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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1926
Page
1
Paris reports Briand summoned by President Doumergue to reform a provisional cabinet after Saturday’s resignation. Briand will decide by 9 p.m. whether to accept. Herriot declines to form a cabinet but urges Briand to lead, citing Geneva League of Nations negotiations.
James Lyons 35 confessed to killing Frank McGrath a North American Railway Express detective after being captured near Alpena Michigan with his brother Leonard 28 by armed farmers following the February 17 1926 shooting of Police Chief Dougal MacKenzie at Norwalk Ohio.
In Lawrence County court Dorothy Pegran sits at the defense table amid a desolate scene. The hospital murder of Sergeant Phillip L Tulley is recalled as no kin present during jury selection. Only Mrs H M Reynolds, sheriff’s wife, offers quiet support to the distressed defendant.
Dorothy Pegran stands trial for the murder of Sergeant Philip L Tulley as the case opens with the owner of the rooming house expected to testify The courtroom holds tense moments as Dorothy and Mrs Tulley sob and collapse at key moments during the proceedings intently watched by jurors and spectators The trial scene shifts from the hall to the courtroom as the commonwealth outlines its evidence in this high profile case
Homestead Pa March 9 Po Itee today arrested William Brown 30 a negro who is said to be wanted in Wetumka Ala for murder He is being held for Alabama authorities who have been notified Brown is charged with killing a traveling salesman in Alabama in 1922 when the latter resisted a holdup attempt He was arrested but broke jail and since has been the object of a nationwide search Difficulties with his wife Raffie led the negroes apprehension.
The Senate approved 51 to 26 a resolution to form a joint Senate-House commission to solicit bids to lease Muscle Shoals Alabama for 59 years. The government power project is valued at 1.567 billion dollars. Advocates warn the move could relinquish public property.
Government and state mine rescue teams pressed efforts at Crab Orchard Improvement Co. mines in Eccles West Virginia after an explosion. Thirty nine miners were entombed in Mine No 6 with 38 rescued alive and one fatality. crews continue work in Mine No 9 to reach 28 entombed workers.
Stephen B. Marshall aged 79 dies after months of illness. A former county detective for about twenty years he also served as court crier until recently. His death follows injuries from a shooting about fifteen years ago while attempting an arrest at Pardoe Mercer county.
Charleston dispatch reports a Cr arb Orchard Improvement Co mine at Eccles with Mine No 5, detailing early stages of a dispute over wages and conditions.
Joseph Ballentine and Anthony Carrigan confessed to cracking safes at Cudahy Armour company and Central Laundry offices and to the B and O railroad station hold up. They told Youngstown police, with Mayor Dunlap and Chief Dysart traveling to obtain confessions for local prosecution.
The tax and finance committee proposes keeping the 13 mill school tax rate for another year and notes no extra burden on taxpayers. The board may consider a bond issue. likely $750,000 with $260,000 to be raised by non voters bonds borrowed by the board.
Dayton Ohio March 9 clouds blocked the sky delaying Lieut John A Macready altitude attempt to break the world record. Officials cancelled the 11 30 schedule and Macready said the ship is ready and he will fly at the first favorable weather, possibly today tomorrow or the next day.
Washington dispatch reports the first prohibition air service to back Coast Guard actions. Five Atlantic coast air bases will house crews and planes for law enforcement and navigation protection. Admiral Billiard forms a board to map an air campaign and speedily mobilize before summer.
A morning fire at 7:15 at 502 West Grant Street caused $75 in losses after a hot smoke pipe from the heater set alight the clothesline and the family wash. The blaze started in the cellar and was reported from box He.
Michael Bottes 12 of Greenwald Greensburg near here drowned while skating yesterday he died en route home from school and was recovered noon today from the city reservoir after an all night search by Greensburg firemen state police and citizens using grappling hooks the body was frozen stiff and found under the hole he broke through while attempting a dare to beat his playmates home from school
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld lower court convictions for illegal liquor possession based on witnesses who smelled liquor in containers. James Swartz of Licking County was fined $600 and costs after the probate court conviction, despite defense claims that no liquor was in evidence. Four prosecution witnesses testified to the odor.
Death notices record multiple individuals with ages and addresses including Stephen B. Marshall 70 at 329 North Jefferson street Marion G. Fisher 307 Newall avenue Lena S. Gates 41 New Cantic Pa Jacob Moose 83 Neshannock Falls George Washington Chapman 81 136 South Beaver street A B McConnet 83 Joplin Mo
Three week reign of terror grips the Ohio valley area near Pittsburgh as six women and girls report assaults. Police deploy ten special officers in Coraopolis while plans expand to other towns to curb the attacker. A woman victim shared her experience and a letter from the fiend was published.
Paris on March 9 M Herriot leader of the radical Socialist party declined Doumergue's invitation to form a cabinet. Herriot proposed summoning Briand to reform a ministry and lead the new government.
Paris reports the League of Nations council will hold a preparatory disarmament conference in Geneva on May 17 and convene an economic conference on April 20. The decision, reached at a secret meeting, follows prior postponement rumors.
The pegran jury includes Joseph Hutchison John P Rea Carl L Smith S G Duncan Herbert V P Wiley Samuel A White Harry Howard Johnston John DeGarmo A H Gilmore William Botham Jr Jacob B Lightner. At 9 45 oclock Monday evening March 8 the 12 men will try Dorothy Pegran for the Continued On Pare wx.
Lieutenant John A. Macready's second attempt to regain the world's altitude record was postponed from 9 a.m. to noon at McCook Field Dayton due to a failed attempt to install an improved supercharger. The engine remained without the supercharger when Macready spoke.
State Senator Fred W. Culbertson of Lewistown and W. W. Chisolm of Huntingdon have been retained to defend Harry C. Bankes of Harrisburg accused of slaying Albert Klinger last Thursday in Harrisburg. A coroner's jury viewed the body and adjourned until Friday afternoon. Bankes admitted the shooting in a police statement and said Klinger broke up his home and his separation from his wife.
Lieutenants Mendengt and Verhaegen of the Belgian aviation forces left Brussels at seven this morning for Belgrade as the first leg of a journey toward the Belgian Congo via the Nile valley.
The narrator contrasts balmy breezes and sunlit parks with lingering cold, imagining a summer place beyond reach. Lads and lasses stroll as chickadees chirp, while the author muses on seasonal contrasts and distant, ideal summers amid a chilly thirty one day.
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