Thaw Remains Confined As Court Weighs Jury Trial
Harry K. Thaw was moved to White Plains Jail from Poughkeepsie for a court hearing next Monday on whether he is entitled to a jury trial to decide his sanity. He declined food since morning, posed for photographers briefly, and expressed optimism about his health and eventual freedom.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Poughkeepsie
Supreme Court
Mills
Thaw
Horton
Justice Mills
Chanler
Townsend
Havens
Tarrytown
Broughkeepsie
Express
Charles M. Lane
Westchester County
Saratoga
Hospital
Court Street
Thaw Held in Contempt Rule Granted in Bankruptcy Case
In Scranton Penn on September 14 Lawyer Albert F Myers urged Judge Archbald to issue a rule to show cause why Harry K Thaw should not be declared in contempt for missing a Pittsburg hearing before Referee Blair Myers noted Stone & Stone of Pittsburg represents Thaw in the bankruptcy petition Judge Archbald granted the rule setting Monday at 10 to hear arguments The judge questioned how Thaw could be in Pittsburg while jailed in Poughkeepsie with Myers reporting no jail record to the referee
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Scranton
Penn
Albert F. Myers
Pittsburg
Archbald
Harry K. Thaw
Blair
Myers
Stone & Stone of
Thaw
Poughkeepsie
Evelyn Thaws Portrait Seized Over Unpaid Millinery Bill
Public notice details a $263 judgment against Evelyn Nesbit Thaw wife of Harry K Thaw for millinery purchases from Elise L Hartwig milliner at 9 West Twenty Ninth Street. An Under Sheriff seized a sepia portrait in an expensive frame, with potential sale proceeds to satisfy the debt if needed. The portrait allegedly was left with Hartwig and was said to be attributed to Harrington Mann and linked to Stan ford White.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
Elise L. Hartwig
West Twentyninth Street
Mme. Hartwig
Buhler
Acquisitions at Metro Museum Move Toward October Display
The Metropolitan Museum awaits Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke's European gifts arriving this month. New accessions include Houdon’s bronze Washington bust donated by Dr I Ackermann Coles and a wrought iron grille reproduction of the Westminster Abbey Queen Eleanor tomb. Clarke praises its free hand design and six centuries of endurance. Exhibitions of contemporary German art at the Museum of Winter are progressing.
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Metropolitan Museum
Caspar Purdon Clarke
Washington
Houdon
Sir Purdon
Thomas of
Leghtone
Leighton
Purdon
Museum of Winter
Museum Aids Schools With Free Visits Mondays and Fridays
The September Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art details public school educational work. Teachers and students may visit anytime, with Mondays and Fridays reserved for schools. Admission is free for students with prior ticket applications and accompanying teachers.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sentencing of Eleven Policy Offenders in General Sessions
Nine plaintiffs paid fines totaling 1100 dollars while two went to the penitentiary. Charles Wendell, 61, of New Dorp S I received three months for policy offenses after a prior suspended sentence. Frederick Eichler, 343 West 38th St, got six months. Thomas Galliger of 203 Avenue C faced the highest 300 dollar fine for indictments under aliases. Daniel Lager, 330 Sixth Ave, fined 200 dollars with prison time for unpaid amounts. Emma Nichols and Ada Engel, 59 Eldridge Street, avoided prison with 50 dollar fines each.
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Charles Wendell
New Dorp
S. I
Swann
Wendell
Frederick Eichler
West Thirtyeighth Street
Gus
Eichler
Thomas Galliger
Avenue C
Green, Brown
Riley
Daniel Lager
Sixth Avenue
Emma Nichols
Ada Engel
Eldridge Street
Dummies to Test Fenders for Street Cars
Commissioners McCarroll and Eustis represent the Public Service Commission at experiments at General Electric Works Schenectady to find the safest street car fender design. Chicago Board of Supervising Engineers and other officials attend as manufacturing firms observe. A special track and dummies of men women and children will be struck by electric cars to measure impact.
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McCarroll and
Eustis
Public Service Commission
General Electric Works
Schenectady
New York
Chicago Board of Supervising Engineers
Public Service Commission of
Second District
Standard Oil Trade Wars Include Gifting Horses to Peddlers
Testimony before Special Examiner Ferriss details how rivals used gifts of horses and steep price cuts to win Virginia and Maryland customers in the oil war of 1905–1906. George E. Parsells described National Oil Company practices and a Roslyn dealer who went broke and killed himself after being ruined by price undercutting and inferior Texas oil.
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Standard Oil Company
Standard
Maryland
Virginia
Ferriss
Standard O1l Company
New Jersey
George E. Parsells
Washington, D. C
Washington
National Oil Company
National
Columbia
L. S. Nicolli
Nicolli, Brothers
Roslyn
Nicolli
Mr. Kellogg
Parsells
Mr. Parsells
Moritz Rosenthal
J. W. Brown
Falls Church
Brown
Red C Company
Mr. Kelloge
Standard Oil
Dixie Oil Company
Columbia Oil Company
Holmes Safety Oil Delivery Company
Holmes
Tixie Company
Falls From Pier to Death
Peter Bowsman a sheet iron worker from West Hoboken fell sixty feet from a roof on a thousand foot pier at North River and Fifteenth Street in Manhattan. He paused near a block and tackle then stepped into a noose to descend but the apparatus collapsed causing a fatal fall into the river before rescue.
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Peter Bowsman
Boulevard
Paterson Plank Road
West Hoboken
North River
Fifteenth Street
Manhattan
Bowsman
Jas
Cocaine Victims Undergo Acute Withdrawal at West Side Court
Five defendants including Annie Smith and Warner Watson faced arraignment on cocaine possession as their withdrawal left them sleep deprived and agitated. Health officials intravenously supplied cocaine to ease symptoms, allowing the group to appear before Magistrate Herrman. Bail set at 1000 dollars for Smith, Watson, and wife. Casey and McCuen sent to House of Detention.
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West Side Court
Annie Smith
Warner Watson
Nellie
West Forty-third Street
John A. Casey
Eugene McCuen
Smith Woman's Place
Herrman
Hugh Masterson
Health Department
Smith
Watson
McCuen
Casey
House of Detention
Fire on Atlantic liner Minnehaha from London voyage
Spontaneous combustion erupted in the forward starboard coal bunker of the Minnehaha during the London to New York voyage. Crew worked three days in shifts to extinguish the smoldering coal after water failed, with 179 cabin passengers aboard and 149 horses and mares en route to Western stock farms.
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Minnehaha
London
Layland
Neil K. Maclean
Lawrence D'Orsay
Cleveland H. Dodge
W. W. Bird
Charles E. Bergman
Charles E. Evans
John Gibb
Fremont Hammond
A. H. Omerdonk
Frank Reynolds
George W. Strattan
Dexter Thurber
R. Cc. Wernick
Enforce Betting Law at Gravesend Track
Gravesend Racecourse opened its autumn meeting amid heightened attendance of about 4000 and a crackdown on bookmakers. Police and detectives reported no arrests or wired violations as betting moved via odds posted in newspapers. Gravesend officials said the law was enforced and would continue to be enforced.
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Brooklyn Jockey Club
Gravesend
Flood
O'Brien
Sheepshead Bay
Kings County
Langan
Coney Island
Army Smuggling Charges Against U S Army In Cuba
Havana dispatch reports the Union Espanola alleging the United States Army smuggled large quantities of meat and other goods into Cuba to dodge duties and sell them Gov Magoon orders an investigation and will pursue The Union Espanola if its charges are not sustained.
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Havana
Union Espanola
United States Army
Cuba
Magoon
JJewish Leaders Debate Curry Pamphlet on East Side Settlements
Albert Lucas of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations defends and critiques Father Curry's pamphlet. He labels settlement workers as pseudo philanthropists using bribes to influence Jewish children, cites 1905 Milford Haven example, and argues the work remains sectarian and aimed at conversion.
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Albert Lucas
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
United States
Camao
Father Curry
Lower East Side
Jacob A. Riis
East Side
Pather Curry
New York Protestant Episcopal Mission
Milford Haven
Conn
Moriarty Murder Puzzle Stalls as Bronx Assault Probe Clears Few
The Moriarty murder case remains unsolved after Capt. Dantel Moriarty was beaten on Ogden Avenue near his Bronx home on Sept 4. Police hold Charles Willen as a possible witness while James McLaughlin is suspected of involvement but has refused to cooperate. A separate Aug 31 skull fracture death of Philip Metlevern is noted, with Benjamin McGloin injured in a new assault on Fortieth Street. Samuel Beresford was arrested for further inquiry.
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Dantel Moriarty
Ogden Avenue
164Th Street
Bronx
Charles Willen
Summit Avenue
James Melanghlin
West 107Th Street
McLaughlin
Moriarty
Philp Metlevern
Ninth Avenue
Forty-third Street
Mr. McGovern
Benjamin McGloin
Nsg
West Forty-third Street
West Fortieth Street
Pot McGloin
Roosevelt Hospital
West Thirty-seventh Street
Samuel Beresford
West Thirtyninth Street
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