Betting Case Argued Over Definition of Gambling
In the Supreme Court Justice Bischoff heard arguments on whether betting between individuals falls under the new gambling law. Collins was re arrested after a prior habeas corpus writ was sought, with defense contending the law targets bookmakers not casual bettors. The case tests the law’s reach and the definition of gambling beyond organized betting.
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Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Melville Collins
Sheepshead Beych
John B. Stanchfield
Collins
Robert H. Elder
Kings County
Allen
Bey
Court of Appeals
Bischoff
Bright
Coney Island Police Court
Herbert Barry
Davies, Stome & Auerbach
Coney Island Hockey Club
Elder
Coney Island
Tighe
Rbischot
Manhattan
Ace Sheriff
Kings
John ©. Stamchfield
DeLancey Nicoll
Captain Berry
Pendleton
Pen
Hotspur
Stanchfield
University Club
Nicoll
Pendieten
Bryan
Denver
Mc Elee
Gambins
le El¢er
de I Nicoll
Mr. Nicoll
Agarnest
Opperman
W. E. Durgin
Weite- Davis
Robert Hopkins
WU to Remove Wires at Coney Island Track
Western Union Telegraph Company and the Coney Island Jockey Club clash over wire rent at Sheepshead Bay The club orders wires removed after years of no payment and the company hints removal will occur after the final race reporters prepare to install phones for the day.
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Coney Island Jockey Club
Western Union Telegraph Com Pary
Sheepsheld Bay sTar Track
Coney Island
Edward 4. Mulford
West@minion
Mr. Mulford
Coney Island Club
Western Union
Anti Gambling Campaign Report Cites High Cost Figures
Albany June 2 The Rev Walter Laidlaw of Tarrytown chairs the citizens anti race track gambling committee and certifies to the Secretary of State that expenses were mostly for mass meetings and 51.03 for publicity agents in pushing the anti race track bills.
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Albany
Walter Laidlaw
Tarrytown
Citizens
Personal Liberty League Chooses Franklin Bartett President
Colonel Franklin Bartett to lead the newly organized Personal Liberty League with duties starting at 7. The league, formed amid Agnes Hart bills concerns, invites applicants and welcomes members from across the state. Jetters a Smith is noted as an original member.
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Personal Liberty League
Franklin Bartett
S. League
Noise Abatement Sought Over Night Horns and July Celebrations
Health Commissioner Darlington appeals to Police Commissioner Bingham to curb nocturnal honking by automobiles and other nuisances. He cites riverboat whistles, metal rail clanging, late night horn use, and Fourth of July noise near hospitals. General Bingham to place a patrolman at each hospital on July 3 4 and 5 and discuss a cooperation plan.
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Darlington
Bingham
Long Acre Electric Light Denied Bond Issue Mortgage
Public Service commissioners deny the Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company’s request to mortgage property for a $50,000,000 bond issue and to issue $10,000,000 in stock. They note doubts about title to the 1897 New York City franchise and question the legality of prior bonds, warning independent operation would disrupt the public and may not endure.
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Public Service Commissioners
Long Acre Electric Light and Power Company
Public Service Commission
Old City of
New York
Long Acre
Automatic electric device to reduce rail accidents tested in New York
Invented by F. Lacroix the device uses electricity and includes a full telephone link to every train section. It will be trialed on the Staten Island division of the Baltimore and Ohio with Major Creighton Webb optimistic about its potential and several major rail systems weighing adoption.
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F. Lacroix
Creighton Webb
East 44Th Street
Staten Island
Baltimore & Ohio
Webb
Grand Central Station
125Th Street
Brooklyn
Fulton Street
L. F.vosburgh
Broadway
Madison
Subway Strike Settlement Ends Marble Workers Tie Up
A settlement ended the general strike of marble workers and tile layers who quit at the Williamsburg Bridge approaches. Strikers returned to work as an agreement requires only union men to be employed until project completion.
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Manhattan Subway
Williamsburg Bridge
Public Service Commission orders action against rail line rule breach
The Public Service Commission directs its counsel George S. Coleman to initiate Supreme Court proceedings to collect penalties for violating an order. The violation concerned using a car with a single forward circuit breaker on the Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad. Penalties may reach up to 1000 dollars per day of noncompliance.
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Public Service Commission
George S. Coleman
Supreme Court
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company
Public Service Commissions Act
New York and Port Chester Railway Seeks Time Extension
The New York and Port Chester Railway Company petitioned the Board of Estimate for an extension to June 11, 1918 to comply with contract work. The division of franchises recommended denial, but the board granted six months extra time.
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New York & Port Chester Railway Company
Board of Estimate
Division of Franchises
Editor Dies From Stab Wounds At Flushing Watchman
G Frank McKenna editor of The Flushing Watchman died at Flushing Hospital after a June 6 stabbing. His father James McKenna is held on homicide charges amid sympathy for the prisoner. The son, 32, had wed Grace Stewart of Flushing. Police say a quarrel over intemperate habits preceded the stabbing. The father will be examined by the coroner soon. Dreamland hosts New York Saleswomen Festival July 11 with fifty thousand workers.
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G. Frank McKenna
Flushing
Coney Island
Dreamland
New York
Indicted American Ice Company case adjourned to July 20
In the Criminal Branch Justice Goff delayed ruling on four restraint of trade indictments against the American Ice Company. A Stanchfield clerk sought adjournment while motions to inspect Grand Jury minutes a bill of particulars and a demurrer were served. Stanchfield noted lack of time to prepare. A dismissal motion also to be argued July 20.
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American Ice Company
Goff
Supreme Court
John B. Stanchfield
James W. Osborne
Grand Jury
Stanchfield
Peters Not Free Yet New Perjury Charge
Ex-Alderman Henry Clay Peters was found not guilty in a perjury trial after forty five minutes. He was rearrested on another perjury charge tied to grand jury testimony in the Municipal Ownership League bribery case and held on $1,000 bail. Clifford and Kunze received sentences or bonds as court criticized their testimony and conduct.
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Henry Clay Peters
Supreme Court
Grand
Municipal Ownership League
Goff
Francis J. O'Connor
Harburger
Peters
Clifford
Cowing
Abraham Levy
Levy
Smyth
Kunze
Bronx
Justice Goff
Doodle
Elmira
Protests Against Five Cent Fare On Mount Vernon Rail Lines
Citizens in Mount Vernon New Rochelle and Westchester County protest Receiver Whitridge's order to charge five cents per passenger on Third Avenue and Union Railway lines after August 1. The transfer system ends at 129th Street, raising fares without cross-line transfers. A meeting with Mayor Howe and others failed to sway the decision while discussion of leasing the Union line to Westchester Electric Railway proceeds.
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Mount Vernon
New Rochelle
Westchester County
Whitridge
Third Avenue
Union Railway
Westchester Electric Railway
Union Lines
177Th Street
129Th Street
Howe
J. Mortimer Bell
Joseph S. Wood
Otto Huffiand
Justice Lacombe
Wood
Union Line
J. Addison Young
Ocean trip without expense for immigrant woman
Mrs. Elizabeth Laycock an alien resident for 22 years solved the transatlantic trip problem by boarding the Campania without funds or ticket and having her fare paid by wireless contact. She was put aboard the Mauretania for return passage and spared deportation as she had not entered a foreign country.
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Elizabeth Laycock
Europe
Florence Block
Central Avenue
Far Rockaway
Laycock
Pretended Schoolgirl Vanishes After Four Months
Revia Estelle Edwards a sixteen year old girl living at 241 Windsor Place Brooklyn vanished after deceiving her mother for four months about attending Erasmus Hall High School She claimed graduation from Public School 10 and planned amateur theatricals at Erasmus Hall but never enrolled Neither the girl nor her school attended Erasmus Hall.
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Erasmus Hall High School
Revia Estelle Edwards
Windsor Place
Brooklyn
Erasmus Hall
Aevia
Erasmus Halli
Perjury Charge Drops in Chinese Family Case
Hoi Yin, a New York restaurant owner, was fined in federal court for falsely testifying to immigration officials. A perjury count was dropped, allowing his wife and fourteen year old daughter to remain. The case has spanned since last September.
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Boston
Hoi Yin
New York
United States District Court
Girl Bitten by Bull Terrier in City Neighborhood
Mary Henry aged thirteen of 302 Fast 135th Street was bitten by a bull terrier yesterday. Dr. Wiliam E. How ley of 191 Alexander Avenue treated the wounds and said the dog was not mad. The same dog bit a small boy two weeks earlier.
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Mary Henry
135Th Street
Wiliam E. Howley
Alexander Avenue
Republicans in three districts back Taft Sherman ticket
Ratification meetings across the 10th 29th 12th and 34th Assembly Districts endorsed Taft for President and Sherman for Vice President. Speakers praised Taft's experience and Roosevelt's policies while pledging strong Republican support. District leaders included Eidman Henkel Bennet Saxe Appleby and Hammond.
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William H. Taft
James S. Sherman
10Th Assembly
Progressive Republican Club
No. 40
Second Avenue
Ferdinand Eidman
Internal Revenue Collector
Abraham Gruber
Gruber
Taft
Bryan
Roosevelt
Mr. Gruber
Republican Party
United States
Democratic Party
Congress
McKinley
Republican Club
29Th Assembly District
East 59Th Street
Chicago
29Th Assembly
Charles A. Hammond
12Th Assembly District
William Henkel Association
22D Street
Third Avenue
Sherman
William Henkel
William S. Bennet
Martin Saxe
James B. Appleby
Saxe
National Republican Club
34Th Assembly District
169Th Street
McKinley Square
Bronx
4Th Assembly District
J. A. Newstead
Grand Street
Garfield Opens Republican Campaign in Hawaii
James R. Garfield Secretary of the Interior opened the Republican campaign in the Hawaiian Islands speaking on current issues. He planned to visit Kauai on Saturday then sail home Sunday aboard the cruiser St Louis after a conference with island planters on Wednesday.
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Honolulu
James R. Garfield
Interior
Hawaiian Islands
Kausi
St. Louis
Garfield
Dover Opens Headquarters for Republican Party
Washington June 26 Elmer Dover secretary of the Republican National Committee opened the committee s headquarters in this city and began preliminary work before a chairman is appointed. It is expected headquarters will be established in New York and Chicago about August 1.
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Washington
Elmer Dover
Republican National Committee
New York
Chicas
Littlefield Attacks Sherman Law At Illinois Bar Meet
Representative Charles E. Littlefield of Maine criticizes the Sherman antitrust act as indefinite and argues proposed amendments would misapply the law. He notes few convictions since 1901 and warns against empowering a government bureau to supervise 87 million people.
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Chicago
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
Ilinois Bar Association
Lodge
Roosevelt
Littlefield
Bureau of Corporations
Roosevelt backs single head of DC government
President Roosevelt favors a new form of district government in Washington. The Post reports he wants a single commissioner or leader to head affairs in the national capital, replacing the three-commission system in place since 1872, and he plans to make this recommendation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
District of Columbia
National Capital
187& Oilg
Congressional Request on Appointment and Removal Power
A proposal to transfer both appointment and removal power to the President is discussed for consideration by Congress next winter. The plan argues centralized authority will streamline decisions and align executive actions with national policy.
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Congress
Employers Oppose Anti Injunction Push at Convention
Employers groups vow to oppose any stronger anti injunction plank than Republicans. They warn against judicial interference and have sent reps to Denver to deter labor leaders from pledging on the issue. Henry C. Slanter says Taft’s nomination pleases employers, while Bryan is unlikely to win the Democratic nomination.
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Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Denver
Taft
Henry C. Slanter
National Metal Trades Association
Bryan
Francis and Bailey Unavailable for National Ticket Roles
Telegraph report from Lincoln notes ex Governor Francis of Missouri and Senator Bailey of Texas both deemed unavailable for second ticket, campaign manager, or temporary chair roles. Theodore A. Bell of California is favored for temporary chair, with California convention endorsement. The National Committee will choose the chair at a Denver meeting in June.
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Tribune
Lincoln
Neb
Brinton
Denver
William J. Bryan
D. R. Francis
Missouri
Bryan
Francis
Bailey
Texas
Resolutions Committee
Theodore A. Bell
California
Bell
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NEW York Central Lines
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Adirondacks
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New York Central Railroad
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Worth
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