Priest Planned a House of Death and Lethal Chamber
Hans Schmidt, a Roman Catholic priest who murdered Anna Aumuller, confessed plans to found in New York a lethal chamber where people could die by euthanasia. He claimed to have stolen twenty death certificates from a Harlem physician, with two torn out, and said he would forge paperwork as Dr. Emil Moliere to justify killings. He expressed readiness for execution and noted the District Attorney’s drive for the electric chair.
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Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
New York
Denk
Faurot
McKenna
Thompson
Patest
Alphonse G. Koelble
Schmidt
Father Schmidt
Koelble
Emil Moliere
Magers
Chai Koolble
Local page notes tense events and oddities from morning edition
A garbled local page lists a string of items including a mayoral body, wholesale death plans, subway tie up, funeral dates, dreary column topics, train pay plans, a town scandal with letters, a watch on a pier seizure, a witness note, and realty pride. It also mentions a luring incident involving a schoolgirl, attacks on a press, and a batch of general political and criminal notes.
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Son
Schmidt
Gaynor
Aris Gowan
Piers Sc
Schildknecht
Whitman
Newark Girl Auto Victim Struck by Drunk Driver
Miss Anna S. Nebinger, a Newark insurance clerk living at 41 North 11th Street, was struck and badly injured last night by Adolph Gansky, Roseville garage proprietor. She’s in Newark City Hospital with a fractured skull, broken leg and shoulder, and internal injuries. Gansky was jailed at the Sixth Precinct, charged with drunken driving and operating a vehicle without lights.
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Anna S. Nebinger
Newark Insurance Office
North 11Th Street
Adolph Gansky
Roseville
Newark City Hospital
Gansky
Premer Station
Fine levied for abandoning child in General Sessions
Judge Mulqueen fined Abraham Akayer in General Sessions yesterday for abandoning his three year old child. The fine funds go to support and education of the child. If unpaid, Akayer must serve one day in state prison per dollar. He also received a sentence of one to two years in prison. He had fled his family, was found in Chicago three weeks earlier, and had established a business there.
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Mulqueen
Abraham Aka+yier
Akavier
Chicago
Gallant Civil War Veteran Pleads Guilty To Bigamy
John Ochs aged seventy four, a former cavalryman of the 2d New York, pleaded guilty to bigamy before Judge Mulqueen in General Sessions and received a suspended sentence. He vowed not to wed again and to return to Staten Island Soldiers' Home where he had resided until his latest marriage four months ago. He claimed war wounds from Gettysburg left him crippled and acknowledged being identified living with a younger wife after years of searching by Regina Schaefer, his first wife.
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John Ochs
New York
Mulqueen
Hoe
Staten Island
Ochs
Worns
Gettysburg
Regina Schaefer
Rufus Collapse At Mayor’s Funeral Stirred Baltic News
A report notes a dramatic collapse involving Rufus during funeral rites for the mayor. The article mentions a British flag entwined at the Trinity service and signals an unexpected end reported by Mr. Gaynor and companions.
Body to Lie in State for Mayor Gaynor in Brooklyn
The body of Mayor Gaynor will lie in state at City Hall from 8 pm tomorrow until sunset Monday after a private family service. A public viewing is planned in the City Hall rotunda for two hours before the funeral Monday at Trinity Church, with burial at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Gaynor
Lusitania
Eighth Avenue
Brooklyn
City Hall
Roosevelt Urged as Fusion Choice in Two-Ticket Plan
Party unity is urged to justify accepting Colonel Roosevelt in a fusion ticket. Those who opposed him are urged to back the plan as a path to strength, with aims of cohesion and political advantage in upcoming contests.
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Roosevelt
Fusion
Woodrow Wilson
William J. Jan
Ioosevelt
Lorally
Charles Dewey Milles
Loeb
Paoveit
GO 7
Roosevelt Progressive Party
Republian
Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel Bryan
13 Straight for Cupid and Mayor Gaynor’s death recounted
The article recounts Rufus Gaynor telling Robert Adamson of the Bay voyage aboard the correction when Mayor Gaynor died. It details his final moments, breakfast, and the struggle to revive him, plus the family’s plans and the shipboard reading of Emerson and Bryce. It notes Gaynor sailed September 1 for rest and the family marriages in Livingston Park.
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Gaynor
Ttufus
New Brunswick
N. J
Joseph Wildgoose
Livingston Park
J. W. Parish
Wildgoose
Robert
Atisa Lillian Wilds Roose
Trobert
Margaret de Hart
Franklin Park
Lillian
Herbert de Hart
Andrew Wildgoose
Grace Servis
Livingston Avenue
Herbert Wildgoose
Barbara Bauer
Linden
Rufie
Rufus
Emerson
Mr. Adamson
New York
Wagon of Brut Loot Taken From New York Importer
An unidentified man jumped onto a wagon owned by David A. Sherard at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue last night and drove it away with more than $300 in champagne still inside. The wagon reappeared hours later at Eleventh Avenue and 27th Street, stripped of its contents. Driver James McCauley had delivered over $1,000 worth of champagne and wines to hotels and restaurants before the theft. he discovered the loss after parking near 42nd Street. Lieutenant Detective Boyle leads the investigation as sherard identifies the wagon.
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David A. Sherard
McCauley
42D Street
Madison Avenue
Boyle
Wura
Sherard
Snow Baby Tale Ties Peary Daughter to MacMillan
From St Johns Newfoundland comes news of the engagement between Marie Peary, daughter of Rear Admiral Peary, and Donald MacMillan of the Crocker Land expedition. MacMillan led the Tiana and Ei Ke voyages, wrecked off Labrador, while seeking an Arctic wintering near Flagler Bay. The couple’s Arctic legacy links Peary’s famed polar dash to the Crocker Land mission.
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Philadelskis
Stgoun's
Newfoundland
Mes Marie Peary
Peary
Donald MacMillan
Pole
Miss Peary
Xbnigite
Esquiman
Enildy
Sulzer Yields to Glynn at Impeachment Trial
The Sulzer resignation case faces a setback as Glynn gains ground at trial. The development unsettles defense strategy and prompts questions on impeachment proceedings. Occupant of the People’s House denies wrongdoing while counsel warns the move may soften potential new charges.
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Sulzer
Glynn
People’s House
Night subway rush causes massive 60,000-block disruption
A derailment near the City Hall loop sent 60,000 commuters onto the wrong tracks during a night rush. The crash tore away 30 feet of contact wire, halting locals and forcing widespread shuttles as doors refused to close. Trains were rerouted to express lines. the backlog stretched to Dyckman and Van Cortlandt Park. Authorities and ticket sellers urged patience while crews cleared the scene and restored service.
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City Hall Loop
Brooklyn Fridge
Sth Street
Merritt Wow
Brooklyn Tridge
Broadway
Dyckman
147Th Street
Stig
van Cortlandt Park
17Th Street
Asth Street
Dyckman Street
Ayckman Street
Hons
Interborough Company
18Th Street
Reyes Hides From Huerta During Palace Call
Deputy Sefer Reyes and other opposition deputies refused Huerta's summons to the National Palace. Reyes hid in the American Embassy after considering the call. Deputy Rodolfo Reyes spent part of the night at the embassy amid the political clash over Eduardo Tamarix's appointment.
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Pepte
Huerta
National Palace
Rodolfo Reyes
Sefer Reeyes
Chamber of Depution
Eduardo Tamarix
Sefer Reyes
Urueta
Reyes
Sayre Chooses Grenfell Missionary As Best Man at White House Wedding
Telegraph report notes Dr Wilfred T Grenfell head of the Labrador Mission for deep sea fishermen to be best man for Francis B R Sayre at the White House ceremony with Jessie Wilson. Grenfell a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of '08 will visit Philadelphia then England for plans to spend winter abroad.
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Sayre
Grenfell
White House
Philadelphia
Wilfred T. Grenfell
Francis RB. Sayre
Jessie Wilson
Hero of wreck rescuer convicted of jewel theft in Bridgeport
Hanford Donnelly of Stamford, famed for rescuing passengers after the Springfield wreck near Westport last October, was found guilty in Superior Court of stealing jewels valued at $500 from a wrecked car. The owner was Mrs Elizabeth S James of Chicago. Judge Reed sentenced him to prison for not less than one nor more than five years. Witnesses testified to his heroic actions at the wreck. the jury sought clemency but the state cited a bad record.
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Westport
Bridgeport
Conn
Hanford Donnelly
Stamford
Springfield
New Haven Road
Superior Court
Dte
Alts
Elizabeth S. James
Chicago
Donnelly
Reed
Florence PB. Waring
New York
Portor
Girl Swallows Half Dollar During Skylarking on Long Island
Mary Roma sixteen years old of Jamesport swallowed a fifty cent piece during a skit with a young man who tried to take the coin. The piece slid into her throat and doctors in Brooklyn hope surgery can retrieve it. She is at St Peter's Hospital awaiting treatment.
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Jamesport
Long Island
Mary Roma
St. Peter's Hospital
Brooklyn
Mary
Events of yesterday in the Sulzer case
William Sulzer formally recognized Martin H. Glynn as acting Governor. Sulzer lost the opening impeachment skirmish when the High Court ruled that four senators his counsel had objected to might sit. Argument began on impeachment constitutionality. An effort to add to the articles failed. Lou Sarecky, a missing witness, appeared in Buffalo. Acquiescence of senators and judges in President Cullen's opinion marked him as the dominant figure of the court.
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William Sulzer
Martin H. Glynn
Sulzer
High Court
Lou Sarecky
Buffalo
Cullen
Sulzer impeachment prompt Glynn as acting Governor in Albany
Acting on Supreme Court decisions, Governor Sulzer formally acknowledges Lieutenant Governor Glynn as acting Governor. A letter from Sulzer's secretary transfers pending state business to Glynn, amid legal maneuvering as impeachment cases proceed.
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Albany
Supreme Court
Sulzer
Glynn
Lewis Marshall
High Court of
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Loosevelt Creed
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Maderon
Wilson
Stanton
Hane
London
Henry Arthur Joes
Army and Navy
Newark
Mayor's
Bier
Baltic
Loeb Engineering
Tribune Bureau
Washington
William Loeb
Iiy Eger
Guggenheims
Taft
Willem Leet
Roanevoit
Progressive Party
MacMillan
Explorer
Martin NI. Glynn
Tr Siegert
Advt
Levy
Assembly
Assembly Board of
Aaron J. Levy
Marshall
Platt
State of New York
Capitol
Judicial Department
County of
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