Man Serves Six Months For Another's Crime On Blackwell's
Henry Siegel exposed a prison swap scheme at Blackwell's Island where he agreed to serve a six month term for Abraham Romanoff for $60. Romanoff paid Siegel's fine to escape, while Siegel faced a ten day sentence for a license violation. The system of prisoner identification is under examination as Fingerprints move with prisoners to prevent such swaps. Romanoff, with a long record, is believed to have left the state.
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Blackwell's Island
Henry Siegel
Abraham Romanoff
Ife
Biesel
Romanoff
Sims
Tombs
Blackwell's
Murphy
Essex Market
Siegel
Katharine 8
Davis
Fox
Heston
House of Reformation
House of Refuge
Newark
Sing Sing
Chicago
Providence
Philadelphia
Scouts Aid Women at Railroad Stations During Conference
Boy Scouts will assist women delegates at railroad stations during the upcoming General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting in the city next week. Women will be allowed to pass through gates to meet trains in the sheds, a privilege previously limited to ten by the railroads.
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General Federation of Women's Clubs
Frank Gets Hearing on Annulment of Verdict
In Atlanta today the defense asked to annul Leo M. Frank's guilty verdict and death sentence claiming constitutional rights were violated by his absence during the court verdict. Demurrers by Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey challenged the record and possible bias. the hearing will resume tomorrow.
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Frank
Atlanta
Leo M. Frank
Mary Phagan
I. Roan
Hugh M. Dorsey
Qudii
Wilsons Golf Is Medium Good Only
Washington June 6 President Wilson and ex President Taft rated as medium good golfers by the Columbia Country Club while Representative Oglesby of New York is the best golfer in public life with a handicap of 1. Senator Bristow has the lowest congressional rating with seven strokes. Other senators and representatives show varied high handicaps. Former Senator Bourne rated six.
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Washington
Wilson
Taft
Columbia Country Club
Oglesby
New York
Senator O'Gorman
Senator Bristow
Congress
Penrose
Ulsbury
Walsh
Nator Cummins
Mitcheeck
Hollis
Townsend
Prouty
Fitzgerald
Whaley
Gillette
Kent
Tuttle
Piative Tredway
Woods
Shreve
Bourne
Suffragists fail to capture Glynn in Albany
Governor Glynn refused to commit to speaking at a suffrage mass meeting in Albany. Miss Lincoln Vandegrift, campaign manager from Colorado, led a delegation of five through the Executive Chamber to press the issue. She said Glynn, while backing eventual voting rights, would not deliver the planned platform speech.
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Albany
Glynn
Slo
Lincoln Vandegrift
Colorado
Executive Chamber
Miss Vandegrift
Mrs Blatch Charged With Bad Faith
The article reports on accusations involving Mrs Blatch and the Women’s Political Union. It describes internal union disputes, allegations of nonunion hiring, and tensions between Miss Hohmann and union leaders over access to a stenographer. It mentions James P Boyle and Katherine Mills, and notes the involvement of Miss Helen Marot and the Women's Trade Union League.
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Stenoncaphers and Accountants
We Union
Martha Hohmann
Charities
Hiarriot Stanton” Teday
Maule Cooley
West 43Th
Latch
Minten
Rapher
James P. Boyle
Blateh Iy
Central Federated Union of New York
W. Plu
Katherine Mills
Boyle
Miss Mills
Mills
W. P.U
Royle
Tilatch
Union
Helen Marot
Women’s Trade Union League
WPA
Suffrage, unions and family rifts noted in worker talks
A fragment discusses Mrs John Martin the suffrage writer and orator, along with Miss Bean and Uncle John, amid union and office politics. It mentions Miss Dean absent delaying a membership decision for Mrs Cooley and notes Mr Cooley becoming a member of the Bookkeepers Stenographers and Accountants Union while the W P U position changes.
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Ers
Union
John Martin
Miss Bean
Martin
England
John
Miss Hohmann
Mrs. Cooley
NYU 82nd Commencement Week Includes Alumni Meet
New York University marks its eighty second annual commencement with alumni over fifty invited. John J. Rice of Westminster College and former classmate John Chalmers, long apart, will reunite after more than fifty years. Events include society meetings, a big alumni luncheon, field day, campus parade, a Trinity game at Ohio Field, and a baccalaureate sermon by Dr William Merrill. A dinner surprise aims to raise funds for the $1,000,000 campaign.
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New York University
University Heights
John J." Rice
Westminster College
Missouri
John Chalmers
Chalmers
Rice
New York University Historical Society
Phi Beta Kappa Society
College of Arts and Science
Trinity
Ohio Field
William Pierson Merrill
Brick Presbyterian Church
Phi Beta Kappa Keys
George An
Gustus Sandham
Gould Memorial
University Hights
Mitchel
School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
Taft Aids Plan To Protect Aliens At Home
Former President Taft chaired a Lawyers' Club meeting calling for legislation to guarantee aliens stay rights under treaties. The New York Peace Society organized the session with about forty prominent participants. The group plans active propaganda and seeks cooperation from existing societies and individuals. Key attendees included Alton B. Parker Jacob H. Schiff Henry Holt and Lindsay Russell of the Japan Society.
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Taft
Lawyers’ Club
United States
New York Peace Society
Colorado
Mr. Taft
William H. Short
Alton B. Parker
Jacob H. Schiff
Henry Holt
McCracken
O. G. Villard
Austen Fox
Lindsay Russell
Japan Society
Pacific
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Wins Mt Lebanon Plot in Trust Deal
A ninety foot plot at Washington Pike and Florida Avenue in Mt. Lebanon was sold by Mt. Lebanon Land and Trust Co. to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as a residence site. A handsome house and garage will be built, finished late fall, with the property held in trust for Mia, Thaw's son.
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Pittsburgh
Washington Pike
Florida Cv
Mt. Lebanon
Baxter's Workhouse Doctor Charge Goes to Grand Jury
Dr Charles Baxter, held under 2500 bail for selling cocaine and morphine to prisoners, secured a workhouse physician post via Tammany ties. Prosecutors allege prior drug and license revocation facts. grand jury to weigh the charge Monday while other counts were dismissed.
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Charles Baxter
Patrick A. Whitney
Correction
Patrick J. MacGrath
20Th Assembly
Katharine B. Davis
Whitney
Medical Board
Baxter
Davis
Assemblyman McGrath
State Board of Regents
McGrath
Cherokee Club
Nick’ Hayes
Assembly
Riverhead
Long Island
Corning
N. Y O
Long Island Medical College
Williamsburg
Bellevue
Knickerbocker Hospital
Man escapes by leaping from fast train window
Edward Jackson of Blairsville Kentucky, arrested in Blairsville on charges of robbing telephone booths and defrauding merchants, jumped through a window of a Cumberland Valley Railroad train near Harrisburg Pennsylvania while being moved to custody. He escaped as the train neared Steelton.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Edward Jackson
Blairsville
Steelton
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Bryant Will Favors Vivisection Fight And Scholarships
The will of Dr. Joseph D. Bryant filed in Surrogates Court details more than 10000 for vivisection opposition. He leaves 15000 to his daughter, 290 to her child, 100 to New York University, and substantial residue to institutions including the New York Academy of Medicine and Norwich Hospital. Provisions provide for a monument, scholarships, and continuations conditioned on deaths and remarriage. Separate item notes a suffrage demand in Chicago urging vote for U S Senate.
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Joseph D. Bryant
Grover Cleveland
Rt.Vincent's Hospital
Florence Bryant de Poreter
Chicago
Annette A. Beyeant
West Sth St
New Tors University
da Peynter
Bryant
New York University
New York Academy of Medicine
First Baptist Church of Norwich
N. Y
Norwich Hospital
Vincent's Hospital
American Association of Chicago
Bellevue Hospital
St. John’s Guild
Medical Society
State of New York
Norwich
First Baptist Church
de Peymer
New York Uniersity
University
Bellevue Hospital Medical College
American Medical Association
Mount Hope Cemetery
First Baptist Church of
Academy of Medicine
Academy
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