Police hunt tied to trunk of Elsie Sigel murder case
Detectives raid Man Lees laundry and question workers after a trunk linked to Elsie Sigel’s disappearance is traced from Leon Ling's room. Expressman Logan identifies a Chinatown lodger and another trunk run is traced to Newark with Li Ling. Police chase leads across city and country as clues surface.
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Cummins
West Forty-seventh Street
Capt. Post
Man Lee
Elsie Sigel
Yung Wah
Wah
Therm
McCafferty
Expressman
TIMES
THE
Leon Ling
Harlem
Eighth Avenue
West 126Th Street
Yang Lee
Chong Sing
Sigel
Boston
Juarez
Mex
el Cajon
Cal
Blackburn Pleads Guilty In Philadelphia Murder Case
John Blackburn a negro prizefighter was sentenced to fifteen years in prison by Judge Carr in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the murder of Alonzo Polk on South Jessup Street Jan 14. Blackburn had sought to change his plea from not guilty to murder in the second degree.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
John Blackburn
Carr
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Alonzo Polk
Jessup Street
Blackburn
Samuel W. Salas
Taulane
Polk
Valuable jewels lost on Erie ferryboat Pas gaic
Dreier & Co jewelers offer a 1000 reward for return of a package containing a large diamond bowknot a diamond tiara a diamond paved watch and a large emerald reportedly lost on the Erie ferry Pas gaic yesterday morning en route from New York City. The search on the boat failed and police report no loss yet noted at Headquarters.
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Dreier & Co
Fifth Avenue
Times
Erie
Pasgaic
Sever City
Police
Two Drivers Drowned Off Belle Harbor
Two International Storage Warehouse Company drivers drowned off Belle Harbor Rockaway Park Queens after delivering furniture to a cottage. William Brohn of 205 East Sixty‑first Street and James McCafferty of 253 West 101st Street were in bathing when the incident occurred. Brohn's body was seen rolling in the surf. McCafferty’s body was not recovered.
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International Storage Warehouse Company
East Fifty-second Stret
Belle Harbor
Rockaway Park
Queens
William Brohn
East Sixty-first Street
James McCafferty
West 101St Street
Thomas McKeon
Rockaway Beach
Brohn
Alpine Chain Rescues Four From Bronx Sewer Rescue
Fourteen workers faced rising water in a new Bronx sewer beneath Claremont Park as a rush of flood surged toward them. Fire Captain Curran and a crew descended the shaft using life lines to reach and pull the four men to safety aboard a timber raft, then navigated the current back to the shaft while rescuing the rest. Investigators will consider medals for the captains and crew.
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Claremont Park
Bronx
Highbridge
Webster and
Wendover Avenues
P. C. Curran
Capt. Curran
Jacob Trede
Joseph McGarrity
Phillip Hublitz
Daniel McBride
Michael Callahan
Curran
William Gould
Charles Friend
Harry Work
Toney Lugeria
John F. King
Aged School Teacher Wins Her Suit
Supreme Court Justice Dowling ruled yesterday in favor of Miss Mary V. McCusker from the Martha Washington Hotel in a suit against Mrs. Margaret I. V. Ryan to recover 13837 from a deposit certificate claimed as a gift. Ryan must render an accounting of all moneys handled for McCusker as the court found clear proof of the money owed.
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Supreme Court
McCusker
New Airship Exhibited by Autolyte Company
Bruno von Buizingslowen, civil engineer, unveiled an aeromobile model at Autolyte Manufacturing in Warren Street. The device mixes land travel with air flight, featuring helicopters, biplanes, dual propellers and a center rudder. The complete 12 ft 8 in by 15 ft by 12 ft 2 in craft would weigh about 750 pounds with 30 to 40 hp, capable of ascent under its own power in any weather and height.
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Autolyte Manufacturing Company
Warren Street
Bruno von Buizingslowen
America
British aeroplane race across the Channel eyed
Calais June 29 Herbert Latham Count de Lambert and Henry Farman await favorable weather to fly across the English Channel for a 5000 pound prize. Latham plans a cliff start toward Dover, Farman shows a wheeled skid adaptation, and de Lambert uses a Wright monoplane as torpedo boats stand by for guidance and rescue.
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Calais
Herbert Latham
Count de Lambert
Henry Farman
English Channel
Loncen
Farman
Chalons
Rheims
Latham
Admiralty Pier
Dover
Curtiss Plans 250 Dollar Prize Flight
Glenn H. Curtiss aims to win a 250 dollar prize offered by the Aero Club of America for a one kilometer flight in a heavier-than-air craft not yet prize-winner. He will return from Hammondsport to New York City and hopes to fly at Morris Park on Friday or Saturday, with training for a club member in his absence.
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Glenn H. Curtiss
Aeronautic Society
Cortlandt Field Bishop
Aero Club of America
Morris Park
Curtiss
Society
Zeppelin I breaks down overheat forces landing in Biberach
Zeppeli n I traveling from Friedrichshafen to Metz landed in rain at Biberach due to overheating machinery. Four officers and four men held the airship down until soldiers aided. Major Sperling ordered duplicate parts. The craft had flown about thirty seven miles.
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Biberach
Germany
Friedrichshafen
Metz
Sperling
First balloon printed newspaper drops pages over Butler County
A Dayton funded balloon equipped with a printing press delivered miniature copies of a paper as it drifted over western Butler County Ohio. At Wood's Station eight miles east of Hamilton the bags released notes of an exciting event at Darrtown where farmers fired rifles at the balloon.
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Hamilton
Ohio
Butler County
Dayton
Wood's Station
Darrtown
Woods
Miss Annie S. Peck to Balloon Flight From Pittsfield
Pittsfield, Mass. on June 29. Mountaineer Miss Annie S. Peck will soon attempt a balloon ascent from this city awaiting a southerly wind. Pilot William Van Sleet will operate the balloon named Massachusetts on the flight.
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New York Times
Pittsfield
Mass
Annie S. Peck
William van Sleet
Massachusetts
Drowning Narrowly Averted Near Classon Point
Bernard Bridges, brother of late Alderman John Bridges of Brooklyn, rescued 18 year old Augustus Ireland from the East River after a small sailboat capsized off Classon Point. Ireland and Joseph Gonzales were aboard when the vessel overturned. Quinn the Classon Point life saver brought a boat. Ireland was treated by a local doctor and returned home.
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Bernard Bridges
John Bridges
Brooklyn
Augustus Ireland
East 152d
East
Classen Point
Young Ireland
Haffen
Bronx
Joseph Gonzales
St. Ann’s Avenue
134Th Street
Ireland
Gonzales
Bridges
Classon Point
Cornelius Quinn
Fireboat Crew Seeks Missing Mascot Punch
Members of the Fireboat Lawrence crew at 132d Street and the Harlem River advertised in THE Times lost column for their mascot Punch a white bull terrier with brindle markings missing since Saturday after a home visit to Clason's Point Bronx. Firemen doubt a theft motive for the engine house mascot.
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Lawrence
132D Street
Harlem River
Times Lost
Clason’s Point
Bronx
Prosecution of Sugar Trust Not Abandoned
Developments in the federal sugar case show the government still pursues charges over the $1,250,000 loan to Adolph Segal and the plan to cripple the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company. Legal points on the statute of limitations and immunity were raised, with Deputy AG Pagan traveling to Washington and U S Attorney Wise preparing for indictments soon.
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Fedeal
Sugar Trust
Adolph Segal
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Federal Grand Jury
Trust
John E. Parsons
Gustav Kissel
United States
Wise
Wickersham F
Oliver Pagan
Washington
Department
Europe
Paris
New York World
William D. Guthrie
Kissel
Mr. Wise
United States Supreme Court
Knight
Department of Justice
Grand
Supreme Court
American Sugar Refining Company
Arrest on Larceny Charge
Detectives arrested Henry Heickheimer at the Hotel Cadillac after a Belton, Texas, telegraph notice. He is wanted on five Belton grand larceny indictments linked to imitation diamonds. Bail was set at 2500 by Justice Erlanger with Solomon Bloom posting.
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B. C. Burkes
Belton
Bell County
Texas
Hagerty
Barber
Central Office
Henry Heickheimer
Cadillac
Heickheimer
Err Street
Felix Isman
Knickerbocker
Supreme Court
Erlanger
Solomon Bloom
Central Park West
Burglary at Dr Harris Bronx Home Puzzles Police
A dentist Dr Julian Harris reports a one hour burglary at 1309 Clinton Avenue Bronx. Thieves rifled every drawer and closet while his family was away. No exit apparent and doors were from inside. Harris offers liberal reward and immunity for return of jewelry and instruments.
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Bronx
Julian Harris
Clinton Avenue
The
Harris
Fifth Avenue Association to curb fake auctions on Fifth Avenue
The Fifth Avenue Association met at the Hotel Lorraine to push against fake auctions on Fifth Avenue and tighten rules on auction licenses while seeking compromise over omnibus bans. It also announced better lighting for the avenue and a new permanent office at 542 Fifth Avenue.
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue Association
Hotel Lorraine
Forty-fifth Street
Robert Grier Cooke
Upper Fifth Avenue
Riverside Drive
Park Department
C. F. Lacombe
Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity
Typewriter Shop to Close At Remington Works Ilion
Utica dispatch reports the Remington Typewriter Works in Ilion will close from July 1 until further notice. The plant employs about 2,100 workers with a weekly payroll near 30,1000 dollars. A dispute over automating parts of the letter alignment led to a strike and eventual shutdown after failed talks.
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Utica
N. Y
Remington Typewriter Works
Ilion
Des Moines Area Farmer Kills In Laws Parents and Abducts Wife
Calvin Littlepage near Valley Junction shoots and kills Elmer Jamieson and Mrs. Jamieson, parents of his divorced wife, then forces his wife and infant into a carriage. A Des Moines posse, aided by farmers and car transport, pursues him through a storm toward Adel amid fear of lynching.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Calvin Littlepage
Valley Junction
Elmer Jamieson
Jamieson
Littlepage
Adel
Suit to halt $20 million Prudential distribution
Leon F. Blanchard, a Prudential stockholder, seeks an injunction to stop the $20,000,000 gratuity distribution to policyholders and a stay on the company’s announced apportionment. The Newark hearing before Vice Chancellor Howell focused on whether profits must be distributed only after obligations to stockholders are met, the company arguing prior distributions were lawful and unopposed.
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Howell
Newark
Prudential Insurance Company
Leon F. Blanchard
Debate Over Brandenburg Trial Tactics in Times Case
In a lengthy courtroom exchange, prosecutors question Brandenburg’s rapid note writing and potential article substitutions while defense counters with watermark checks and credibility issues. Justice Fitzgerald instructs jurors that they must prove misrepresentation and unlawful taking beyond reasonable doubt.
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Brandenburg
THE
Times
Cleveland
Fitzgerald
Wanted A Good Advertising Man With a Good Account
An advertising agency seeks a skilled advertising manager with a strong newspaper or magazine account. No partnership yet, but a better salary or commission setup is offered. The firm notes a live field ahead and invites interested managers to address Box A U 21, New York Times.
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Geo. Dyer
U 21
New York Times
Requisition Ready to Bring Brandenberg for Trial
Circuit Attorney Jones said a requisition for Broughton Brandenburg, indicted for enticing James Cabanne from his grandmother in St Louis last April, is with Gov Hughes of New York. If Brandenburg is acquitted on a New York larceny charge, Hughes will honor the request and Brandenburg will be brought to St Louis at once for trial.
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Cleveland
Brandenburg
New York Times
ST. Louis
Circuit
Jones
Broughton Brandenburg
James Shepard Cabanne
Souis
Gov. Hughes
New York
Hughes
Job seekers over 50 urged to advertise in New York Times
Advertisement guidance invites men over fifty to place notices in the New York Times for desired work. The notice directs readers to Page 1 for full details and terms of placement.
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New York Times
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