Daring diamond heist foiled at Maiden Lane firm
Two men attempted a noon hour robbery at Cooper and Forman diamond merchants on the eighth floor of No 3 Maiden Lane. They grabbed a $10,000 envelope of stones, were confronted by witness William Stenson with an empty pistol, and were captured by police as they fled toward the hallway. The suspects James D. Shank and Frederick Kenny, both with prior records, were arraigned and held on grand larceny charges in $2,000 bail each.
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Cooper & Forman
No. 3
Maiden Lane
William Stenson
James D. Shank
West 192d Street
Frederick Kenny
West 25Th Street
Rogues
Breen
Tombs
Mr. Forman
Forman
Stenson
Monihan and Nugent
Daly
Trafic Squad
Kensico Reservoir Project Condemns Land in County
Supreme Court justice appoints three sets of watershed commissioners to condemn land for a new Kensico reservoir costing 15 million dollars. The plan wipes out the old Kensico village and creates one of Westchester County’s largest artificial lakes. Commissioners hail from Westchester with a few from Manhattan, representing sections 19 9 and 8.
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Martin J. Keogh
Supreme Court
White Plains
Kensico
Westchester County
H. T. Dykman
Manhattan
Edward Wells
Peekskill
Francis A. Winslow
John F. Healy
New Rochelle
P. F. Donahue
John M. Digmey
Stephen van Tassell
Mount Vernon
Samuel J. Foley
Gambling raid on De Sota apartment house alleged
A Wall Street broker linked to a raid on a gambling house in the De Sota at 19 Fast 224 Street. Police seized a roulette wheel and chips, found a card for Augustus Masters MacDonnell, and noted backers only prey on “live” victims.
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Wall Street
de Sota
Fast 224 Street
Murphy
Tenderloin
William Files
Detective Kinney
Steinbruck
DeSota
Augustus Masters MacDonnell
Captain Murphy
Auto Burglars Steal 5000 in Silverware at Connecticut Cottage
Greenwich police seek two men in an automobile who stole about fifteen thousand worth of silverware from Edward Farrell a retired New York real estate dealer staying at the Copp cottage in Belle Haven. The break in occurred between 12 30 am and 7 am with entries through a pried cellar window. Items stolen include three large silver trays eight small vases twenty four salt cellars and a loving cup marked Farrell Hyde. A witness saw two men with a suitcase boarding a late train and entering a waiting auto headed toward Belle Haven.
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the Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Edward D. Farrell
New York City
Belle Haven
C. McG. E
Mr. Farrell
Bay Shore
Edward Farrell
Lillian Hyde
Crosstown Railway Hearing On Lease Modification
Public Service Commission will hold a 10 a m Friday hearing on Central Crosstown Railway Company and Metropolitan Street Railway Company lease modification. Receivers Joline and Robinson and Crosstown officers reached a yearlong operation continuation, with rental and debt charges adjusted, while preserving potential Crosstown claims.
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The
Public Service Commission
Central Crosstown Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Crosstown Railway
Messrs
Metropolitan
Central Crosstown
23D Street
East River
Avenue A
17Th Street
Broadway
17Th
14Th Street
18Th Street
Seventh Avenue
Vreeland
Crosstown Company
New York City Railway Company
Revolving House Planned for Long Island Jeweller
Clarence True an architect plans a rotating wood house for jeweller William Reiman at Little Neck Bay, Long Island. Powered by electricity, it will swing on ball bearings with multiple exit points and a signal system, costing about 35000 dollars excluding land.
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Clarence True
Liberty Street
Little Neck Bay
Long Island
William Reiman
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Reiman
True
ROUT MEXICAN REBELS ROUTED NEAR DEL RIO
Telegraph reports from Las Vacas and Del Rio dated July 6 say a Mexican government force of about one thousand troops under Colonel Dorantes fought a main insurgent body near thirty miles south of Del Rio. About five hundred revolutionaries resisted fiercely before breaking into small bands and retreating into the mountains. Federal cavalry and rurales pursue. casualty numbers not yet reported.
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the Tribune
del Rio
Tex
Las Vacas
Dorantes
Here
Arf&ble
Rebels Surround Town Near New Mexico Border
A force of sixty Mexican cavalry moved from Chihuahua to Casas Grandes and then to Ascension near Palomas, where revolutionists threaten the garrison of fifty gendarmes. Mexican consul Lomeli reports forty rebels captured north of Casas Grandes by Mormon volunteers. An editorial in El Progresso urges Mormon colonists to prepare for attacks, stock weapons, and organize to repel guerrilla threats across Northern Mexico.
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The
Tribune
el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Casas Grandes
Ascension
Palomas
New Mexico
Antonio V. Lomeli
Nuevo Casas Grandes
el Progresso
Mexico
Colonia
Dublan
Consular Officer Arrested in Abandonment Case
Sefior Don Enrique Nattes chancellor of the Salvadoran consulate at the Port of New York was jailed in Jefferson Market court on abandonment charges filed by his wife. He claimed diplomatic immunity but admitted marriage in New York twenty one years ago. Mrs Nattes said he abandoned her twelve years ago and has paid child support until three weeks ago. She feared poisoning as she testified he shows attention to another woman. Magistrate Wahle set July 15 for the case and granted parole.
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Sefior Don Enrique Nattes
Republic of Salvador
Port of New York
Jefferson Market Court
Sefior Nattes
Colonel J F Wilson's Son Dies in Edinburgh
Colonel John F Wilson of North Plainfield announced by telegraph the death of his son Alan Wilson manager of the Philadelphia branch of Ingersoll Rand in Edinburgh Scotland. He was injured in an automobile accident a year ago en route from Philadelphia to Atlantic City and never fully recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Plainfield
N. J
John F. Wilson
North Plainfield
Alan Wilson
Philadelphia
Ingersoll Rand Company
Edinburgh
Scotland
Wilson
Atlantic City
Convict Fights Keeps, Wounding Two Sing Sing Guards
Edward Kinnane and Edward MacEneny, keepers at Sing Sing, clashed Friday with a convict who threatened to kill anyone approaching. The inmate stood on the stairs as the guards ascended, drew a knife fashioned from an old file, and stabbed Kinnane in the right shoulder. MacEneny sustained cuts to his hands in the struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kinnane
Edward MacEneny
Sing Sing Prison
Kinnane
MacEneny
Mrs Talbot J Taylor Divorced By Supreme Court
Justice McCall granted an interlocutory divorce to Mrs Jessica Taylor from Talbot J Taylor, Wall Street broker, based on testimony findings by Leo C Dessar. The Taylors, long married since May 189_, lived at Talbot House Cedarhurst with a noted antique collection. The corespondent was not named. Foxhall Keene, brother, held a $200,000 interest in Talbot J Taylor & Co., which failed in 1903 after the Southern Pacific pool collapse. Talbot J Taylor was later reinstated by the New York Stock Exchange.
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Justice McCall
Supreme Court
Jessica Taylor
Talbot J. Taylor
Wall Street
Talbot J. Taylor & Co
Foxhall Keene
Taylor
Southern Pacific Pool
New York Stock Exchange
Taylors
Talbot House
Cedarhurst
Long Island
Schoen Wheel Co Sold to Carnegie Steel in $3 Million Deal
Negotiations culminated in Carnegie Steel Company purchasing Schoen Steel Wheel Company of McKee's Rocks for 3 million dollars, yielding Schoen a stated one million dollar profit. The dispute between Schoen and the United States Steel Corporation faded as the asset transfer ends a long running conflict and prevents a competing wheel plant from Schoen.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Schoen Steel Wheel Company
McKee’s Rocks
Charles Schoen
Self Hypnotism Proves Fatal In Chicago
John Neriza died after hours of agony attributed to hallucination and auto-suggestion. Physicians found no poison though he suffered severe mental distress. Family says he ate nothing dangerous. A weak mental state is blamed for self hypnotism and an inquest will be held.
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Chicago
John Neriza
Neriza
Fireat L F Rand cement works claims life in Williamsburg
A blaze at L F Rand cement works on Newtown Creek Williamsburg yesterday afternoon killed William J Groves 34 of 34 Meeker Avenue and seriously injured Thomas Raynor 239 Kingsland Avenue while other employees suffered minor injuries. Fireboats could not reach the scene due to shallow water and a distant hydrant delayed fighting the flames. Dr Mary Crawford Williamsburg Hospital treated the injured before Groves died.
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L. F. Rand
Newtown Creek
Williamsburg
William J. Groves
Meeker Avenue
Thomas Raynor
Kingsland Avenue
Groves
Gaynor
Mary Crawford
Williamsburg Hospital
New York and Bermudez denies offered payoff to Castro
The New York and Bermudez Company said it did not offer 2.5 million dollars to President Castro for Venezuela seized asphalt property and rejected compromise offers. It cited arbitration as the proper path and said prior compromise talks involved blackmail payments, which it ceased pursuing.
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New York and Bermudez Company
Castro
Venezuela
New York and Bermudez
Jackson Files Suit to Halt American Ice Co.
Attorney General Jackson serves John R. Bennett of the American Ice Company with a suit to stop it from doing further business in New York. The 47 page complaint alleges a foreign corporation operating against public health and decency, namingKnickerbocker Ice and Consolidated Ice as participants in a monopoly. The grand jury previously indicted the firm on five counts. Deford leads the case for the people. defendants have twenty days to answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Ice Company
John R. Bennett
Jackson
Ice Company
Mayer
Grand Jury
James W. Osborne
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Consolidated Ice Company
New York
William A. Deford
Impaled by Runaway Horse in Eighth Avenue Collision
Ironworker Louis Dershon was impaled on a wagon shaft and died after a runaway horse dragged him for two blocks along Eighth Avenue and 116th Street. Bystander John Einstein was injured with a fractured left leg. The horse crashed into a van at 120th Street. a bicycle patrolman captured the animal.
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Louis Dershon
Grestede Brothers
Eighth Avenue
114Th Street
Frank Lepartonio
Dershon
116Th Street
John Einstein
East 11St Street
Einstein
120Th Street
Bicycle Squad
Guardian for President Johnsons Grandson in Virginia
Bristol Va July 6 A guardian has been appointed for Andrew Johnson Stover grandson of President Andrew Johnson who lived as a hermit in the Tennessee mountains for thirty years to manage his interest in the Johnson estate at Greenville Stover played on the White House grounds as a boy when his mother was mistress of the mansion During his mother s death he was not regarded as sound minded and withdrew to the mountains where he lived on berries fruits and small game He is about fifty years old.
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The
Tribune
Bristol
Andrew Johnson Stover
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Johnson
Greenville
Stover
White House
Governor Hughes names delegates for Good Roads meet
Albany July 6 Governor Hughes announced the appointment of New York State delegates to the Legislative Good Roads Convention in Buffalo on July 7. Senators Jotham P. Allds Henry W. Hill George A. Davis William H. Hotchkiss and Arthur Warren named. A large delegation arrives for the National Good Roads Convention with talks by top engineers and a live road building demonstration by State Engineer Frederick Skene and County Engineer George C. Diehl. Six miles of highway near Williamsville prepared for the demonstration with exhibits of road machinery and new dust laying systems.
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Albany
Hughes
New York State
American Automobile Association
Buffalo
Jotham P. Allds
Chenango
Henry W. Hill
George A. Davis
William H. Hotchkiss
Arthur Warren
Rochester
United States
Frederick Skene
George C. Diehl
Williamsville
Steps to form National Economic League in Boston
Boston moves to affiliate clubs in Portland Providence Worcester Springfield New Haven New York Philadelphia and Baltimore into the National Economic League. A special committee led by ex-Secretary John D Long and Edwin Ginn directs work plus a temporary executive committee with William H Lincoln as chairman and members including Charles J Bonaparte John Graham Brooks George Burnham Jr Peter Grosscup and President Schurman.
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the Tribune
Boston
Economic Club of
Portland
Providence
Worcester
Springfield
New Haven
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
National Economic League
John D. Long
Edwin Ginn
William H. Lincoln
Charles J. Bonaparte
John Graham Brooks
George Burnham
Peter Grosscup
Schurman
Jail for wrecker of fraternity
William L. Wilson was sentenced in Port Huron to not less than two and a half nor more than five years in the State Reformatory for embezzling more than 75 thousand dollars from the United Home Protectors Fraternity. His shortage wrecked the fraternity and a longer term was recommended.
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Port Huron
Micn
William L. Wilson
United Home Protectors’ Fraternity
State Reformatory
Wilson
McIntyre Grand Larceny Trial Hangs Over Health Claim
Thomas A McIntyre of the T A Co brokerage faces five indictments in General Sessions. He did not attend court as Judge Foster weighs postponing the trial citing his illness. A yacht club reception and dancing were cited to argue for health concerns while Dr Alexander Lambert examines him. The case awaits a physician's report to decide if the trial proceeds.
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Thomas A. Mc
Foster
H McIntyre
J. H. McCrahon
William Shannon
No. 10
West Fist
McIntyre
Train
Yacht Club
Alexander Lambert
East 11St Street
Bay Ridge
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Gilchrist McIntyre
Song prize scam trial targets aspiring songwriters
Eugene B Watt stands trial in the United States Circuit Court before Judge Hough for using the mails to defraud authors who sent songs and $10 to enter a 230 prize coin contest run by Temple Court Publishing and J A Bartlett Music Publishing. Several entrants from Norwich Waterville Easton and Fort Hancock reported sending works like Under the Dear Old Pine and The Rose of New England, hoping for a hit while Watt claimed others would bloom with freshness.
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Bronx
Eugene B. Watt
United States Circuit Court
Hough
Temple Court Publishing Company
J. A. Bartlett Music Publishing Company
Watt
Norwich
Conn
Waterville
Easton
Penn
Fort Hancock
N. J
Watt Joseph Lowndes
Joseph Curram
Walter Sweeny
Gertie
Jurors Sworn In As Judge Warns On Indictments
Judge Foster sworn in two July grand juries in General Sessions Court and cautioned that too many indictments are returned. He noted 348 cases awaiting grand juries with 135 defendants in prison. He cited a man unjustly indicted and urged care in panel selection to avoid hasty disposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster
General Sessions Court
Ready to Give Back Money: Spaniard Arrested for Larceny
Enrique Lianas a 23 year old Spaniard was arrested at Broadway and 66th street on charges of stealing 12415 dollars from a boarding house keeper in Lafayette Ind. Detectives Curry and Thomdly recovered the cash from a traveling bag. Lianas claimed his father owns a Colombian coffee plantation near Bogota and said he was Purdue University student.
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Enrique Lianas
Broadway
Sth Street
Curry and
Thomdly
Central Office
Lianas
Bogota
Colombia
Purdue University
Lafayette
Plainant
Lars
West 63d Street
Ind
Smith
New York
66Th Street
Llanas
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Fire Devastates Stapleton Asphalt Works
A major blaze at Barber Asphalt Company works in Stapleton Staten Island yesterday destroyed the varnish vat for boiling asphalt and nearly ruined the engine house. Dense smoke drew thousands to the scene as firemen fought to save nearby tenements and a Brady Brothers dock. A Polish worker bravely reentered the engine house to extinguish boiler fires before an explosion could occur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barber Asphalt Company
Stapleton
Staten Island
Island
Brady Brother
Staten Island Rapid Transit
Richmond National Bank
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Salvador
J. F. Wilson
Sing Sing
Ker
America
India
China
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Michigan
Schoen Wheel CO
IN Steel Trust
Carnegie Company
Williamsburg Cement Works
Asphalt Company
State Department
Tennessee Mountains
National League
Mwintyre
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