17 Feb 1934
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Newspaper
Sheboygan Press
Location
Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1934
Page
1
The article outlines a judge raising a bond from two thousand to five thousand in a hospital death case. Attorney objections overruled, witnesses summoned, and proceedings move to a later hearing with district officials and medical staff testifying about the death and autopsy findings.
Dr McElligott delivers a supplemental statement to the interim committee, asserting truthfulness and lack of intent to shield anyone. He details visits to many patients, cites reports from nurses, and lists cases of alleged guard misconduct connected to Dr Bell, including specific incidents at the cottage and infirmary.
Washington investigators report Col Charles A Lindbergh held Pan American Airways stock options that could have yielded large profits if exercised. The options valued at up to 25 000 shares were offered when Pan American stock traded around 1 but once peaked near 89 a share. Investigators hinted at a possible 1 850 000 potential profit but declined to confirm the share count. The probe, tied to Lindbergh’s travels and gifts from the TAT venture, follows questions on Pan American affairs.
Two witnesses testified that Charles Backus Love's Park peddler dug a shallow grave the day after his 8 year old son Charles disappeared. An empty grave was found near Hoscoe about nine miles from the Backus home. Backus admitted slapping the boy and hiding the body but retracted his earlier claim of dropping the body through an airhole in the ice. Police guard him as searches continue. State's Attorney Nash filed a statutory charge against Backus.
Gov. A. G. Schmedeman approves the interim legislative committee on prison labor to extend investigations into mistreatment at the Northern State Hospital in Oshkosh and to probe conditions at other state penal and charitable institutions. Dr W F Lorenz replaces Dr Peter Belt at the Winnebago asylum as the committee plans further hearings and possible additions to the inquiry.
Urbain Red Faber announced his retirement from baseball after 20 years as a Chicago White Sox pitcher. The 44 year old left the game following a talk with owner Louis Comiskey after a 3 win 4 loss season and a 3.45 ERA.
Washington reports the Civil Works Administration will drop about 572,500 workers next Sunday, reducing payroll to roughly 3,104,400. Harry Hopkins released instructions to state administrators detailing who to lay off, prioritizing those with least need, and setting hours and wage floors for urban and rural workers.
Austrian fascists gain ground as another leader takes a cabinet post and thousands of socialists lose office. Chancellor Dollfuss ignores calls to reconvene parliament while anti socialist drives intensify with new social welfare minister Neustaedter-Stuermer. Five more socialists are hanged for insurrection amid continuing guerrilla attacks by socialist bands.
Chicago prosecutors again seek the death penalty for Hoger Touhy and two accomplices in the $70,000 John Factor kidnapping case. The state promises a fuller account, citing newly obtained information from two other Touhy followers returning to Chicago from Baltimore.
Circuit Judge Vogt orders Municipal Judge Puhr to issue or justify failure to issue a arrest warrant for Jack Kaiser after Puhr refused earlier. District Attorney Copp argues section 355 20 allows a second hearing if new admissible evidence appears. Kaiser, Milwaukee Paramount Development officer, faced prior fraud charges in Sheboygan County re real estate sales. Grube found insufficient evidence for a guilty verdict at municipal court.
Police in Aurora Iowa held Mr and Mrs Blakely McDonald on cruelty charges after their seven year old daughter Mildred testified they forced her to lie on a hot stove for bringing home gloves from her teacher.
A bill to regulate commodity exchanges proposes a three member commission and licensing for brokers. It grants the secretary of agriculture power over violations, extends the grain futures act to more commodities, and sets trading limits with exemptions for hedging. Bucketing and wash trades would be unlawful, and margin funds treated as trust property.
Three Wheaton youths Frank Barton 19 Sanford Alexander 16 and Frank Brundage 20 confessed to a Burlington bank robbery that yielded $6000. Identified by bank staff and traced through a drunken spree a $250 tip to taxi driver Harry Moskowitz led to his death. extradition issues delayed Wisconsin authorities.
The Wisconsin conservation commission moves to organize a county game committee in each county to oversee game management. Warden James Edick was named district supervisor covering Calumet Door Kewaunee Manitowoc Ozaukee Sheboygan and Washington counties with Harry Johnson as temporary state supervisor. He will convene Sheboygan sportsmen between March 1 and 10 to elect a three member county committee as part of the conservation department advisory council.
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