Interrogation of Chung Sin Deepens Murder Confession
Lingering contradictions plague Chung Sin as detectives and interpreter Quang Wick Nam press for full truth about Elsie Sigel’s death. Sin admits entering the room with the body and aiding Leon, while new testimony raises questions on trunk disposal and potential chloroform use.
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Elsie
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Nam
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Chicago Banks Merge Forming Two Into One Group
Chicago America Trust and Savings Bank and Continental National Bank announced a merger to consolidate under one umbrella. The combined entity will keep both names, with Continental National expanding capital to 9 million and American Trust retaining its status. Deposits total about 109 million. Reynolds and Potter will swap top roles.
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American Trust and Savings Bank
Continental National Bank
George M. Reynolds
Edwin A Potter
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National Bank
One National
Continental National
American Trust
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Artist William Verplanck Birney Dies in Auto Crash
William Verplanck Birney, New York City artist, died in Saratoga Springs when a cerebral stroke struck him while riding in his automobile. His wife, at his side, jumped clear as the car left the road and toppled into a ditch. Birney, born in Cincinnati in 1858, studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Pennsylvania Academy under Eakins, and the Munich Academy. He exhibited widely, was a member of several art clubs, and lived at 58 West 57th Street. He was a son of General William B. Birney and a grandson of James G. Birney, abolitionist and former Liberty party presidential candidate.
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Cincinnati
Walter Smith
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Thomas Eakins
Munich Academy
America
New York
Mr. Birney
United States
Novel City Celebration Bath Miss Sisson to England
Bath Illinois on June 23 selects Miss May Sisson to represent the town at Bath England's pageant July 19 to 24. She departs June 30 aboard the Lusitania from New York, likely with other state entrants. The Bath name appears in many U S towns including New York New Hampshire Maine Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Missouri Kentucky Illinois South Dakota North and South Carolina plus Bath Beach N Y Bath Springs Tenn and Bathgate N C.
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May Sisson
Bath
England
Miss Sisson
New York
Lusitania
New Hampshire
Maine
Ohio
Pennsylvania
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Missouri
Deaf Mutes Die in Train Collision Near Junction
J Benton Harbor Mich June 23 Scores of farmers saw two deaf mutes Mr and Mrs Rodney Rector go to their deaths when a passenger train struck the buggy they drove toward a road crossing. The couple, approaching the village on the crossing angle, were killed as the engine whistled unseen by the deaf pair.
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Tribune
Benton Harbor
Mich
Rodney Recter
Rector
Furness’s Sacrifice Futile in Typhoid Death
Mrs. Horace Jayne, daughter of Shakespeare scholar Dr. Horace Howard Furness, died at her Delaware County home after typhoid fever. Her brother Dr. William Henry Furness attempted a blood transfusion, giving at least a quart of blood, but the operation did not save her. Mrs. Jayne was a prominent figure in Philadelphia society and private theatricals.
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Philadelphia
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Horace Howard Furness
Delaware County
William Henry Furness
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Fire destroys Atemajac Cotton Mill in Guadalajara
A Guadalajara dispatch reports the Atemajac Cotton Mills in Jalisco were destroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated at 1,000,100 with 300,000 insured. More than two thousand workers displaced. Public details available via Information Section in the Yellow Page Telephone Directory.
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Guadalajara
Jalisco
Compania Industriale de Guadalajara
Waterbury Foils DoJ Agent in Harlem Chase
Waterbury alias Julius Hord known as Doc Waterbury eludes a DoJ special agent in Harlem after a mid afternoon hotel escape. A patrolman tackles him, cuffs him, and he is taken to the 125th Street station pending arraignment and possible transfer to Washington for a prior swindle indictment. He fled with a woman, believed to be his wife, leaving luggage at a Tea Store near 125th and 126th streets. Waterbury had prior swindling cases in Manila Scotland and Lenox Massachusetts.
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Lenox
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Pittsfield
Five Americans Lost in Killarney Lake Tragedy
A large rowboat carrying five Americans four English travelers and four Irish boatmen was swamped in a gale on Lower Killarney Lake. Five travelers and two boatmen drowned including Mrs. A. A. Hilton of Tacoma and two Lougheads of Boston. Survivors were exhausted. bodies not recovered. The group, guests at the Great Southern Hotel, had started sightseeing this morning as a northwest gale hit the lake.
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Loughead
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Catum
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London
Florence Wilkinson
Brentwood
Essex
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Con” Gleeson
Great Southern
Mr. Barton
Murders confessed by Missouri inmate
Jefferson City June 23 William Murphy already serving time for criminal assault confessed to six murders in a letter to his wife. He named victims including a baby, Roy Ibes the butcher Red MacMintery Joe Warden a Missouri Pacific fireman and his eight year old nephew Charlie Vance. He claimed the police never suspected him.
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William Murphy
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Roy Ibes
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Red’ MacMintery
Joe’ Warden
Missouri Pacific
Charlies Vance
Spanish Pride Hurt Over Isla de Luzon Visit
Havana reports the Diario Español denounces the planned visit of the former Isla de Luzon gunboat in Havana. Once seized at Manila, the ship now trains Louisiana naval militia, seen as a US insult and a flaunting of a flag bearing many shames.
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Diario Espafiol
Isla de Luzon
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Manila
Louisiana
United States
Bride, 5 Weeks Married, Dies by Gas in Philadelphia
Mrs Gladys Davis Martin Benson, 22, a bride of five weeks, killed herself by inhaling illuminating gas in a Spring Garden street lodging house. Her husband Paul Benson, 23, is jailed in Moyamensing Prison on theft charges by his father. He reportedly hails from a wealthy Minneapolis family and has been in Philadelphia six months.
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Tribun
Philadelphia
Gladys Davis Martin Benson
Spring Garden Street
Paul Benson
Moyamensing
Benson
Minneapolis
Mount Carmel
Life sentence for Renard at Versailles trial
In Versailles on June 23 a second trial of Renard the Remy estate steward ended in a guilty verdict for homicide without premeditation with extenuating circumstances. He received life imprisonment at hard labor amid defense appeals claiming jury bias. The case drew attention over Courtois's deathbed confession and prior testimony of involvement in Remy’s stabbing.
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Hero of The Virginian on Trial in Philadelphia
Philadelphia policeman Charles D. Skirdin, long identified as the model for the novel hero, was on trial for the murder of John Bradley last November. Bradley was shot during an arrest, with author Owen Wister briefly testifying in his favor before the coroner, then later discharged after a new indictment. Most of today’s session aimed to select jurors amid visible sympathy for the defendant.
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Philadelphia
Charles D. Skirdin
Owen Wister
Virginian
John Bradley
Bradley
Skirdin
Wister
Pike's Peak flood gates opened by armed group
Six men believed from Victor Colo held water system caretaker at Pike's Peak and opened flood gates, releasing 174 million gallons into the Victor reservoir. The caretaker was held briefly and telephoned for help as a ten man sheriff posse rode toward the scene. Tensions over Pike's Peak water supplies between Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek flare.
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Pike's Peak
Cripple Creek
Priest Drowned While Bathing at South Beach
In St. Augustine Florida Father Buckley assistant rector of the cathedral drowned off South Beach this afternoon after venturing too far from shore. Father Ray from Tampa helped but both men exhausted. Ray saved by John Spencer Buckley a native of Ireland ordained about a year ago. Body not recovered. The Information Section. Yellow Pages of the New York City Telephone Directory contains information of general interest. Consult it Advi.
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Father Buckley
South Beach
Father Ray
Tampa
John Spencer
Ireland
New York City
Rio de Janeiro in Darkness After Gas Workers Strike
Rio de Janeiro faces a citywide blackout as gas company workers, part of the Light and Power Company, strike. No disorders reported, but service is disrupted across the metropolis.
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Deweys Pure Grape Juice Advertisement
Pure grape juice claims to purify the blood and nourish the body. Advertisement from H. T. Dewey & Sons Co. at 135 Fulton Street, New York.
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H. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Count Torok Injured Jumping on Streetcar
Count Alexander Torok Austrian Embassy attaché was seriously hurt tonight while boarding a streetcar. He jumped on the running board at high speed, was struck by a pole, and hurled to the ground. He was taken to Emergency Hospital where doctors say the injuries are serious but he will probably recover. He asked that news be kept from his aged European mother.
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Washington
Alexander Torok
Baron Ambrozy
Count Torok
Europe
Coast Artillery Closes Hampton Roads In Record Test
The coast artillery under Brigadier General Arthur Murray closed the entire entrance to Hampton Roads with submarine mines in eight hours and forty five minutes at Fort Monroe. The test showed dockside loading, cable preparation, mine planting, and successful firing at moving targets, demonstrating high efficiency in U S submarine defense.
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Washington
Coast Artillery
Arthur Murray
Fort Monroe
Hampton Roads
United States
Payne Leads "Fans" At Baltimore Montreal Game
A distinguished Washington party attended the Baltimore versus Montreal Eastern League game as guests of club president Edward Hanlon. The guests included Representatives Serena Payne, Ralph Cole, Charles Townesend, Thomas Butler, Joseph Gaines, J. W. Burns, John Tener, and Judge J. B. Fisher. Tener previously played in the National League under Hanlon.
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Montreal
Edward Hanlon
Serena E. Payne
New York
Ralph D. Cole
Ohio
Charles E. Townsend
Michigan
Thomas S Butler
Pennsylvania
Joseph H Gaines
West Virginia
J. W. Burns
Tennessee
John K. Tener
J. B. Fisher
Jamestown
Representative Tener
Hanlon
Yacht Christabel Runs Aground In Hay Harbor
New London June 23 the steam yacht Christabel owned by Walton Ferguson ran on an uncharted ledge entering Hay Harbor Fisher’s Island New York and held fast with bow out of water A vain effort to free her using engines failed and the Mannatawker passenger steamer abandoned rescue awaiting high water Captain Carter commands the Christabel Ferguson largely owns Fisher’s Island except for a small government tract at Fort Wright.
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New London
Conn
Hay Harbor
Fisher's Island
New York
Christabel
Walton Ferguson
Carter
Mr. Ferguson
United States
Fort Wright Reservation
Fisherman Finds Ambergris Fortune Off Atlantic City
Atlantic City June 23. Captain Walter Larson of the S J Moffatt found a lump of ambergris weighing about 150 pounds in a distant offshore fishing trip. Estimated value ranges from 1 to 28 dollars per pound, totaling around 36.40. The owner, Holly Beach councilman William Turner, received the lump.
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Atlantic City
Walter Larson
S. J. Moffatt
Holly Beach
New York
May Marry Anywhere In New York State Opinion
Albany June 23 Attorney General O Malley reverses former opinion by Jackson and holds that couples may marry anywhere in the state if both parties are residents or one resident and the ceremony may be held outside the license issuing town unless the woman is a non resident. The license must be from the woman residence town clerk.
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Albany
O'Malley
W. S. Jackson
Priest Uses Ammonia Pistol to Shield Suspect
In Cleveland on June 23 Father Joseph Militello of Holy Rosary Church confronted a mob bent on lynching Antonio Caponegro, an alleged killer aged eighteen. Believing the ammonia pistol real, he followed the crowd, frightened leaders, and handed Caponegro to police after disarming the mob.
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Joseph Militello
Holy Rosary
Antonio Caponegro
Coponegro
Ernest Palostro
Father Militello
Thirteenth Child Offered For Sale Refused By Parents
Edward Yates and wife in Trenton New Jersey reject two offers of 10000 for their thirteenth child born June 13. Offers came from Edward Yates a Pittsfield Illinois lawyer and John T. Yates sovereign clerk of the Woodmen of the World Omaha. The man proposes to take the parents west to view the home for their daughter. The mother declares the baby is not for sale and is incensed. Montauk Steamship Co announces Shinnecock schedule from New Piers NY to Block Island starting June 26 with departures on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1 PM and 5 30 PM.
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Edward Yates
Pittsfield
John T. Yates
Sovereign Clerk
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Omaha
Montauk Steamboat CO. (Ltd
Shinnecock
NX. Y
Block Island
Corporation tax plan completed as Taft presses publicity clause
Washington dispatch reports Senator Root and the Attorney General finalized wording for the corporation tax amendment at the White House conference. The draft, naming mutuals and insurance firms, moves to Aldrich for Senate action, with publicity provisions intact and public records access promised.
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Washington
Senator Root
Attorney General
White House
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Senate
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Mutual Savings Banks
Root
Tax on earnings opposed by Boston corporations
Sixty Boston corporations urged the taxation committee of the Chamber of Commerce to reject a government tax on corporate earnings. They proposed taxing dividends instead. Also mentions the Telephone Directory Yellow Pages as a handy information section.
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Chamber of Commerce
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