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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
2
Genuine Panama straw hats cannot be duplicated for less than five dollars. They are woven of selected trass and stay flexible under all conditions. Sun and water do not injure them. Hats at three dollars ready to wear with silk and leather bands. Brill stores have long offered genuine Panama hats at popular prices. Mail orders filled.
Walter Lewisonn a 28 year old car racer led two motorcycle officers on a twelve mile pursuit from Belmont Track through Williamsburg to the Williamsburg Bridge. Police ordered the runaway gates shut halting the chase. Lewisson returned to the station with $100 bail and refused to name his companion.
Max Hainke a 36 year old German native from Hainau and his wife reached the city after eighteen months of wandering from New York to Chicago and back seeking work. They applied to Ellis Island for deportation but as Hainke was in the country over a year and not ill he could not be sent back by immigration authorities. The German Aid Society said he must hustle for himself after claiming they were robbed in Chicago.
Italian squad detectives yesterday arrested Salvatore Ricabone Nicole Bagano and Paolo Puero for the hold-up of three Jefferson Bank messengers on Monday afternoon in First Street. The men were seized at 530 East Fourteenth Street and detained at Headquarters as secrecy surrounds the case.
Asbury Park New Jersey reports Sarah Jones a 15 year old daughter of councilman Augustus T Jones of Bradley Beach ran away with 21 year old Joseph Frank after a school dislike and a Saturday errand. The pair married by phone and were later taken to Bradley Beach where a constable arrived and a warrant for abduction was sworn. Frank held on $100 bail for the Grand Jury as Sarah cried out that she hates him.
The Bar on, claiming Austrian noble birth, is back at Ludlow Street Jail amid a tale of lawsuits and a summer spent among locals. Reports describe his charm and a history of breaches of promise and loan disputes, with several suits lingering from 1907 and a note of a pending judgment.
The Michigan, a 16,000 ton warship, was launched at Camden by Miss Sadie Murdoch Newberry. Prominent figures including Rear Admirals Capps and Cowles attended. The crowd cheered as the ship slid down the ways amid whistles and celebratory toasts at the luncheon.
A Brooklyn court ordered Mrs Carrie M Maxwell widow of Howard Maxwell ex president of the Boroughs Bank declared insane by grief. She is confined in Maston sanitarium and administrator of the estate was removed. William Maxwell and Frank R Doolittle named to administer the estate valued under $10,000.
Giuseppe Chiaranivorite collapsed from starvation near 232 East 107th Street. Neighbors rushed aid, with some sharing food and money as he recounted weeks without work, starting a day’s trek to Fort George. He refused hospital and returned home to 6 Bleecker Street.
Hoboken Justice of the Peace William C. Budenbender faced the Hoboken Board of Health over reports he married Mme Anna Gould to Prince Heli de Sagan on April 10. He admitted performing the ceremony to a reporter but denied filing a certificate or confirming the marriage with city records. The board pressed him to explain why no record appears in his office files.
William St Clair a clerk in Senator Clark's United Verde Copper Co offices at 49 Wall Street helped arrest a youth named Edward Goddard 20 of 1536 Fifteenth Street Brooklyn, who posed as a collector and had reportedly averaged 124 a day from a swindling game in the financial district after attempting to collect a $2 bill for papers. Special Officer Charlton detained him on the ground floor upon a failed escape.
William Seeth, a stenographer from 45 Halsey Street Brooklyn, was thrown from a moving trolley at Fulton Street and Flushing Avenue Jamaica. He suffered a skull fracture and lay unconscious for a day. A Queens coroner’s officer misread the body and visited the hospital, prompting Seeth to declare he felt alive.
Supreme Court Justice O Gorman signed an interlocutory decree of divorce yesterday in favor of Mrs Evelyn Waine Harty against Robert E Harty, an actor and singer.
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