Thaw Case Moves Toward New Trial Watchful Legal Fight
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw not expected to testify as the state considers using her prior deposition. Harry K Thaw faces trial before Justice Peter Hendrick in a high profile extradition case with witnesses arriving from Canada New Hampshire and New York. The defense plans to emphasize Thaws sanity while the state relies on medical evidence to argue incurable illness. Jury selection faces strict limits and many potential jurors may be dismissed to avoid bias.
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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry XK. Thaw
Peter A. Hendrick
Supreme Court
Ardens Corpus Drocer
Susan Merrill
Willemers Jerome
Ludlow Street
Pittsburgh
Mountai
New Hampshire
United States Supreme Court
New York
Canada
New
Thaw
John B. Stanchfield
Morgan J. O'Brien
Harry
Mattenwan
White
Cook
Opin
W. J. Lynch
Subpena
City Economies Anger Labor Men
The Central Federated Union hears a tirade against city officials over wages and policy. Bakers on Blackwell’s Island push higher rates while unions clash with the board over park music funding and a proposed city employee association. Eugene A. Johiver condemns cuts to summer park music as poor economy.
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Tabor
Central Federated Union
Blackwell'n S
A. Foot L
George McAneny
Blackwell's Island
Eugene A. Johiver
Musical Mutual Protecive Union
Iabor
Arizona Launches World’s Mightiest Superdreadnought
Thousands cheered at the Navy Yard as the Arizona slid into the river in a 30 second launch. The ship weighed 31,400 tons and traveled at about 15 miles per hour, supported by massive sliding ways, cradle, and hydraulic systems under expert supervision.
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Arizona
Navy Yard
New British fighters Arizona's only rivals
A compare and contrast of the U S S Arizona and HMS Queen Elizabeth outlines armament and speed. The Arizona carries 14 inch guns and 5 inch guns with 34 000 horsepower and 31 100 ton displacement, while the Queen Elizabeth mounts 15 inch and 6 inch batteries with 58 000 horsepower and 27 500 ton displacement. Britain paid 11 750 000 for the Queen Elizabeth and the Arizona is valued at 16 000 000 when finished, each with about 1 000 crew.
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U. S
Arizona
Dardanelles
Uncle Sam
Queen
Great Britain
Navy Secretaries Speech Hindered by Officers at Luncheon
Report of Secretary Daniels address on oil protection against torpedoes and electric propulsion for the California super dreadnought to be built at the New York Navy Yard. Senator Ashurst and Hilary A. Herbert joined the remarks while access was blocked by officers holding orders.
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Daniele
Daniels
Navy
California
New York Navy Yard
Senator Ashurst
Arizona
Hilary A. Herbert
Ros
Daniels Praises Yankee Engineers At Navy Yard Dinner
Secretary Daniels lauded American naval engineers at a Brooklyn Navy Yard dinner. He outlined plans for battleships that resist torpedoes and anticipated submarines built in government yards while praising the Arizona and promising continued yard work. Governor Hunt of Arizona praised peace and the ship’s naming act, with Roosevelt and other officials in attendance.
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Daniels
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Hunt
Arizona
Washington
Roosevelt Dam
Franklin Doosevelt
Navy
William B. Wilson
Labor
Andrew J. Peters
the Treasury
James P. Maher
William M. Calder
Usher
George E. Bard
Naval Agen
Robert Stocker
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Two Held In Drug Fraud Over Sugar Pills Scheme
Magistrate Naumer held Augustus Wenzel of 384 Broadway Williamsburg and Samuel Wolff of 41 Bushwick Avenue in 200 bail each on Sanitary Code charges for selling Humphrey's Specific No 7 with pills found to be 100 percent cane sugar. The case cites Dr Marion McMillan’s affidavit and test results. In Bayonne New Jersey Helen Pilkers thirteen admitted writing threatening letters to Marie Orlow’s family, and to investigators she said she wrote them to frighten Marie into friendship.
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Inuehin Thoy
Stocker
Navy Yard
Naumer
Manhattan Avenue
Williamsburg
Augustus Wenzel
Broadway
Samuel Wolff
Bushwick Avenue
Humphrey
Marion McMillan
Sanutary
Health Department
Bayonne
N. J
Helen Pilkers
Public School 2
Marie Orlow
Helen
East Twenty-third Street
Marie
Helen’s
Jack the Ripwe
Joe
Child
Robert Lovett
Dana Believes Wife Died by Her Own Action
In Nantucket, Edmund Trowbridge Dana and his brother-in-law spoke amid a crowd at South Station about the death of Jessie Holliday Dana. Allston Dana said Jessie and Edmund had discussed suicide for eight months and that she felt she was a burden. Edmund Dana urged silence and declined to explain his reasons, indicating he believed his wife committed suicide.
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Boston
Mars
Nantucket
Jessie Holliday Dana
Edmund Trowbridge Dana
Longfellow
Sy Allston Dana
White Plains
N.Y
Edmund
South Station
Jessie
Allston Dana
Nooner
Farmer Shoots Family Then Kills Self Near Forest Ohio
In Upper Sandusky Hardin County on June 19 Harvey O Dysinger forty shot and fatally injured his wife killed daughter Esther fifteen wounded son Herbert sixteen and took his own life at his home one mile north of Forest The sole survivor was eleven year old Kenneth rescued by Herbert No reason for the act is known.
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Upper Sandusky
Ohio
Harvey O. Dysinger
Hardin County
Fonday
Esther
Herbert
Forest
Kenneth
Brooklyn Subways Open Amid Parade and Praise
Brooklyn celebrates the Fourth Avenue subway opening with a sunlit parade from Chambers Street to Coney Island. Thousands cheer as public officials, Boy Scouts, and 10,000 children honor Brooklyn and Bay Ridge while plans to trim travel time to 30 minutes are noted.
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Brooklyn
Sunant
Fourth Avenue
Manhattan
Coney
Chambers Street
Coney Island
Bay Ridge
Broonlyn
Public Service Commission
B. BR. T
Citizens’ Mittee
Twenty-second Avenue
Twentieth Avenue
Harold Huber
Lillian
Sam
Third Avenue
Public Service Commissioners
America
Jeremiah J. O'Leary
West End Board of Trade
Lewis J. Pounds
Edward E. McCall
Timothy $. Williams
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Kracker
Columbia
Thora Royston
Bay Ridge High School
Star Subway
Colonel Williams
Manhattan Bridge
Bay Ridge Club
Second Avenue
Seventy-second Street
Bird S. Coler
Hayward
Pounds
Williams
Travia Ht. Whitney
Funeral Oration Triggers Small Riot at Glenville Funeral
In Glenville near South Norwalk Connecticut on June 19 a funeral for Mrs. Lizele Upperman erupted into a small riot after the Rev. R Alonzo claimed her children treated her poorly in old age. William Upperman rose to challenge the assertion and attempted to move over pews as supporters and mourners clashed briefly before order returned.
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South
Norwalk
Conn
Glenville
R. Alonzo
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Lizele Upperman
William Upperman
Alonzo
Upperman
Silk Striped Cotton Voiles and Fancy Fabrics
Readable text describes OD 98 and 40 inch fancy voile stripes borders and allover florals on white or tinted grounds priced at 19. Silk striped cotton voil es 38 inch firm weave offered in light and dark colors with self tint hairline.
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Ripper
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WAY
NEW Subway
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Mitchel
HEARN
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Infante
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Mautching
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