannah was sentenced by Judge Speer to four years in the federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to a short age of thousands of dollars. He was held for Atlanta and his family bid him farewell as tears flowed at the jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
J. P. Holmes
McArthur Sons Company
Atlanta
Speer
Holmes
Fatal Rise of Deer Creek near Harmersville Pa
Three men drowned as the rapid rise of Deer Creek washed away a railroad bridge on the West Penn line near Harmersville. A county bridge teetered, an engine and five freight cars went into the Alleghaney river, marking first fatalities from the swollen stream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Special
Alleghaney
Deer Creek
Harmersville
West Penn
Banks Washington Special Delays Return of Deposits
The Treasury Secretary announced that the $30,000,000 deposited in national banks last September will not be called for at present and will be returned around early February. He declined to outline further plans, saying only that he is watching the New York financial situation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Special
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Corteylou
Swift to face court martial after ship grounding
Secretary Metcalf will order a court-martial for Commodore William Swift following a court of inquiry into the Connecticut grounding at Target Bay Culebra Puerto Rico on January 13. The proceeding likely to convene at Guantanamo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dolphin
Metcalf
William Swift
Connecticut
Target Bay
Culebra
P. R
Guantana
Immigration talk with Roosevelt and Bonaparte discussed
Ex Governor Heyward and Commissioner Watson met with President Roosevelt and Attorney General Bonaparte to clarify the meaning of immigration laws and the status of Wittels immigrant papers. They explained U S law and outlined plans to expand South Atlantic steamship service to Bremen with a new Charleston Bremen line.
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Columbia
Washington
Watson
Europe
Heyward
Roosevelt
Bonaparte
Southern Immigration Society
E. J. Watson
Bremen
Col. Watson
New York
P. H. Gadson
Chamber of Commerce of Charleston
Charleston
Col
Gov. Heyward
United States
South Atlantic
Bonapart
South
Convention News and Public Affairs Across States
The Americat Roadmakers Association meets in Pittsburg as President Roosevelt orders restoration of about 36 million acres of coal lands. Across Virginia and Maryland, court decisions and local votes unfold while rail and road projects gain momentum.
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Americat Roadmakers’ Association
Pittsburg
Roosevelt
R. D. Ramsay
Nova Scotia
Petersburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Virginia Conference of the United Brethren Church
Edinburg
Virginia
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Richmond
Swanson
Wes’’ Wilkie
C. H. Harkamp
Fredericksburg
Elkridge Hunt Club
Edmund P. Dwight
Philadelphia
Guyat
Big Ugly
Anne Gould
Paris
Dry Fork Railroad Company
Hedricks
W. Va
Davis Coal and Coke Company
Thomas
Cabell County
West Virginia
Israel J. Kinney
Grafton
Doddridge County
Tena
Kharkov
Russia
Adam Jamieson
Transvaal
Bonilla
Honduras
New York
Louisville
Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
H. G. McDowell
Farmers’ Bank of
Canton
Ohio
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Gillette
California
Western Companies
M. Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier
France
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Ansus
Evelyne Nesbit
Rixey
Archie
Theo
Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard
White House
South Darling
Eitestvo
Qahbottrt
Csummen
Sthoalands
State Board of Education
Atoney
Maschenters Estates
Seliée
Winthrop ’ College
Georgia
Nort Carolina
Dap Vt
Hawaii
Trenton
Walter = Bates
Kate Bates
SMI
Cleveland
Georgetown
Gen. Alexander
Knoxville
S. ‘Kimball
Birmingham
Als
Richard Wray
George Freeman
Ouna
Freeman
Boston
Wray
Nashville
Sweetheart
Iona
Bern
Messrs. Heyward and
Spartanburg
Darlington
T. R. Cox
O. T.’. Ward
Cox
Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co
Patapsco
Georgia-Chemical Works
Augusta
Pon Pon
Edgefield
Edgefield Mercantile
Babcock
Frazier
Chase
H. H. Coskery
Broad Street
Samuel Tannahill
General Hardware
Augusta. Hardware Co
Studebaker
Moyer
Joseph A. Day
The
Insurance Agency
C. A. Griffin & CO
Hangesse
Geo. P. Cobb
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