Thaw Hearing Closes as Justice Weighs Sanity Claim
Closing arguments were heard in the Matteawan asylum case of Harry K. Thaw. Justice Mils heard both sides in one hour, with Thaw’s defense challenging the medical testimony and accusing Evelyn Thaw and the prosecution of bias. Jerome, for the district attorney, argued Thaw’s sanity is damaged by heredity and a pattern of acts. Thaw’s lawyers attacked the alienists and stressed the lack of lasting insanity evidence. Mrs Thaw released a counterstatement disputing the alienists’ conclusions while noting Thaw’s dramatic tendencies and alleged acts against White and others.
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Supreme Court
Mils
Harry K. Thaw
Matteawan Insane Asylum
Thaw
Josiah Thaw
Thay
Jerome
Evelyn Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
White
Tham
Evans
Mars
Morlauser
le Court
Baker
Thaw Ha
Matteawan
Mar
Copley Thaw
Healf of Thaw
Japanese art merchant to wed Alice M. Corbin in Detroit
Daihiro Wooyeno, a Japanese art merchant living in Detroit, has obtained a marriage license to wed Alice M. Corbin, granddaughter of General Henry C. Corbin. Wooyeno, aged 52, says they first met at a Cincinnati fete.
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Detroit
Mich
Daihiro Wooyeno
Alice M. Corbin
Henry C. Corbin
United States Army
Wooyeno
Miss Corbin
Cincinnati
Taft at Beverly Finds His Family Well After Couple of Hours
President Taft reached Woodbarry Point in Beverly Mass at 10 30 today greeted by the entire Taft family and showed happiness at Mrs Taft s improved health. The executive force from Washington occupied rooms in the board of trade building while clerks arrived. After a brief visit with his family Taft left for a round of golf at the Myopia Hunt Club six miles away marking his call of the links.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Woodbarry Point
Tos
Washington
Boardh of Trade
Ecretary
White House
Bat
Myopia Hunt Club
Barred Unless Married Couple Labeled Undesirables
Washington reports on a German couple, Emil Maur and spouse, traveling as man and wife, who are described as undesirables by authorities. The note dates August 7 and indicates immigration scrutiny or travel restrictions applied to the pair.
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Washington
Emil Maur
Missing Kenosha Judge Found Working in Sabula Button Factory
Former Kenosha judge Joseph B. Clarkson Jr vanished July 14 and was found in Sabula Iowa working as a laborer under the name John Paul. He recalled his identity after being told he was Clarkson and had held a lifelong urge for manual work, with earlier disappearances linked to 18 years ago.
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Kenosha
Sabula
Chicago
Joseph B. Clarkson, Jr
Wis
Iowa
John Paul
John J. Burns
Judge Car
Omaha
Doolittle
Judge Clarkson
Tohm Burns
Z. G. Simmons
Simmons Manufacturing Company
Burns
Towa
L. A. Haynes
Hadeen
Haynes
Mr. Doolittle
Clinton
Clarkson
State Refuses Insurance Firm Right to Fight Tuberculosis
Albany Aug 7 State Superintendent Hotchkiss denied Metropolitan Life Insurance a plan to buy real estate for a hospital serving its policyholders with tuberculosis. He noted insurers may not stray beyond ordinary business needs and urged a cautious approach to expanding beyond their core role.
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State Refuses Insurance CO
Albany
N. Y
Hotchkiss
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Tate
Oes
German couple to marry on Ellis Island after immigration hold
Gretchen Seipelt and her husband to be were detained by immigration officials in New York for traveling as a married couple without formal marriage. They will be admitted if they wed at Ellis Island, stating German marriage was not possible secretly. They showed funds and appeared intelligent.
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Gretchen Seipelt
New York
Ellis Island
Germany
Auburn Bank Assistant-Cashier Tries Suicide in Woods
In Auburn Ind on August 7 Frank Nicolai assistant cashier of City National Bank wandered three days in the woods without food and finally faced the nerve to kill himself before being stopped or interrupted in time.
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Auburn
Ind
Frank Nicolai
City National Bank
Bank Employee Arrested for Embezzling $5,000
A city employee was arrested today on charges of embezzling $5,000 from the bank. Police say the arrest stems from an internal audit revealing the missing funds.
Secret Divorce for Mrs Keene
Lexington Kentucky reports a decree of absolute divorce granted in Fayette county court on July 3 to Mrs Mary Lawrence Keene from Foxhall P Keene of New York the millionaire turfman. Ground cited abandonment. Also a Washington DC note on marbles for keeps being gambling and punishable per Judge Kimball.
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Lexington
Fayette County
Mary Lawrence Keene
Foxhall P. Keene
New York
Washington, D. C
Kimball
Land cases end as government loses 30,000 alienation suits
In Muscogee Oklahoma on August 7 Federal Judge Ralph E Cannell sustained demurrers and dismissed about 30,000 Indian land alienation suits brought by the government. He ruled that titles obtained from the Indians before the act removing restrictions took effect are valid and that Oklahoma statehood conferred citizenship on all members of the five civilized tribes. The case involved some 2,000,000 acres with defendants spread across the United States including Scotland and Mexico.
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Muscogee
Okla
Ralph EL Cannell
Five Civilized Tribes
United States
Scotland
Mexico
Robert J. Owen
Williams
Supreme Court
Campbell
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Mary Castle Signals Charge Protest After Waldorf Assault
New York August 7 Mrs Mary Castle California former actress who shot at William B Craig a New York lawyer in an elevator at the Waldorf Astoria last Tuesday sought to prefer a counter charge against Craig when arraigned in police court today on felonious assault The magistrate adjourned the hearing until Monday
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New York
Mary § Castle
California
William B. Craig
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
Craig
Burglar Shot Kills Carmody in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Iowa Aug 7 Mayor John T Carmody died this afternoon after being shot by a burglar the night of May 23 He had been in failing health since the shooting Mayor Carmody had served the city for years and his death marks aSomber end to a public career as authorities investigate the break in and shooting in the mayoral residence.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
John T. Carmody
Japan Defies China Begins Antung Mukden Railroad Work
Japan starts reconstruction of the Antung Mukden railway in defiance of China and notification to the powers. The 150 mile line connects Antung in Manchuria to Mukden, linking to a broader through route to Europe. Through traffic and strategic value cited.
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Peking
China
Japan
Antung- Mukden
Tokio
Antung-Mukden
Russia
Antung
Mukien
Fusan
Corea
Mukden
St. Petersburg
London
Japa
Busan
Existio Siadgen
Mutinous Swedish Troops and Labor Strikes Spread
Stockholm reports mutinous troops in Malm and Solleften confined to barracks as printers are called out nationwide. The general strike continues with some return to work and talks of government mediation denied by union leaders. British workers show sympathy with a fund planned to aid Scandinavian strikers.
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Stockholm
Malm
Solleften
Swedish Union
Federation
M. von Sydow
Employers’ Federation
National Labor Union
London
Sweden
Dockers’ Union
Prospects Bright For A Settlement Of Street Car Strike
Chicago Aug 7 moves toward peace over the threatened street car strike proceeded with conferences between street railway company presidents and union representatives. The firms reportedly would grant a 30 cent maximum pay increase within a two year plan if workers sign a three year contract, avoiding immediate financial strain during line rehabilitation. Fire drove out 250 people at the House of the Good Shepherd in New York with no fatalities.
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Chicago
New York
House of the Good Shepherd
East Ninetieth Street
Sommer Breaks World Distance Flight Record
Mourmelon France August 7 Roger Sommer the French aviator set a world record for prolonged flight in an aeroplane with his machine staying aloft two hours 27 minutes 15 seconds.
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Mourmelon
le Grande
France
Roger Sommer
McCutcheon to Africa With Hunter Party on Cedric
Famous cartoonist John T. McCutcheon sails from New York aboard the Cedric with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Akely of Chicago and Frederick Stephenson of Menominee. They head for Uganda and British East Africa to spend months hunting big game and may meet the Roosevelt expedition.
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la Roosevelt
New York
John T. McCutcheon
Wisconsin farmer slays family then kills self
Barron Wisconsin August 7 Christina Hanson a wealthy farmer near Cameron cut the throats of his wife and two daughters aged 16 and 18. He then hanged himself. Insanity is believed to have led to the tragedy.
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Wisconsin
Self
Barron
Wis
Christina Hanson
Cameron
Robbers Try to Burn Town in Missouri Raid
Mexico, Missouri Aug 7 robbers set the town atuxvasse 12 miles south of here ablaze last night an automobile load of dynamite rushed to demolish buildings to check the flames a bucket brigade saved the town but robbers secured no loot
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Mexico
Atuxvasse
Here
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Jerom
Wagner
Weda Corbin
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Sacramento
Alameda County
Joseph Mandosa
Manchuria
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