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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
12
A White Star liner Adriatic arrives with a dozen card sharp travelers from Queenstown. Details reveal a high stakes dice and poker session among Englishmen with losses totaling up to 1000 dollars. The party includes actors Simeon Ford and David Warfield and other notable passengers while rival Cunarder Umbria slips ahead in a race.
District Attorney Jerome outlined alleged frauds in building trades after conferences with Master and Journeymen Plumbers associations. He cited a case against Charles Murphy, plumbing contractor, for attempting to extort 2000 from Leo Bing by threatening to keep workers off two Bing buildings until payment.
Water Commissioner John H. O'Brien stated the court order blocking the contract for the Valley Stream and Amityville pipeline did not favor Gillespie & Co. He noted Gillespie’s bid was lowest and for a lockbar joint but three other joint styles were allowed. The case centers on whether the lockbar component is a patented part, not a favored item.
Capt D G Purse a prominent Savannah developer and promoter with ties to New York and Pittsburgh died by his own hand in Savannah on August 6. The article notes no motive or cause for the suicide.
Justice Gaynor ruled that casual bets between friends on golf outcomes are not crimes under the Penal Code. He said the gambling law targets recording bets as a business, not private wagers, and cited Nassau County case of George Sterling.
The note clarifies that issuing bets broadly or serving as general recorder of bets is a crime. It states the proceeding aimed to establish a test case to address such betting activities and enforce the law.
At Saratoga on August 6 district attorney McKnight assistant DA Moore and Sheriff Bradley with ex-ADA Kilmer met at the track after learning of Justice Gaynor’s appellate ruling on the anti-betting law. They anticipated the decision clarifying the statute would ease their position, while racing officials and insiders weighed its impact on betting and the Metropolitan Turf Association.
In demurrers to indictments against William A Engeman Christopher J Fitzgerald and John G Cavanagh of the Righton Beach Racing Association in a race track gambling probe attorney John B Stanchfield attacks the Agnew Hart law as invalid questions constitutionality of the Legislature and the indictment's standing contends the facts do not constitute a crime and says similar facts under another indictment show conspiracy and duplicity.
Saratoga reporters note a shift from roulette to card and dice gambling as clubhouses shut down for the season. Proprietors have laid off staff, dealers have left town, and visitors seek quieter diversions between races. Craps remains popular among small-time operators in hidden venues.
Six persons seriously hurt when a car overturns at Seminole and Willow Grove Avenues. Victims include William Atkinson owner, Mrs Atkinson, Frank Williams chauffeur, William Oakley, Lena Brown age 16, Florence Payne. All rushed to Chestnut Hill Hospital. ambulances supplied by Percy Madeira and Alexander Benson.
William Wild 21 of 289 Avenue B was arraigned in Essex Market Court on felonious assault and attempted suicide after he shot Veronica Meehan 18 near East Twelfth Street. Meehan testified as Wild was held in $2,000 bail. Bellevue doctors report a lead fragment remains in his skull.
Robert E. Eastman, a New York broker, was arraigned in Chicago on charges he left with firm funds. Bond set at 40000, not posted, hearing postponed to August 10. Eastman complained of ruin while jailed with two tramps. Complainants Russell of New York and Garrison seek accounting and missing firm funds totaling 17000 and 5670.
Mrs Josephine Amore of Newark testified she killed Michael Martello after he urged elopement and threatened her. Police believe Carmine Amore plotted to use his wife’s confession to avoid punishment as they investigated the murder of Martello in his wife's Drift Street home.
Nathan Straus charity opens a new 348 East Thirty-second Street headquarters and infant care depot with a three story marble building and roof garden. Dr. Arthur R. Green oversees medical work, noting physicians fault the pure milk program for suggesting store milk and prepared foods. Straus aims to sell milk at 5 cents a quart, subsidized by the charity to save infant lives.
A man identified as Charles Scott dies in City Hospital of lobar pneumonia. Investigators confirm his real name as Charles D. Hughes of New York after examining his belongings. He held Masonic diplomas and was a Gravesend Yacht Club member. wife listed at 510 West 146th Street, New York.
Formal ratifications were exchanged in Tokio with Viscount Terauchi signing for Japan and Pp. A. Jay affixing for the United States. Credit for the successful negotiations goes to R. S. Miller of the American Embassy and M. W. Denison, Japan’s counsellor.
Disjointed records show multiple individuals and addresses with small monetary amounts. Names include Louis Graviskor, Mr Drefuss, Solomon Belsch, N Nelson, William Kriesberg, Harry Rothberg, Ida Goldinsky, Wm Nevine, Isaac Rosenthal, Stettiner Brothers, Samuel Cohen, Hattie Taub and others at Madison Avenue, Mercer Street, 5th Street, and more. Amounts range from $10 to $300 with several unspecified or trifling sums.
Limited space in the New York Times Annual Theatrical Supplement on Sept 6 will be devoted to advertising. Contracts for space must be made before Aug 15. The supplement offers exceptional value for those in theatrical enterprises and will attract playhouse patrons.
Three West 100th Street officers, Haggerty Nayden and Crowley, pursued John Harrison and John O'Brien after a late night break in at 2 West Ninety-eighth Street. The duo fled across roofs, dropping fur and jewelry valued near 6400. Harrison surrendered. O'Brien hid, then fled to a scuttle and was later found hiding under a bed. Both charged with burglary.
Plans for the Rockaway Beach Hospital and Dispensary cornerstone ceremony next Sunday include two parades and notable speakers. John B. Summerfield will preside as a three day celebration with card parties dances and other entertainments support the hospital fund.
J Fendt, proprietor of the Bonavista Stables, reports to the Eye witnesses claim a Health Department officer shot a Dalmatian on his property then finished it on the street. He alleges trespass and cruelty and says 25 to 50 witnesses will testify to the brutality.
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