Murder theory in Kloman case collapses over family bigotry
Pittsburg dispatch reports police and morgue officials agree Andrew Kloman 3d died by his own hand, firing a left temple bullet. The case links his engagement to Protestant Miss Kate Jack, and his Catholic family’s refusal to accept a Protestant daughter-in-law as the motive.
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Poison in Coffee Arrest Challenges Yorkville Clerk
Henry Allan a 19 year old grocery clerk living at 247 East Twenty fifth Street was arraigned in Yorkville Court on charges of putting poison in food. Held on 2500 bail for examination Wednesday, he denied the accusations while a $2 fountain pen found in his pocket sparked a petty larceny charge with 500 bail. The coffee pitcher will be sent to the Board of Health for analysis.
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East Twenty-fifth Street
Yorkville Court
Tobin
East Fifty-first Street
Nathan Darnstriech
East Fiftysixth Street
Allan
Board of Health
New Salt Water High Pressure Fire System Trial
A salt water high pressure fire system passed a thorough test at the Morgan soap factory on Bank and West Streets Saturday night. Fire Chief Croker and Commissioner Hayes called it a great success and suggested moving two engine companies to outlying points and converting houses into hose cart stations for storage of the new equipment. Potential abolishment of Engine Company 20 on Lafayette Street and Engine Company 72 on East Twelfth Street is discussed, with officials hinting at transfers. The Morgan factory building stood ruined after the blaze, while the scene on West Street showed swollen soapsuds.
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Hayes
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Lafayette Street
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Newsboys Aid Keeps Stoltz Family From Want
Eleven year old newsboy Whitey Stoltz, run over near Gates Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, surprised his parents by giving them 45 dollars. Newsboy Frank Knauer led a relief committee, gathering from fellow boys and local merchants to fund the family, sparing them from destitution while the father is ill and the mother helpless.
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Gates Avenue
Broadway
Brooklyn
Bushwick Hospital
Stoltz
Whitey
Frank Knauer
Boy Struck by Bullets Near West Thirty-seventh Street
William McKee, 19, living at 447 West Thirty seventh Street, was shot in the left breast near Salva tore Guerriero’s butcher shop at 432 West Thirty-ninth Street yesterday. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital by ambulance and surgeon Dr. Blakely says the bullet did not hit the lungs. McKee is expected to recover. Police issued a general alarm for a suspect believed to be the shooter.
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Salvatore Guerriero
West Thirty-ninth Street
McKee
Roosevelt Hospital
Blakely
West Thirty-seventh Street
Auto kills five year old in front of home
Five year old Bernard Gallagher son of James and Bridget Gallagher of 108 East Fifty fourth Street was playing outside when a warning horn startled him. He ran into an approaching automobile and was run over. He died at Presbyterian Hospital an hour later. Chauffeur Edward Anderson was arrested.
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Bernard Gallagher
James and
Bridget Gallagher
East Fifty-fourth Street
Presbyterian Hospital
Edward Anderson
Anderson
New Catholic School Dedicated in Williamsburg
Bishop McDonnell of Brooklyn dedicated the new St. Cecilia grammar and high school costing nearly 250000. The five story building on Monitor and Richardson Streets seats 3000 children and is part of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Cecilia at Herbert and North Henry Streets Williamsburg.
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Brooklyn
Two surgeons hurt but answer call in trolley crash
A Williamsburg Hospital ambulance carrying Dr. Harold Barnes and Dr. Walter Hurley, driver Hugh Gormley, collided with a trolley at Keap and South Fourth Streets. All three were badly hurt. thirty car Passengers were injured as the ambulance rushed to treat a nine year old boy with a skull fracture at 331 Keap Street. The driver James Duffy was blamed for running the school stop. Dr. Barnes and Dr. Hurley were treated at Williamsburg Hospital.
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Williamsburg Hospital
Hugh Gormley
Harold Barnes
Walter Hurley
Keap
South Fourth Streets
Williamsburg
James Duffy
Keap Street
George Shearer
Barnes
Hurley
Crazed Phillies Star Magee Hurled Ice Pitcher At Wife
Philadelphia on September 13 Sherwood Magee star left fielder of the Nationals briefly lost his mind after acute indigestion and hurled an ice pitcher at his wife missing her and hitting a hotel wall then leaped from a window. He struck a shed roof and fell to the ground. He was taken to a hospital where X rays showed a badly sprained tendon but no broken bones in his leg.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Sherwood Magee
Philadelphia Nationals
Dentist's Home Robbery in Harold Apartments
Burglars stole between 800 and 1000 dollars in valuables from Dr. William H. Sieberst's seventh floor Harold apartments at 455 to 439 Manhattan Avenue while the family was away. They entered via a rear fire escape, left a damaged window screen, and rifled drawers for spoons, jewelry, sunburst, opera glasses, rings and stickpins. The Harold burglary was reported to Harlem Detective Bureau.
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William H. Sieberst
Harold
Manhattan Avenue
Harlem Detective Bureau
Strike the Police Dog Dies After Ten Years of Service
Strike a Gordon setter and longtime Leonard Street police dog, aged about 17, dies after a period of illness. Lieut. Von Bebovsky euthanizes him. The dog joined the force during the 1907 streetcar strike and became a station fixture, delivering meals from saloons and bakeries and even collecting money in his mouth to bring back to the station.
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Gordon
Leonard Street
von Bebovsky
Brooklyn
New Pastor Accepted for Brooklyn Church Office
The Rev. Andrew Magill, pastor of United Presbyterian Church in New Castle Pennsylvania, has accepted a call to lead the Reformed Church on the Heights in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Allegheny Theological Seminary.
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Brooklyn Church
Andrew Magill
United Presbyterian Church
New Castle Penn
Reformed Church
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