How a Jury of Women Reached a Verdict in 1789 Kidnapping Case
New York records reveal a jury of matrons in a 1789 case presiding over a kidnapping charge against John Meeker. The article recounts the trial atmosphere, juror antics, and a verdict that deemed the prisoner innocent while criticizing the complainant Jessie Angel, prompting potential perjury action.
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New York
Court of General Sessions
Martions
Criminal Tribunal
General Quarter Sessions Court
Old City Hall
United States Sub-Treasury
Wall Street
Esquires’ Commission
Court of Over
General Sessions Court
Brander
Bar
Court of Over and Terminer
Solomon Smithers
Richard Morris
Richard Varick
William W. Gilbert
Jeremiah Wool
Thomas Wazard
John S.S. Hobart
John Meeker
Jessie Angel
East River
Connecticut
Joan Meeker
Ury
Cchief
Miles To Deliver Fourth of July Oration At Independence Hall
General Nelson A. Miles was chosen to deliver the Fourth of July oration in Independence Hall as part of a city celebration shift from fireworks to a formal program. A mammoth stand will host speakers and schoolchildren. John S. Hammond will preside, Edward F. Swift to read the Declaration, and Rev. Thomas F. Ryan to offer prayer.
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Nelson A. Miles
Independence Hall
Girard Avenue Bridge
Independence Hall Square
Wu Ting-fang
John 8
Hammond
Tth
Miles
Councillanie
John S. Hammond
Robert McFadden
Richard T. Irwin
G. Miler
Thomas Randall
Paul Cavagnaro
Daniel Cahill
William Johnson
Wiliam G. McDade
Bodo R. Zietzth
Thomas B. Smith
Henry Murray
Henry Clay
George W. Sunderland
Samuel K. Stinger
Richard F. Schofield
George W. Joerger
Alexander Abrahams
Mth
George W. Rucker
Thomas Harbot
James Dunlap
Nine New Smallpox Cases Reported Last Week
The weekly contagious disease table shows smallpox at nine cases and no increase in deaths, while diphtheria declines and scarlet and typhoid fevers wane. Overall deaths from all causes totaled 445, with apoplexy and heart disease among leading causes.
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Philadelphia
City telescope perfect praised by experts at Philadelphia Observatory
The last tests of Philadelphia Observatorys fifteen inch telescope in the Central High School tower are declared faultless by astronomers Professor Charles A. Young and Professor F L O Wadeworth. Young urges an annual city fund to support its scientific use, calling the instrument equal or superior to Harvards Merz telescope and praising M B Snyder for leading the observatory.
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Philadelphia Observatory
Central High School
Charles A. Young
Princeton
F. L. O. Wadeworth
Allegheny
Young
Merz
Harvard
M. B. Snyder
Philadelphia
McCall hearing continued in larceny case
Magistrate Jermon kept the hearing for Mrs. Saliie Metall pending until Tuesday at the request of both sides. Metall is charged with stealing jewelry deeds and securities valued at 3000 from her foster-mother Caroline Brandstetter of 219 North Camac. Bail set at 10000. Metall walked from Central Station with Detective Gallagher for outdoor exercise. her husband met her outside the Magistrate’s office.
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Jermon
Saliie Metall
Caroline Brandstetter
North Camac Street
McCall
Gallagher
Central Station
Cushing Succeeds Sanborn as NAMM Leader in New York
Edward H. Sanborn resigned after six years as general manager and secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers. Marshall Cushing, former New York office manager, succeeds him and moves the secretary’s office to 170 Broadway New York, with vacated Real Estate Trust building apartments.
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Edward H. Sanborn
National Association of Manufacturers
Marshall Cushing
New York
Association
Cushing
Real Estate Trust
Broadway
Thieves Burst Into Home on Centennial Avenue
Burglars ransacked the residence of M. H. Valentine at 1545 Centennial Avenue while the family was away for two weeks. Stolen items valued at 315 dollars. A cellar window was forced to gain entry. the burglary was discovered Friday upon the family's return. Police Headquarters Formeay reported the incident.
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M. H.valentine
Centennial Avenue
Formeay
Shriners Head to San Francisco on Annual Session Trip
Imperial Potentate Philip Shaffer and other officers led a group of members from this city to San Francisco yesterday by way of Oakland for the annual session of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
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Imperial
Philip
Shaffer
Nobles of
Mystic Shrine
la la Femiin
Esterday
Sen Francisco
Edwin Fairfax Naulty Arrested On New Support Charge
Edwin Fairfax Naulty was held in 800 ball by Magistrate Kochersperger at the city Hall yesterday. He was arrested at the Woe Beach PO on a charge related to new support filed by his wife.
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Edwin Fairfax Naulty
Kochersperger
Ity
Cas
Nurses and Doctors Clouded by Hospital Laughs and Love
In a Beaumont Hospital night scene Dr Fenwick and Dr Lynds discuss Nurse Grace who fainted after the young man she loved arrived for an appendicitis operation. The tale shifts to a humorous inebriate ward incident and Dr Haskel’s first patient a foundered horse.
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Philadelphia Times
Beaumont Hospital
Fenwick
Lynds
Grace
New York
Dr. Fenwick
Dr. Lynds
Haskel
Romance of former slaves wedding at Atlantic City reunion
In a tale spanning decades, Thomas H. Bush and Lavinia Coleman, once sold near slavery, married after reuniting at the seashore last summer and again pledging to wed. The ceremony occurred Friday at 1535 Bainbridge Street with best man John Sommers, formerly sold for 1 800.
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Atlantic City
Thomas H. Bush
Lavinia Coleman
Bainbridge Street
John Sommers
Salvation Army to Take 1000 Children on Delaware River Outing
The Salvation Army will June 30 take 1000 poor children and mothers on a river trip aboard the Twilight down the Delaware to National Park. The group plans to make these outings regular and seeks contributions to a fund. Donations may be sent to The Salvation Army at 14 South Broad Street.
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Salvation Army
Delaware
National Park
Army
South Broad Street
Temperance Horse Tale Leads to Arrests at Memorial Day Picnic
A Nicetown group drove to Shawmont with a barrel of beer to offer drinks to all, forcing a temperance horse to drink. The horse refused and a man struck it. Police arrested the party as bystanders reported the drunken disorder. John Smith was fined $10 for the beating, others paid $3.50 for disorderly conduct.
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Ackerman
Nicetown
Shawmont
John Smith
Dounton Street
Philip Miles
Callom Street
Winfield Stout
Germantown Avenue
Sixteenth Street
William Gold
Juniata Street
Charles Blunt
Charles Lawrence
Nicetown Lane
Columbia Avenue Car Change
Cars of the Columbia avenue division will operate two routes starting tomorrow. Alternate cars follow the present Market street ferry route while others turn at Market and Seventh to go via Market to Ninth street and the usual Columbia avenue line. The change aims to reduce empty runs from Seventh street to the ferry and ease traffic.
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Columbia Avenue
Market Street
Market
Seventh Streets
Ninth Street
Seventh Street
Damages Awarded in Chestnut Street Widening Case
A jury of view appointed in the Chestnut Street widening project awarded Anthony M. Zane four thousand fifty dollars. In separate claims for Chestnut Street west of Fifteenth and Walnut street west of Eleventh, the panel found no claimant entitled to damages.
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Quarter Sessions
Chestnut Street
Twelfth Street
Anthony M. Zane
Fifteenth Street
Walnut Street
Eleventh Street
Missing Children Report Lists Several Local Cases
The notice names Mike Vandura age 11 of Sixty six Street and Haverford Avenue missing since May 26, Maya Nathan Goldstein age unknown of 325 Pemberton Street missing since May 26, Daniel McLaughlin age 9 of 36 East Silver Street missing since May 27, Robert Clark age 15 of 920 Snysder Avenue missing since May 29. A fifth case cites Haverford Avenue missing since May 0.
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Mike Vandura
Sixty-sixth Street
Haverford Avenue
Maya Nathan Goldstein
Pemberton Street
Daniel McLaughlin
East Silver Street
Robert Clark
Snysder Avenue
A Suriname Garden On The Sixth Parallel
A sprawling Surinamese garden behind a sturdy house on the main street reveals diverse fruit trees and a talking macaw. Petronella the housekeeper tends bananas, limes, and exotic fruits while snakes, toads, and a macabre sense of fate haunt the lush yard.
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Suriname
Elizabeth
Paramaribo
Petronella
National Eisteddfod Proves Great Success in Scranton
The National Eisteddfod held in Scranton's new armory drew 2,500 musical and 200 literary entrants with total three-session attendance around 20,000 and 8,000 at the final night. A German singing societies contest was new with $4,000 in prizes. Winners include Utica and Wilkes-Barre groups across mixed, male, and ladies choirs, plus a prize for a Harrisburg quartet and arbitration awards.
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Scranton
New
Armory
America
Wales
Attonight
Philharmonics
Utica
Wilkesbarre
Scranton Saengerbund
Seranton Society
Cecilians
Mrabeth Watkins
Harrisburg
William Corliss
R. &. Jones
Sly, Peis
Wilmot
Rite
Literary adjudicators named for Cleve event
Zouk and Jenkin Powell Jones of Cleve are among entrants judged by H M Edwards ann George Howell Scranton and G H Humphrey Utica as the literary adjudicators for the contest.
Actress Have Man Arrested At Dolly Varden Play
Special to The Philadelphia Times reports Lulu Glaser, leading woman in the Dolly Varden company at Herald Square Theatre, had Max Hildebrand arrested on May 31 after he sent her troubling letters and accosted her on the street. Police say he concealed a corkscrew and tried to stab a detective.
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Philadelphia Times
New York
Lulu Glaser
Dolly Varden
Herald Square Theatre
Max Hildebrand
East Tenth Street
Miss Glaser
West
Admiral Schley Delivers Memorial Day Address at Bangor
Rear Admiral Schley gave a Memorial Day address in Bangor Maine on May 31 praising the defenders of the nation. The speech was brief and followed by civic remarks from Mayor Si.
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Schley
Bangor Bangor
Sis
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Petrobella
Canaiile
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