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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1906
Page
5
Ten inmates slipped from Queens County Jail between 2:00 and 6:30 AM after sawing bars with soft steel. Guards blamed budgeting, construction, and delayed security while a Thanksgiving baby aided Templeton’s capture, and the escape triggered a citywide manhunt.
A report describes suspects caught near the jail and later in Flushing and a Fourth Street Station junk shop. One man had been scavenging brass from the gutted old Court House, burned three years prior.
Long Island City gang leader known as Sandy Templeton fled jail with alleged help from his brother in law John Langenberg who is jailed in Paterson. Langenberg, held for copper wire theft from Erie Railroad at Hawthorne, previously served ten years for a Morris County Post Office robbery. Governor Higgins requested Templeton’s return as Erie detectives pursue leads.
The Ministry of Justice orders political crimes to be tried in regular civil courts. A new industrial reform law sets a ten hour workday in stores and offices, a fifteen hour day in restaurants, Sunday closing, and limited noon time for under 17 workers. It also allows Sunday and major church holidays off with local substitutions. The Emperor signs a law enabling peasants to mortgage land with loans only from government or agrarian banks to fund improvements or acquisitions.
Cardinal Richard of Paris has sent instructions to parish priests on the church state separation law. They vary by parish but share the principle of non recognition and passive resistance. Services may continue after December 11.
The Globe in London notes an American theatrical manager’s bid to Count Boni de Castellane. He has yet to close a music hall engagement at 400 pounds weekly but is praised for having finally found his vocation.
Mrs Sophie Alford, resident of 5607 Sixth Avenue Brooklyn, was held in 1000 bail by Magistrate Tighe in Adams Street Court on a charge of attempting to blackmail Hugh M Foster of 534 West 114th Street Manhattan for return of love letters. Foster testified letters lost by his wife during their honeymoon later resurfaced and led to the claim of extortion. Alford denied the charges and said she did not threaten to report the letters to federal authorities. The letters were not read in court.
In Chicago, November 30, the conspiracy trial of Cornelius P. Shea and 14 labor leaders featured a dramatic ruse by the State's Attorney. Four defendants led by Albert Young pleaded guilty and offered to turn state's evidence, while defense motions were overruled. Attorneys for several defendants shifted strategy, with one seeking to withdraw pleas of not guilty. The episode signals a potential upheaval within the United Teamsters of America and promises to shed light on the 1905 Teamsters strike tale.
A meeting of the Ministers of Greater New York at the Presbyterian Building on Fifth Avenue protested vaudeville and Sunday entertainments in theaters. They appointed a committee to present a letter to Mayor McClellan urging enforcement of the Lord s Day laws and citing the Eden Musee decision and police authority.
Samuel Newhouse, the mining operator famed for profiting from the Flatiron Building site in New York, announced the purchase of Salt Lake real estate for about 1 million dollars and immediate plans to invest 5 million dollars to erect skyscrapers.
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