Western Union records destroy trove of Elias funds docs
Western Union official testified no records exist for several 1927 messages allegedly sent from Mexican treasurer to Elias regarding funds for Arturo Elias and accounts at City Bank and Chase. He noted pre-December 1926 files were destroyed, and several messages could not be verified or translated. No money was paid and some messages were in code.
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Washington
Western Union
Sene
Hearst
Fenaier
Exico City
James E. Bresnahan
Iet
Mexico
Arturo M. ‘Ellas
New York
Bresnathan
Bresnahan
Elias
Pani
The
Treas
Ational City Bank
J. P.|rgan
Chase National’ Bank
Fueszaken
Reed
Senate
Gonzalo Hind
Paini
Paii
Patii
Cresnahan
Robinson
Arkansas
Miguel Avila
William Randolph Hearst
Thomas Dowd
Postal Telegraph Company
R. J. Hewitt
Avila
Night Hours For Subscriptions At The Grafton Sentinel
The office will stay open at night for those wanting to pay subscriptions and other accounts who cannot visit during the day. The Grafton Sentinel, The Grafton Printing Co.
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Grafton Sentinel
The
Grafton Printing Co
Union Miners Evicted From Belmont and Jefferson Homes
More than 100 miners families in Belmont and Jefferson counties must leave company houses by April 1 after Federal Judge Benson Hough granted eviction orders at the companies’ request. The Clarkson Coal Mining Company number 2 mine houses are exempt as the mine is idle and no immediate need for housing non union workers. The judge stayed eviction until April 1, stating equity requires a reasonable time for enforcement. Continued on page five.
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Coleen
Famlies
Belmont
Jefferson Counties
Benson Hough
Clarkson Coal Mining Company
Equity
J. Hough
Taxicab Driver Held After Machine Crash
Charleston December 17 A charge of driving while intoxicated was brought against George Greenleaf a taxicab driver in a warrant sworn today by deputy sheriffs after they investigated an accident near the city border yesterday Harrison Cavender a taxicab passenger was seriously injured and described as critical while Greenleaf was badly hurt when the car went over an embankment
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Charleston
George’ Greenleaf
Harrison Cavender
Greenleaf
Cavender
Many Deaths Due to Alcohol In Baltimore
Baltimore Md Dec 17 The yearly report of the city health department shows 122 deaths attributed to alcoholism in 1927 up from four in 1920. Thirty of the 122 occurred in November. Seventy two victims this year were white.
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Balimore
City Health Department
Robbers Enter Western City in Christmas Heist
Chicago police report nine robberies yielding $100,000 in fur jewelry and cash as stickups used slugging. Emil Ginsder, wholesale jeweler, lost $50,000 in samples on a streetcar. W Hudson, real estate dealer, $25,000 in goods. Mrs. Minnie Winner, hospital superintendent’s wife, a $1,000 fur coat and $3,000 in jewelry. A slugging wound required stitches.
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Chicago
Emil Ginsder
W. Hudson
Minnie Winner
Patrolman Suspended for Missing Neighbor Violations
Minneapolis dispatch notes Patrolman John W. Wreebure received a 90 day suspension after the civil service commission upheld the chief of police action. Neighbors testified nightly gatherings at the neighbor's home drew police attention and a morals squad raid followed.
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Minneapolis
Civil Service Commission
John W. Wreebure
Fifteen Communists Ousted From China
Hankow reports fifteen Soviet and Chinese officials were deported today. Consul General Plitsche and others left on a Chinese steamer bound for Shanghai and Vladivostok. Most arrested yesterday at the consulate were released, while sixty remain detained for further inquiry.
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Hankow
Plitsche
Shanghai
Vladivostok
Siberia
Girl Robber of Bank Receives 14 Year Prison Term
Rebecca Brandley Rogers, 22, former University of Texas co ed, was found guilty in Lagrange Texas of robbing Farmers National Bank of Buda with a pistol and sentenced to 14 years. The jury fixed the sentence. husband Otis Rogers urged death. The defense argued insanity.
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Lagrange, Tex
Rebecca Brandley Rogers
Farmers National Bank
Buda
Texas
University of Texas
Rogers
Round Rock
Brakeman Fatally Struck in Akron Yards
Chester Blackwell, 35, brakeman on the Akron division of the Baltimore and Ohio, was killed in Holloway Ohio last night when he stepped from one track to another in front of a shifting engine. The engine stopped with his body under the wheels. He leaves a widow and five children.
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Holloway
Ohio
Chester Blackwell
Akron
Baltimore and Ohio
Arguments In Remus Trial Start Today
Court resumes at 2 P.M. to discuss charge to jurors in the George Remus trial. Final arguments planned for 3 30 P M with court to 5 P M. Prosecutor Taft seeks to prevent straight acquittal and requests insanity as sole basis. Elston proposes seven special charges to guide jury.
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Cincinnati
George Remus
Doctora B. A. Baker
Charles W. Kiely
Chester R. Shook
Shook
Nour
Charles P. Taft
Charles H. Elston
Remus
Thomas party back in town
Sherman A. Thomas, a local taxi operator, returned from Bridgeport, Ohio with 25 travelers, mostly Rosemont miners, who were lured on a late night trip by George Phillips, alias Bil Swiger. Swiger reportedly arranged two cabs and fled after water blocked the Bridgeport Bellaire road, leaving the group stranded and penniless.
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Sherman A. Thomas
Bridgeport
Ohio
Rosemont
Ohio Fields
George Phillips
Pittsburgh Coal Co
Phillips
Thomas
Bil Swiger
Clarksburg
Harrison County
Swiger
C. Frum
Bellaire
Bill Lake
Philippi
Wheeling
Thom
Al Capone Returns To Home Of His Mother
Chicago December 17 undisclosed to escape detectives Al Capone walked to his mother's home after release on bond from Joliet jail. Police and city officials warned against seizure threats while Capone and five armed men stayed inside the residence. Chief William Capone said he would not be in Chicago until Capone left the city.
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Chicago
Scarface
Joliet
Thompson
William Capone
O’connor
Log Angelex
Nun and boy survive second Quebec fire after heroic leap
A nun carrying a sick boy leaped from a sixth story window to reach safety as a second blaze ripped through the Jean Berchmans boarding house and St Louis Academy. The boy and nurse sustained serious injuries, with flames threatening adjacent shelters housing rescued orphans and displaced children. Police report two men seen fleeing the grounds before the fire.
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Quebec
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Jean Berchman
St. Louis Academy
St. Charles ‘Orph
St. Victoire
Met
Paritnet
Academy
Descent of Man Debate Splits Academy Experts
In New York last night at the Academy of Medicine Henry Fairfield Osborn argued that apes and humans are not connected citing arboreal limb differences that preclude descent from apes. William J. Gregory of Columbia University challenged Osborn noting fossil horses and elephants imply potential human evolution from earlier forms.
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New York
Academy of Medicine
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Museum of Natural History
William J. Gregory
Columbia University
Ing
Osborn
Tim
Kresge Accused Of Seeming Affairs By Wife In Divorce Plea
New York December court filings reveal Sebastian S. Kresge 61 wealthy chain store operator faced divorce actions filed by wife Dona M. Kresge. Her counsel described alleged affairs with two women including a 17 year old, a 24 year old stenographer Gladys Ardelle Fish formerly of Natick Mass. The defense denied the charges and a motion for counsel fees was continued.
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New York
Sebastian S. Kresge
Dona M. Kresge
Jones
Gladys Ardelle Fish
Natick
Mass
Walter J. Lynch
Kresge
Miss Fish
Max D. Steuer
Steuer
Churchill
Supreme Court
Wayne County
Michigan
Albert J. Fish
Gladys. Ardelle
Fish
Sebastian
Krenger
Gladys
Kresger
New England
York’ Beach
Maine
Schlee and Brock Postpone Flight Amid Winds
Daytona Beach Florida December 17 strong northwesterly winds and a sudden temperature drop forced Edward P. Schlee and William S. Brock to postpone again their planned take off in the Pride of Detroit monoplane aimed at breaking the world record for continuous flying.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Edward P. Schlee
William 5. Brock
Detroit
Clemency Plea Filed With Governor Smith
Mrs Ruth Brown Snyder the slayer of her husband has through her counsel asked Governor Smith to grant a hearing on her executive clemency so she may escape death in the electric chair Henry Judd Gray her accomplice has been condemned to die during the week of January Gray has not yet filed a clemency request at the executive chamber
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Albany
Ruth Brown Snyder
Smith Grant
Snyder
Henry Judd
Gray
Crude Oil Prices Rise Across Pennsylvania Grades
Six grades of Pennsylvania crude oil were advanced by purchasing agents by five to ten cents per barrel. New prices show Pennsylvania grade in New York transit lines and Bradford district at $2.80, in National transit and Southwest Pennsylvania Mines at $2.65, in Eu reka lines at $2.60, Buckeye lines at $2.24. Remaining grades unchanged.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
New York
Bradford
National Transit
Eureka
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