Playmate fatally shoots youth during cat shooting incident
Philadelphia report details 16 year old Charles Kervan of Bryn Mawr killed when his playmate Lawrence Maple fires at a cat in the backyard. The shot pierced Kervan’s lung as Maple and Kervan’s families, wealthy and well known, face a tragic accidental shooting after witnesses aided the wounded youth. In Colorado, a massive silvertip bear hide from Jake Borah’s camp is sent to a Glenwood Springs dermatologist, linked to Harry Payne Whitney’s hunting party.
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Philadelphia
Charles Kervan
Penn street
Bryn Mawr
Lawrence Maple
Kervan
Maple
Mra. Deporson
youn Kervan
Brea Matt
Kile Grizzly
Glenwood Springs
Colo
Jake Borah
Muddy river
Harry Payne Whitney
New York
Borah
Tragedy and Mumps in 1900s News Briefs
A 26 year old Herbert Wella died by carbolic acid at a Philadelphia hotel after writing a bitter note about employment and aristocracy, violets by his bed. In Cleveland Theodore Roosevelt Jennings Bryan and Tom J Johnson have the mumps after an incident among neighborhood boys.
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Philadelphia
Herbert Wella
New Orleans
Pol
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Norfolk
Cleveland
Meyer triplets
Theodore Roosevelt
Jennings Bryory
Tom J. Johnson
Roosevelt
Bryan
Millionaire’s Car Kills Girl in Uniontown Pa
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on November 3 a touring car owned by J W Thompson a local millionaire coal operator and banker ran over and killed Loroa Lannon daughter of Mrs Mary Lanon. The child stepped into the street near the First National Bank and died five minutes after reaching a nearby drug store. The car carried a party of women and the chauffeur.
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Millenaire
Uniontown
J. W. Thompson
Loroa Lannon
Mary Lanon
First National bank
Thompson
Death by Own Action at Niagara Falls
Charles A. Hengerer son of the late William Hengerer and former VP of the William Hengerer company jumped into the Niagara River and went over the falls, ending his life. The incident occurred in Niagara Falls New York on November 3.
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Niagara Fallle
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Charles A. Hengerer
William Hengerer
Buffalo
Rockefeller Jr joins New York grand jury as Court of General Sessions swears him in
John D. Rockefeller Jr was sworn in as a member of the New York November grand jury before Judge Mulqueen in the court of general sessions. The article notes a separate fatal gas asphyxiation at Milo near Columbus Ohio and a pistol fight at Rocky Mount Virginia involving Dr J Semple Cahill and Robert Smithers with Cahill wounded and Smithers likely dying.
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John D. Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Mulqueen
court of general sessions
Max Devore
Otty
Charles
Milo
Columbus
Norfolk & Western
Rocky Mount
Confessed Murder Jointly Pleads Guilty In Axe Killing
Detroit nov 3 John Kurka a teamster and Mrs Anthony Schultz confessed to police and pleaded guilty before Justice Gerhard to murdering Schultz her husband and Kurkas half-brother. The crime arose from an affair. Schultz was killed in bed about 3 30 am while his wife heard the axe fall. The body was moved to a Green dump wagon and hidden under straw in a western suburb lane seven miles from the city.
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Detroit
Mich
John Kurka
Anthony Schultz
Justice of the Peace
Gerhard
Hamtramck township
Schultz
Kurka
Schulz
Wilkes-Barre Man Slain in Doorway Details Emerge
Charles Fedora of Wilkes-Barre was attacked at his home early morning when a killer slashed his throat from ear to ear. He died at Mercy Hospital. A man was seen fleeing. police later found Frank Bruno washing his hands and Leno in Bruno’s home with stained clothing. No motive yet.
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Wilkee-Barre
Wilkes-Barre
Charles Fedora
Mercy
Frank Bruno
Leno
Bruno
Fedora
Court Hears Mrs Hains Stor Confession Read In Trial
Portions of Mrs Peter C Hains alleged confession to the murder of William B Annis were read in open court. Attorneys argued on admissibility while medical affidavits claimed Captain Hains mental collapse after reading letters and reports described a dramatic change in demeanor aboard a U S transport to Manila.
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New York
Peter C. Hanna
Hains
ofurder
William B. Annis
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Johns
Hains brothers
Iain Haine wan
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oe Hains
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Patlopoines
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New York city
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Mann
Queens county
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telka
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San Francisco
pines
United States
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United m& transport
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