Thaw Trial Nears End as Evidence Readies Race to Verdict
The New York trial of Harry K. Thaw advances with cross examination of expert witnesses about Thaw’s mental state. Doctors described manic depressive insanity and Thaw’s conspiracy delusions while defense and prosecution debate admissibility and possible relocation to Blackwell’s Island.
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Bingaman
Littleton
Britton D. Evans
Charles G. Wagner
Smith Bly Jelliffe
James Clinch Smith
Jerome
Lor
Wagner
Thaw
Stanford White
Justice Dowling
Magistrate Droege Accused of Offering Bribe to Suppress Story
Magistrate Otto H. Droege admitted offering 250 to a reporter to suppress a story on his handling of night court affairs. The Board of City Magistrates condemned the act, with some urging resignation and others supporting a thorough investigation. The meeting also addressed annual court statistics and reform proposals for the night court system.
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Otto H. Droege
Board of City Magistrates
Butts
Crane
McClellan
Droege
Grand Jury
House
Waite
Barlow
Breen
Kernochan
Moss
Walsh
Finn
Corrigan
Harris
Steinert
Cornell
Herrman
Droeger
Wahle
Bartow
Philip Bloch
Drange
Hou
Manhattan
The
Bronx
Wahnom
Public trust in business urged by Congressman
Waterbury January 27 Congressman H T Rannen an Ohio Republican pressed Chamber of Commerce to temper prosecutions of trusts saying publicity creates a bias against all corporations and businesspeople. He urged restoring confidence and cautioned against sweeping guilt by association, calling for fair treatment and equal rights in commerce.
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Waterbury
Conn
H. T. Rannen
Ohio
Portsmouth
Chamber of Commerce
Extra Profit Sharing Dividend for Steel Corp Employees
United States Steel Company workers who bought preferred stock under the 1903 profit sharing plan will gain an extra dividend of 6540 in addition to the 7 percent regular dividend and a 3 percent annual bonus. Five year holders receive 125 40 per share total, with a 290 net profit per share from original 8250 cost. About 10 000 of 50 000 subscribers will participate in the melon cutting while others sold. Five year stock earns the extra dividend but later only the 7 percent disbursement. 1904 subscribers will gain next year.
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United States Steel Corporation
Erie Railroad Firemen Plan Wage Talks at Broadway Central
The Erie Railway adjustment committee opened its annual session at the Broadway Central Hotel to set wage scales and discuss working conditions. Erie engineers, trainmen and conductors also met, adjourning after a conference with general manager J. C. Stuart. no major changes were sought.
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Erie Railroad Firemen
Broadway Central
The
Erie
J. C. Stuart
MISS COLGATE S SECRETARY IN JAIL
Mary Moffatt a Brooklyn woman was arrested on November 4 1907 charged with a false entry in a checkbook while employed as secretary to Miss Florence Colgate of New York. About $1 disappeared and a checkbook stub led to the arrest and Mrs Colgate expressed surprise.
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Mary
Moffatt
Pacific Street
Brooklyn
Florence Colgate
East 67Th Street
Miss Moffatt
Miss Colgate
Thezabeth Street
Death Rates Fall Sharply In Recent Week
The report shows a 1.5 percent death rate last week, or 17.30 per unit, versus 19.61 the prior year. Pneumonia deaths fell to 250 from 564, tuberculosis to 200 from seven, and heart disease to 10 from 170, marking a broad decline in deaths across causes and time.
Mayor Moves to Bring Charges Against City Magistrate Droege
Mayor McClellan orders Corporation Counsel Pendleton to file charges against City Magistrate Droege and seek an investigation by the Appellate Division. Pendleton to consult District Attorney and Bar Association before action, while Commissioners of Accounts assign clerks to probe the Jefferson Market night court pending Fire Department work.
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Pendleton
Droege
Jefferson Market Court
City Magistrates Court
Commissioners of Accounts
Otto H. Droege
Supreme Court
Bar Association
John Furroy Mitchel
Philip B Gaynor
Jefferson Market
Fire Department
Arrests for excise violations proceed after Sunday raid
Fifteen men arrested Sunday for excise law violations were held for trial Monday. In Yorkville Magistrate Finn court four were discharged while one waived examination and was held for trial. At the Tombs Court Magistrate Butts held thirteen of fourteen arraigned men on $500 bail each for trial. Alder man William Drescher was among those, with detectives alleged to have bought whiskey and beer at his No 1ih West street saloon.
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Yorkville
Finn
Nathan Schwartz
Mth Street
Second Avenue
Becker
Tombs Court
Butts
William Drescher
West Street
Russell
Moving Pictures From a Balloon Shown at Aero Club
Frederick White presented a lecture on balloon photography at the Aero Club last night. He showed moving ground pictures shot on several trips, mostly from Pittsfield, with Leon Stevens piloting the balloon.
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Aero Club
Frederick White
Pittsfield
Leon Stevens
George Cohans View Of Paris On Return
George Cohan the actor returned from six weeks abroad with his wife and Margie Rhodes. He said Paris is a joke but not as big a joke as the Americans there. He joked waiters hear Americans a block away and Maxim's is like a Western beer hall except the American place has good looking girls. He also mocked London, saying the less said about it the better.
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George Cohan
Margie Rhodes
St. Louis
Cohan
Paris
Maxim's
London
Boston Man Falls Sixty Five Feet to Death in Albany
Leonard Splane of Boston fell sixty five feet through a glass light while working on the roof of the Federal Signal Works in Albany. He landed on the floor and died instantly from a head injury.
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Albany
Federal Signal Works
Leonard
Splane
Boston
Lancaster Watch Company Chief Gifts 1000 to Ludlow
C D Rood president of the Lancaster Watch Company gives Ludlow Massachusetts a $1,000 gift to compound. The money will stay in Ludlow as principal with accrued interest and be distributed in 1974 2074 and 2174 amounts totaling millions to inhabitants.
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Boston
D. Rood
Lancaster
Penn.) Watch Company
Ludlow
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