Cocchi Indicted for Ruth Cruger Murder
Grand jury in New York indicts Alfredo Cocchi for first degree murder in Ruth Cruger case. State Department seeks extradition from Italy as officials pledge broad inquiry into police bungling and possible accomplices. Ruth Cruger burial draws city mourners as extradition steps accelerate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cruger
Alfredo Cocchi
State Department
Washington
Cocchi
Italy
Swann
Arthur Woods
New York
Kensico
Italy to Extradite Cocchi For Trial in U S
Washington reports the State Department asks Italy for provisional arrest of Alfredo Cocchi, alleged Ruth Cruger killer. Italy likely to comply, though a legal fight may follow, recalling Porter Charlton case and Italy’s constitutional limits on extraditing Italian subjects for capital crimes. The move coincides with U S entry into war and could speed Cocchi’s return for trial.
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Washington
Alfredo Cocchi
Ruth Cruger
State Department
Italy
United States
Porter Charlton
Lake Como
Haly
Supreme Court
Charlton
Cocchi
Two Children Testify In Mooney Murder Trial
In Sky Francisco on June 18, two children of Myrtle Irene Van Loo testified at the trial of Mrs. Rena Mooney, charged with murder in the July bombing that killed Van Loo. Marie and Richard Van Loo, aged four and ten, showed their scars to the jury as experts Arthur H. Crane and James C Costello testified for the state about an alarm clock device and the bomb, with prosecutors linking the suitcase blast to the sidewalk. The defense contends the bomb was thrown from a roof.
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Sky Francisco
Rena Mooney
Marie
Richard van Loo
Myrtle Irene van Loo
Myx. Mooney
Arthur H. Crane
James C Costello
Louis Perid
Contello
Stewart
Market Streets
Mrs Humiston to Fight for Laws Protecting Young Girls
Grace Humiston, famed Ruth Cruger finder, pledges lifelong effort to rescue and return missing girls if funds are raised. She calls for a Ruth Cruger memorial fund and a humane home for victims, and vows to push laws making criminal perversion punishable while avoiding a fixed stance on woman suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Humiston
Grace Humiston
Ruth Cruger
Viscount Astor Seeks Writ Over High Madison Ave Taxes
Viscount William Waldorf Astor, via counsel, obtained a writ of certiorari to review the Board of Taxes and Assessments action fixing taxes on eight Madison Avenue properties in New York. He argues many properties are assessed below 80 percent of value, while his assessment nears actual value. Buildings cited include Hawkers Trust Company Building, Hotel Martinique, and Union Time Savings Bank Building with notable under or over valuations.
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Madison Avenue
William Waldorf Astor
Board of Taxes and Advorstments
Viscount Astor
New York
Hawkers Trust Company
Martinique
Union Time Savings Bank
Daylight Bandits Loot Satchel Then Get Caught in Brooklyn
Two men Angelo Morello and Frank Romano chased through Brooklyn after robbing Greenpoint broker Bernard Tellin of a satchel with 14000 in cash and 5000 in checks. Patrols fired warning shots, a chase ended in a Rutledge Street basement where the satchel and money were recovered. Morello and Romano are held to answer robbery charges.
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Bernard Tellinger
Greenpoint
Brooklyn
Tellinger
Hewes Street
Marcy Avenue
Althous Tellinger
Reif
Bedford Avenue
Rutledge Street
Ay Angelo Morello
Frank Romano
Favors Annulment of Calhoun Marriage
Referee John G. Agar urged the Supreme Court to grant an annulment for John C. Calhoun Jr. from Mrs Mary Virginia Calhoun, arguing she still had a living husband when wed in 1913. The suit cites her prior marriages to Filiott Reed and Dr Benjamin E Irwin, whom she believed dead. The Calhouns lived at 867 Madison Avenue, home also of Colonel John Calhoun, financier and railroad builder.
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John G. Agar
Supreme Court
John C. Calhoun, Jr
Mary Virginial Calhoun
John Quincy Adams
Calhoun
Atlanta
Benjamin E. Irwin
United States Navy
Samo
Filiott W. Reed
Florida
Irwin
Reed
Calhouns
Madison Avenue
John ©. Calhoun
Hat Makers Suspend Operations Across Danbury Plants
Following the Hat Manufacturers' Association decision to suspend factory work until a new wage schedule is agreed, several Danbury plants failed to open this morning. Workers in multiple shops have requested union arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danbury
Conn
Unclear text fragment on museum and events
Fragmentary OCR mentions multiple institutions and names, including museums and halls, with garbled phrases about events, lectures, and people. No clear single event or outcome emerges. summary conservatively notes readable entities without asserting details.
Jury Selected In Record Time To Try Coal Men
A federal trial opens with twelve jurors chosen swiftly to hear charges against sixty four individuals and 108 corporations for conspiring to fix coal prices. The Smokoless Coal Operators Association and allies allegedly dictated prices across 1914 to 1916 and into January this year, with hundreds of defendants present and a large body of documentary evidence expected. Legal teams include Geland and O'Brian for the government and Stanchfield and O'Gorman for defense.
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Federal Building
Yesterdy
Tatesmen
John B. Stanchfield
St. Deland
Oviand
Grubb
Met Opera Soprano Sued for Divorce in Supreme Court
Singer Me sth Karnes Mason of the Metropolitan Opera Company was sued for divorce yesterday in the Supreme Court by Norman Mason, architect and artist. Rumors of pending action circulated after Clothilde Polacco filed against Giorgio Polaero. No corespondent named yet. Polacco case sent to a referee for hearing and Mason suit likely to be heard in secret.
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Karnes Mason
Metropolitan Opera Company
Supreme Court
Norman Mason
Clothilde Polacco
Giorgio Polaero
Metropolitan Opera House
Polacco
Mason
Prosecutor Says He Knows Piper Slaying Suspect
In New Brunswick Prosecutor Joseph Strickler vows to arrest the shooter in the Vincent Piper case, saying he possesses the revolver and knows the man who killed the Rutgers University student whose body was found in the woods Saturday. Piper, a University of Vermont graduate, had come to New Brunswick with his wife and two children after a postgraduate program.
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New Brunswick
Jaune
Vincent Piper
Rutgers Colle
Joseph Strickler
Piper
University of Vermont
Rutger Vie
Bic
Princess Pignatelli Ends War With Cook After Indemnity
Princess Pignatelli settles suit with former cook Miss Beatrice Gaughan for 133 dollars paying for facial scratches and blemishes. Douglas Lawrence, attorney for the cook, says the Aragon and Listorie County Cork feud is resolved. The princess, once Ruth Morgan Waters of Red Bank New Jersey, faced a prior assault conviction and fine of ten dollars.
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Princess d'Aragon
Pignatelli
Beatrice Gaughan
Douglas Lawrence
Aragon
Lawrence
Justice Jones
Mrs. Pignatelli
Ruth Morgan Waters
G. Jason Waters
Red Bank
N. J
New York
Mrs Hanan Hurt in Sea Gate Auto Crash
Mrs. A P Hanan Jr wife of Alfred F Hanan of Hanan Son retail shoe firm was seriously injured in a car crash in Sea Gate last night. William H Hanan and chauffeur Eugene Caca were also hurt with head concussion. Truck from Imens Auto Company struck the Hanan car, pinning occupants. Eckhoff of Imens surrendered hours later at Coney Island station. Mrs Hanan believed to have internal injuries and a fractured shoulder blade. Source notes witness accounts and neighborhood alarm.
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Ass. Hanan
Alfred F Hanan
Hanan & Son
Sea Gate
William H. Haana
Eugene Caca
Hanan
Imens Auto Company
Union Street
Brooklyn
John Eckhoff
Coney Island
Hawan
Atlantic Avenue
C. Te Love
Hansa
Fickhoff
Auto Collision Hurts Three In Woodside Long Island
Mrs Edith E Bloodgood of 149 West Forty fifth Street and her husband Harry Bloodgood a costumer along with chauffeur Clifford Shen were badly hurt when their car collided with a machine driven by Shen and owned by Harry Payne Whitney. The crash happened at Jackson Avenue and Thin Street Woodside Long Island.
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Edith E. Stoongood
West Forty-fifth Street
Harry Bloodgood
Clifford Shen
Mrs. Bloodgood
Shen
Harry Payne Whitney
Jackson Avenue
Thin Street
Woodside
Long Island
City denounces car lines bid for 2 cent transfers
Hearings on street railway petition to raise transfers opened before the Public Service Commission. City lawyers challenged the commission’s jurisdiction and the petition’s sufficiency, while Third Avenue Railroad argued for a fair return amid rising costs. The chair’s impartiality faced scrutiny as proceedings continued.
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Public Service Commission
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Hardy
Mitchel
Ernest E. Baldwin
Baldwin
Third Avenue Company
Commission
Public Service Law
Chase Pursues Thief Through Fifth Avenue Jewelry Heist
James Todd of Chariton and Co. identified Ken, a jewelry thief who vanished with 2600 dollars of gems last December. A running chase through crowds ended when Patrolman John Quigley nabbed him near Delmonico’s, and he was jailed in Yorkville on 2800 dollar bond.
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Irth Avenue
James Todd
Chariton & Co
Todd
Ken
Chariton
John Quigley
Del+ monico’s
Yorkville Court
Jury Awards 225000 to Miss OBrien in Breach Suit
A Queens Supreme Court verdict awarded Miss Honora May O'Brien 225000 for breach of promise plus 25000 punitive damages against John Bernard Manning. The judge postponed ruling on setting aside the verdict as excessive. Manning vowed to appeal. Miss O'Brien returned to work while her backers anticipate a long legal fight.
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Honora May O'Brien
John Bernard Manning
Riverside Drive
Cos
Cyrey
Manning
Mr. Littleton
Miss O’brien
Maning
T. R. Denounces England's Enemies Here as Traitors
Oyster Bay June 14 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in a Lyric Theatre address for the Red Cross denounced anti English sentiment in America as treasonous. He urged curtailing wartime pleasures and redirecting money to relief work. He condemned those favoring England over the United States as unpatriotic and traitorous. Also noted: Alice, matel Marseilles street, died in Volunteer Hospital ambulance after a sudden illness at his Broadway office.
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Tomomy
Oyster Bay
Thatdore Roosevelt
Lyric Theatre
Red Cross
United States
England
Red
Europe
D. E. Alice
Erat
Matel
Thomas H. C. Reed Jonas Jn. Seat Manager Dies
Thomas H. C. Reed Jonas Jn., seat manager of the restaurance department of the Prolotity and Casualty Company, died recently at his home 225 East Fiftyseventh Street. He was born in Maryland, about forty years ago, and was a member of a noted old Southern Seats. He had resided in New York until recently.
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Jonas Jn
Prolotity and Casualty Company
East Fiftyset Inth
Mr. Reed
Maryland
Seo
New York
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A. P. Hanan, Jr
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Allied Boards of Trades and Taxpayers’ Protective Association of Brooklyn
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CMT
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James O'Brien
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