Woman linked to embezzlement case and arrest in the Bronx
August Dohm a 39 year old bookkeeper at Baumann & Brother furniture and carpet dealers 285 Sixth Avenue is held on 500 bond after payroll shortages suspected to total up to 20000. Investigators say a woman Mathilda A French cashier was involved though no proof. Dohm faced Magistrate Breen at Jefferson Market Court with police noting a possible death by own action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Dohm
Baumann & Her
Sixth Avenue
Clay Avenue
Bronx
Breen
Jefferson Market Court
Baumann & Brother
Otto A. Samuelson
Dohm
Stransky and
Stanton
Detective Bureau
Mathilda A. French
West Forty Eighth Street
Baumann
Cooke
Forty-eighth Street
Columbia Bank
Vee — — Se Nee Beechee
Haemanns
Capt
Aeere
Stransky
Stay
Stravsky
O'Sullivan
Ossining Merchant Goes Hatless to Promote Health
Frederick Mead, an Ossining merchant, rode the Hudson to meet his wife and daughter aboard the Barbarossa from Naples. He explained he never wears a hat, says going without one prevents headaches and sunburn, and notes Ossining considers forming a hatless society with him as president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Mead
Ossining
Hudson
Barbarossa
Naples
Mr. Mead
Baby Tossed to Safety by Heroic Parents on Jamaica Bay
Mr and Mrs Joseph A Zoeller of 408 Suydam Street Williamsburg with Lawrence Mainer 162 Wykoff Avenue and Miss Barbara Geis visited Golden City at Canarsie yesterday. They hired a rowboat on Jamaica Bay and after hours Zoeller leaped in to rescue his wife as she sank. The child Kate was tossed to Miss Geis and landed safely in her arms. Mrs Zoeller revived after medical help and the family returned home with the infant unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Zoeller
Suydam Street
Williamsburg
Lawrence
Mainer
Wykoff Avenue
Barbara Geis
Maixner
Miss Gels
Mrs. Zoeller
Class Day at Barnard College Celebrates Graduates
The Barnard graduating class held exercises in the Columbia gymnasium with Miss Evangeline Cole presiding. Class history was read, and a sun dial memorial was announced for the quad in front of the new dormitory. Elections named Wittiest Sarah Lay and other campus honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnard College
Columbia University
Evangeline Cole
Anne Carroll
Katherine Louise Rapp
Grace C. Turnbull
Sarah Emma Lay
Cora Elizabeth Bennett
Agnes Elizabeth Ernst
Juliet Stuart
Jean Disbrow
Lucile Grant
Anne Whittemore Young
Helen Shoninger
Yale freshmen abolish historic Bottle Night tradition
At Yale University the Academic freshman class voted to abandon the long standing custom of Bottle Night. The practice involved throwing breakable items from dormitory windows on the night of final exams and attracted large crowds to watch from safe locations. Injuries from flying bowls and pitchers prompted a faculty hint leading to the abolition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
New Haven
Taken for Siamese Prince on Cairo Trip
R B McRary a Lexington North Carolina real estate man reached Lexington on the steamer Barbarossa after a Cairo misadventure where he was mistaken for a Siamese prince and needed elaborate explanations to escape an embarrassing situation. He was traveling with Rev J C Sheppard from Luxor to Thebes and used a dragoman to arrange hotel accommodations signaling two distinguished nobles were en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. McRary
Lexington
N.C
Barbarossa
Mediterranean
Cairo
Sheppard
Persian impostors warned by Archbishop Farley
Archbishop Farley publicized a warning from Mer Lessie Apostolic Delegate to Persia about two impostors en route to the United States from Persia. They seek funds under a Catholic missions pretense and use forged letters bearing signatures of Mar Lessie. Police were asked to seize the forged letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farley
Mer
Lessie
Persia
United States
Mgr
Sisters of Charity of Persia
Stolen diamond brooch leads to multi arrest
Crissie Astor, 13, of 125 Barclay Street New York, admits stealing a $1,900 brooch from C Henry Stengle at 1075 Broad Street. Also jailed are John Stample 15 and James Dillon 17 for involvement. Mrs Louise Metin and relatives linked to the Stengles’ household are held in jail on bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crissie Astor
Barclay Street
Newark
Fourth Precinct
C. Henry Stengle
Broad Street
John Stample
Chariton Street
James Dillon
Waverly Avenue
Louise Metin
West
Thirtieth Street
Manhattan
Charles Deymon
Jeanni
Stengles
Three Dismissals for Oak St Hazing
Police Commissioner Bingham dismissed yesterday four policemen on Deputy Commissioner Hanson’s recommendation. Three faced hazing allegations involving Policeman Stephen Walsh at Oak Street Station two months ago. Dismissed were Eugene Z Clinton with twenty years on the force and C T Fitzgerald and V Unger, each with twelve years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak St
Bingham
Hanson
Stephen 8. Walsh
Oak Street
Eugene Z Clinton
C. T. Fitzgerald
V. Unger
Gould alimony bid set at 250000 a year in high profile case
Mrs. Howard Gould seeks 250000 annual alimony in a divorce suit amid wealth estimates of roughly 10 to 20 million dollars. Attorney Clarence J. Shearn plans to motion in Supreme Court for alimony while a referee may appraise the Gould estate.
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Gould
Howard Gould
Clarence J. Shearn
Supreme Court
Mr. Shearn
Mr. Gould
Stearn
Broadway
Maurice Malloy
Cty
Harison
Frank Peabody
Peabody
Detective Bureau
William W. McLaughlin
Three Men Hurt in Lexington Ave Collision
A collision between a northbound Lexington Avenue car and a heavily laden Vacuum Carpet Cleaning Co wagon injured three men. Edward Clarkson, Edward Morscheimer, and William Alexander, all from East Fifty-second Street, were taken to Bellevue Hospital unconscious. Morscheimer suffered a base skull fracture and was not expected to live. the motorman and conductor were arrested on a technical assault charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Avenues
Vacuum Carpet Cleaning Company
Thirty-eighth
Thirty-ninth Streets
Lexington Avenue
Edward Clarkson
Edward Morshheimer
William Alexander
East Fifty-second Street
Morscheimer
Four Hurt in Harlem Crosstown Car Crash
A west bound 125th Street crosstown car collided with an empty Broadway car at Manhattan Street and Twelfth Avenue last night at 4:30 PM. Four passengers were cut by broken glass and bruised and treated by an ambulance surgeon before going home. The injured were Motorman Van Tassell, Joseph Keenan of 320 East Twenty eighth Street, John Wagner of 4 John Street, and John Hargins of 547 Second Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
125Th Street
Broadway
Manhattan Street
Twelfth Avenue
van Tassell
Joseph Keenan
East Twenty-eighth Street
John Wagner
John Street
John Hargins
Second Avenue
The Strike in Cuba Drives Cigar Shortage
The Havana cigarmakers strike shows no settlement. Patrons are advised to buy cigars directly and importers are purchasing Romeo and Juliets, Punch, Carolina Perfectos from us at the same wholesale prices to keep customers supplied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
City Keeps Bad Inspectors In Sewer Investigation
The Ac counts Commission continued the Ahearn inquiry with Horace Loomis and William Klein on the stand. Loomis said surveys had mistakes but could not be avoided and urged eliminating unbalanced bids. He noted Hickey Contracting captured most work and cautioned the current inspection system limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ahearn
Commissioners of Accounts
Horace Loomis
Bureau of Sewers
Martin J. Brown
William Klein
Loomis
Klein
Hickey Contracting Company
Hickey
Lorg
Tenderloin Precinct Numbers Reassigned to New Nineteenth
Police Commissioner Bingham announced the Tenderloin Precinct will change its number from 19 to 23 and give No 19 to the new precinct formed from the lower Tenderloin. The new Nineteenth Precinct station will be on Twentieth Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and open about June 15.
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Bingham
Tenderloin
Thirtieth Street
Twentieth Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
New Home for Harriman on Fifth Avenue Lease
E H Harriman has leased a four story dwelling at 874 Fifth Avenue between Sixty eighth and Sixty ninth Streets for one year. The house, on a 45 by 175 foot plot, sits between the James Henry Smith and Daniel Reid residences and is owned by the Joseph Stickney estate. Broker John N Golding negotiated the lease. Harriman will likely occupy the Fifth Avenue house until his own lot at Fifth Avenue and Fifty second Street is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Harriman
Fifth Avenue
Sixty
Orders a Third Trial in Duke Case
The Appellate Division reversed a $4,500 verdict against Brodie L. Duke, ordered a new trial for Norden & Co. The suit involved a speculative account tied to Duke and Bramham, Duke’s secretary, with the brokers claiming Bramham acted for Duke. Previous trials had mixed outcomes and ongoing questions about responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Brodie L. Duke
Norden & Co
Duke
William G. Bramham
Bramham
Stolen Vanity Box Recovered In Vanderbilt Case
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt Jr reports the van ity box from her Paris commission reappeared at her hotel after detectives traced two waiters, Costas Meros and Emanuel Cardices, to a pawnshop and a furnished room. Police recover pawn tickets linking theft to jewelry valued in thousands. Meros and Cardices held for examination. Vanderbilt plans to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Belmont
Madison Avenue
Costas Meros
Emanuel
Walters
Sherry's
Metropolitan
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Opera House
Mr. Vanderbilt
Meras
Cardices
Third Avenue
United States Rubber Company
Beree
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ICE Inquiry Limited
State
AS General
Wich
Jamaica Bay
Barnard
Egypt
Archbishop Farley
Gould Case
Castle Gould
Harlem
Cuba
Ahearn Inquiry
Gen. Bingham
Harriman
Will
Children’s Court
Children's Court
Peter Markowitz
Bleecker Street
Markowitz
Iior Court
Aprons
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Institute
West 34Th St
New York
Ture
Hackett, Carhart
Canal St
Chambers, St
Reading
Brooklyn
Ela Place
Elm Place
China
Bond Street
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