Mysterious death investigation in Ohio scene near railroad spur
A 35 year old man was found dead near a New York Central railroad east of a road in Lorain County. The body showed a blow to the back and a potential neck wound, with no immediate identification. Police and the coroner examined the scene, noting a well dressed figure in brown and blue attire and a brown hat. Officials said the death may be murder or an accident but offered no decisive cause yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central
Miles Perry
Cleveland
Jurors Called for March Murder Trial
A list shows jurors summoned for a murder trial set to begin March 31 in Pittsfield. Names include Chas Grif, Mrs A Baker, Henry Kane, Fred Smith, Emmett Gregg, J J Hall, William Holley, and others from Avon Amherst Amherst, and surrounding areas.
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Ler
Avon
Chas. Grif- Jenne
A. Baker
Y. Amherst
F. Cumh Amherst
Grace
Henry Andress
Harry Ax Hart
Martin Fulla Carrick
A. Beebe
Ioe Hannaford
Joseph
Henry Kane
Elyna
William Longley
Fred Smith
E W. Adams
A Hasenpflug
Fred Afien
Colum Coulson
Pittsfield
Osik Erster Appeals Release in Lorain County Case
A petition was filed in Lorain County Court seeking relief for Joseph Osik Erster who appealed his conviction in South Amherst. The case routes through common pleas and appeals courts with prior decisions sustained, and now proceeds to the art.
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Lorain County
Joseph Osikerst
South Amherst
Common Pleas
Rites Friday for Late Gton Conducted at 2 P M
Funeral services for the late Gton will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Second Street, with Rev. Will officiating. Burial will take place in Ridge Cemetery.
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I Second Street
Rdgeery
Forbes Hilted 10,000 Bond in Washington
Col Charles R Forbes former head of the United States Veterans Bureau appeared before U S Commissioner McDonald in Washington and posted 10000 bond for a Chicago preliminary hearing on March 17. Government counsel named three indictments including conspiracy to defraud the United States accepting a bribe and conspiracy to accept a bribe.
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Washington
Charles R Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Chicago
U. S
McDonald
Forbes
United States
Joe Sex Dies in Niles Ohio
Mrs Annie Sex of 220 Seventh Street learned yesterday of her son Joe Sex death at Niles Ohio No cause was given and the body would be taken to Newark Ohio He formerly lived here and was an assistant superintendent at Longwear Rubber Co Ohioan personal crisis reports Steubenville Ohio March 6 authorities could not determine the motive in the self inflicted gunshot death of mill worker J Frank Foster last night.
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Dan Symons
Prohibition
Frank Klady
Lorain County
Klady
Lawrence Webber
Annie Sex
Seventh Street
Joe Sex
Niles
Ohio
Newark
Sex
Longwear Rubber Co
Steubenville
J. Frank Foster
Daugherty Probe Prosecutor Seen as a La Follette Figure
In Washington Senator Burton Keeler, chief prosecutor in the Daugherty inquiry, is viewed as an outspoken Democratic insurgent like La Follette. Wheeler, on the Senate interstate commerce panel, sparked the deadlock over its chairman. He is among the senate's youngest members, second only to Dill of Washington.
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Washington
Burton Keeler
Harry Daugherty
Senate
Wheeler
LaFollette
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dill
Waslington
Coolidge
VicLean
Slemp
Senator Walsh
McLean
President Coolidge
Senate Public Lands Committee
Western Union
McLean Palm Beach
Prescott
Protests Lead to Action in Lorain County Traffic Fight
The Lorain County Automobile Club passed two resolutions urging the sheriff and police to curb reckless driving and traffic violations on Cleveland Elyria buses. One targets a delivery driver Albert Damm for speeding and unsafe operation, with court action urged including a six month driving ban after a speeding conviction.
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Lorain County Automobile Club
Cleveland-Elyria
Albert Damm
Young Damm
Hinkson
Lorain suspects linked to embezzlement and forged checks
Lorain men Peter Kosa and J Davis will be returned from Detroit and Rochester after governors honor requisitions. Each is charged with embezzling 450 dollars from Charles Davis, who employed him, on December 1. Davis allegedly forged the name H M Crowell on a 3550 dollar check drawn on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers National Bank in Cleveland.
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Columbus
Peter Kosa
J. Davis
Lorain
Detroit
Mich
Rochester
N. Y
Donahe J Kosa
Charles Davis
Davis Tt
H. M. Crowell
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers National Bank
Cleveland
Congress Pushes Soldiers Bonus Bill To House
Washington reports the Ways and Means Committee voted 16 to 3 to draft a soldiers bonus measure and urge House passage. Also the U S and Finland debt accord ratified for 9 million dollars to be repaid over 62 years. Immediate passage of a 25 percent income tax reduction was agreed by congressional leaders.
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Washington
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
House
Doris Leser Surprised on Birth Day at City Hall
Miss Doris Leser auditor clerk arrived at city hall to find birthday gifts and a cake with twenty two candles. The city hall staff offered best wishes as part of a celebratory surprise. Senator Willis and Mrs Medill McCormick to speak at Republican women of Ohio dinner March 13 at the Hollenden in Cleveland.
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Doris Leser
Auditor's
Cleveland
Frank B. Willis
Ohio
Medill McCormick
United States
Illiinois
Republican Women of
Hollenden
Slemp
Calvin Coolidge
Prescott
Anson V. Prescott
McLean
Palm Beach
Walsh
Washington
E. B. McLean
Florida
European political shifts and trials across cities
Paris reports expulsion from the Radical Socialist party of Sarrut and Laffont for backing Poincare reforms, with seven deputies also expelled. In Geneva a five member committee plans an International Drug Conference opening November 17 under the League of Nations, with Edwin W Neville representing the United States. Ismet Pasha resigns in Angora, Jacob Astor seeks a London seat again, and a Luxemburg report debunks Major Bailey as the killer. Spain extends the Anglo Spanish treaty five years, a Madrid bus crash kills three, Ceuta reports Cataline ship casualties, and Ludendorff’s treason trial pauses amid court tumult in Munich. Melilla blazes as shells ignite flames.
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Paris
French Radical Socialist Party Today
Sarrut
Laffont
Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
Geneva
League of Nations
Edwin W Neville
United States
Four divorce suits filed in Lorain court
Several divorce cases were filed in the court of common pleas to day. Mary J Ferguson sues William Ferguson alleging extreme cruelty with disputed dates and seeks restoration of her maiden name. F A Coleman claims Minnie Coleman gross neglect of duty and abandonment on Feb 24. Laura Hyer accuses George Hyer of gross neglect over five years for failure to support. Marion Boughton Jr alleges Elvira Boughton gross neglect and improper associations. In Columbus LL Monte. Warton chairs a new ice cream manufacturers district group for ten central Ohio counties as a federal amendment on ice cream standard moves forward.
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Court of Common Pleas
Dary
Mary J. Ferguson
William Ferguson
Lorain
Mary Jane McCullough
F. A Coleman
Minnie Coleman
Laura Hyer
George Hyer
EN. Boughton, Jr
Elvira
Marion Boughton
Columbus
LL Monte. Warton
Ohio
Governor Donahey weighs action on pardons to ease prison congestion
Statewide move centers on Clemency Board recommendation that common pleas judges use suspensions of sentences more often to address prison crowding. Ohio Wesleyan Phi Beta Kappa Day will feature Bryan address and campus events. Ohio Tag Association to discuss constitutional tax amendment at January 1925 session. Cleveland faces church bowling clash with threats of a Sabbath ban if Sunday bowling continues.
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Columbus
Donahey
Clemency Board
Common Pleas
Delaware
E B Bryan
Ohio
Ohio Tag Association
3. E. Forney
State Tax Commission
School Chief Search Moves To Regional Visits
The board of education met to hire a new superintendent and considered several candidates. A committee of C J Ciehore and A R Agate will visit two cities in the state and one in a neighboring state to aid the decision. A three year contract will be drawn up with J R Wilmot as supervisor of buildings.
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Board of Education
C. J. Ciehore
A R. Agate
J R. Wilmot
Choe Still Denied Revaluation Decision
County Auditor Monroe Welty has not decided on ordering a reappraisement of Lorain real estate. The issue is whether the petition for appraisement was properly filed. He refers the case to the attorney general for guidance.
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Monroe Welty
Lorain
Acts on Bribery Charges Against Two Congressmen
A. F. Seymour acting attorney general seeks to present evidence to a federal grand jury alleging two members of Congress participated in a bribe plot tied to irregularities in the veterans bureau. He is acting under direct orders from President Coolidge.
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A. F. Seymour
Daugherty
Congress
Veterans Bureau
Coolidge
Oil probe and Coolidge pressure move Navy secretary talks
Washington dispatch notes Theodore E. Burton as a likely successor to Edwin Denby and reports strong Ohio pressure on President Coolidge. Civil and criminal actions to restore Naval Oil Reserves are announced with suits in Wyoming and California and a grand jury in Washington on April 1. Coolidge denies sharing tax data and faces renewed calls for Attorney General Daugherty to resign amid oil scandal inquiries.
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Washington
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
Congress
Edwin Denby
E. L. Doheny
H. F. Sinclair
Wyoming
California
Coolidge
Public Lands Committee
Harry F. Sinclair
E. L. Doheny Jr
E. B. McLean
Albert B. Fall
Daugherty
Harry M. Daugherty
White House
Miami
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Forbes Hilts
Niles, Ohio
Barton K. Wheeler
Cleveland-Elyria Busses
Lorain Police
Bulletins
United Sates
Finland
James M. Cox
Jonathan M. Davis
Josephus Daniels
John W. Davis
James A. Reed
David F. Houston
Oscar W. Underwood
Royal S. Copeland
William G. McAdoo
Newton D. Baker
al Smith
John H. Clarke
John Barton Payne
Samuel M. Ralston
Tion
Doheny
Constantinople
Ismet Pasha
Angora
London
Jacob Astor
Viscount Astor
House of Commons
Docer
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Standard Today
Major Bailey
Madrid
The
Seville
Ceuta
Morocco
Catalone
Rome
Vatican
Patrick J. Hayes
New York
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Munich
Generalrich Ludendorff
Adolf Hudler
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Melilla
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Samuel J. Prescott
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