Swanns Attack on Seabury Over Heineman Case
Judge Swann denounces Justice Seabury after the Appellate Division upholds William Heineman’s manslaughter conviction for shooting Robert Dooley. The ruling clears Swann of alleged prejudicial errors, cites perjury at trial, and points to concealed witnesses and grand jury delays in the Dooley case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Heineman
Sing Sing
Robert Dooley
Edward Swann
General Sessions
Heineman
Swann
Justice Seabury
Criminal Branch
The
Supreme Court
Court of General Sessions
Ingraham
Seabury
Max D. Steuer
Max Dr. Steuer
Judge Swann
Appellate Division
Steuer
Feinberg
Col
Abe Gruber
Grand Jury
Delahanty
Swan
Heinemann
Mulqueen
Washington
Barclay Streets
West 14Sth
Seventh Avenue
Dooley
Phyfe
Drinking cups and economy focus advertised in noisy ad
An unclear ad promotes economical drinking cups and a posture on disposal. It mentions free delivery and a mail order address but contains garbled text and nonspecific references to items and pricing. The fragment emphasizes cost efficiency and convenience.
Goethals Announces First Canal Transit by Panama Ship
Panama Canal plans reveal the first vessel through the Culebra Cut will be a Panama Railroad ship. Water will be let into the cut in October with dredges to follow, marking final construction steps. Washington reports Panama pressing for $250000 annual rental. Bryan delaying payment amid Colombia indemnity talks and legal treaties. Panama and Colombia ministers urged State Department for resolution.
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New York Times
Panama
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal
Panama Railroad
Culebra
Washington
United States
Isthmian Canal Zone
Little Republic
Bryan
Congress
State Department
Colombia
Root
Morales
Betancourt
DIES A MARTYR TO X RAY INVENTOR BAKER
Burton E. Baker inventor of X-ray apparatus died at his Hartford home after a ten month illness and nine operations by surgeons in New York and Hartford. Radium treatment at St Luke's Hospital preceded his decline. Baker, 45, led the Baker Electric and Baker X-Ray Tube companies and lectured widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Hartford
Conn
Burton E. Baker
E. W. Caldwell
Edward Titus
Robert Abbe
New York City
St. Luke’s Hospital
Baker
Baker Electric Company
Baker X-Ray Tube Company
London
F. H. Humphreys
Imperator Sails From Southampton with 600 First Cabin Passengers
The Imperator departed Southampton with over six hundred first cabin travelers aboard including notable Americans. Among the passengers were Albert A. Bigelow and R. Livingston Beeckman, Mrs. W. Earl Dodge, Col. Dickinson, Spencer Ewing, James McLean, Eugene Dupont, C. A. Spreckels, John Adams Thayer, George W. Vanderbilt, and Berry Wall, with designer Alexander Carlisle and Vice Admiral Sir Alfred Paget aboard to observe the voyage.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Imperator
Southampton
America
Alexander Carlisle
Olympic
Alfred Paget
Albert A. Bigelow
R. Livingston Beeckman
W. Earl Dodge
Col. Dickinson
Spencer Ewing
Frederick Gould
William J. Halloran
Albert Kienlin
Washington
James McLean
Clarence W. Murphy
Eugene Dupont
C. A. Spreckels
John Adams Thayer
George W. Vanderbilt
Berry Wall
Stove a Poor Bank
Barnett Gelford a Williamsburgh fruit dealer hid eight hundred dollars in a kitchen stove after reading about bank suspensions. He attempted to burn the stash when his wife lit a fire, but only one hundred dollars survived the blaze while seven hundred was lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnett Gelford
de Kalb Avenue
Williamsburg
Gelford
Child Killed by Auto on Fifth Avenue
Seven year old Mary Kuchner was struck while playing on Fifth Avenue near her home at 19 East 105th Street. The car owned by Dr. Philip M. Wood of Jamaica, driven by chauffeur Joseph Wooker, with three children inside, sped southbound. An angry crowd formed but police kept order as the girl died en route to Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Mary Kuchner
Fifth Avenue
East 105Th Street
Philip M. Wood
Fulton Street
Jamaica
Joseph Wooker
Smith Street
Christina O’ Leary
Dolan
East 14Th Street
Mount Sinai Hospital
Moshe
Avenue B
Union Market Station
East Fifth Street Staton
East Third Street
Jack Willig
Gat East
Mra
David Wolk
Orchard Street
Union Market
Morris Reich
Oe Hirschenbaum
36 Avenue B
Wolk
Louis Stample
33 Avenue B
Reich
Lowsley
Bellevue Hospital
Prow Neneoe
Avenue A
East Side
Four gangsters kill Moshe Reich in Avenue B ambush
Four gunmen walked down Avenue B and killed Morris Reich known as Moshe the Strong-Arm Man with a dagger and revolvers. Police captured two suspects, Wolk and Reich, while witnesses identified Wolk as the assailant. A letter from Esther K Rose found in Reichs pocket may point to motive.
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Avenue B
Eighth Street
Second
Third Streets
Morris Reich
Moshe
Express Drivers’ Union
Pans Bureau For
Esther K. Rose
Jack Sullivan
Rosenthal
East Side
Jacob Reich
East
Government to Carry All Packages Says Burleson
Postmaster General Burleson asserts the Parcel Post has proven effective after six months of trials. An upcoming Times article promises an unusually interesting feature next Sunday.
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Burleson
TIMES
Senate Lobby Committee broadens probe to labor power
Senate Lobby Committee shifts focus from wool tariffs to labor and capital influence on Congress. Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell slated to testify, joined by Col. George Pope and J. P. Bird. Mulhall case spins on with guards and pending House actions.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Organized Labor
Congress
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mulhall
M. M. Mulhall
National Association of Manufacturers
Senate Committee
House
Overman
William Whitman
Natio Association
Mansnicemrees
Winthrop L
Thomas
Masin
Home Market Club
Boston
Marvin
Home Club
Reed
Whitman
N. D
Senate
Clarence H. Brown
New York
House Lobby Committee
Kline
Willis
Garrett
Train collision kills two in Mineola auto crash
A touring car carrying eight men was struck by a North Shore Long Island Railroad train near Krug's Corners Mineola just after 11 PM. Two died at once and six were injured including several in serious condition. Names and details of the dead and injured listed, with Miller owner of the car among the survivors.
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North Shore Branch
Long Island Railroad
Krug’s Corners
Mineola
Glen Cove
William Miller
James McDougall
Miller
Rebels kill Henry Burton in Chihuahua Mexico
Henry Burton of Upper Montclair New Jersey 22 was killed July 6 by a drunken rebel soldier in Santa Rosalia Chihuahua Mexico. The body reached El Paso Texas en route home and Gen Manuel Chao says the murderer is jailed promising justice. Burton worked in testing for Mexican Northern Power Co dam project on Conchas River.
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EL Paso
Texas
Henry Burton
Upper Montclair
N. J
Santa Rosalia
Chihuahua
Mexico
Manuel Chao
Mr. Burton
Mexican Northern Power Company
Conchas River
W. E. Burton
S. C. Burton
Whitman and McAneny Lead Fusion Mayor Candidacy
The Citizens Municipal Committee sub committee reports Whitman and McAneny as top mayoral contenders with Mitchel, Outerbridge, and Finley trailing. Bronx and Queens suggestions move to borough presidents. Norman Hapgood urges McAneny as best fit for mayor, citing independence and prior city work.
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Citizens Municipal Committee
Whitman
McAneny
John Purroy Mitchel
Port
EF. H
Norman Hapgood
Bronx County Citizens League
Mitchel
Gaynor
Mr. McAneny
Is & Office
McAneny Youlire
New York
Tamalpais Fire Out After Three-Day Battle
The Mount Tamalpais forest fire near San Francisco is extinguished with minimal property loss and no deaths. Two thousand soldiers and naval apprentices were withdrawn after fatigue, while local crews and a field hospital in Mill Valley treated heat exhaustion. Capt Plunkett redirected his 700 blue jackets before orders sent them back to the line. Firefighters tacked brush with wet sacks as women provided coffee to the exhausted crews.
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New York Times
San Franciscoo
Mount Tamalpais
Bay
San Francisco
Plunkett
South Dakota
Mill Valley
Deportation Threat Montague Bank Manager in Cananea
Private advices report tension at Cananea Mexico and Naco Arizona over a rebel effort to deport Charles L. Montague, manager of an American bank, after he refused a forced loan. About 200 Americans in Cananea and hundreds nearby stand with Montague and seek State Department action to prevent clashes. The State Department has taken up the case as authorities weigh Article 33 of the Sonora constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Naco
Ariz
Cananea
Mexico
Charles L. Montague
Montague
Arizona
Navy captain defies order over Mount Tamalpais fire fight
The discharge of Captain Charles P. Plunkett who commanded the cruiser South Dakota refused to let his men combat a forest fire on Mount Tamalpais after a dispute over gun pointers valued at 325000 each. The Navy officials consider his actions improper and expect a report in days.
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New York Times
Wsehington
Charles P. Plunkett
South Dakota
Mount Tamalpais
Silica
Navy
Envy Ment
Obone
Rhind Held on $10,000 Bond in Jewelry Theft Case
Reginald Rhind held for Superior Court on $10,000 bond in Greenwich after theft of jewels from Mrs. Harry L. Haas of West End New Jersey. Rhind faces burglary charges at Niagara Falls and accomplice James McIntyre was moved to Freehold to answer an indictment. Witnesses valued the jewels lower than Haas’s estimate and repairs were arranged with a local jeweler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
Superior Court
William L. Tierney
Reginald Rhind
Harry L. Haas
West End
N. J
James F. Walsh
Monmouth County
New Jersey
Rhind
Niagara Falls
N.Y
James McIntyre
Freehold
Mary Kruger
Haas
Rudolph Richter
New York
W. D. Webb
Fire Devastates Kat Skill as Gale Flares Through Town
Catekill, N Y July 10 Fire swept through CatSkill destroying a dozen buildings including a stable and shop as a heavy gale whipped flames through the town leaving damage and property loss officials said the blaze began in a string of structures and ramped up rapidly with firefighters battling the flames through the night
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Catekill
Catskill
N. Y
Staba 1
Sega and Shop
Me Too Suffering Pekingese Saddens Newport
Mrs William E Carter of Newport and Philadelphia faced worry over their Pekingese Me Too which is ill from nervous shock. Three Newport veterinarians were called and Dr Blair of New York was summoned to treat the dog, with Mrs M M Van Buren assisting from Middletown and the dog receiving a trained nurse tonight.
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New York Times
Newport
R. L
William E. Carter
Philadelphia
Blair
New York
M. M. van Buren
Middletown
Duchess Finances Rebels Ship Attack attempt Reported
The Duchess Karl Theodor of Bavaria allegedly equipped a ship with arms and funds for an assault on the Portuguese Republic. The vessel sailed from London to Lisbon, stranded on the Belgian coast. King Albert refused to surrender the cash while banks back ex King Manuel.
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Munich
Karl Theodor
Bavaria
London
Lisbon
Albert
The
Post
Manuel
Second US battleship plans approved for 7.4 million
Acting Secretary Roosevelt approved plans for the United States second super-dreadnought, Battleship No. 39, to be built at the New York Navy Yard. It will be 600 feet long, 97 feet in beam, 28 feet draft, and displace 31,500 tons costing 7,425,000 dollars excluding guns and armor. No. 39 and the Pennsylvania will be the largest battleships ever planned for the U.S. or any navy.
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New York Times
Washington
Pennsylvania
United States
New York Navy Yard
President Wilson Lost In Woods On New Hampshire Trip
President Wilson and party departed from Cornish at 4 PM and got lost in muddy New Hampshire woods while returning via the Connecticut River toward Springfield. They reached Cornish again at 8 PM after a cautious drive with no public stops. He declined to comment on any railway strike action.
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Cornish
Wilson
New Hampshire Woods
Eleanor Wilson
Ming Helen
Woodrow Bones
Cary T. Grayson
Connecticut
Springfield
N. H
Frank Hall
White House
Borough signs atop elevated entrances to be removed
Borough President McAneny obtained an opinion from the Corporation Counsel that signs up to ten feet above sidewalks at elevated railway entrances may obstruct traffic. He ordered Interborough Rapid Transit Company and Manhattan Railroad Company to remove them by Aug 1. If not removed, borough officials will pull them down and charge the cost as a lien on the company property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borough of
Manhattan
McAneny
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Manhattan Railroad Company
Nashville Woman Confesses to Drowning Stepchildren
Mrs. James Yates of Tennessee reportedly confessed to drowning her two stepchildren, Ligon Yates aged 12 and Ida May Yates aged 10, after luring them to a pool under a blackberrying pretense. Florence Farris, 15, aided in the alleged crime as charged by Union City authorities. The husband and others were cited in the alleged motive of retaliation for perceived mistreatment. James, 6, escaped and alerted a neighbor.
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Nashville
Tenn
James Yates
Florence Farris
Union City
Ligon Yates
Ida May Yates
Caldwell
Italy to take Charlton for murder trial on honeymoon
Porter Charlton, held in Hudson County Jail Jersey City, faces removal to Italy within two weeks to stand trial for the murder of his wife during their Lake Como honeymoon on June 7 1910. Ex Prosecutor Pierre P Garven said Italy will receive the judgment and mandate from the U S Supreme Court and consulate officials coordinated the transfer. A cable to Italy confirmed two Italian officials would accompany him for the journey which is to depart in about twelve days.
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Porter Charlton
Hudson County
Jersey City
Italy
Lake Como
Pierre P. Garven
United States
Su Bante Tng Hat Chariton
San
Lafayette
Coun Chariton
Prosecution Hones Case Against Justice Cohalan in Albany
In Albany on July 10 the New York City Bar Association case against Justice Cohalan nears its pivotal stage as John A. Connolly testifies about a $6.20 claim and a 55 per cent deal with Cohalan. Witnesses challenge Connolly’s credibility while detailing altered Victor Heating Company ledgers and destroyed papers amid accusations of shadiness and pressure in prior settlements.
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New York Times
Albany
New York City Bar Association
Justice Cohalan
Charles F. Murph
Joint Judiciary Committee
Senate and Assembly
John A. Connolly
New York
John B. Stanchfield
Connolly
Victor Heating Company
Cohalan
Bar Association
Connor
Alfred B. Cruikshank
Cruikshank
Onnolly
Timothy A. Leary
William D. Guthrie
George O'Hanlon
O'Hanlon
Mr. Stanchfield
John F. Murtaugh
Joint Judiciary Committees
Kelloggs
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Justice Ingraham
Col. Goethals
Ffair
Labor Union
Long Island
Robinson
William
Ninetieth Street
Brooklyn
Sea Cliff
Nassau Hospital
Lush
George
Virginia Avenue
McDougall
James
Nolan
Rogan
John
Montclair
Bronx
John J. Hopper
Leo Arnstein
Raymond B. Fosdick
Ralph Folks
Henry H. Curran
Board of Aldermen
Contratler
William A. Prendergast
Joseph H. Price
Mittee
O. M. Waller
Kings
John R. Gleed
Tamalpais
McIntyre
Portugal
Woods
Charlton
Guthrie
Halan
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