Unusual Crime Near Moffitt Stages Captivity and Flight
Moffitt area sheriff deputies investigated after M. I. Martin, a local saw mill operator, was seized by two men near his home and held for hours. They gagged him, stole his pocket book, and warned against crying out before releasing him unharmed at twilight. No suspects or motive identified, and follow up efforts yielded no leads.
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Moffitt
Fayetteville
Bob Curtis
S. S. Miller
Jim Henry
M. I. Martin
Perry Harrison
Mr. Harrison
Nosarg
Darrow Receives 50000 Dollar Fee for Defense
New York December 6 Frank Morris of the American Federation of Labor states a McNamara Ways and Means Committee meeting to discuss the defense fund will be in Washington tomorrow night He confirms Darrow charged forty or fifty thousand dollars plus daily fees and will send a detailed expenditure report to the public. The item also notes a horse shoe accident to Tom Nolen and local road improvements in Washington county with government oversight by Mr Wells.
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New York
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
McNamara Ways and Means Committee
Defense
Hld
Washington
Clarence Darrow
Tom Nolen
Tom
Judge Greer
E. C. Pritchard
Tom Taylor
Mt. Comfort
Porter
Wells
Washington County
Gardner Chapter AWL meets December 7 at 3 p.m.
The Gardner Chapter of the American Woman's League will meet at 3 p.m. on Thursday December 7 at Mrs. Le Roy A. Palmer's Lafayette Avenue home to hear an important letter from headquarters. Also notices a Democratic county candidates canvass at the courthouse on Saturday December 16 at 1 p.m. all candidates urged to attend.
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Gardner
Amercan Woman's League
LeRoy A. Palmer
Lafayette Ave
Court House
Notice to pay street tax and other local notices
A 1911 local notices column lists street tax arrears for payment to avoid trouble, with Police Judge W. F. Stirman urging delinquent debts settled. Additional brief items advertise handmade walnuts and dates, room and board at Judge Hill house, roof repair contact, and a church bazaar at Cravens’ furnace office on December 8 and 9.
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W. F. Stirman
Judge Hill House
East Rock Street
W. B. Smith
Supreme Court Refuses Stay for Packers Trial
The Supreme Court today refused to grant a stay on the beef packers’ trial in Chicago, allowing federal indictments under the Sherman act to proceed. District Attorney Wilkerson said the government is ready to try the case tomorrow as jurors report to the U. S. District Court.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Chicago
United States District Court
Staten
Wilkerson
McNamara Describes 1910 Times Building Bomb Plot
James B. McNamara, in a confessional statement, admits placing a dynamite filled suitcase in the Times Building in September 1910 with intent to injure the structure and owners, says casualties were unintended, and offers his life to the state. A separate hotel job ad follows this confession.
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Los Angeles
Cal
James
McNamara
Ian Itice
James B. McNamara
Ink Alley
Times
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AC. Hough
Florida
FE. L. Housh
Mr. Housh
Knox County
Carrie Curry
Squire J. J. Curry
Wisconsin
East Oriental Hotel
J Bough
Mena
Ark
Brough
Rogers Lodge
B. Y
P. U
Kirtley Mather
the Daily
THE
Dickson Street
Betty
Vitagraph Monthly
Conce
Shadel
Ladies of the Christian Church
Cravens
Ings
Hudson Hardware Co
Dickson St
Baton Pike Crane & Co
Palace Drug Store
Woods Frazee & Lederer
Mme
New Amsterdam Theatre
Ozark Theatre
Miss Rhodes
F. Marion Crawford
Savannah
Lillian Rhodes
J.B. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Frisco Hotel
Depot
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