Stain Clues Emerge in Ballou Death Probe
Stamford officials weigh new evidence in the Ballou case as blood stains, tobacco juice on mats, and a skirt link to Mrs. Angle. Dr. Weaver to report on a flatiron and stains. an inquest is set as Coroner Thelan prepares a plenary hearing.
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Stamford
Conn
Bruce S. Weaver
Stamford Hospital
Blood Star
Mra
Angle
Y Police
Brennan
Bal- Ton
Ballon
Homer
Cammi State
Ballou
Baleon
Leonard Blondel
Goron
Engle
Profanity Unraveling Leads to Arrest at Hardware Store
Joseph Wilson, homeless, was arrested after a loud offer of anger near J. W. Ayres hardware store led police to a break in a safe opened with a can opener. Three accomplices escaped. Fingerprints contradicted Wilson’s claim of prior arrests and revealed a 1912 Grand Larceny record from the Timita Reformatory.
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Jseph Wilson
Elizabeth St
J. W. Ayres
RR Walker
Wilae
Wilson
Timita Reformatory
Sleuth Aid for Queens Heads Inspect Long Island City Tour
Police Commissioner Woods plans a tour of inspection in Long Island City to locate a detective headquarters for Queens. Under a new bureau arrangement the entire borough will be under one head with headquarters in Long Island City, replacing two former outposts at Hunters Point and Jamaica. Captain Herbert Graham, formerly in charge at Hunters Point, will command the borough.
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Woods
Long Island City
Bane
Hunter's Point
Long’ Island City
Jamaica
Herbert Graham
Ae Friege
Prefers Cell to Pulpit Crusade by Women Preacher
June 22 Boston report on Rev W L Menker of Jamaica Plain and wife, Mrs Herbert E Smith, planning a protest aimed at breaking the law to draw attention to their teaching. Mrs Smith claims to have torn warrants and orders from the court and asserts the courts do not dare oppose their theory.
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Boston
W. Lathrop Menker
Jamaica Plainy
Herbert FE. Smith
Peopless of
Jing Smith
Dr. Meaker
Policeman's Wife Dies After Court Fight for Estate
Mrs John H McDermott of Orange New Jersey died after an ear abscess operation while awaiting a third of a $200000 estate. She had recently won a Buffalo court action to gain a third of her bachelor brother's fortune, a milk dealer in the forty years. Born in Ireland sixty eight years ago, she came to the United States at age twelve. She was twice married and leaves a husband and five children.
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Orange
N. J
John H. McDermott
Scotland St
McDermott
Buffalo
Inet
Ireland
Fire destroys Richardson and Boynton plant in Dover New Jersey
A $500000 fire at the Richardson and Boynton Company plant in Dover, New Jersey destroyed the wood framed shops except the concrete shipping building. Incendiary origin suspected. three box cars burned. Night watchman Charles Helfer reported smoke at 7:30 AM and officials noted prior plant shutdown three weeks earlier. Firefighters kept flames from spreading to nearby buildings as fleets of shops burned. J R Lyndh, secretary treasurer and mayor, could not explain the blaze and had received a threatening anti Catholic lecture notice earlier.
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Dover
Lackawanna Railroad
Fremen
J. R. Lyndh
Lynd
Mountain Cars Stop Orange Line After Long Struggle
Orange Mountain Trolley Company halted service for the first time in six years as Public Service Company cut power over debts. Frank Brewer, vice president, said the venture was losing from the start and a terminal issue doomed the system. A franchise to extend along Central Way to serve passengers near the Lackawanna Railroad faced bids from Public Service and support from the Town Council for the bigger firm.
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Wen Orange
Orange Mountain Trolley Company
Public Service Company
Frank Brewer
First Reading
Central Ay, Orange
Lackawanna Railroad
Intt
Burglars Loot Rockaway Homes
Reported burglaries in Rockaway targetted two seaside cottages. At the Trokie residence, Mrs. Trokie lost a $400 diamond ring, $300 earrings, a gold watch, pins and brooches totaling about $1,000 as a young thief fled. In a second incident at Nora De Hart’s Maple Street cottage, a gold watch, a diamond brooch and a diamond pin valued at $400 were stolen after two well dressed men sought rooms for rent.
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William Trokie
Excelsior Pad Company
Broadway
South Park Av
Arverne
Anya
Trokie
Mra. Trokie
Trokies
Son shoots mother's slayer in Brooklyn murder duel
J Gustave Gehring shot Anna Fox at 178 Meeker Ave Brooklyn after she ordered him to leave. Charles Fox captured him after Gehring fired, Gehring wounded, Mrs Fox died two hours later at St Catharine's Hospital Williamsburg. Gehring confessed intent to kill Mrs Fox and himself.
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J. Gustave Gehring
St. Catharine’ Hospital
Williamsburg
Charles Fox
Gehring
Anna Fox
Meekeray
Brooklyn
Wester
Fox
Dillon
Herbert St
Harrington
Dilson
Heth
St Catharine's Hospital
James Irwin
St. Cecilia
Mra. Fox
Trenton Ex Mayor Frank A McGowan Taken to Asylum
Former Trenton mayor and leading rubber manufacturer Frank A McGowan was hospitalized today after a mental collapse. Once a two term mayor and 1914 governor candidate, his later years saw business decline and domestic troubles whispered as factors.
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F. A. McGowan
Onton
Frank A. McGowan
McGowan
Painting in Church Unveiled at New Windsor
New Windsor on Hudson New York June The mural by Lee Woodward Zeigler depicting fifty lifesize martyrs saints and angels was unveiled today in St Thomas Church Zeigler director of St Paul Art School Minnesota has ties to the old church The Gothic stone church sits near the Hudson where Washington planned battles and is the mother church of all Episcopal parishes in Orange County Colonel Thomas Ellison founded it in 1727
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New Windsor-on-Hudson
Junes& Lee Woodward
Zeigler
St. Thomas's’ Church
St. Paul (Minn
Washington
Yorktown
Newburgh
Thomas Ellison
Orange County
Western women voters plan New York tour in 1915 campaign
Teal women from western states travel to New York this fall to press for women’s suffrage with a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall on November 6 and stops across the state. Carrie Chapman Catt leads the campaign. delegates from California Washington Idaho Oregon Kansas and Colorado join. Campaign funds reach fifty thousand dollars and summer outreach includes auto campaigns and suffrage booths at national fairs.
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New York
Oder
Carrie Chapman Catt
Empire State Campaign
Catt
Buffalo
California
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Kanana
Colorado
Saratoga
Tony
Mary Garrett Hay
Ex Wife Sues Over Alimony and Baroness Suits over Paintings
The Bishop divorce case reveals Mrs Abigail Bishop seeking security for $24 weekly alimony, alleging litigious paranoia and threats to leave for Europe. James Cunningham Bishop denies evading support, hidings assets, and seizing property while claiming he paid alimony until illness. Baroness Aurelia de Tonnay sues John W. Van Dyke claiming profits from paintings worth up to $1 million, saying she bought works in Europe and that a sale was prevented. The suit outlines a vast collection including Velázquez and Rembrandt works valued at hundreds of thousands to millions.
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James Cunningham Bishop
Abigail H. Bishop
Bishop
Hoo
Io Mishop
Mrs. Bishop
Corots
Rembrandts
Velasquezes
Aurelia de Tonnay
Supreme Court
John W. van Dyke
Phildelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
van Dyke
Europe
Baroness de Tonnay
Drefendant
Gladstone #t
Philadelphia
Paris
Farachai Astruz
J. P. Morgan
Antraz
Mme. Trabella Doria
Haroness de Tonnay
Infante Maria Teresa
Vel
Delanyo Fragonard
Veronese
Cross
Peter Porbus
Millet
Dia
Comtesse Henriette de Tourillins
Nicolas de Largilliere
Comte Etienne Robert de Torgot
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Christ
Murillo
Velasques
Goya
Rembrandt
Royal Palace
Holland
Discovery of a cave called squaws retreat in New Jersey
Warren County site at Frelinghuysen Township near Devil's Kitchen Farm yields 200 plus pottery pieces with chevron motifs, deer and bird bones, freshwater mussel shells, and charcoal floor. Archeologist Max Schrabisch and Jupite Wiseh note the secluded cave, twelve feet deep and fourteen feet high, lacking flint or arrowheads, suggesting a women’s refug e during conflict.
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Biskstown
Max. Schrabisch
Warren County
Harvey Coursen
Frelinghuysen Township
Jupite
Sehra- Wiseh
Hoodoo Peg Post Doomed by Woman Spy in City Precinct
Policemen in the 2d Precinct cheer the slated abolition of the hoodoo peg post, blamed on a insomnia plagued neighbor who reports and letters to officials. The post spans from 15th to 42nd streets at Madison Avenue, with many officers accused of unrest and repeated suspicions of a troublesome resident triggering complaints.
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Peg Post
WOMAN
23D Street
Madison Avenue
Y3d
Madison Av
Iceman
Sandwich aid in vote quest headline and romance extracts
A fragmenting newspaper item describes suffragists using sandwiches to win votes while detailing a Broadway scene with Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw and a flower market. It also references a serial scene from The Tribune Magazine involving Laura, Troy, and Erskine, previewing the next installment.
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Broadway
James Lees Laidlaw
Sal
Parls
Laura
Troy
Erskine
Williamsons
of the Tribune
Boylan drug law to take effect Wednesday nationwide record rules
The Boylan anti drug law goes into effect Wednesday. It requires serial numbered official order blanks for prescribing chloral and opium derivatives, records of purchaser details, physician and druggist information, and five year retention. Violations carry misdemeanor penalties and potential hospital commitments for addicts.
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Boylan
W. K. Vanderbilt
Edward In
Floyd
H. Wilmot
Ernest K. Coulter
Ite
Foylan
Ivan
State Commissioner of Health
J. B. Lyon Company
Health Department
Tontate
Wilmot
Astronomer Todd to Use Aeroplane for Sun Study
Telegraph reports Professor David Todd of Amherst College will sail from New York this week for his tenth astronomical expedition. In Riga on August 25 he plans airborne sun observations using an airship with camera telescope and spectroscope. This marks the first such approach in astronomy.
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Tribone
Boston
David Todd
Amherst College
Riga
Russ Ta
New York
Todd
Amherst
Wy Department
Robbers trap four in lace importer shop hold up
Four men entered Joseph Kanerick’s lace shop on Orchard Avenue last night and robbed proprietor and three companions. Victims Schurman, Clark, and Leibow surrendered cash and valuables totaling about 249 to 375, then the robbers locked the door and fled in a touring car before patrolman Kenney freed them. Detectives Shine and Mundow opened the probe.
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Joseph Kanerick
Bt Orchard
David Schurman
Eldridge St
Jake Clark
Essex St
Bernard Leibow
Kanerick
Schurman
Clark
Leibow
Kanetick
Kenney
Shine and Mundow
Inves
Thieves Break Wall Daring Furniture Store Heist
Two men identified as Henry Dempson and Benjamin Taylor were found breaking into Herman & Baum furniture store on Third Avenue. A private watchman pursued them with police joining in. The suspects escaped into the street but were captured near Bust Star Street station after the men halted by threats of gunfire.
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Third Ave
Herman & Baum
Henry Dempson
West 2Th St
Benjamin Taylor
St. Ann's Ave
de Bronx
Henry Bachman
Riley
Dennigan
Bust Star St
Investigation outlines gang link to assault on 128th Street
An inquiry asserts the same gang was responsible for a Saturday attack near 128th Street and Lenox Avenue, identifying roughly thirty people involved. Authorities caution the situation is ongoing with limited corroborating details available.
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Lenox Av
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the Tribune
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