Ten Prisoners Escape From Queens County Jail
Ten prisoners escaped from Queens County Jail in Long Island City yesterday morning. Four of the escapees are considered the worst criminals, with three convicted and awaiting sentences for assault and robbery. The others fled as companions created an opening, with the group held for lesser offenses. A $1000 reward was offered by Sheriff Meyerrose for the arrest of the fugitives. Special Deputies and city police searched without success. The escapees include August Schramm among others.
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Queens County
Long Island City
Beyery
Meyerrose
August Schramm
Pardons for Ballot Stuffers to Aid Ruef Case
Governor Pardee pardons Steffens and Wyman sentences five years for ballot box stuffing to enable testimony against Abraham Ruef and San Francisco Mayor Schmitz. They were convicted of rigging local primaries to influence delegates and the County Republican Convention outcome.
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Sacramento
Cal
Heney
Pardee
Steffens
Wyman
Abraham Ruef
Schmitz
San Francisco
Ruef
Lawler
Prisoners Escape By Sawing Front Cells In City Jail
Keller Schramm Templeton and three others convicted of crimes broke out by sawing front walls of their cells in a hollow square jail block. A visitor reportedly delivered saws on Friday and the four leaders led the escape through bars to the court yard after the cell doors were opened by a lever.
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Jotn Leonard
Thomas Simonetti
Alexander Templeton
James Singleton
Moses Nagle
Fred Keller
Martin Trophy
Charles Smith
Thomas Miscell Magile
Keller
Schramm
Templeton
New Jersey
Erie Railroad
Leonard
Simonetti
Cave Dwellers Found in Greenpoint Cave
Olman Langan reported smoke from a hole at Jet Page avenue and Clay street. He found two youths living in a cave twelve feet deep and arrested Clarence Lawrence nineteen and Edward Bellinger eighteen for homelessness and ordered held for Monday hearing.
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Olman Langan
Greenpoint Avenue
Jet Page Avenue
Clay Street
Yestern
Clarence Lawrence
Edward Bellinger
Langan
Hylan
Isthmus Through Freight Now Accepted to Colon and Panama
The Panama Railroad Company states it will accept freight from all carriers to Colon or Panama, haul it across the isthmus, and forward to final ports via regular carriers beyond. Freight charges follow through tariffs and are shared between the Panama Railroad and the co carriers. Through transit terms align with current through bills of lading used by regular lines via the isthmus route.
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Panama Railroad Company
Colon
Panama
Panama Railroad
Judge Lawler Ties To Prosecutions On Both Tickets
A judge elected on both major tickets is linked to prosecutions aimed at ensuring Lawler's defeat. Some indicted defendants have trials assigned to him. Wyman was a municipal employee and Steffens worked for F A Maestrett, then president of the Board of Public Works.
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Lawler
Wyman
Steffens
F. A. Maestrett
Board of Public Works
Long Pat McCarren Returns face impeachment trial
Senator Patrick H. McCarren, Brooklyn Democrat leader, returns from the West and meets reporters at the Jefferson Building. He says he would not shorten his trip for multiple trials and will attend if the state committee calls him. He defends his actions and insists the Kings County organization only ratified the Buffalo convention and state ticket.
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Patrick H. McCarren
Democrats of
Brooklyn
West
Jefferson Building
State Committee
Senator McCarren
Law
Kings County Democratic
Buffalo
State
Smi
Board of Convessers
Brooke W. R. Hearst
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Joke Save Boy as Prank Turns Dangerous
In Boonton New Jersey on November 380 Frank Gerhart a seventeen year old boy was saved from a fatal gun accident by a prank gone wrong. His friends removed the shot from shells and emptied them then staged a joke about marksmanship. When Gerhart grabbed the gun it fired burning his face and head and badly injuring one eye.
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McCarren
Boonton
N. J
Frank Gerhart
Gerhart
It Is Very Much The Same In Erie And The Man
The article urges readers to analyze past failures and improve by sharpening thinking. It recommends eliminating coffee and using Postum Food Coffee to rebuild brain health, claiming clearer premises lead to winning conclusions and potential money or fame.
Gillette Trial Nears End in Grace Brown Case
Chester Gillette’s defense rests after lengthy testimony in the Grace Brown murder trial at Herkimer. The district attorney presses rebuttal as jurors hear witnesses and Gillette faces cross examination on hotel registers, supposed letters, and his timeline surrounding the Big Moose Lake tragedy.
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Herkimer
Chester Gillette
Grace Brown
Gillette
Thomas
Big Moose Lake
Miss Brown
Cortland
Ward
Elsing
Gilante
Mr. Ward
Little York Lake
Messrs
Mills
de Ruyter
Adirondacks
Hig Moose Lake
Utica
Tupper Lake
Charles Gordon
de Puyter
Martin
Charles Gordon and Wife
Chester G Gillett
Grace
Glenmore
Carl Grahm
Albany
South Ostelic
Big Moose
Bear Mountain
Woods
Gillette Gillette
Eagle Bay
Bert Gross
Patrick and Westcott
Racquet Lake
Klock
pondeUlies
Shorty Klock
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Hawaii
Washington
Pacific
Taber House
South Otselic
Patrick
Arrowhead
Big Moose Bay
Black Bear Mountain
Receiver sought in bid to wind up United National Bank and Hudson Trust
Affidavits to Justice O Gorman allege a conspiracy to divert bank assets to the Hudson Trust Company. Directors of both banks named include John Gerken and Orlando F Thomas. Plaintiffs led by Jacob Mattern seek a temporary restraining order and a receiver as decision stands reserved.
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United National Bank of New York
Hudson Trust Company
Justice O’gorman
Supreme Court
John Gerken
Charles F. Holm
Edward R. Thomas
Orlando F. Thomas
William L
Trust Company
Jacob Mattern
West 42d Street
Holm, Smith, Whitlock & Scarff
Burglar Strikes West Point Station Operator
West Point New York November 30 Soldiers search for a burglar after Clyde Eyster night operator at the West Shore Railroad station is severely assaulted and robbed of money from the station drawer. Eyster regains consciousness and fires as the robber escapes through a window.
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West Point
N. Y
Clyde Eyster
Watsontown
Penn
West Shore
Eyster
National Civic Federation Meeting to Discuss Tax Issues
A National Civic Federation meeting will be held at the Park Avenue Hotel on December 12. Topics include The Income Tax The Inheritance Tax Government by Injunction and Child Labor.
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National Civic Fed- 1
Park Avenue
Andrew Carnegie
August Belmont
William D. Guthrie
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
John Ireland
Oscar S. Straus
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
N. J. Bachelder
National Grange
Franklin MacVeagh
Melville E. Ingalls
Nicholas Murray Butler
Alfred Mosely
Hermann Schumacher
University of Berlin
George Foster
Finance
Canada
John Mitchell
American Federation of Ng the Railways
Iican Bar Association
General Coun- Labor
H. R. Fuller
Brotherhood Theirfecorie
Chicago
Lwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Ter
National Iron Erectors
D. Brandeis
Frederick N
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