Wasserman Arrested On Extortion Charge At Police Station
A controversy between the Police Department and the District Attorney’s Office escalated as Lieutenant McAuliffe served Alexander Avenue station commander Wasserman with a warrant for extortion under Tenacode. Wasserman, not jailed, planned arraignment next morning at Essex Market court amid statements from Commissioner Bingham and District Attorney Jerome.
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District Attorney’s Office
Alexander Avenue
Joseph A. Wasserman
McAuliffe
Donohue
Werczinski
Bingham
Wasserman
Crane Wasserman
Essex Market
Jerome
Police Department
Daniel Slattery
Bress Jerome
Sweur
Burfeind
Pingham
Bleeker Street
Detective Bureau
Down ‘i
Wasserman and
Mara
Hansen
Smyth
Abraham Levy
Reardon
Brennan
Jefferson Market Court
Cornell
Criminal Courts
Officers of 12th Regiment Resign From National Guard
Three officers of the 12th Regiment resigned from the national guard last night. Captain Robert N. Parker of Company A and Lieutenants Philip A. Mille and J Cooper Lord of Company G gave notice. Resignations approved. further changes possible before Colonel Dyer returns from Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
12Th Regiment
National Guard
Huston
Dyer
Robert N. Parker
Company A
Philip A. Mille
Philadelphia
J. Cooper Lord
Stocklyn Cooperage Company
Europe
Executor Assents to Plan for Knickerbocker Trust
Surrogate Thomas approves an executor’s assent to the Knickerbocker Trust Company reorganization plan proposed by Herbert L. Satterlee as committee chair. He states estates impounded by order of the Surrogates position Knickerbocker as trustee, bearing personal responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Herbert L. Satterlee
New York Coffee Exchange Elects Officers and Board
The Coffee Exchange of New York elected officers yesterday with Percy B. O Sullivan as President Henry Hentz as Vice President James H Kirby as Treasurer and a board of Meas ers to serve two years including James H Taylor D Pick tey Frank Norton Richard dine Louis Seligeberg and Willam J. Dekes to serve one year A M Walbridee William L Mitchell were named. A candidate running as an independent for governor of New York was defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffee Exchange
City of
New York
Percy B. O'Sullivean
Henry Hentz
James H. Kirby
James H. Taylor
D. Pick=tey
Frank Norton
Richard Dine
Louis Seligeberg
Willam J. Dekes
A. M. Walbridee
William L. Mitchell
We Yess
Objections to J C Smiths Estate Accounting Filed
Mineola New York January 4 State Controller Glynn filed objections to the accounting of James Clinch Smith as executor of the estate of Mrs Cornelia Stewart Moerillon who died in France leaving an estate valued at about 31 50 46 to 9 95 0 likely. Glynn alleges the accounting was improperly filed and questions the appraisal figures by the two appraisers appointed by Surrogate Jackson and Li.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Lone Island
Glynn
James Clinch Smith
Cornelia Stewart Moerillon
France
Hirds
Surregave Jackson
Postmaster Confesses False Robbery to Cover Shortage
Hanover XN January 16 Postmaster Leon F Sampson admitted to a postoffice inspector that he staged a robbery story to hide a shortage in office funds. He confessed after police found 285 in a tobacco box and a United States commissioner issued a warrant. The shortage was repaid the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
XN. H
Leon F. Sampson
Sampson
United States
Concord
Gauthier
Joint hearing on Yonkers trolley vestibules held
Public Service Commission officials from the 1st and 2d districts met in a joint hearing to review Yonkers Common Council requests for full vestibules on winter trolley cars. Westchester line riders and new stockholders influenced testimony as Westchester cars with partial vestibules were criticized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commissions
Common Council of
Yonkers
Decker, Osborn and Sague
Willcox, Eustis and
Maltbie
Decker
Charles P. Northrop
Westchester
Metz and Coler Clash Over City Jobs at Unemployed Meeting
At Beethoven Hall a mass meeting of the Central Federated Union pressed city officials to resume suspended public works. Controller Metz and Borough President Coler discussed financing as unions cited 169 contracts worth 31 million dollars held up in the Controller's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Federated Union
Beethoven Hall
Sth Street
Metz
Coley
Brooklyn
A. B. MacStay
McClellan
James H. Hatch
International Upholsterers’ Union
Coler
McGowan
Board of Aldermen
James Daly
Dock Builders’ Association
Dock Department
Daly
Staten Island
Woman Vanishes After Hint of Self Destruction in Boston
Detectives search for Mrs. Frederick A. Warner wife of a London shoe merchant who disappeared in Boston after leaving a note of intent to kill herself. She came to visit her mother in Dorchester and was last seen at the Hotel Belmont before traveling to New York. Warner arrived from London to locate her. She is 35, 5 feet 9, dark hair and eyes, 15 pounds overweight, with two infant children who died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick A. Warner
London
New York
Belmont
Widow of Brooklyn trust director dies by poison
Mrs Ellen L Sharp wife of Le Baron B Sharp and daughter of Charles M Davidson a Williamsburg Trust Company director died by drinking poison on Wednesday in their Lawrence apartment No 259 Stuyvesant avenue Brooklyn The death followed the trust company closing and illness in her parents years ago she lived previously in Stuyvesant Heights and her great grandfather William Leighton was once among Brooklyn's richest men executors report John G Jenkins Jr named to the will of the estate which has yielded 2 million for heirs from an original 1 25 million with 250 000 undivided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen L. Sharp
Charles M. Davidson
Williamsburg Trust Company
le Baron B. Sharp
Manhattan
Lawrence
Stuyvesant Avenue
Brooklyn
William Leighton
John G. Jenkins, Jr
Ochs and Times sue New York American and Evening Journal
The suits by Mr. Ochs and the New York Times Publishing Co. against The New York American and The Evening Journal followed publication of an editorial titled Mr. Belmont and His Tame Ochs. Eight provisional jurors were discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ochs
New York Times Publishing Company
New York American
The
Evening Journal
Belmont
Bank Officers Elected at Multiple City Banks
Directors and officers renewed or added at Night and Day Bank Lincoln Trust Company National Butchers and Drovers Bank Jefferson Bank Interboro Bank German Exchange Bank Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust Italian American Trust Company and New York Life Insurance and Trust Fourth National Bank Seaboard National Bank all saw re elections or new appointments with retirements and pensionings noted for several longtime staff members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Night and
A. D. Bennett
Samuel S. Campbell
United States Mortgage and Trust Company
Frederick Phillips
Lincoln Trust Company
Bennett
Port Huron
Mich
Owen Ward
Trenor L. Park
Henry L. Ca Ann
George L. Storm
Interboro Bank
Herbert B. Wenig
H. W. Baker
William Moller
German Exchange Bank
Henry Weiler
Eugene A. Philbin
Lawyers’ Title Insurance and Trust Company
Arthur Day
G. Fardi
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company
Fourth National Bank
Seaboard National Bank
Maritime sailings and货 January schedule notes across ports
A fragmented listing shows ship names, dates, and ports from Havre to Jamaica and beyond. It cites vessels, sailings, and cargo lines with times like 2:06 pm and 11:00 am, including ships such as Altai, La Bretagne, Nord America, and Old Dominion, with routes through New Orleans, Havana, and Tampa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havre
Justin
Graf Waldersee
St Paul
Southampton
Ham Bermudian
Bermuda
Quebec
Ema
Philadelphia
Curacao
Sereen
Mayaguez
Hortersivs
Argentina
Houston Havana
Havana
Ward
Pring Joachim
Jamaica
Kelvingrove
Pernambuco
Brazilian
Seminole
Turk’s Island
Clyde
Nord
Colon
Panama
Hamilton
Norfolk
Old Dominion
First Panel Sheriff's Jury Dines at Delmonico's
The first panel of the Sheriff's jury of 198 dined at Delmonico's with Sheriff Thomas F. Foley Andrew Carnegie and several Justices. Timothy L. Woodruff praised Foley and recalled his election. Carnegie expressed pleasure at serving on the panel and joked about his honesty and age in court. The Rev Cadman commented on addressing corrupt politics with honest policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheriff's Jury
Delmonico’s
Thomas F. Foley
Andrew Carnegie
Dowling
Goff
Timothy L. Woodruff
Fitzgerald
McCall
Newberger
Scot
Frank R. Lawrence
Lotus Club
Woodruff
Sheriff Foley
Foley
Mr. Carnegie
Neu
Mast St
Westinghouse Denies Reports On Railroad Electric Plant
Westinghouse officials denied financial difficulties with the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad over the Cos Cob electric plant. They cited technical delays in a large engineering project, saying cooperation with NYNH&H is harmonious and payments are not in dispute. Thirty five Westinghouse electric engines began operation last November across a seventy mile electric zone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse Company
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Westinghouse
Cos Cob
L. A. Osborne
Westinghouse Compus
Transpacific shipping schedule via multiple routes
Maritime timetable lists sailing times and routes to Hawaii Japan Corea China and Philippine Islands via San Francisco Tacoma and Vancouver with several legs including Tahiti Marquesas and Fiji regions and connections through Mariposa US Transport and Milawera dates in January and late January into February.
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Japan
Corea
China
Philippine Islands
Tacoma
Hawaii
San Francisco
Mongolia
Australia
Samoan Islands
Fiji Islands
New Caledonia
Vancouver
Victoria
Bay
Milawera
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Mariposa
Guam
US Transport
Real Estate Broker Hawkes Files Bankruptcy Petition
Boston January 16 a bankruptcy petition was filed in federal court by Frank E Hawkes a real estate broker of 161 Devonshire street The petition lists liabilities of 440498 and assets of 10 with secured liabilities at 6240 to 100 secured creditors including many banks and trust companies
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States
Frank E. Hawkes
Devonshire Street
Shipping News Arrivals and Sailings at the Bar
Shipping notices list arrivals of steamers Majestic Heatrice Cestrian American Bermudian Julia Luckenbach Hindustan Darishbrook Bristol City Alleghany and Momus with cargoes, mails or passengers. Quarantine passes noted for Alleghany and Momus. wind and visibility reported in Sandy Hook area. Other vessels sail for Madeira Havana Naples and more ports.
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Majestic
Hayes
Southampton
Cherbourg
Queenstown
Har
Kong Haakon
Apelanc
Pillers Island
J A
St Lucia
Bermudian
Rry
Fraser
Bermuda
A E Outerbridge & Co
Moise
Julia Luckenbach
Connell
San Juan
Mayaguez
Arroyo
Ponce
Insular
Bar
Hindustan
Lipplehare
Savona
Gibraltar
W H Tweddell & Co
Darishbrook
Bannister
Huelva
J H_ Winchester
Bristol City
Carey
Bristol
Swansea
James Arkell & Co
Alleghany
Ger
Meisner
Fort An Prince
Ets
Momus
Bord
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Seamer Sete Elgens News
Norfolk
Sandy Hook
N. J
Remarkable Fresco Discovered in Cuernavaca Seminary
A fresco painted soon after the Conquest depicting the life of St. Francis was found on a wall of the Cuernavaca seminary. Observers including the bishop and other Catholic dignitaries were surprised by the exceptional preservation of its colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Cuernavaca
Mex
St. Francis
Business Bankruptcies Filed in U S District Court
Yesterday in the U S District Court petitions were filed by Isaiah Frank Merritt Greenspan P & W Housefurnishing Co Mosehcovitz Garnett Co and others. Frank lists liabilities of 1310 with secured creditors including estate of B C Horner and Adler partners. Greenspan shows liabilities 29496 with assets 21920 including notes stock in trade and jewelry. P W Housefurnishing shows debts 27761 assets 1439 with principal creditors and security deposits. Mosehcovitz Garnett lists debts 12281 assets 100 with Union Exchange Bank and Houghton Lea as major creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaiah Frank
East 6Th Street
B. C. Horner
Louis
Carrie Adler
Merritt Greenspan
Merritt Greenspan, Jeweller
Broome Street
Kleinberg & Probstein
Louis D. Kohlman
Jacob Mecher
E. S. Cook
P. & W. Housefurnishing Company
Samuel Schwartz
Carnshaw Stamping and Enamelling Company
Bowery
Mosehcovitz-Garnett Company
Union Exchange Bank
Houghton & Lea
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac Note
Coastal observations include sunrise and sunset times for Sandy Hook and Gov. Island, moon phase and tides. Wireless reports cite the Mauretania near Sable Island and the Republic east of Sandy Hook, with positions and expected arrivals stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Mauretania
Sable Islareus
The
Republic
South Wellfleet
Bass Ale Pipe Line Rumor Denied by Bass Official
A Bass Corporation official dismissed rumors of a Burton on Trent brewery pipe line supplying ale directly to the United States by beet. He warned that wartime damage could cut off supply when needed most, calling the scheme too awful to contemplate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bass Corporation
Bess &Ou
Burton-on-Trent
England
United States
OCHS HEARST LIBEL SUIT ENDS IN WITHDRAWAL
The libel suit of Adolph S. Ochs, controlling owner of The New York Times, against William Randolph Hearst was withdrawn in the Supreme Court after a settlement. Ochs withdraws imputations against Hearst and his integrity, while Hearst and Brisban e accept Ochs’s statement and discontinue the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph S. Gehs
New York Times
William Randolph Hearst
Supreme Court
Adolph &. Ocus
Hearst
Brisbane
Mr. Ochs
New York
Imes
Ochs
The
Steamers at Foreign Ports Report Delays and Routes
A list of steamers and their routes from January ports including Lusitania Montevideo Estel Wells City Gutture Aline Delagoa Bay Corte Castle and others bound for New York Liverpool Trieste and Singapore with timings and destinations noted. The report documents ships sailing from Queenstown Montevideo Dunkirk Southampton Hull and more amid heavy weather and communication gaps.
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Cunard Smalletunle
Liverpool
White Star sHaltic
Vera Crus
Enterey
Ande
Trinidad
Trinidad Viveo Boo
Gibraltar
Italian ——E Jersilla
Seville
Armentao Aerpoct
White Star Republic
Naples
White Star Rhetatol Chywansea
Bristol Alame
Progreso
Ward
Hmgon
Ceree
At-Trane Amiannonka
Queenstown
Lusitania
New York
Montevideo
Herminius
Estel
Wells City
Rio Janeiro
Queenstowe
Southampton
York
Cherbourg
Adriatic Iury
Manchester
Asuncion de Larrinage
Newark
Hull
Consuelo
Hong Kong
Indrapura
Bir
Barbados
iLa Plata
Brr
Rotterdam
Prometheus Ger
Rigiers
Margherita
Philadelph
Adalcutta
Mary
Aidelphia
Genoa
Lazio Titali
Tale of Wight
Deutschland
Ger
New
Amerika
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Rocers, Peer & Company
Broadway
Warren St
32Nd St
P. S. Boards
McGibbon
Nineteenth Street
Metz and
Port Arthur
Lady Gay
B’y. Eves
Toe-mor
Fiske Rosmersholm
Geet Wean Hackett
John Mason
Blaney
Lincoln SQ. Bay
6Th Street
To-morrow
Spooner Stock CO
Frank H. Graf
Egoucn
Fitzcore
Sixth Avenue
Spencer's
Maiden Lane
Andirons
Seventh Avene
28Th St
Tribune Almanag
Wife
Drinks
Witherspoon
Galveston Harbor
Tex
J. C. Sanford
Badenia
Hamburg
Hamb-Am
Altai
Inagua
Iwam
Willem II
Hayti
D WI
Rosalind
Newfoundland
Red Cross
Cienfuegos
Santiago
Yumuri
Tampico
Civde
Lampasas
Brunswick
Matlo
Jefferson
Woodruff Fraises Foley
Westinghouse CO
N. H
Transpacific
Shipping News
Port of New York
Carmania
Madeira
Macon
Savannah
Helene Rickmers
Yokohama
Algiers
Kentucky
Baltimore
Mexico
Peninsular
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Princess Anne
Newport News
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la Lorraine
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Martello
United States District Court
Marine Intelligence
Bass
Ochs-Hearst
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Empire Tester
Sonar
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the Jesters
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Eve
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Holland
Ethel Barrymore
Clyde Fitch
Cosmo Gorden
Garrick
Knickerbocker
38Th Street
Mate
Victor Moore
George Cohan
Savoy Ak
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Lyceum Theater
Mats
J Fez Bellew
Margaret Illingtom Burton
Lund
Vi Holmes
Mon.l
Lyceum Theatre
EK Rma
34Th St
S—Thais
Mites
Trentini
Giacoma
Renaud
Dalmores
Campania
Mme
Tetrazzini
Bassi
Campanini Eona
Gilibert
Mmes
Russ
de Cisneros
Zenatelio
Sammarco
Arimondi
Campanini
Maucrice Renaud
Mmes Russ
Agostinelli
Isneros
Zegpill
Gervilie
Arimondt
Mond
Lucia DI Lammer Moor
Zenatello
Venturini
Louise
Mise Mary Garden
Mme Bressler-ianoli
MM. Dalmores
Gifert
Campani
Lucia DI Lammermoor
Tetrazzinfi
Sammareg
Arimonti
Ventarini
Cam Sat
Thais
Mary Garden
Mila Trentinis
AIDA
Antony Artmondt
ALL Aboute
Madama Sutterfly
Farrar
Jacob Barocchi
Biere di Siviglia
Fornia
Caruso
Scorth
Ferrari Blass
Reiss
Muhimaon
Fremstad
Homer
Stra Muhimaon
Ferrari
Trestan
Ari
Dufridhy Knote
Van
Mahler
Jacobi A
Dufriehe
Thurs
Emma Eames
Gadski
Ev Isolde
Muhimaann Conducte
Wet Tr Theatre
New Amsterdam
Anna
Es Parisia
Libert Theatre
Frederic Wabet Falls
Polly
45Th Street
George Evans May Belfort
Lacy Weston
Whit Cunliffe
Danie Sisters
Lily Flexmore
Collins & Mart
Y Vinlians
Anil Wwe
Frank Damrosch
David BE
Bway
Belasco
the Warrens
Virgin
Madisoh
Sar
Katherine Otm
Bear
Weber's
Merry Widow
Permission Menry W. Savage
Yewvuuea Alle
Trene Witherley
At. Daily
Balhambra
Vesta Victoria
Juling St Ger & Co
Louise Ageust
Mr. Hymeck
Felix Barry
Carnegie Hall
Fant Symphony Society
Walter Damagsch
Morreow
Asee
Mendelssot Weber
Hetty King
Gus Edwards
Julian Rose
Laddie Clit
Hyams & Intyre
Miles Stavedale Co
Brown & Nevare
Prammer Stein
Circle
Yorke
Adams Eetre
Nest Kolb & Dill
Wallace
Amatel
Avery Rit
Mats Goth Century
Gires
Cbs
Vanievne Sa
Madison ——Secold
E. Coen
Goethe
Hister
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Eden Messer
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