Actor Hitchcock Denies Harm in Girls Case Testimony
Raymond Hitchcock on trial before Justice Goff in the Supreme Court testified in his own defense denying harming Elsie Voecks and Helen Von Hagen. He said he took the girls to Great Neck and kept them overnight only with their mother’s permission and that a room incident was to warn against circulating stories. His wife corroborated his account. the defense challenged prior statements about a room and finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Hitencock
Justice Goff
Supreme Court
Helen von Hagen
Hitchcock
von Hagen
Elsie Veecks
West Fortly-first Street
Great Neck
Helen
Flora Zabelle
Corpand
Elise Voecks
Corprtant
Auburn
N. Y
New York
Carlton Operaompany
Garden Theatre
Richard Harding Davis
Elsie Vaecks
Herman Ruppe
Elsie Weecks
Montauk Theatre
Brooklyn
The
Lambs Club
Elsie
Mr. Garvan
Forty-first Street
Flora Smith
Whiston
Newark
Bella McKenzie
Charlottesvill
Hitchock
Baby Falls to Death After Window Jump
Four year old Willie Wilsick of 800 East 160th Street leaped onto a sofa by an open window and bounced through the pane. He fell five stories to his death beside two brothers playing in the street as patrolman Dillon summoned an ambulance from Fordham Hospital, but the surgeon could not save him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Wilsick
East 160Th Street
David
Frederick
Dillon
Morrisania
Fordham Hospital
Fire destroys Coast Artillery housing at Fort Wadsworth
A two story frame building housing three families of non commissioned officers at Fort Wadsworth Staten Island burned at an early hour yesterday morning. No lives were lost and with many soldiers present all furniture and effects were saved. The structure stood about twenty years and cost $15000 to erect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Artillery
Fort Wadsworth
Staten Island
Gramatan Hotel Reopens After Devastating Bronxville Fire
Fire at the Gramatan Hotel in Bronxville damaged the southern wing, destroyed jewelry and trousseaus, but guests were saved and the hotel will remain open. Firefighters credit a fireproof partition for limiting damage and two hours could have worsened the disaster. Notable losses include Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Bedell, plus several others from Hartford and San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gramatan
Bronxville
Grand Central
A. F. King
J. J. Lannin & Co
Thomas W. Hooker
Hartford, Conn
Hooker
Trousseau
Louis Bedell
Oshen
Mr. Hooker
Redell
W. B. Mucklow
Wall Street
Edith Sonntag
San Francisco
Sonntag
Edward F. Jones
Broadway
G. Douglass Potter
New York
Lester
Katherine
George Humphreys
Inter
Firebug Targets Happyland Amusement Park in Southend
John Weiss, new Happyland proprietor, reports three arson attempts under the boardwalk in front of the main building since June 1. The Southend park, costing about $200,000, has no insurance. Fire Marshal In Strange and Police Captain Linden of Stapleton are investigating the suspected arsonist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Happyland
Southend
S. I
Strange
Linden
Stapleton
John Weiss
Weiss
Mayor Pushes Aldermen to Act Before Vacation
The Mayor urged speed on key matters and the Aldermen cleared a long calendar of appropriations but rejected 500000 for Street Cleaning Department flushing machines and 170000 for a Queens pumping station. He warned delays could affect public health over the summer while most other appropriations passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queens
Autos Take Orphans on Luna Park Trip
New York orphans enjoyed a fourth annual automobile outing to Luna Park with 150 cars, 1500 children, led by a parade of ten divisions. The route ran from Automobile Row to Broadway and Fifth Avenue, then to Wash ington Park and the Williamsburg Bridge, ending at Coney Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Luna Park
Frederic Thompson
R. M. Owen
Broadway
W. J. Morgan
R. G. Jowell
Bugher
Schmittberger
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
Leake & Watts Orphan House
Yonkers
Coney
Forty-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Washington Park
Williamsburg Bridge
Lower East Side
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Automobile Club of America
Cripplea
Phelps School
Children’s Aid Society
Children's Ai Society
Half-Orphan Asylum
Howard Mission
Little Wanderers
Mott Street
The
Hebrew Society
Col. K. CC. Pardee
J. F. Plummer
Mr. Broadhead
J.N. Cuneo
Mr. Disbrow
George W. Bennett
F. C. Carrie
Mr. Pugh
A. P. Reeves
F. Cimiotti
Andrew J. Cone
J. T. Manning
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kilan
Pase
Elsie Voecks
Baby
Crippled Gramatan
Bronxville Hotel
Ain Or
6Th Ave
Wilton
Royal Wilton
Brussels
Smyrna
Greenhut & Company
B Altman & Co
Shantung
Saka & Company
Saks
Saks & Company
34Th Street
Stern Brothers
West Twenty-third Street
Lord & Taylor
20Th St
5Th Ave
19Th St
Akman & CO
34Th Street, 35Th Street and
St. Avenue, N. F
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