Thaw Lunacy Commission Holds Thaw Sane. Trial to Resume
A unanimous three member lunacy commission report found Harry K Thaw sane and capable of directing his own defense in the Stanford White murder trial. The court delayed jury proceedings until Monday and Thaw and Evelyn marked their second wedding anniversary with hope for freedom. Jerome criticized the commission hearings and sought minutes as Justice Fitzgerald prepares to rule on the report.
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York
Thaw
Fitzgerald
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Wartridge
Evelyn Thaw
Jerome
Cai T
Justice Fitzgerald
Harry Thaw
Evelyn
Pittsburg
Local Jottings and City Notes Move and Mentions
A jumble of city items notes Indiana removing the statehouse lawn fence to discourage walking on the grass. Remarks on fruit supply imply prunes as substitute if a crop fails. Col Fred Gemmer seeks the governorship but has not filed. Indianapolis Bar Association to meet in Lebanon to hear the Rhodius case. Kent Cooper finds a nail in his Havana cigar. Juvenile court questions police duty in the court and Policeman Axtell.
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Indiana
Statehouse
Roscoe Makes A Nois Like More Lunch County
Treasurer Ensley is among the busiest men in town as tax time nears. Indianapolis endures a serious fire in a long, costly spell. North Indianapolis streets verge on disgrace. Street Superintendent Joe Hogue resides there. An extraordinary exhibition of paintings at the Herron Art Institute attracts attention. Sentiment against saloons in purely residential districts grows. Repairs proceed on Illinois Street just north of Chrost. Dr Sol Dickey praises the tile setting department at Winona trades schools. A buyer pays $5 at A M Sweeney auction, refusing $6.
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Ensley
Fishing parties and town improvements draw crowds
Fishing parties grow popular and women learn roller skating on secluded sidewalks. A vacant cottage at Twelfth Street bears a rent notice. Housing projects rise with double houses and asphalt plans. Mrs Lillian Matherson demos gas range cookery at Vonnegut's. Local officials announce street and home improvement plans and a new $3,000 Parkview house plus a $100 addition. Legislators ship acts to 61 counties with a target completion by April 10. Cy Neal eyes robins at the state house and dreams of the creek and suckers biting.
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Lillian Matherson
Vonnegut
Cy Neal
State House
Street Car Inspections and City Developments Report
The inspection of street cars continues as Ford Winter's law office closes for his son's wedding in New York. A false alarm cancels news of Master Meredith Lowe's mumps. Gilt numbers adorn the new Board of Trade windows as the National Dairy lunch room is fitted for business.
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Ford Winter
Ford
New York
Meredith Lowe
Trenton
National Dairy
Board of Trade
Eat
Auction of Sweeney riches ends with library saved
The Sweeney mansion auction, run by Thomas J. Seamons, clears out most furniture and fittings from 3020 Meridians t, leaving the 1,000 plus volume library unsold due to the owners’ reluctance to part with it. Rugs, brass, and ordinary household items sell at low prices. the Rauh family takes ownership of the home and much of the goods while the books remain with Mr and Mrs Sweeney.
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Husky
Samuel Rand
Sweeney
Mr. Raith
Rauh
State Life
Drayman
Samuel Rauh
George June
Statement by Mrs Eddy declares trust in trustees
Concord New Hampshire April 4 Mrs Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science says she is in full possession of her faculties and expresses satisfaction with the board of trustees she appointed to control her property She states she has entrusted her earnings and toil to the trustees to gain more peace and time for spiritual thought amid the present equity suit controversy
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Mary Baker Eddy
Founder of
Christian Science
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald Dies in Hongkong
News from New York reports the death of Bishop James N. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Church in Hongkong from pleurisy. He had been based in St. Louis and his death was announced by the Methodist Book Concern.
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Scripps-NicRae Press Association
New York
James N. Fitzgerald
Hongkong
Methodist Book Concern
St. Louis
United States Weather Forecast Summary
Weather forecast for the United States shows rain and lower temperatures tonight and Friday with fair conditions at sunrise. Thursday will be colder.
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United States
Constantine Identified as Defendant in Mrs Gentry Case
Frank Constantine alias Pasquale Gerlima was identified at Brooklyn police headquarters by clerk Jacob Stinert as the man wanted in Chicago for the murder of Mrs. Gentry. Constantine initially denied involvement before confessing that Mrs. Gentry cut her throat while he was in her house.
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Secripps-McRae Press Association
New York
Frank Constantine
Pasquale Gerlima
Brooklyn
Jacob Stinert
Chicago
Gentry
Constantine
Harry Clayton
Nicholas
Leopold
Clayton
Indianapolis
Harvey R. Dicis
Revere House
H. E. Nicholas
Foos
Indiana nurses convention opens in Evansville
Special to The Sun. Evansville Indiana April 4 The convention of the Indiana State Nurses Association met here yesterday and will remain in session three days.
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Evansville
Ind
Indiana State Nurses’ Association
Children Aid Society to Hold Weekend Employment Bureau
The employment bureau of the Children’s Aid Society will meet in the juvenile courtrooms next Saturday from 2 to 4 PM to receive applications from children seeking summer employment. The bureau will assist all children wishing work.
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Employment Bureau
the Childrens' Aid Society
Mayor Faces Saloon Question Amid Dorn Disappearance
Indianapolis story centers on Mayor Bookwalter urging county officials to decide saloon licenses within 500 feet of parks while Mrs. Dorn vanishes. Police search hotels, hospitals, and rooms for the Chicago society woman, with husband Benjamin Dorn and Fred C. Gardner aiding the inquiry.
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Benjamin Dorn
Mrs. Dorn
Terre Haute Brewing Company
Joe Bell
Mr. Bell
Crabb
Military Park
Gardner
Chicago
Fred C. Gardner
Broadway
Noted killings and legal cases across cities
Reports detail George Panovich stabbed during gambling in Chicago and Antonio Aliscari fatally stabbed after a dispute. Across the plains, a murder case involving actress Leopold and Nicholas unfolds in Indianapolis. Other items note a fatal infernal machine in Schenectady, a lightning death in New Richmond, and Cuban political moves.
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Chicago
George Panovich
Antonio Aliscari
Harvey and Hanna named Marion county judges
Gov Hanly selects Lawson M Harvey and Charles T Hanna of the city as two new judges for Marion county superior court. Commissions await enactment of the legislature and no commissions will be issued until acts are in force. SPRING GOODS now ready. Gus Rosberg, 7 and 3 Pembroke Arcane, News phone 663. HAVE YOU second hand electric fan to sell We will buy it Ellott Tele Eloc Co 421 Mass Ave. THE GEM LAUNDRY Family washings rough dry 5c per pound all flat pieces ironed Try it Phones 1671. Bills Native Herbs 265 W Wash 8t.
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Hanly
Lawson M. Harvey
Charles T. Hanna
Marion County Superior Court
Ellott Tele
Eloc. Co
Mass. Ave
THE
GEM Laundry
County to share cost of Vandalia iron bridge
Mayor Bookwalter announced to county commissioners that they must fund part of the $60,900 Vandalia iron bridge over the White river. The city and county are to cover about 25 percent of the total, despite the commissioners’ reluctance. The mayor accuses the Holtzman administration of bowing to railroads over Kentucky avenue track elevation.
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Bochwalter
Vandalia Iron Bridge
White River
Ttn
Nas
Bookwalter
Holtzman
Railroads
Will Not Strike Scripps-McRae Frese Association
Chicago April 4 There will be no strike of railroad employes on western lines. Settlement sets ten hours daily for train service with about 10 percent wage increases. Workers dropped nine hour day and 12 percent rise while gaining two hour work reduction and 10 percent boosts across Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors. Forty nine railroads and 49 000 men affected, annual increase near 24.5 million.
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Scripps-McRae Frese Association
Chicago
Western Lines
Brotherhood of
Illegal Allowances In San Francisco Auditing Case
The grand jury's expert accountant Julius C Saulman reports City Auditor S W Horton criminally certified city treasurer demands totaling over 100000. Hortons bonds of 60000 may be forfeited. A notable illegal expense cited is an automobile purchase costing 8880.
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San Francisco
Grand Jury
Julius C. Saulman
S. W. Horton
Horton
Burglars Loot Drug Store on Sixteenth Street
Burglars pried at C. E. Rich's frame drug store at Sixteenth street and Columbia avenue Wednesday night and tore weatherboarding to gain entry. They removed 300 cigars from the cellar case, leaving other items untouched.
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Nurder
C. E. Rich
Sixteenth St
Columbia-ave
Yale Graduate Commits Suicide on City Street
Kansas City April 4 Myer L Wilson three years old son of H I Wilson prominent local businessman shot himself on a downtown street corner leaving a note I have lived long enough Passers by witnessed the act and could not intervene Wilson a Yale graduate was active in social circles and affairs
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Myer L. Wilson
H. I. Wilson
Wilson
Yale
Banker Sentenced for Embezzlement in Cincinnati Case
Bert Cagana, a First National Bank teller in Cincinnati, indicted on 11 counts for embezzlement and fraud involving 34 456 dollars. He pleaded guilty and received six years in Ohio prison plus costs.
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Gana
First National Bank
Cagana
Ohio
Edward Green Improves After Cement Floor Fall
Edward Green of Centerville Indiana remained in City hospital after a fall at the terminal traction station Wednesday. Doctors have not yet determined if he suffered a fractured skull. he was reported slightly improved Thursday.
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Terminal Traction Station
City Hospital
Green
Centerville
Ind
Indiana Supreme Court frees Gillespie after juror discharge ruling
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled the trial judge erred by discharging a juror tied to a co defendant, reversing a previous verdict and ordering James Gillespie of Rising Sun freed after a years long case. Gillespie had been sentenced to life for the murder of his sister Elizabeth Gillespie. The court held double jeopardy not occurring as a discharge acted as an acquittal and ordered the prisoner discharged. The warden will receive the order for Gillespie’s release from Michigan City prison.
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James Gillespie
Rising Sun
Oliver Jones
Belle Seward
Gillespie
Elizabeth Gillespie
Ohio County
James Gilespie
Carrie Barbour
Myron Barbour
Supreme Court
B. WV. Fitzpatrick
Reed
Michigan City
Emily Grigsby suit settled for about $1 million
The case against Emily Grigsby, once a ward of the late Charles T. Yerkee who took her from the stage, has been settled by compromise. It is believed she will receive about $1,000,000.
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Emily
New York
Emily Grigsby
Charles T. Yerkee
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