Prado the thief dies on guillotine in Paris crowd witnesses
Paris reports Prado alias Bel Alphonse, famed thief and murderer of Marie Aguettant, met death at the Place de la Roquette. The scene drew about two hundred journalists and officials as the blade fell in fifty seconds. The tale threads through his misty life, loves, and pursuit across Europe ending with his fatal bravado.
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Paris
Prmado
Bel Alphonse
Marie Aguettant
Corts
Artis
Place de la Roquette
Prazzini
Chan
AC Deibler
Bellevile
Montmartre
France
Les Bois de Justice
New York Ics
Monsieur de Paris
Prado
Peibler
Cungeon
Marie
Eden Theatre
Eugenie Forestier
Mondaine
Reyti
China
United States
Holy Land
Jérusalem
Charity
Italy
Bordesu
Eugenia
Mauricette
Eugenie
Frade
Eugenio
Marie Aquetent
Dolores Garces
Gma
Heiary
Madrid
Spain
The Guillotine Scene at Dawn
The narrative describes Prado nearing the guillotine as doors swing open at dawn. Prado and the Abbe Faure walk to the knife while the condemned shows defiance, his head drawn awkwardly by pinioned arms and a rough neck shirt.
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Prado
Faure
Dismembered Man Found in Fairmount Park Mystery
The dismembered body of a man, found Wednesday in Fairmount park near Thirty-eighth Street and Columbia Avenue, is examined by Dr. Formad. The head and trunk are in a bag marked C. A. Co. The clues include blood, torn clothes, and possible linkage to Hoboken. Police seek identification as details emerge.
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Fairmount Park
Thirty-eighth Street
Columbia Avenue
Lesat
Philadelphia
Hoboken Hotel
Hobler
Kobler
Irom
Formad
Ama
Wood
Shermen
Mayor Gleason Leads Tireless Raid Against Long Island Railroad
In Long Island City a neighborhood uproots Front street tracks after mayor Patrick Gleason rallied a mob with picks shovels and crowbars. Five men were arrested as a train backed into bystanders. property damage is valued at 10 000 pounds. More trouble is expected.
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Long Islind Kutlrasd Company
Lone Yarano City
L. L
Patrick ¥. Gleason
Long Island Railroad Company
Sit Mwaths
Mont Great Lick
Austin Corbin
Front Street
Gleason
Pollos
Glesson
Long Island City
Engineers Meet To Align Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
About 20 delegates representing over 10,000 engineers on roads north of the Mississippi met at the National hotel on Clark Street in Chicago to discuss closer relations among railroad engineers. The gathering signals strong sentiment against Burlington road engineers and aims to resolve disputes via the Richmond Convention grievance committee’s authority, with any agreement binding on the Brotherhood.
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Crrcaco
National Hotel
Clark Street
Great
Burlington Road
Ceca Bris Algae
Neall
Cavanaugh
Richmond
Beaprorn
Erassus
Producers’ Protective Association
Stix Wodarstood
Dresers
Price of Powder Sparks Mining Strike Fears
A December meeting in Scranton PA between miners and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and Pennsylvania Coal companies failed to yield a powder price reduction. Miners claim powder costs $1.25 per keg, warn of potential strike, while firms defend current pricing citing quality concerns and outside suppliers.
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Westere. Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Pany
General Corlagent
Delaware, Backa-Wanna and Western Company
Hoe
Chaimen
Pennsylvania Coil ‘Company
Iwill
Pittston
Dunsmore
Arms for Haytans: Hipployte Wants Blood in Haiti
The Clyde steamship company dock at Pieris Bauet river shows greenard war materials being stored on the Ozains bound for Bayt and Ben Demings. Cases of rifles and Gatling guns reveal arms shipments to Haitian factions led by Hipployte. A Bay Haitian consul protested the openly warlike cargo. Officials note boxes containing a dynamitic gun and forklifts of cartridges. Secretary Whitney denies a $2,500,000 indemnity claim from Hayti, while other domestic news items follow.
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Honolulu
San Feascisco
Honoluiu
Waikiki
J. H. Wodehouse
Clyde Steamship Company
Pleris Bauet River
Ozains
Haytien Hyppolyta
Clyde
Baytian
Cape Hayden
Gatling
Epphangus
Afteen
Cape Haytias
Pepe
M iSecretary
Whitney
Hayti
Republic
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England
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Marblehead Board of Trade
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Michael Skoken
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Middlesex Criminal Court
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George Marcello
John Dubosh
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Tard National Bank
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Austin G. Wellington Coal Company
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