Marrin’s Arrest Exposes Race Tipster Schemes in New York
The report details Marrin aka Judge Franklin Stone fleeing from Philadelphia after a federal fraud conviction tied to Provident Investment Bureau. He allied with Harry Latimer and operated from a Forty-second Street office, while postal inspectors prepare to examine his books. Marrin’s scheme reportedly aimed to run a major race track tipping service, halted by a crackdown on tipster operations.
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Franklin Stone
Clarke
Broooklyn
Marrin
Philadelphia
Provident Investment Bureau
Harry Latimer
Broadway
James Cortelyou
New York
Cortelyou
Forty-second Street
Sixth Avenue
Inspector Cortelyou
Meyer
France
Paris
Nes Co. Marrin
Marrin Kept Police Busy in Wide Fraud Ring
Franklin Marrin alias Judge Franklin Stone built a nationwide mail fraud scheme tied to the Storey Cotton Company, defrauding over half a million dollars with accomplices including Harry Latimer Stanley Francis and stenographer Sophie Beck. After multiple escapes and a European sojourn, Marrin was finally arrested, tried, and sentenced to five years in prison.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Franklin Marrin
Franklin Stone
New York
Storey Cotton Company
United States Secret Service
Boer
Harry ‘Latimer
Stanley Francis
Storey Company
Sophie Beck
Post Office
Stone
Harry
Eastern
Marrin
Europe
Chestnut Street
America
Broadway
Canada
Buffalo
United States
Holland
Malaria Not An Epidemic Says Health Official
Dr Walter H Bensel Deputy Health Commissioner denies New York is facing a malaria epidemic despite reports. He notes no rise in malaria cases though intestinal complaints may rise. water supply will be refreshed by drawing from upper reservoirs to dilute any health risks.
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New York
Walter H. Bensel
Bensel
Board of Health
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Coney Begins Hibernation After Seasonal Close at Luna Park
Coney Island closed its season with about 20 000 visitors attending the final celebration. Luna Park and Dreamland closed at 10 pm as Bandmaster Phillip Lemlein led a parade along Surf Avenue. The night ended with a stop before the West Eighth Street Police Station and a serenade for local firehouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
Luna Park
Dreamland
Phillip Lemlein
Surf Avenue
West Eighth Street
Irish electors favor Unionist in by election
Irish voters in Newcastle upon Tyne, facing a by election to replace the late Liberal Thomas Cairns, resolved to back the Unionist candidate as a protest against Prime Minister Asquith’s Eucharistic procession civil rights action, a stance denounced from Catholic pulpits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Thomas Cairns
Asquith
German and British workers join peace rally in Berlin
About 20 000 German workers welcomed a British delegation seeking arbitration to settle disputes. The visitors presented an address urging German cooperation, followed by a large open air mass meeting where a resolution backed arbitration and international peace. Many Inter- Parliamentary Congress delegates attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inter- Parliamentary Congress
Berlin
Cienfuegos Appeals Roosevelt Sewer ruling
The Cienfuegos City Council informs Gov. Magoon that it has appealed to the Supreme Court against President Roosevelt s order requiring the city to pay three fifths of the sewerage project cost. The contract for the work went to Hugh J Reilly of New York. The city argues lack of supervision by the city over the project and that oversight was transferred to the Department of Public Works which also claims authority over the streets.
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Havana
Cienfuegos
Gov. Magoon
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hugh J. Reilly
New York
Department of Public Works
Riddle Denies Retirement Amid Health Reports
St Petersburg reports claimed John W. Riddle American Ambassador to Russia would retire due to health. He denies retirement and says his health is improving. He plans to leave Kislovodsk next Sunday and travel by private car to St Petersburg, arriving Oct 10.
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ST. Petersburg
John W. Riddle
Russia
French Tuberculosis Delegates to Visit New York
The French Government will send forty representatives to the International Tuberculosis Congress in Washington next week. They arrive in New York Wednesday morning and tour Bellevue Hospital the east side districts before a sea voyage to Sea Breeze Hospital to view children treated for bone tuberculosis under Dr. A H Doty the State Health Officer.
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Washington
Bellevue Hospital
East Side
A. H. Doty
Sea Breeze Hospital
Woman Kills Sheriff In Feud Battle In Ozarks
In West Plains Missouri a four hour battle at a cabin near Prestonia Arkansas ends with Sheriff Lee Mooney dead and deputy Obe Kessinger mortally wounded. John and Mrs. Roberts fight off a six man posse while Roberts is shot eight times. three posse members are seriously wounded.
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New York Times
West Plains
Ozarks
Prestonia
Ark
Missouri State Line
John Roberts
Lee Mooney
Obe Kessinger
Roberts
Posse
Kessinger
Mooney
Robertses
Two Shot In Thugs Fight In Brooklyn Feud
Two men remained in serious condition at St Marys Hospital Brooklyn from bullet wounds and knife thrusts after a feud between rival factions of the Kid Twist gang in Brownsville. Police reported several wounded and others spirited away as armed members roamed East New York and Brownsville in defiance, following the death of Kid Twist and his henchman Cyclone Lewis at Coney Island months earlier. Charles Krisal and Alexander Bank were named among the injured, Bank with two bullets in the abdomen and Krisal in the hip and brain contusion.
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St. Mary's Hospital
Brooklyn
Kid Twist
Brownsville
Cyclone Lewis
Coney Island
East New York
Charles Krisal
Bergen Street
Alexander Bank
Rockaway Avenue
St. Mary’s Hospital
Krisal
Bridgeport Party Lost Four In Stratford Sound Tragedy
Seven from Bridgeport took a launch up the Housatonic River. A fogbound return voyage ended when the boat hit Stratford Point breakwater and capsized. Mrs Roswell and her two children Edward nine and May seven perished. three others Miss Gertrude Adams William Gerbith and Mrs C Wesley Parks were rescued after clinging to the boat until near Barnes's Dock.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Long Island Sound
Stratford Point
Housatonic River
Frederick L. Roswell
Edward
May
Gertrude Adams
William Gerbith
C. Wesley Parks
Fires Ravage Adirondack and Catskill Regions
Reports indicate fresh fires daily across the Adirondack and Catskill regions with potential wood loss approaching the 1903 scale without heavy rain. Fire wardens guard 132 towns as crews trench and back burn to contain blazes amid smoke and limited water.
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Albany
N. Y
Adirondack
Catskill
New York Central Railroad
Catskills
Prayers for Rain as Drought Peers Forest Fires
In Philadelphia and across Eastern and Central Pennsylvania worshippers prayed for rain to end the drought and halt burning forests. In Williamsport area Forest Wardens in Lycoming and Clinton Counties were ordered to shoot anyone starting fires in the woods amid suspicions of arson.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Williamsport
Lycoming
Clinton
Thaw Seeks Jury Trial On Sanity Claim At White Plains
Justice Mills in White Plains sets today for filing Harry K. Thaw's papers seeking a jury trial on his sanity. Jerome opposes release as Thaw endangers society if freed. Thaw endures prison rules, with denied mail and endless letters as he drafts a history of his case.
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Isaac N. Mills
Supreme Court
White Plains
Harry K. Thaw
Charles Morschauser
Thaw
Jerome
Mills
Stanford White
Tim
Europe
Wert Thaw
Primary Battle in Jersey Tomorrow
Newark and Essex County brace for open primaries as Republican and Democratic machines clash over the Bishops law. Colby and Raymond duel for Senate with machine backing and Bryan Kern influence. Newark Mayoralty and county offices see fierce contests among factions, with results uncertain until early Wednesday.
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Newark
Essex County
New Jersey
Essex
Taft
Bryan and Kern
Colby
Thomas L. Raymond
Raymond
Absalom Bachlman
Activonies
West Oranges
Frank M. McDermott
Harry V. Osborne
Republican Machine
Wen
Samuel Wilson
Ralph Schmidt
Willam Fellowes Morgan
New Idea
James A. Rowe
Harrigan
Thomas S. Henry
Real Democracy
Democratic Party
James R. Nugent
Jacob Haussling
Board of Works
Frank Bock
George Forman
Man who served on Blackwell's Island attempts suicide at friend’s home
Frederick Ferguson 38 of 255 East 105th Street attempted to hang himself with a clothes line on a second floor landing after returning to his friend’s apartment. He survived the hanging, was treated at Harlem Hospital and transferred to East 125th Street Station where his sister Rose awaited in Harlem Court the next morning for possible discharge to return home.
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Frederick Ferguson
Blackwell's Island
Ferguson
105Th Street
Second Avenue
Harlem Hospital
Feorguson
Ey East Lth Street
Rose
Harlem Court
Women Workers Meet Invite Delegates to League Convention
Miss Helen Marot of the Women's Trade Union League led a delegation to labor headquarters to invite delegates to the league convention. The event will be shared with New York Boston and Chicago, with 675 local unions asked to send representatives. A closing ball at Clinton Hall November 28 will feature folk dances and a national chorus.
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Helen Marot
Women's Trade Union League
League
Berkeley Theatre
West Forty-fourth Steel
New York
Boston
Chicago
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Mary E. Dreter
Montague Terrace
Brooklyn
Linton Hall
Raymond Robbins
Marot
Cigar Makers Protest At Central Union Election
Cigarmakers Union No 9 protested the re election of Ernest Bohm as Corresponding Secretary accusing him of ties to the Murray Hill Lyceum meeting the central body had repudiated. The protest urged removal but Bohm was re elected unanimously while convicted delegates were allowed to stay pending AFL Executive Council review.
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Central Federated Union
Union No. 9
Ernest Bohm
Murray Hill Lyceum
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
Alice the Bronx Zoo elephant quiets after outbreak
Alice the Bronx Zoo elephant has settled back in the antelope house and acted like an ordinary elephant. Keeper Dick Richards spent part of yesterday with her, and she appeared calm, signaling a return to calm behavior after the weekend incident. The staff expect no further outbreaks for a time.
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Alice
Bronx Zoo
Richards
Jaina Park
Bronx
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Stony Creek
Warren County
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Rhinelander
Wis
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Maine
Justice Mills
Jersey
C. G. Gunther’s
Hudson Bay
Tomers
Fifth Avenue
5Th Ave
43Rd St
Trade Union League
Federated Union
Packard Motor Car Co
N.Y
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Chiris
Antoine Chiris
Grasse
Ltc
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Canal St
B’way
Spring
India
Sheppard Knapp & CO
13Th Street
14Th Street
James McCreary
23Rd Street
34Th Street
James McCreery & Co
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