Sage Left 6.3 Million Estate Ties to Mercantile Vault
Official figures show Russell Sage left a gross estate of 4.41 million with real estate valued at 3.8 million. The state suit against Mercantile Safe Deposit sought a 1 047 penalty for unreported securities and improper vault access. Sage’s widow Margaret Olivia Sage and twenty eight heirs received 25 000 each.
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Russell Sage
State of New York
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
Sage
Supreme Court
New York
Safe Deposit Company
Brady
Satuday
Thomas
Charles H. Osborne
Charles P. Dillon
Osborne
Duverne
Tribute to Gaynor and Funeral Plans Stir Morning News
This Morning's News LOCAL reports tributes to Gaynor with pathos crowds attending a Gaynor funeral in Trinity today. Plans for Roosevelt's trip proceed as Barnes seeks party control and progressives engage in bipartisan trades amid broader wartime and political coverage.
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Gaynor
Sage
Keener
Leapa
Michel
Trinity
Roosevelt
Barnes
Faye Kline
Morgan Wing
Peapanee Ces
Gorn West
Scholer
Realty Queens in Net of Whitman Indicted Over Annex Homes
Prominent Westchester lawyers drift into inquiry as Mathilda Francolini and Rose Hailey, sisters who ran Annex Homes operations, reveal how they were used as dupes to float hundreds of acres for homes. They claim mortgage schemes, heavy 10 percent interest loans, and false bank balances collapsed investors, with two former directors named as central figures. The sisters say deeds were withheld when funds flowed to cover mortgages, and they detail schemes to avert foreclosures.
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Mathilda Francolini
Rose Hailey
Westchester
R. Colligan
District Attorney's Office
109Th Street
Colligan
Whitman
Annex Homes
Harrison
Mamaroneck
United States
Westchester County
Iuavite
Offce
Francolini
Rose Halley
Francelini
Nassau
Commercial Trust
Twelfth Ward
Brooklyn Bridge Daredevil Jump Ends Sleepy Night
Joseph Murphy known as Daredevi Murphy, a 61 year old high diver from the Bronx, leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge to attract movie fame and a $1 fee. He survived, was arrested for attempting death by own action, and slept in police custody after the stunt.
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Moving Picture
Joseph P. Murphy
Daredevi Murphy
Washington Ay Nue
Bronx
Brooklyn Bridge
Dover Street
Oak Street
Murphy
Smith
Tremont
Joseph Ma~looney
Lorillard
Joseph McQuade
Washington Avenue
Victor Manhetmer
Bathgate Avenue
East River
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bridge
Slavin
Muphy
Otto Eppers
Dean Street
Eppers
Michal Kelley
Arson Trap Catches Suspect Behind West 46th Fire
Grocer Peter Carusl of 451 West 46th Street reported Black Hand threats demanding 2000 dollars. Early today detectives nabbed a man amid an arson attempt on a double five story tenement housing 140 occupants. The hall and stairs were saturated with gasoline and rags soaked in fuel lay about. The captured man identified as Vincent Umberto, 22, of 451 West 46th Street and First Avenue.
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Peter Carusl
West 46Th Street
Vincent Umberto
First Avenue
Society Folk Fight Fire at Fahnestock Stables
In Hastover Lenox Mass this afternoon Mrs Harris Fahnestock and her guest Philip Curtis of New York fought a blaze in the Fahnestock stables. The fire was in a hay loft, and the couple helped lay hose. Curtis assisted in hauling hose as Lenox firemen confined the fire to the loft. The building suffered slight damage.
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Lenox
Mass
Harris Fahnestock
Philip Curtis
New York
Fahnestock
Hastover
Curtis
Henry Farman and Wife in Aeroplane Smash
Henry Farman and his wife were aboard a plane at Etampes France when at about 100 feet it suddenly pitched toward the ground. The machine struck hard. Farman was seriously injured in the leg though conscious, and his wife suffered a fractured elbow in the crash.
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Etampes
France
Henry Farman
Farman
Daughter to Lady Decies gains heir to title
London September 22 Lady Decies second daughter of Mr and Mrs George J Gould gave birth to a daughter at Sefton Park Stoke Poges both mother and child well The couple wed in New York February 7 1911 Their first child born August 17 1912 was a daughter and preparations had begun to welcome an heir to the long standing Decies title
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Capin Vo
London
Lady Decies
George J. Gould
Sefton Park
Stoke Voges
Lord Decies
Helen Vivien Gould
New York
Autoist Almost Drowned Near Brewster Bridge
Carmel New York September 21 Miss There Kennedy seriously injured when touring car owned by Mrs John TH Burton New York skidded into a stone wall over the Croton River a mile east of Brewster. She was hurled from the car over the bridge wall and down a twenty foot embankment into the river. The chauffeur’s quick assistance saved her from drowning.
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Carmel
N. Y
There Kennedy
John TH. Burton
New York
Croton River
Brewster
Kennedy
Representative S. Anderson Roddenberg Dies in Georgia
Telegraph desk report from Thomasville Georgia says Representative S Anderson Roddenberg is dying at his home from heart trouble and related complications after a sinking spell this afternoon. Officials say his condition worsened due to strenuous efforts in Congress including opposition to federal pensions. He had been warned a year earlier that unusual activity could prove fatal.
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Thomasville
S. Anderson Roddenberg
Roddenberg
Congress
Prison break at New Jersey State Prison ends in deputy death
Black Diamond and accomplice Johnson attempted a jail break as prisoners gathered for chapel services. Diamond shot deputy E. B. Stetser, was wounded, and both attackers were captured. Stetser died later at St Francis Hospital. Johnson claimed they planned to free multiple inmates but safeguards blocked escape.
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Tribun Trenton
Diamond
New Jersey
E. B. Stetser
Jamen Johnson
Johnson
Roth
Stetser
Tiamond
David Pierson
J. Wellington Crane
Pierson
Tamond
St. Francis Hospital
Thomas H. Madden
Lberty
City Mourns Mayor Gaynor as 100000 View Body
A nationwide rain-soaked funeral line forms from Bowling Green to City Hall for the body of Mayor Gaynor. Police guard a two by two procession past the coffin in the rotunda while crowds endure showers, viewing the dead executive and paying silent respects through the night.
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Bowling Green
City Hall
Brooklyn Bridge
Chambers Street
Broadway
Gaynor
Sam
City Hall Plaza
Broadways
Plaza
Rotunda
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Trenton
Irons
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Executive Mansion
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