Cooke's Big Four Charges Not Proved In Court
Edger Street Cooke testifies in Hamilton County theft trial denying rebating by the Big Four and claiming funds came from his mother's estate and a bequest to his wife. Witness Frank Higgins concludes Warriner shortage at $643,000, countering $2,000,000 claim.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Edgar Street Cooke
Hamilton
Bis Four
Cooke
Warriner
Comstock
Cocke
Charles J. Hunt
Hunt
Jeannette Timmons Ford
New York
First National Bank of Brooklyn
Baker
Streeter Sues Over One Million Dollar Brake Shoe Deal
Alfred L. Streeter of Chicago sues for $1,000,000 over a brake shoe invention. He says American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co of Pittsburgh agreed to pay stock fair value after testing, with three arbitrators to fix remuneration. The company demurred, arguing the dispute should go to arbitration as per contract.
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Supreme Court
Bischoff
Alfred L. Streeter
Chicago
United States
Streeter
American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company
Pittsburg
David L. Podell
Edward R. Fallowes
Justice Bischoff
Britishers Fight Pittsburg Charge In Extradition Case
Judge Mulqueen holds Capt. W. T. Kirkbride and Alfred Curphey in 2500 bail each to await Pennsylvania extradition on contempt and obstructing public justice linked to the Mellon divorce. Hearing adjourned to July 14. Gov Dix extradition date tentatively set for June 23.
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Mulqueen
Court of General Sessions
W. T. Kirkbride
Alfred George Curphey
Pennsylvania
Mellon
Gov. Dix
J. Norris Miller
Hornblower, Miller & Potter
Miller
George H. Wagoner
Allegheny County
Kirkbride
Curphey
Thomas W. Churchill
Democratic Club
Pittsboro
New York
Capt. Kirkbride
Ao Oe
Finelite Will Admitted To Probate In Family Dispute
The will of David Finelite dividing a $200000 estate between sons Abraham and City Court Judge Finelite has been admitted to probate by Surrogate Cohalan. Sarah de Fries, a daughter, had contested the will while the judge noted the estate was left to the sons with a family covenant to care for other members, a promise he says his brother kept.
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David Finelite
Finelite
Abraham Finelite
Sarah de Fries
Cohalan
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Card Sharps From Liverpool Lose 2500 On Lusitania
Dr. Carl Anderson of Jersey City says he met two skillful card players from England aboard the Cunard liner Lusitania bound for New York. He played with them and his friends on Monday night. they were warned after a profitable game on a different ship. The loss totaled 2500 dollars.
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Liverpool
New York
Carl Anderson
Jersey City
Lusitania
Anderson
George Hobard
Reno
H. Warwick
England
Griffens Seek Reunion After Two Decades in Jersey City
Dr Carlton L Griffen of 66 West 107th Street and Minnie B Griffen of 63 East Fifty-ninth Street remarried in Jersey City after twenty years since their 1891 divorce in New York. They obtained a license to wed again yesterday.
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Carlton L. Griffen
107Th Street
Minnie B. Griffen
East Fifty-ninth Street
Jersey City
Audubon Society rescinds gift from gun makers over protest
Hundreds protest the National Audubon Society board decision to accept 125000 from gun and ammunition manufacturers to fund game protection. A special meeting at the Natural History Museum reverses the June 2 action, citing harm to the society’s work and roots in songbird protection.
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National Association of Audubon Societies
Association
Audubon Societies
Naturalists
A. D. Meloy
West Seventy-third Street
The
Audubon Association
New York State Forest, Fish and Game League
Naturalist Societies
Harry S. Leonard
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
New Haven
Frank M. Chapman
American Museum of Natural History
Natural History Museum
Gifford Pinchot
Wilmer Stone
Chapman
Pearson
Broadway
Audubon Society
Friends of the Association
City Hall Park Defenders Protest Stilwell Court House Plan
The Senate Stilwell bill to locate a new county court house in City Hall Park triggers strong protests. Judge O'Brien and the Court House Board criticize rushing the bill, while Borough President McAneny backs an open park solution and the City Club seeks a hearing on the measure. The Bar Association urges locating the court house outside City Hall Park to preserve space, traffic flow, and historic structures.
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Senate
Stilwell Court House
Court House
City Hall Park
Board of Estimate
Court House Board
Morgan J. O'Brien
O’brien
City Hall
New Court House
City Hall Square
Seventeenth Street
Union Square
Centre Street
Mr. McAneny
Prendergast
Mitchel
Board of Aldermen
McAneny
City All
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Congress
Highth Avenue
City Club
New York Bar Association
Stilwell
Assembly
Robert 8S. Binkerd
Frisbie
Daniel D. Frisbie
Assembly Chamber
Albany
N. Y
City of
New York
sonLreins
City Club OF
Robert
Bar Association
Cities Committee of the Senate
New York City
Sound
Court ‘House
Albert S. Bard
The
Tt Iad
Pass Lien in Wireless Case Sparks Courtroom Tug of War
The United Wireless Telegraph Company receivers case triggers cross filings in federal and New Jersey courts. Supreme Court Justice Cohalan presses for a new stipulation to bar actions in other courts until a decision is handed down as anger flares over alleged collusion and surprise maneuvers by parties seeking Maine receivers.
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New Jersey
United Wireless Telegraph Company
Maine
Supreme Court
Cohalan
F. Kelley Prentice
United States Court
John B. Stanchfield
Mr. Stanchfield
L. P. Wilson
Justice Cohdlan
Justice Cohalan
Yacht Wayu Tragedy Claims Two Passaic Victims
Captain Jacob Brown of the Passaic tugboat recovered the bodies of Lemuel Smith Newark newspaper artist and George Schultz West Orange from the bay off St George. They sailed from Bergen Point Yacht Club Bayonne last Saturday in the sloop Wayu with Smiths family. search followed when the party failed to return.
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Jacob Brown
Passaic
St. George
S.t
Lemuel Smith
Newark
George Schultz
West Orange
Bergen Point
Bayonne
Wayu
W. E. Wadman
Olvany Named Fire Deputy by Mayor Gaynor
Former Alderman George W. Olvany a lawyer with offices at 55 Liberty Street was appointed Deputy Fire Commissioner by Mayor Gaynor to replace Joseph Johnson Jr. Olvany a Tammany man in the Twenty-fifth Assembly District will earn a salary of 5000 dollars annually.
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George W. Olvany
Liberty Street
Gaynor
Joseph Johnson, Jr
Mr. Olvany
Tammany
Twenty-fifth Assembly
Joseph I. Prendergast
Four New York Men Arrested in Newark Court Trial
In Newark Court of Quarter Sessions a group of friends from New York were arrested after a trial of Elias Stein and Nathan Holtzman for a flim flam game. Three men were charged with high misdemeanor for attempting to procure a case settlement for payment and a fourth with carrying a concealed weapon. Stein and Holtzman were found guilty and remanded for sentence. one additional man was released on promising to leave town.
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Friends
Newark
New York
Samuel Friedman
East Seventy-second Street
William Rosowitz
Trinity Avenue
Harry Feingold
Norfolk Street
William Halprin
Ginger O’Brien Seeks Reinstatement In Supreme Court
Former Police Inspector Ginger O’Brien, dismissed after charges while leading the Coney Island district, filed a writ of mandamus yesterday with Supreme Court Justice Cohalan to regain his former rank. Cohalan reserved decision on the petition as the city addresses the change in police leadership.
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Giger O’ O’brien
Cropsey
Waldo
Supreme Court
Cohalan
Oe O’brien
Coney Island
John Purroy Mitchel
O’brien
Justice Cohalan
Diver Dies From Shallow Water Injury at City River Spot
Leonard Smith aged 19 died yesterday afternoon in Washington after breaking his spine on a shallow dive at 149th Street and the Hudson River. His Bronx home is listed as 2 Ison Avenue.
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Leonard Smith
149Th Street
Hudson River
Washington
Riots
Smith
Ison Avenue
The
Bronx
Hudson Deficit Near 58000 in Hudson County Bonds Case
The county treasury deficit, including to redeem stolen bonds, is estimated near 58000. Justice Swayze ordered an investigation led by James Cameron to trace when and how the shortage began. Ex City Controller Hough claimed bonds came to him in the normal way and denied aid to Hugh Dugan. County Counsel Griffin indicated suits to recover county funds, while an amicable settlement of the Robert Davis heirs' estate was being arranged.
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Hudson County
New Jersey
Weiss
Justice Swayze
James Cameron
George
John Griffin
Egan
Robert Davis
Davis
Newark Worker Held on Electric Shock Charge
James M. Finnegan of Newark, employed at General Electric Works Harrison New Jersey, is held for the Grand Jury on a charge of giving Arthur Walt Riper an electric shock that may cripple his left arm. Riper was turning a brass faucet to wash his hands when the shock struck. he was knocked down and taken to St Michael's Hospital with a powerless arm. Finnegan denied the charge amid claims by some workers it was a joke, while Riper suspects deliberate harm.
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James M. Finnegan
Newark
General Electric Works
Harrison
N. J
Justice Branegan
Arthur Walt Riper
van Riper
St. Michael's Hospital
Someody
Finnegan
O Reilly Released on Bail After Island Sentence
Daniel J. O'Reilly the lawyer, who was sentenced to five months on Blackwell's Island for acting as go-between in the Bancroft bond thieves case, was released on bail. The $7,500 bond was posted by Martin Engel John Norton and George Considine. A certificate of reasonable doubt stays the sentence until his appeal is decided, issued by Supreme Court Justice Ermeee upon application by John F. McAtyre.
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Daniel J. O’reilly
Blackwell’s Island
Bancroft
Martin Engel
John Norton
George Considine
O’reilly
Queens Roads Plague Local Business and Commuters
Upper Queens roads from Flushing to Nassau County are described as disgraceful by merchants and car owners. Traffic now avoids Flushing via the Queensboro Bridge and uses the Crescent Street Thomson Avenue route, while officials acknowledge damage and seek funds to repair or rebuild.
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Queens County
City of
New York
Flushing
Bayside
Douglaston
Nassau County
Ninety-second Street
Flushing Avenue
Queensboro Bridge
Fifty-ninth Street
Plaza
Long Island
Jackson Avenue
Woodside Avenue
Queensboro Plaza
Crescent Street
Thomson Avenue
Stone Bridge
Flushing Bay
Jamaica
Hoffman Boulevard
Bureau of Tours
Automobile Club of America
Queens
Department of Highways
The
Automobile Club
Highland Avenue
the Times
Nassau
College Point
Lawrence Gresser
Gresser
J. H. Weinberger
Board of Estimate
Weinberger
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Dix
Curphey and
Andrew W. Mellon
Sewickley
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Olvany
Jersey
Newark Court
Ginger” O’brien
Hudson
Electric Company
Lincoln Trust Company
Fifth Avenue
Alexander 8S. Webb, JR
Abram M. Hyatt
Qwen Ward
Horace F. Poor
Breckenridge Carroll
Treas
W. D. Baldwin
Otis Elevator Co
George C. Boldt
Wald
rt-Astoria Hotel Co
George C. Clark
Clark, Dodge & Co
Wm. G. Conkling
Franklin Say. Bank
Robert E. Dowling
City Investment Co
Stuart Duncan
John Uncan
Arthur Iselin Wm
Iselin & Co
Bradish Johnson
Clarence H. Kelsey
Pres
Title Guard & Tr. Co
W. de Lancey
Kountze
Kountze Bros
George Leask
George Leask & Co
John P. Munn
U. 5
William G. McAdoo
Hudson & Man
Irving E. Raymond
A. A. Vantine É
Broadway & Lispenard ST
Frederic P. Davis
L.r.co
Wiliam Salomon Wm. Salomon & Co
B. Aymar Sands Bowers & Sands
Isaac N. Seligma J.& Ww. Kee & Co
Louis Stern Stern Bros
Owen Ward
Alexander S. Webb, Jr
C. Morten Whitman
Clarence Whitman & Co
William H. Wheelock
Douglas Robinson
Chas
Brown & Co
Nelson F. Griffin
New York Clearing House Association
Queens Borough
Young Straws
Bosacay
IgEnly
Beaver
Felten
Fulton
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