Spitzer did it all in refinery fraud case at court
The defense in the United States Circuit Court trial of Charles R Heike Ernest Gerbracht and James F Bendernagel claims cashier Spitzer from the Havemeyer refinery orchestrated dock weight fraud. Witnesses described Spitzer as supreme in control, with Gerbracht’s fate tied to his alleged confessed misconduct while Bendernagel defended his limited role. The trial continued with testimony about wages, dock operations, and refinery weights as jurors near deliberations.
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Havemeyer & Elder
Oliver &Bitzer
Charles R. Heike
Ernest Gerbracht
James F. Bendernagel
United States Circuit Court
Bendernagel
Spitzer
Henry F. Cochrane
George Mackeilar
Gerbracht
Rendernage
Atlanta
Heike
Federal Building
Mackellar
H. C. Havemeyer
Hetke
Cochrane
Eastern District Hospital
Williamsburg Savings Bank
Board of Education
American Sugar Refining Company
Williamsburg
Mr. Cochrane
Checkers
O. K
Winfred T. Dennison
Burr
Maddox
Stimson
Smuggling Bust at Hoboken Pier Involves Minneapolis Banker
Inspector Timothy Donohue and H R Lyon of Minneapolis led to the arrest of banker Mr Lyon on a charge of evading duties on two pearl necklaces and other jewelry valued over 3000. Lyon posted 2500 cash bail for further examination as his trunks and jewelry were seized and sent to the Appraiser's Stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy Donohue
H. R. Lyon
Minneapolis
Hamburg-American Line
Hoboken
Mr. Lyon
Tim’’ Donohue
Inspector Donohue
Tim” Donohue
Lyon
West
Smyth
Grand Trunk Railway orders rolling stock for 2.9 million
Montreal dated May 21 reports the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada placing orders for new rolling stock worth 2,900,000 dollars. The move signals expansion of equipment and capacity for the railway in the near term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
Whitman Dinners Offended By Whitman Talk At Brevoort
The seventeenth annual Walt Whitman Fellowship dinner at the Hotel Brevoort sparked protest whenAndre Tridon quoted Whitman poetry including A Woman Waits for Me. Mr Street of Street & Smith interrupted, left with others, and Whiten admirers praised Whitman as a prophet and advocate of freedom while a rough intra event followed readings by J G Phelps Stokes Jr Horace Troubel and others during the afternoon session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Whitman
Hotel Brevoort
Andre Tridon
Whitman
Street
Street & Smith
Roosevelt
Charles Zeublin
Bolton Hall
William Davenport
Zeublin
J. G. Phelps Stokes, Jr
Fast Side Settlement
Horace Troubel
Court Reform Joint Conference Proposes Legislation
Special committees of the American Bar Association and the American Civic Federation opened a joint conference at 42 West 44th Street to study remedies and draft bills to curb delay and costs in litigation. They plan to present findings to their groups and push state and federal law reforms with lists of participating members.
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American Bar Association
The
American Civic Federation
No. 42
West 44Th Street
Everett P. Wheeler
New York City
Roscoe Pound
Chicago
C. H. Amidon
Fargo
N. D
J. H. Beale
Cambridge
Mass
Frank Irving
Ithaca
N. Y
S. C. Eastman
Concord
N. H
Samuel Scoville
Philadelphia
H. D. Easterbrook
E. T. Sanford
Knoxville
H. Allen
Topeka
Charlies Jewett
New Albany
Ind
T. W. Sheiter
Norfolk
William Saulsbury
Wilmington
Del
A. M. Eaton
Providence
Lawrence Cooper
Huntsville
Ala
W. J. MacIntyre
Thomasville
J. F. Vaile
Denver
C. L. Monson
Williamsport
Penn
Naked Man Sings On Central Park Wall Arrested
West 68th street patrolman Helms heard singing in Central Park West and found John T. Bess naked on the wall. Bess, a Bowery bartender, refused clothing, was captured, labeled an alcoholic, and taken to J Hood Wright Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helms
West 68Th Street
Central Park West
Central Park
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Weill
John T. Bess
Bowery
TRY TO FORCE WALDO'S HAND Three dealers sue for July fireworks permits
Mirabeau L Towns for three retail fireworks dealers petitioned Justice Erlanger for an order forcing Fire Commissioner Waldo to issue sales permits from June 19 to July 10. The motion claims the commissioner's refusal rests on autocratic policy. The case would affect 1 509 dealers in Greater New York and hinges on statutes governing permits. Arnold Weil opposed, citing Municipal Explosives Commission rules banning sales without automatic sprinklers. Decision reserved.
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Mirabeau L. Towns
Justice Erlanger
Supremes Court
Waldo
Mayer Gaynor
Towns
New York
Arnold C. Weil
Municip Explosives Commission
Erlanger
Lehigh Valley Prices Break on Cotton and Fares Rise
Cotton prices plunged on the local exchange with May options expiring, while supporters blamed shorts and a private crop outlook for the drop. Separate reports note Lehigh Valley Railroad raises fares after July 1, aligning with New Jersey Central, affecting commuters to New York and Elizabeth stations.
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Bulls
Bears
Shorts
Europe
James A. Patten
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Elizabeth
Lehigh Valley
New York City
New Orleans
Plan Cotton Surety Company Meeting in Atlanta
The Southern Cotton Buyers' Association will meet in Atlanta next Thursday to appoint a representative to London to protest demands that all Southern cotton be shipped on port bills of lading. The rep may propose a surety company to back through bills of lading, a response to foreign banker demands following the failures of Knight, Yancey & Co. of Decatur and Steele Miller & Co. of Corinth that cost bankers about 4,000,000 in losses.
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J. S. Bache & Co
Patten
Shorts
Europe
Bears
Atlanta
London
Southern Cotton Buyers’ Association
Knight, Yancey & Co
Decatur
Ala
Steele, Miller & Co
Corinth
Miss
Protest on Inheritance Tax Reform in New York
The New York Tax Reform Association protests a progressive inheritance tax bill passed by the Legislature. Secretary A C Pleydell says the measure lacked hearings and public discussion, noting introduction late in April and passage on May 13 with many members absent. The bill was rushed through the Senate Tax Committee and under a suspension of rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tax Reform Association
Hughes
A. C. Pleydell
Association
Committee On Rules
Assembly
Senate Tax Committee
Student nurses win prizes at charity graduation
More than five hundred attended the graduating exercises of the training school for nurses at the Jewish Hospital yesterday afternoon near Throop Avenue in Williamsburg. Four prizes were awarded including a gold medal and 75 dollars to Miss Mabel Rodman and 50 dollars to Miss Isabelle Martin. Miss Hortense H. Craig was valedictorian and received a similar prize. Miss Mary Gaillavin received a suitcase and fittings. Addresses were given by Controller Prendergast and others, followed by a musical program and dancing into the night.
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Jewish Hospital
Willoughby Mansion
Willoughby Avenue
Throop Avenue
Williamsburg
Mabel Rodman
Isabelle Martin
Mary Gaillavin
Hortense H. Craig
Controller Prendergast
H. B. de Latour
Isaac Isaacson
Abraham Abrams
William S. White
Edward Lazinsky
Receivers appointed for American Union Telephone Co in Pa
The American Union Telephone Company with Western and Northern Pennsylvania lines and Central New York was placed in receivership. Judge Bellstab named Charles West and Frank D. Houck as receivers, amid allegations of mismanagement and asset misuse by officers. The action stems from a petition by stockholders and the Dean Electric Company seeking relief after an order to show cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
American Union Telephone Company
Continental Telephone and Telegraph Company
American Union Company
Continental Company
Dean Electric Company
Elyria
Ohio
Howard
All Met System At Sale In Foreclosure Auction
The Metropolitan Street Railway system will be offered at a July 1 noon auction under foreclosure decrees. Judge Lacombe set the date, with an upset price of 10 million dollars. The bid could be rejected if unsatisfactory. Morton Trust Company and Guaranty Trust Company pursued foreclosures to include the entire system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Guaranty Trust Company
Morton Trust Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Bondsman Feeney Indicted for Perjury in Brooklyn Bail Case
Michael H. Feeney, a Brooklyn bail bondsman named in a commissioner report, was held in 5000 dollars bond in Queens County Court on perjury charges. The indictment stems from 3259 dollars in bail he posted for John O'Brien, an indicted offender, and claims Feeney swore that the Sterling Place Brooklyn property he held as security was free and clear.
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Michael H. Feeney
Fosdick
Brooklyn
Humphrey
Queens County Court
Long Island City
Feeney
John O'Brien
Sterling Place
O'Brien
Pear
Night and Day Bank cuts hours after four years
The Night and Day Bank, previously open 24 hours on business days, will operate sixteen hours daily from 6 a.m. to midnight using two clerk shifts. The Fifth Avenue and 44th Street offices opened April 30, 1906, with Brook Club as the first depositor of $5,000, and the bank plans services for out-of-town customers. Prominent early leaders included Oakleigh Thorne and J. W. Harriman, with later changes in presidency and directorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
44Th Street
Brook Club
Oakleigh Thorne
J. W. Harriman
J. Borden Harriman
Robert Bacon
O. H. P. Belmont
E. H. Harriman
Charles T. Barney
P. A. B. Widener
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Marsden J. Perry
James S. Kuhn
Pittsburg
Mr. Thorne
A. D. Bennett
Port Huron
Mich
Samuel S. Campbell
Frederick Phillips
T. B. Clarke, Jr
Recreation Director Chosen for Manhattan and Richmond
Howard Bradstreet secretary of the Parks and Playgrounds Association was to be named by Commissioner Stover as Supervisor of Recreation for Manhattan and Richmond. The announcement was delayed by Mr Stover’s indisposition. Bradstreet active in recent hearings and mass meetings urging playgrounds at Cooper Union. He is linked to many civic and outdoor societies in New York.
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Lehigh Valley
New Jersey Central
Central
Elizabeth
C. S. Lee
Jersey Central
New York
Howard Bradstreet
Parks and Playgrounds Association
Stover
Manhattan
Richmond
Bradstreet
Park Board
Cooper Union
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac
The Teutonic, listed at 710 miles east of Sandy Hook at 8 am yesterday, is slated to dock tomorrow forenoon as wireless reports update marine conditions and celestial times. Sunrise and sunset times, moon rise, moon age, and other navigational notes accompany the weather data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teutonic
Sandy Hook
Vessel movements and port calls detailed in ship roster
A fragmentary OCR list outlines ships and routes including Mauretania Cunard Adriatic and Bermuda Quebec passages, Hamburg Am, Seminole S Domingo, Vilma Rotterdam Russian names and other vessel movements with several times and ports like New Orleans Jacksonville and Guantanamo. The garbled text preserves ship names and destinations but lacks coherent narrative.
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Mati
Tane
Mauretania
Liverp's
Cunard
Shampton
Lincoln
Hamburg
Bermudian
Bermuda
Quebec
Domingo
Vilma
Rotterdam
Ancona
Wam Orotava
Antilla
Guantanamo
Ward
Proteus
New Orleans
Iroquois
Jacksonville
Clyde
Shipping News: Steamers At Bar In Quarantine Update
Ocean cargo and passenger movements noted with arrivals, quarantines, and sailings. List details numerous ships by name, country, and port calls from May through May 31, including Mesaba Prinz August Wilhelm Alice Kaiser Wilhelm II Athinas Oscar II Werdenfels Delaware Imdrapura Bertha Denver Manna Hata City of Atlanta Seneca Hesperus Arapahoe Alliance Burbo Bank Cubana Hamilton Jamestown Simon Dumots and more with passengers, mails, and merchandise. A US cruiser Montgomery passes quarantine.
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Mesaba
London
Atlantic Transport Line
Moise
Bar
Prinz August Wilhelm
Ger
Savanilla
Port Simon
Colon
Kingston
Fortune Island
Alice
Trieste
Patras
Palermo
Algiers
Phelps Bros & Co
Bertha
Nor
Port Antonio
Cuneo Importing Co
Denver
Galveston
Key West
Mallory Ss Co
Mdise
Manna Hata
Baltimore
New York & OH
Arapahoe
Jacksonville
Charleston
Clyde Ss Co
Alliance
Cristobalay
Panama Railroad
Burbo Bank
Guantanamo
Puerto Padre
Munson
Cubana
Caibarien
Matzenzas
Cardenas
Hamilton
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominion Ss Co
Jamestown
Old Dominion
Sspo
Simon Dumots
Ner
Puerto Plata
Atlantic Fruit Co
The
Sandy Hook
Westfalen
St Kitts
Etc
Panama
Cristobal
Snestad
Botwoodville
Winster
Soutra
el Dorado
Pawnee
Philadelphia
City of
Transatlantic Steamship Arrivals and Departures List
Shipping news records numerous vessels arriving at and departing from New York and other ports between May 28 and May 31, listing ships such as Graf Waldersee Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Kronprinzessin Cecilie Grosser Kurfuerst Campania and others with routes via Plymouth Cherbourg Naples Moville Havre and Liverpool among cities and dates.
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Hamburg
Graf Waldersee
Ger
New York
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Kaiserin Auguste Vitoria
Southampton
Atrato
Kingston
Colon
Glasgow
Furnessia
Bri
Moville
Marinetiien
Hiny Venezia
Ap Naples
Iiam
Verona
Italy
Philadelphia
Genoa
Ital
Naples
Platea
Galveston
Norfolk
Coronel
Brantwood
Dunkirk
Chiverstone
Havre
Fishguard
Campania
Liverpool
Kronprinzessin Cectte
Bremen
Flyfmouth
Victoria
Brazil
Grecian Prince
Sarbados
Pernambuco
Clement
Pri
Discontinued travel bags cut prices at Warren St store
Fifty-odd travelling bags and suitcases, mostly expensive models, are on sale at Warren Street with significant reductions. About half are black bags formerly $6 to 7 now $4.35.
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Warren St
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New-York Tribune
Strange Man
Bull Clique
Brown
Haynes
Scales
Lackawanna
Erie
Mewark C.kisnesssesn
Orange
Bloomfield
Montclair
C. McCain
Trunk Line Association
Tate
West Elizabeth
Roselle Park
Cranford
Picton
Oak Tree
South Plainfield
New Market
Flemington
Phone CO
Stern Brothers
West Twenty-third Street
C. G. Gunther's
Eighy
Madison
Oceana
Monroe
Ola D
Guam
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Hawaii
Japan
Corea
China
Kroreed
Wilegr
Tacoma
Keemun
U & Transport
Seattle
Marine Intelligence
High Water
Governor's Island
Hell Gate
Bree
Saratoga
Havana
Lecens
Guiana St Thomas
Ancon
C di Palermo
Amelie
St Lucia
Clara Jawenee
Oran
Grant Southampton
Friedrich der G. Palermo
Lloyd Sikh
Oss
Gibraltar
Jee Nees Ares el Alba
Lusitania
Teutonic Southampton
Star Floride
Tralia
Azores
Ward Voltaire
Barbados
Lamp
Shipping News
Port of
LissaboniGer
Patris
Grk
Eugenia
Aust
Fienoa
Lazio Tital
Jan
Spm
Neckar
Rogers Peet & Company
Garrick
Ray
Henry Miller
Jess
Hudson
Frargis Wilson
Eemenad Breese
Knickerbocker
Eve
Charles Dillinghaw
Glob Bway
46Th St
Montgomery and
Stone
Jas. C. Morton
F. F. Moore
EL Aide & i
Chanticlair
the Barnyars
Romeo Chas
Moss
Mizzi Hajol
Siella Mayhew
Sidney Grant Billee Taylor
Gertrude van Dyck
Hazel Allen
Henry Cooter
Elair
Chanteas
Broadway
K. 42
Jim
Penman Oo Saine
de Welf Mopper
Ido Mackett
Aoa Daly's
By & Fields
Herald Sq
Marif
Wolf Hopper
ASTOR
Academy OF Wusic
Rose Staml
Benet
Fund Sothern-Harlowe
Hamlet
Jimmy Valentine
Wallack’s
ACE Warner
Alhambra
Eva Fanglay
Hope & Ca
Oth McIntyre & Wheat
Oun
Keispl
Keith & Freetes
5Th Ave
Ally
M. Rock Teger & Co
Eldom
Trovolic
Thompson Luna
Dundy's Park
Coney Islands
Dreamlan
Alcythe
Shimidu
St Michael's
Magdalena
Colom ¢T
St Lucis
Antefagasta
Calcutta
Swart
Boston
Ushant
Atrate
MeweTer
Rie Kingston
Coton
Sout Anjer
Rotenfels
Newark
Durban
Taku Bar
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