Murder Charge Against Hyde Involving Swope
A warrant for the arrest of Dr. Bennett C Hyde on murder charges in the Swope case was sworn by Prosecutor Conkling before Justice W F Loar. A special grand jury will probe deaths in the Swope family and related typhoid epidemic amid Hyde's surrender and bond set at 2500.
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Independence My
Bennett Clarke Hyde
Colonel Swope
Conkling
Justice of the Peare W F
J. G. Paxton
Swope
Hyde
Independence
Justice of the Peace Loer
Paxton
Maeda
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O Swope
Dr. Hyde
C Praton
Swann
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Court at Independence Seeks Hyde Deposition Fight
Attorneys for Dr Hyde oppose Paxton lawyers efforts to obtain a deposition from Dr Hyde. Hyde, son of Rev Dr Wes Hyde of Lexington, was born near Bunceton, Missouri and trained at Wentworth Military Academy and Mentich College before practicing medicine.
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independence
Hyde
Paxton
Assaults Aged Woman In Tampa Convict Escapes Re-captured
In Tampa Florida on February 11 a seventy year old woman was assaulted by a convict who escaped from a camp. He seized a double barreled shotgun and ammunition from the victim's home and fled three miles before Sheriff deputies cornered him. He fired on them but was shot twice and captured. He is in the county jail with non fatal wounds. Mrs Ellerbe is from a long established local family and public outcry grows.
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Tampa
Fla
Roland Mower
rome
thin city
Ellerbe
Poisoned by Soup and Steak Threaten Family in Peoria
Five members of John Rush’s family near Peoria Wisconsin were nearly wiped out by suspected ptomaine poisoning from beet steak and a bone soup. Mrs Rush remained ill in bed and did not eat the contaminated food. George Rush remains dangerously ill as authorities classify the symptoms as a typhoid-like poisoning.
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Peoria
John Rush
George Rush
Ten Million Dollar Paper Plant Reopens in Portsmouth
The $10,000,000 Publishers' Paper plant on the Placataqua river near Portsmouth, idle since 1907, has passed to Colonial Paper of Cincinnati and will resume operation shortly. A separate note reports 14 year old Anthony Gregus of Shenandoah, Pa, injured when a dynamite cap exploded after he struck it with a hatchet. In Chicago, February 11, plans are announced for an aeroplane factory garage for airships and a training contest by the Milliols Aéroplane club as part of local advertising activity.
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New York
HAY
PHILO HAY SPECIALTIES Co
Newark
N. J
boes
Portsmouth
N. H
Heb
Publishers’ Paper company
Placataqua river
Colonial Paper companys
Cincinnati
Shenandoah
Anthony Gregus
Spitzer Declares He Is a Scapegoat in Fraud Case
Oliver Spitzer former dock superintendent at the American Sugar Refining plant in Williamsburg was sentenced to two years in a federal prison in Atlanta for his role in a widespread underweighing fraud. He collapsed at sentencing and later said the sugar trust scapegoated him after 29 years of service. He claimed he earned $68 weekly and faced ruin from trial costs while asserting higher ups were not held to account.
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New York
Oliver, Spitser
American Sugar Reefining company
Williamsburg
Atlant
Spitzer
Atlanta
Brooklyn
United States
sugar trust
Willamsburg
Yale Receives 190000 Gift for Endowment Growth
Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York adds 190000 to Yale university general endowment as part of a 250900 subscription. Vanderbilt has already given 275000 and is expected to complete the total by year end. Miners to receive 7 percent wage increase in February due to coal prices. glove leather undervaluation probe ordered by tariff board upon treasury secretary's request.
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Alfrad G. Vanderbilt
University
New Haven
Conan
Yale university
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
New York
Vanderbilt
Washington
tariff board
secretary of the treasury
Death Penalty for George Erhaefer in Lehigh County
The Philadelphia area man Leopold Erman was murdered in 1906 by Schaeffer and his accomplice George Erhaefer. Erhaefer was executed in Allestown on February 11 after a formal trial and appeal process. The hanging occurred in front of around seventy five spectators.
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Allestown
George Erhaefer
Schaesksville
Leopold Breese
Philadelphia
James bbe Hine
Jersey City
New Jerany
Edward Deel Schaeffer
Leopold Erman
Geventh street
Philadlphia
Lehigh
Northampton
Polite Thieves Pasteurize Robbery With Compassionate Act
In Chicago two thieves paused their crime to care for a sick man. They administered medicine, offered water, and rearranged pillows after stealing jewelry from J. McCulkuigh of Indiana Avenue. They politely bowed and wished the patient a speedy recovery.
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Chicago
McCulkiugh
Indiana avenue
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