Hamilton Heir Files 750000 Will Suit
Objections filed in Surrogates Court challenge the will of Miss Adelaide Hamilton, a blind heiress, with alleged undue influence by Alexander Hamilton, William Pierson Hamilton, and Edward R. Vollmer. Executors named include William Pierson Hamilton and Edward R. Vollmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T John
L. Hamilton
Elmaford
Alexander Hamilton
Adelaide Hamilton
Miss Hamilton
Alexander Hamiton
William Pierson Hamilton
Edward R. Vollmer
J. F P. Morgan
Menbor
J. P. Morgan & Co
Woodbury
Conn
KR. Vollmer
Broadway
Hamiltons
Edward I. Vollmer
Ter
Schuyler van Cortlandt Hamilton
Fifth Avenue
Woolverton Will Filed After Atlanta Dying in 1914
The will of William H. Woolverton, late president of Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph, filed in state records, details a net estate of 1.481 million dollars. Widow Edith receives cash and life interests, while the son William H. and daughter Ethel share the remainder after widow’s death. Principal holdings include 2,000 Thwaterol Co shares, 1,200 AT&T, 1,700 Gamewell, 513 Iron Steamboat shares transferred to Frederick H. Cone, plus $66,000 life insurance and several church bequests.
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William H. Woolverton
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company
Atlanta
Edith Ib Woolverton
Free Memorial Library
Alexandria
Presbyterian
Methodist Church
Marian M. Tilge
Maude Snowden
William H
Ethel Woolverton
Thwater Ol Company
Cumberland Teece & Telegraph Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Dance Hall Reform Committee Moves On
The Committee of Amusement Resources led by Mrs. Henry Moskowitz gathered at her East 38th Street home to organize evidence against several dance halls for submission to License Commissioner Bell and Police Commissioner Woods. New members Hielen Hartley Jenkins and Niverit Macy joined as plan details were outlined to curb afternoon tango parlor activity and remove hotel license exemptions for large houses.
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Committee of Amusement Resources
Henry Moskowitz
Bell
Woods
Moskowitz
East Thirty-eighth Street
Hielen Hartley Jenkins
Vniverit Macy
Reception Planned For New Citizens On July Fourth
Commissioner of Immigration Fred eric C Howe and Acting Mayor Mc Aneny moved to arrange a public reception for newly naturalized citizens on the Fourth of July. The event, to be held perhaps at Adolph Lewisohn Stadium, would be informal yet impressive with speeches by federal and city officials and a notable foreign-born citizen, followed by patriotic songs and a pageant. An Americanization Day in schools with a park pageant may also be arranged.
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Frederic C. Howe
McAneny
United States
Clowe
Adolph Lewisohn
City College
Stevens to Run for Jersey Senate
Assemblyman Lewis T. Stevens Republican of Cape May County announced at the State House in Trenton that he would run for State Senator. He has served multiple terms in the lower house and was secretary of the majority's joint conference in the last session.
Death threats and kidnap plot alleged by Kopp sisters
In Newark a jury heard Paterson dyer Henry Kaufman charged with sending Black Hand letters to Wyckoff sisters Constance Norma and Viorette Kopp. The sisters testified of midnight gunfire threats and a planned kidnapping of Florette, with Sheriff Heath and prosecutors building the case amid prior civil and harassment actions.
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Henry Kaufman
Paterson
N. J
United States
Newark
Constance
Norma
Viorette Kopp
Wyckoff
Kaufman
District Court Post
Wth
Kopp
Prosecution Details in Hackensack Case Involving Threat Letters
The Prosecutor's office and Hackensack detectives worked on a case where Kaufman faces two indictments tied to threatening letters sent to two young women. Their late father left substantial property and a large home, but the sisters say they run the house independently without male help. One sister, Miss Constance, notes they knew the perpetrator all along.
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Constance
Florette
George Hi. Johnson
Miss Constance
Miss Kopp
Heath
Johnson
Somerville
Hackensack
Sleath
Kaufman
Opp
Divorce suit against Redfern dismissed in New Jersey
Mrs Helen Marie Redfern of New York failed to prove fraud in a divorce obtained by Albert Redfern of Plainfield. Vice Chancellor Lewis in Jersey City dismissed the case saying her status in court was doubtful after four years of marriage and noting a second wife’s potential interests. Redfern testified he wrote letters to matrimonial ads to trap his wife.
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Helen Marie Redfern
New York
Albert Redfern
Plainfield
Lewis
Jersey City
Redfern
Court Declares Divorce Trend Alarming in Brooklyn
Supreme Court Justice Frederick E Crane denounced rising divorce and polygamy like practices, noting a case where a man sent his wife and children to Italy then married again locally. He criticized easy divorces, vowed to sue the man for bigamy, and said he would file two complaints with the District Attorney to pursue more cases.
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Supreme Court
Frederick BE. Crane
Brooklyn
Italy
Utah
Conley Released Shows No Remorse From Georgia Mass Meeting Call
Jim Conley arrives in Atlanta after release from convict camp with forty eight days off for good behavior He says he did not write the notes tied to the Mary Phagan case and repeats his story to officials He blasts Leo Frank saying he should be hanged and notes plan mass meetings in Georgia counties urging execution of the death sentence
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New York Times
Atlanta
Jim Conley
Leo M.frank
Mary Phagen
Conley
Frank
Annie Maud Carter
Mary Phagan
Anne Maud Carter
Albert W. Osborn
Bey
Marvy Phagans
Was
Brooklyn Plea for Frank Clemmency Petition Urges Gov Slaton
A petition signed by 6,000 Brooklyn residents urges executive clemency for Leo M. Srank and is sent to Georgia Governor Slaton by lawyer Joseph Goldstein. The petition gathers 25 representative citizens including Borough President Lewis H Pounds Supreme Court Justice Stephen Callaghan County Judges Roy and Hylan magistrates Dooley and Steers Rev Dr Edward Young and others.
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Brooklyn
Leo M. Srank
Slaton
Georgia
Joseph Goldstein
Lewis H. Pounds
Supreme Court
Stephen Callaghan
Roy and
Hylan
Dooley and Steers
Edward Young
Bedford Presbyterian Church
United States
Melville
France
Suit over alleged alienation of wife in Morristown case
George H Wilder of Sunmrat New Jersey sues Dr George Willis of Morristown claiming alienation of his wife Mrs Ellen Wilder. Mrs Wilder testifies he kissed her in February 1914 and she confessed after fear for her husband. Ellen Caburn a nurse testifies seeing Willis kiss Mrs Wilder at her Madison home. Willis denies charges. Mrs Wilder, daughter of Boston brewer G Fisher Eldrich, has four children.
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New York Times
Morristown
J. June
George H Wilder
Sunmrat
N. J
George S. Will's
Ellen Coburn
Willis
Wolff Estate Ruling in Trenton Court
In Trenton on June 2 the United States Mortgage and Trust Company of New York asked the Court of Chancery to direct distribution of Lewla Wolff’s Monmouth County estate valued at $500,050. Co trustees are the trust company and Stanley L Wolff, the son, who reached 30 in May but has not received his one fifth, awaiting court instructions on whether the legacy should be paid in securities or cash.
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Kaufman
Kopp
William J. Kingsley
Broadway
New York City
Wopp
United States
Lynch
New York Times
Trenton
N. J
United States Mortgage and Trust Company of
New York
Court of Chancery
Lewla 3 Wolff
Monmouth County
Trust Company
Stanley L. Wolff
Girl Fights Her Father Over Custody in New Jersey
In Trenton a se year old daughter refused to go with her father Chancellor Walker placed the girl in his custody but she clung to her mother and fled. After a struggle on the State House steps the child agreed to accompany her father until after the next hearing. Two years earlier the children were awarded to Mrs Wilson and the case was reopened on a guardianship dispute.
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Sophie Stransky
Bronx County Supreme Court
Benjamin Stransky
East 158Th Street
Stransky
Jennie
Weeks
Sophie
Daddy
Mama
Mark
James H. Scarr
New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Walker
Walter 5. Wilson
State House
Wilson
Miss Wilson
Jersey Crop Outlook Favorable in New Jersey
A USDA New Jersey report led by G Harold Noyes finds crops generally favorable across the state. Southern counties report good conditions though maggots affect onions and cabbage. mid coast sees 18 strawberry picking begins with insects and cutworms present. apples blight noted and sweet potatoes slow. Northern district corn thrives, with clover alfalfa and oats normal.
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Jersey
New York Times
Trenton
N. J
G. Harold Noyes
New Jersey
United States Department of Agriculture
Middle Coast
Wife Sues for Divorce Accusing Detective of Frame Up
In Paterson New Jersey on June 2, Mrs Lillian Close filed a counter suit for divorce against her husband Robert Close a Paterson Detective Bureau member naming Edna Pasquin a woman detective who aided Close during a visit to an Asbury Park hotel last summer where he alleged he found Mrs Close with Henry Dougherty. Mrs Close argues the case is a frame up and that since the Asbury Park raid he has shown too much familiarity with the detective.
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New York Times
Paterson
N. J
Robert Close
Paterson Detective Bureau
Lillian Close
Edna Pasquin
Close
Asbury Park
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