Missing Philadelphia financier McDowell sought by police
Henry B. McDowell president of United States Trust Company of Philadelphia is missing after failing to appear for a court hearing on a $50,000 embezzlement charge. Authorities traced him through offices on Liberty Street where he had connections with Hubbard & Rice. relatives and associates express alarm as mail awaits a forwarding address. He has a long, troubled history of schemes and legal troubles spanning San Francisco, Oakland, and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. McDowell
United States Trust Company of
Philadelphia
Trust Company
Liberty Street
Hubbard & Rice
McDowell
Theodore F. White
Nelson S. Easton
Easton
Ees
White
Summit
N. J
New England
John Brooks
Henry Burden McDowell
Irwin McDowell
I. Townsend Burden
Harvard
San Francisco
W. H L. Barnes
Baldwin Theatre
Ingleside
Frank M. Pixey
Hir York
Colosseum
Oakland
Jhero
San Francisco Examiner
Los Angeles
California
East
Theatre of Arts and Letters
Fifth Avenue Theatre
Rice
Police Mounted Officer Fires Blank at Sister-in-Law
Walter L. Tyler a Tremont Street mounted policeman due to a dispute with Thomas Reilly fired a blank cartridge at Mrs Reilly in a East One Hundred Forty-sixth Street apartment injuring her forehead and eyebrows. She was treated at Lincoln Hospital. Tyler fled after the incident and was not seen again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter L. Tyler
Tremont Street
Thomas Reilly
East Sixty-seventh Street
East-One Hundred and Forty-sixth Street
Tyler
Reilly
Harlem's Holy Terror Faces Penance For Crimes
Fourteen year old Harley, known as Harlem's Holy Terror, was to appear before Magistrate Mait on two charges after he robbed Miss Mary Hesselbach on a Second Avenue car. Detective Dickson and Patrolman Brennes tracked him, and Miss Anastasia, a schoolteacher, identified him following a mud and refuse attack and a corn cob assault. Harley was held in $1,000 bonds for examination tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Harley
Harlem
Mary Hesselbach
East Fifty-fifth Street
Second Avenue
Miss Hesselbach
Holy Terror
Anastasia
Miss Anastasia
Mott
Adams Jury Deadlocks in Policy Paraphernalia Trial
The jury in Albert J. Adams's policy paraphernalia case failed to reach a verdict after twenty ballots. Adams, worn from custody, faces likely retrial after vacation with bondsman George Karsh posting 7500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Adams
Scott
Supreme Court
Adams
Schurman
James Ridgway
George Karsh
College Point
Johnnie Degnan Remembered As Princeton Campus Icon
Princeton mourns Johnnie Degnan the campus policeman for two decades whose daily rounds, cheerful refusals to arrest and habit of delivering registrar notices in person made him a beloved, enduring symbol of university life. His funeral drew students faculty and townspeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
N. J
Johnnie
Degnan
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
John Callan
Paterson
Robert Burke
St. Paul's Parish
George F. McCoskie
W. Sterson
University
McCosh
Ireland
College
Reunion Hall
Old North Tower
Nassau Hall
Billy
Jimmy ” McCosh
Jimmy
Woodrow Wilson
Johnnie Deg-nan
Ternoon
Deathbed Letter From Mrs Bloom in Jersey City
Mrs. Sarah E. Bloom of 66 Germania Avenue Jersey City dies after dropsy and heart disease aged 43 born in Kent County Delaware. She left a deathbed letter praising Jesus to her husband Edward F. Bloom and two children, urging devotion and faith amid suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah E. Bloom
Germania Avenue
Jersey City
Kent County
Del
Grace Methodist Church
Edward F. Bloom
Jesus
E. F. Bloom
Summer Home for Saleswomen at Long Branch Opens
Wheeler Cottage opened by the Siegel Cooper Company as a summer home for women employed in the company store at Long Branch. About sixty young women sailed to Long Branch on a steamboat for a week of entertainment, flag raising, dancing and supper. Mayor D Walter S Reed welcomed the visitors and a new practice begins with the company purchasing the cottage for future recreation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Siege!Cooper Company
Long Branch
D. Walter 8. Reed
Siegel- Cooper Company
Lawn and Madras Waists and Washable Skirts Sale
A sale of lawn and madras waists and washable skirts featuring plain and fancy piques linen duck and crash fabrics priced from 26.50 to 32.50 in a ready to wear offer.
Linen Department Value Sale on Damask Cloths and Summerwear
Linen departments advertise exceptional values on heavy Scotch damask table cloths and related fabrics with prices around $1.85 to $2.65 per pair. Misses summer suits in white pique and blue linen sized 14 to 18 years priced near $7.50. Walking skirts in new model, 14 to 18 years, striped or plain meltons, valued at $8.50. 100 East India Cherries 4x7 ft for floor or decoration priced $5.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East India
Chinese street peddler draws crowds on Park Row
Ong Sing Lee a Chinese peddler sells feather fans to office workers on Park Row. Greeks Italians protest yet police confirm a valid peddler’s permit. Raids by youths threaten stock while rumors of a partnership with a rival seller circulate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ong Sing Lee
Park Row
Ong Sinng Lee
John
Woman real estate broker wins long settled Bronx dispute
Justice O Gorman dismissed Miss Mary Seiford lawsuit seeking an assignment of a claimed interest in the Downing estate syndicate and an accounting. The case centered on land bought by Mrs Agnes Murphy Mulligan from Archbishop Corrigan and the Church of St Gabriel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes K. Murphy Mulligan
William G Mulligan
Tremont
Mary Seiford
Bronx
Justice O’gorman
Miss Seiford
Downing Estate
Mulligan
O’gorman
Policeman OBrien Sentenced for Wife Slaying
John J. OBrien a patrolman at Classon Avenue Police Station was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree for shooting his wife Minnie OBrien at their Flatbush home on April 2. Judge Aspinall sentenced him to three years in Sing Sing Prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. O’brien
Classon Avenue
Minnie O’brien
Flatbush
Aspinall
Kings County Court
Sing Sing
O’brien
Question of Jacob S. Rogers estate residency in dispute
The Surrogate heard an appeal by the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the transfer tax assessment of Jacob S. Rogers estate. The museum argues Rogers was New Jersey domiciled. New York taxation could be avoided. Surrogate Fitzgerald reserved decision as to whether Rogers resided in New Jersey or New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob S. Rogers
Paterson
N. J
New York
New Jersey
Fitzgerald
de Forest Brothers
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogers
Museum
Mr. Rogers
H. L. Jacobson
Banquet and reception mark Edward VII coronation at Fort George
The Order of the Sons of St. George and the St. George Wheelmen plan a banquet and reception at the Fort George Hotel Thursday evening to commemorate the coronation. Speakers include Rev. Robert S. MacArthur and Rev. Francis J. Clay Moran with British society representatives. Special services at Trinity arch are also planned that afternoon as the sole local celebration by British residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Order of the Sons of St. George
St. George
Edward VII
Fort George Hotel
Robert S. MacArthur
Francis J. Clay Moran
Trinity Arch
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H. B. McOwell
United States Trust Company of Phila
Delphia
Ander Street
Thurston
Devery
Johnnie” Degnan
The
New York Times
Wheeler Cottage
Siege! Cooper Company
Stern Brothers
Nainsook and Cambric
Batistes
Organdies
Point d’Esprit
Dimities
West Twenty-third Street
DR. D. Jayne
Fohn Darrell Sons Sons
Joe Cartons
Valenciennes
Point de Paris
Val
Alencon
Normandy
Guipure
Broadway
Sandc
Sys
Chip
Museum of Art
Sons of St. George
Funt
Rockers
Ann
Gretoirs
Liberty Flax
Cecil Aldin
Joseph P. Mechugh & Co
ST. W
5Th Ave
Sallade
Sallade & CO
Cedar ST
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