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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1893
Page
1
The record details testimony from Matron Reagan and others about verbatim conversations at the Lizzie Borden trial. It notes questions about alibi and the visit to the home, with prosecutors pressing for details. The piece references prison testimony and ongoing testimony from June, including references to specific individuals and locations.
Chief Justice Bingham orders the inquest into multiple murders to proceed with caution as coroner duties come under dispute. Dr. Patterson is described as aged and deaf, with Dr. Schaaffer acting in his stead. seven cases involve murder warrants and district commissioners weigh replacing the coroner. A new inquest timeline emerges amid debate, and a separate case of a mother’s crime is noted from West Virginia as the weather forecast adds a lingering gloom.
Elie McKim and Dr Rogers DD led consecrations at St Joel Street corner Wind Avenue with bishops from Windsor New Jersey Virginia and others in attendance. Bishop McKim will go to Japan as bishop of the missionary jurisdiction of Yedda. Various appointments and officiants are noted including Bishop Alfred Barry and Bishop George William Peterkin. The event marked a major ecclesiastical gathering with elaborate rites.
The item notes Josiah Melvin has been appointed postmaster at Torrington. It mentions related notices about the Dashes Wire Nall company in Bing Sing prison, a Monday discharge, a name change for the Good Toupler in Dew Moines Louisiana, and Havemeyer sugar refinery plant ties due to a strike demanding shorter hours.
Officials report a crowd at New York Yacht Sub Port as hundreds feed the wharves while a vessel’s crew works. A violent incident followed a man’s revolver shot, prompting a security response and market rumors of further conflict.
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