Stolen Goods Swindle Leads to Arrests in Richmond
Richmond police arrested Ashby Burruss, a drug clerk at 706 West Broad Street, and two 15 year old boys on charges tied to a months long theft ring on Grace and Franklin Streets. Burruss allegedly received several watches, a pistol, and other items from Raymond Smith who confessed to stealing them for resale at two dollars each. Investigators seized five gold watches, watch chains, charms, a gold pin, knives, razors, a pistol, and $92. Sermons wide open. searches at Burruss’s home yielded no results while a drug store search is planned for later today.
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Richmond
Ashby Burruss
North Fifth Street
Burruss
Grace
Franklin
Wiltshire
Wren
Krenegle
Raymond Smith
East Main Street
Edward Farmer
West Cary Street
West Broad Street
Justice Crutchfield
Hisa
Zelle Minor
Will
Washington
Zelle Inor
East Grace Street
Frank Cosby
The Lawyers Waterloo and Mosquitoes Clash in Lost Profits
A quip notes railroads kill fewer people annually than mosquitoes. Since mosquitoes cannot be sued, vast profits slip away from lawyers, as framed by Lippincott’s.
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Waterloo
Lippincott’s
Rich man in workhouse for insulting a woman
In Morrisania Court Magistrate House sent Frederick Denike of 383 East 157th Street to the workhouse for ten days after he insulted and struck Mrs Minnie Collins of 397 East 153rd Street. A reporter sought the name of a previous millionaire offender but was rebuffed as the case was considered closed.
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New York
Magis-rate House
Morrisania
House
Magistrate House
Jai
Frederick Denike
Fast One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Street
Minnie Collins
East One Hundred and Fifty-third Street
Magistrate Hands Denike Ten-Day Workhouse Sentence
A confrontation last night left a woman insulted and slapped. Denike responded by striking her. The magistrate sentenced Denike to ten days in the workhouse, remarking that the speaker intended six months.
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Denike
Earthquake destroys town in Costa Rica near Toro Amarillo
Special dispatches report Toro Amarillo village destroyed by earthquake in Ala Jeula, Costa Rica, with three deaths including prominent official Alvez Duas. Many injured, hundreds of houses demolished, and a Poas eruption debris threatens new fires. Survivors flee inland.
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New Orleans
Ala Jeula
Costa Rica
Toro Amarillo
Alvez Duas
Poas
Vassar girls lose clothing in Hudson River steamboat blaze
Fire in Poughkeepsie destroyed hundreds of trunks suitcases and other baggage of Vassar College students for the term wiping out the baggage rooms of the Hudson River Day Line steamboats and damaging the Clermont replica and Highland ferryboat.
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Poughkeeppsie
N. Y
Vassar College
Clermont
Robert Fulton
Restoration of Order in Cheng Tu Reported by Navy
Rear Admiral Murdock, commanding the Asiatic fleet, cabled to the Navy Department that the crisis in the Chinese revolution is over and official and private reports agree on the restoration of order at Cheng Tu. The State Department received the dispatch as the first favorable news, raising hopes that China has stabilized the situation.
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Washington, D. C
Murdock
Navy Department
Department of State
China
Cheng Tu
Richmond Candy Shop Robbery Appeals Police Again
Dan Marroni of East Broad Street left his shop in charge of a friend on Tuesday. On return the cash drawer with over $100 missing and a note pledging return in a few days appeared. Marroni made a second appeal to police as a detective bureau slip delayed the earlier report.
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Richmond
Dan Marroni
East Broad Street
Broad Street
Detective Bureau
Arrow
Marrom
Reenet
Two Held For Death Of Bride By Poison
Americanus Georgia Sept 21 For the death by poison of Mrs M 5 Childers a bride of six months her husband Matt Childers and the man she jilted to marry R F Kennedy are under arrest Miss Etta Richardson was sought by young men Kennedy and Childers fought Childers won and the couple married Kennedy says he is innocent Inquest found the dose mixed salcopatia and strychnine No motive yet assigned for the husband’s arrest
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Americus
Childers
Matt Childers
R. F. Kennedy
Etta Richardson
Kennedy
Woman attacked by countrymen sparks Midland manhunt
In Canonsburg Pennsylvania a fifteen year old Polish girl Maryarwaski was attacked by three of her countrymen while en route to visit a relative. She lies seriously injured at her brother in law John Saderski home as crowds and mounted patrols hunt the assailants. Constable Rathbone with Washington county officers directs the search as local foreigners fear lynching if the attackers are caught.
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Canonsburg
Midland
Maryarwaski
Poland
John Saderski
Benjamin Rathbone
Houston
Washington County
Judge Peter Grosscup Reverses Stance in Chicago
In Chicago, Special Judge Peter Grosscup declares he will not rescue. He says new information about his business and private life, gathered by former secret service operative Laurence Ritchie, would be published in Chicago daily.
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Chicago
Ill
Peter Grosscup
Laurence Ritchie
Secret Service
Passengers Continue Trip After Olympic Ramming
The White Star liner Olympic, rammed by the Hawk, berthed at Southampton after anchoring off Calshot. Crowds gathered as the vessel showed a 40 foot gash. Passengers boarded trains for London while others were rebooked on the St Louis and upcoming ships Arabic and Majestic.
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Southampton
Eng
Hawk
Calshot Castle
London
St. Louis
Brooklyn Packard crash kille d milk dealer and injures guests
Police pursue a group of men and women after a high speed Packard touring car fatally struck William C. Evans, a wealthy Brooklyn milk dealer, and seriously injured three companions on Ocean Parkway. Eyewitnesses say the women in the Packard laughed as Evans’ car overturned and fled.
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New York
Brooklyn
William C. Evans
Ocean Parkway
Evans
Packard
Bandits Hold Up Mail Carrier in Perry County
Government officers with bloodhounds pursue robbers who held up Leander Howard, a mail carrier, and his assistant between Jackson and Hazard. They escaped with 40000 dollars, 36000 in checks and the rest cash. No sightings of the carriers since the robbery, and authorities fear they were murdered and hidden.
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Jackson
Leander Howard
Hazard
Perry County
Boy Dies After Mysterious Illness In Elmhurst
Joseph McCarthy nine years old died after a few hours of illness at 208 Tenth Street Elmhurst. His father Dennis McCarthy suspects poisoning. Coroner Ambler began an investigation and an autopsy will be held. Principal Smith sent two boys to escort the boy home as he grew worse and later dragged him through Elmhurst streets for nearly two hours before reaching his home. Doctors believed acute indigestion may have caused the death.
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New York
Joseph McCarthy
Tenth Street
Elmhurst
Dennis McCarthy
F. Ambler
Joseph
Mr. McCarthy
McCarthy
Mr. Mearthy
Elmharst
Dr. Wood
Wood
Seth T. Stewart
Stewart
Prospect Place
Brooklyn
Smith
Mr. Smith
Russia Orders Crackdown After Stolypin Assassin's Death Sentence
Special dispatch from St. Petersburg reports a sweeping campaign against Nihilists and revolutionaries triggered by the court martial death sentence of Dimitri Hogrof, the assassin of Premier Stolypin. Officials fear plots as police factions feel imperiled.
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ST. Petersburg
Russia
Dimitri Hogrof
Stolypin
Czar Considers Drastic Measures After Stolypin Death
The Russian ruler weighs two severe steps this reign demands removal of death plots and a secret ukase to reorganize the third section police. Justice minister Chicheglovitov to present evidence from the Bogroff court martial on Stolypin’s murder. The Czarina’s nerves flare and she remains under court physician care amid fears for the dynasty.
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Nicholas
Ukase
Chicheglovitov
Rostoff
Bogroff
Stolypin
Richmond Dispatch Names Governor Candidates Elly Son Tucker and Stuart
The Bedford Bulletin reports that Elly Son, Tucker, and Stuart are slated as candidates for governor in the next statewide race, reflecting a strong prohibition stance and bold political moves in the era.
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Richmond
Ellyson
Tucker
Stuart
Bedford Bulletin
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