Hunt Girl To Explain Gun In Court Slaying
New York detectives seek a girl who may explain how a revolver was slipped to Sidney Weiss a gangster as he entered general sessions court for life. Weiss was shot by John Doyle an attendant in a corridor to the courtroom. Two attendants were wounded in the scuffle.
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United Press
New York
Sidney Weiss
Weiss
John Doyle
George L. Donnellan
Leo Karlstrand
Karl Strand
Alf Williams
Donnellan
Hold Rites for Civil War Veteran Tonight
Funeral services for James Leggitt 91 year old Civil War veteran and Greensburg Indiana resident will be at 7 30 tonight at the J C Wilson undertaking with burial at Greensburg He was born in Philadelphia moved to Indiana and settled in Greensburg enlisted in the Seventh Indiana Infantry in 1861 and served until 1864 He was a member of G H Chapman post G A A and active in G A R affairs He is survived by his daughter Mrs B J Miller and two granddaughters
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James Leggitt
Indiana
B. J. Miller
Pleasant Street
J. C. Wilson Undertaking Establishment
Greensburg
Mr. Leggitt
Philadelphia
Seventh Indiana Infantry
G. H. ‘Chapman Post
Miller
Disappearance of Donald Seaman 25 Sparks Police Search
Donald Seaman age 25 from 614 North East Street disappeared from his home on Wednesday. His father R L Seaman fears a nervous breakdown and asks police to search for him.
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Donald Seaman
Richelieu Annex
North East Street
R. L. Seaman
Pneumonia Fatal for Captain Paxton Hibben
Captain Paxton Hibben 48 a native of Indianapolis dies of pneumonia at St Vincent's New York City He had been ill since Thanksgiving The author of Henry Ward Beecher An American Portrait he was working on a life of William Jennings Bryan He served in diplomacy and war correspondent roles and married Cecile Craik of Montgomery Ala His surviving family includes his widow daughter Jean Constantine two brothers a sister and three cousins
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Paxton Hibben
Indianapolis
St. Vincent's Hospital
New York City
Thomas Entrekin Hibben
Jennie Merrill Ketcham’ Hibben
Henry Ward Beecher
William Jennings Bryan
Hibben
Congress
Lafollette
Albert J. Beveridge
United States
Europe
Benjamin Harrison
Shortridge
Princeton
Harvard
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Leningrad
Mexico City
the Hague
Luxemburg
Santiago
Chile
Theodore Roosevelt
Cecile Craik
Montgomery
Ala
Athens
Greece
Associated Press
Leslie's
Collier’s
The
Chicago Tribune
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Jean Constantine
James Hibben
Thomas Hibben
New York
Helene
Hazel Hibben
Freeman H. Hibben
Harold J. Hibben
Ward H. Hackleman
Organist Held for Bigamy After Church Wedding
Herbert J. Leigh-Manuell organist at St. Anne's Sayville L I was married to a second woman the same week he disclosed love for Martha Van Weyn. He lived with his first wife and three children for ten years. Deputies arrested him. he claimed single status when applying for the license. his first marriage dates to 1915 in Cornwall England and appears unresolved.
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United Press
New York
Herbert J. Leigh-Manuell
St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church
Sayville
L. I
Leigh-Manuell
Leigh- Manuell
Martha van Weyn
Leigh
Wesley Hale
Cornwall
England
Falls Dead at Work at Swartz Plant
Bert Brown 64 of 3419 Roosevelt Ave died of heart disease less than five minutes after reporting for work at Swartz Manufacturing. He had been treated for heart trouble for months. Survived by sister in law Mrs Anna Frolke who lived with him.
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Swartz Manufacturing Company
Bert Brown
Roosevelt Avenue
City Hospital
Brown
Anna Frolke
Dry split denial and Evansville bench shuffle
James G Browning denies Indiana will be split into two prohibition districts despite Bivens claim of a Dec 15 change under two deputy administrators. Edwin C Henning Evansville attorney is named to replace Judge Edgar Durre on Vanderburgh county superior bench as Durre resigns Jan 1 to join a bank counsel post.
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James G. Browning
Indiana
South Bend
Conrad F. Bivens
Bivens
Columbus
Henning
Edwin C. Henning
Evansville
Ed Jackson
Edgar Durre
Vanderburg
Durre
Confessed Furnace Death Case Ties to Kin Spite
Ezra McVeigh alias James Kelley, freed from Texas, admits achieving his aim by burning Miss Elfrieda Knaak at Lake Bluff Illinois police station. He vows revenge on brother and aunt. He faces charges for slugging Miss Edna Kelly in Lake Forest. Lake Forest chief Lester Tiffany transports him back for trial. Tiffany believes McVeigh knows facts about the Lake Bluff basement beyond newspaper reports.
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United Press
San Antonio
Texas
Elfrieda Knaak
Lake Bluff
Ill
Ezra McVeigh
James Kelley
Lake Forest
Edna Kelly
Lester Tiffany
Tiffany
McVeigh
Miss Knaak
Dr. T B Rice to Talk at Sunday Meeting
Fifteenth annual Marion County Tuberculosis Society meeting to be held Sunday at Sunnyside sanitorium. Dr Thurman B Rice of Indiana University hospitals will deliver the principal address on tuberculosis public health. Fred A Sims will preside as the society seeks funds for the Christmas seal drive. A patient produced playlet What Price Pep will be featured.
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Marion County Tuberculosis Society
Sunnyside Sanitorium
Thurman B. Rice
Indiana University Hospitals
Fred A. Sims
Oil blast razes home in Edgewood tragedy
A kerosene stove exploded late Wednesday night destroying the two story frame residence of Mrs Lydia Earhart on Rural Route 6 Edgewood. Mrs Earhart alone in the home was preparing dinner and unharmed by the blaze.
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Lydia Earhart
Edgewood
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