Fingerprints Reveal His Identity in Oklahoma Death
Ford Bradshaw, long sought outlaw, identified by fingerprints after a roadhouse shooting near Fort Smith Arkansas. His 25-year-old companion Marie Fields was being questioned. He held guests for three hours, was shot by the roadhouse owner Bill Harper, a .45 revolver with 50 rounds was found, and $300 to $400 in his billfold. Their car bore Oklahoma and Missouri license plates, four suitcases, and ammunition was found in a compartment.
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Oklahoma City
Ford Bradshaw
Fort Smith
Ark
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
Marie Fields
Bill Harper
Oklahoma Line
Clyde Barrow
Carthage
Oklahoma
Missouri
Election contest in Williamsport faces two tickets
Williamsport votes Monday to elect burgess and two commissioners for two years with two tickets Progres sive and Citizens being led by Richard Hawken and M F Gower respectively. Chas Harsh and W E Cottrill among assistant burgess candidates with N Q Bitner and C A Lum as commissioners. Polls open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the town building.
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Williamsport
Progressive
Citizens
Richard G. Hawken
Burgess
Chas. W. Harsh
John A. Conley
Harry H. Shank
M. F Gower
W. E. Cottrill
N. Q. Britner
C. A. Lum
Five Killed in Carmi Car Crash Near Grayville
Five of six occupants of a Carmi car were killed when it collided with a truck near Grayville Illinois. The sixth survivor, Mrs Clyde Stone, is in critical condition. Victims include Norwood Stone 18 Maxine Stone 17 Mary Wilen Stone 14 Gertrude Cochran 42 and Virginia Stone 16. The drivers were Lawrence Law and Harlan Vonthoit of Carlysle Indiana. Land and Douthelt were uninjured. A dense fog enveloped the crash area after a basketball game in Grayville.
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Carmt
Grayville
Clyde Stone
Carmi
Norwood Stone
Maxine
Mary Wilen Stone
Lawrence Law
Harlan Vonthoit
Carlysle
Ind
Gertrude Cochran
Stone
Virginia Stone
Land
Douthelt
Poison whisky murder verdict convicts Dr Sarah Ruth Dean
Convicted Greenwood Mississippi March 3 4 Dr Sarah Ruth Dean a woman physician is found guilty of poisoning Dr John Preston Kennedy. Jury fixes life imprisonment after three ballots and immediate appeal announced by counsel Ruth Dean smiles as verdict is read and escorted from the courtroom.
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Greenwood
Miss
Sarah Ruth Dean
John Preston Kennedy
Ruth Dean
G. S. Peyton
Dr. Dean
Davis
Dr Wynekoop Collapses in Chicago Murder Trial
Dr Alice Wynekoop collapsing during cross examination in the trial over the murder of her daughter in law Rheta. After a 24 minute recess she was wheeled back into the Criminal Court Building as Judge Marty R Miller ordered spectators to seats. The jury was removed while Wynekoop collapsed and rasped for breath.
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Criminal Courts Building
Chicago
Alice J. Wynekoop
Rheta
Criminal Court Building
Alice Tuindsay Wynekoop
Marty R. Miller
Harry B. Miller
W. W. Smith
Dr. Wynekanp
Five Hurt As Bus and Truck Collide On Icy Road
A Nevin bus traveling from Chicago to Philadelphia collided with a truck at the bottom of McConnellsburg Mountain about 6 30 this morning. Five people injured four seriously were taken to Chambersburg hospital after first aid by Mercersburg doctors. Injured include Martin Glazer 25 Chicago and Mrs Harry Brodies 35 Muskegon Mich both with back injuries William E Moore 29 Church Hill Pittsburgh brain concussion and fractured collar bone A A Williams 58 Akron CO with a broken leg and a youth unnamed who was released soon after. Ice on the highway was blamed and the truck driver Mr Golden Emmitsburg Md escaped injury. Police detained both drivers while a state police investigation continued.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
McConnellsburg Mountain
Chambersburg Hospital
Mercersburg
Martin Glazer
Harry Brodies
Muskegon
Mich
William E. Moore
Church Hill
Pittsburgh
A. A. Williams
Akron
Mr. Golden
Emmittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Chambersburg
Coast Guard Delivers Provisions to Tangier Island
CRISFIELD MD March 3 A coast guard cutter left port with food and fuel for Tangier Island whose 2000 residents have faced shortages after isolation. Earlier the cutter delivered supplies to nearby Smith Island amid a crowded wharf and praise for relief arriving just in time as ice broke up in the bay.
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Crisfield
Coast Guard
Tangier Island
Smith Island
Tangier
Police Seek Bandit Car After Richmond Hold Up
Local police were alerted to look for a car with three men implicated in a Richmond bank holdup yesterday. Six men stopped a messenger heading to the bank and fled in a car. The group split up. three men in a small car went north. The license number was sent to police.
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Richmond
Weather Outlook for North and Middle Atlantic States
Rain at the start of the week affects the region with south area also seeing rain and the north part possibly snow Wednesday night or Thursday. Temperatures fall slightly Monday night and Tuesday, rise midweek, then dip again Thursday night and Friday.
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North
Middle Atlantic
South
Busy week for young thief ends in jail
In St Johns Quebec Judge Donat Lalande noted a 20 year old, Joseph Laverdiere, who stole on Tuesday, married on Wednesday, arrested on Thursday, became a father on Friday, remanded on Saturday, and honeymooned on Sunday. He was sentenced to 10 months in jail for theft of poor boxes. The judge warned, Don't try to escape on Monday.
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ST. Johns
Quebec
Donat Lalande
Joseph Laverdiere
Appeal Cases On Trial In Court Today
Criminal appeals are heard in court today while civil trials are set for next week. Bonds forfeited for Helen Earnshaw and F C Ritter for coal theft. Edward Caricose found guilty. Claude Cline of Williamsport pleaded guilty to stabbing Officer Lloyd Lemen after appeal. Roy C Bowers larceny appeal dismissed. he failed to appear. Continued on Page 10.
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Helen Earnshaw
F. C. Ritter
Edward Caricose
Claude Cline
Williamsport
Lloyd Lemen
Roy C. Bowers
Bowers
Fred Spring
Frederick County
Child Frozen Hands And Feet In Maryland Cold
Eight year old Beta Faith collapsed walking to school near Hancock Maryland as temperatures fell to 18 below zero. She was taken to a nearby store where her hands and feet were found frozen. Local conditions and rescue efforts followed.
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Hancock
Beta Faith
New York flier Laura Ingalls resumes flight from Charleston
Laura Ingalls, a New York woman flier feared after taking off from Charleston yesterday for Jacksonville en route to South America, stopped at Daytona Beach airport at 10 a.m. today, gassed up and continued southward, airport officials reported.
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Daytona Beach
Laura Ingalls
New York
Charleston
S. C
Jacksonville
South America
Advertising agency president killed in Chicago ambush
Eli Datchess, 44, president of Thomas Bowers Advertising Agency, was slain in Chicago as two men fired a shotgun at his car. The vehicle halted at East and Outer Drive when a second car pulled up containing the attackers. One assailant fired two rapid blasts, killing Datchess.
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Chicago
Eli Datchess
Thomas Bowers Advertising Agency
East Atrd Street
Beaver Creek Angling Reels In Large Suckers Near Boonsboro
Russell Detrow reports Beaver Creek anglers near Boonsboro are catching unusually large suckers weighing up to four pounds, marking a notable uptick in size for the stream’s recent catches.
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Russell Detrow
Boonsboro
Beaver Creek
Eight hurt in Ednor crash injures CWA workers
In Rockville Maryland on March 2 an automobile carrying county CWA workers collided with another car at Ednor injuring eight people. Irving Phillips of Tewisdale sustained a fractured skull.
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Rockville
CWA
Ednor
Irving Phillips
Tewisdale
Four Die in Worcester Hotel Blaze
Four men burned to death and twelve injured in an early morning fire that destroyed the Hotel Pleasant in Worcester Massachusetts. The loss is estimated at $100000 with the blaze under control after a three hour effort. Victims named include William Donovan Albert F Gaudette Edward F O'Brien and George Rowe.
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Worcester
Mass
Hotel Pleasant
William Donovan
Albert F. Gaudette
St. Denis
Can
Edward F. O’brien
George Rowe
Providence
R. I
Portland
Donovan
Ben Kaplan
Worcester Telegram
Democrats Praise Roosevelt at Washington County Club
Attorney General Wm Preston Lane spoke at the Democratic Organization Club meeting with over 200 members present. He reviewed Roosevelt's first year, recounted Governor Ely's birthday ball remarks praising Warm Springs, and a telegram was planned to be sent to President Roosevelt endorsing his leadership and future efforts.
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Preston Lane
Democratic Organization Club
Roosevelt
Ely
Massachusetts
Governorly
al Smith
United States
E. Stuart Bushong
Wm. 1D. Byron
George A. Reed
Democratic Oriéanization Club
Washington County
Middletown Savings Bank to Open Next Week
Pi plans for the second reorganization of the Middletown Savings Bank have been completed in preparation for its opening for business early next week.
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Middletown
Middletown Savings Bank
Man Wanted in Robbery Is Located
Harry Carbaugh 27 of this county, long sought after for the Fairfield Pennsylvania National Bank holdup last fall, has been located in Tennessee where arrested for robbery and sentenced to two to four years. He used the alias George Williams but was identified by fingerprints. Carbaugh, who formerly lived near Fairfield, was at large after a charcoal masked bandit robbed the bank of 659 dollars and fled. An abandoned car tied him to the vicinity. He was on parole the day of the hold up, and his trail spanned three states before being halted.
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Harry Carbaugh
Fairfield
National Bank
Tennessee
Bushy Mountain
George Williams
Carbaugh
Fairfield Bank
South Mountain
Fied
Bart
New Trial Requested In $25,000 Damage Suit
A motion for a new trial in the $25,000 damage suit of Miss Kath ryn A. Bingham against Donald B. Mullendore was filed in court this morning by Miss Bingham's attorneys J. Lloyd Harshman and John Wagaman. A jury recently returned a verdict for the defendant. Argument on the motion will likely be heard early next week.
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Kathryn A. Bingham
Donald B. Mullendore
Miss Bingham
J. Lloyd Harshman
John Wagaman
Physician Curtis Nelson Killed In Hospital Plunge
Dr Curtis Nelson 31 a member of a prominent Chicago family died after a five story fall from a fifth floor washroom at Presbyterian Hospital where he was a patient He entered the public washroom last night and his body was found on the court concrete by an orderly minutes later The tragedy occurred during his treatment for a nervous ailment.
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Chicago
Curtis Nelson
Presbyterian Hospital
Nelson
Verroux Forms New Spain Cabinet in Madrid
Premier designate Alejandro Verroux today formed a new Spanish government in Madrid succeeding his own cabinet which resigned three days earlier. The move follows the March 3 report of a government shakeup as Verroux consolidates leadership during a political transition.
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Madrid
Alejandro Verroux
Spain
Boonsboro worker shoots 163 starlings over corn
Glen Detrow of O W King and Son Boonsboro shot and killed 163 starlings last week. The birds were eating corn intended for the ex sheriff, and Detrow grew weary of feeding them.
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Glen Detrow
O. W. King and Son
Boonsboro
Fashions Gun From Wood Then Escapes Jail
John Dillinger and Herbert Youngblood escaped from Crown Point Indiana jail with hostages Deputy Sheriff George Blunt and Edward Sager. Dillinger carved a wooden pistol, used it to threaten guards, freed four prisoners, seized two machine guns, and fled in a black Ford sedan toward Gary and Chicago while Blunt was forced into the car as a hostage.
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Peotone, Ill
John Dillinger
Herbert Youngblood
Crown Point
Ind
George Blunt
Edward Sager
Garage
Dillinger
Blunt
Edward Eager
Gary
Chiscago
Holley
Sager
Lillian Holley
John Hamilton
Tucson
Ariz
Student Held for Slaying Escapes Clinton Jail
Carlyle IL March 3 Thomas A. Davis Jr 19 year old Pittsburgh high school student awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania for slaying a state trooper last September escaped from Clinton county jail last night authorities announced today.
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Carlyle
Thomas A. Davis, Jr
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Clinton County
Water Snake Killed in February Cold at Baker's Woods
An eighteen inch water snake was killed several days ago during severe cold at the stone quarry of Earl Glenn at Baker's Woods near Boonshoro. Glenn and his workmen dispatched the reptile, surprising them as reptiles are rare in February this year.
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Earl Glenn
Baker’s Woods
Boonshoro
Glenn
Pittsburgh Victim Dies in Rail Crash
Alexander Ray, 49, of Cleveland, died early today from injuries suffered when the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train plunged into a Pittsburgh street last Monday night. He was the eleventh victim of the crash.
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Pittsburgh
Alexander Ray
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana to mobilize state police against Dillinger
Al Feeney the Indiana director of public safety said the entire state police will be concentrated in Indianapolis on a new hunt for John Dillinger the bank robber and killer who escaped from Crown Point jail this morning.
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Indianapolis
al Feeney
Public Safety
Indiana
John Dillinger
Crown Point
Pass Under Heavy Guard After Dillinger Escape
Lima dispatch reports Allen county officials ordering extra precautions to guard Harry Pierpont Charles Makley and Russell Clark after learning of John Dillinger’s jail escape at Crown Point Indiana. Dillinger henchmen await trial for first degree murder.
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Lima
John Dillinger
Crown Point
Ind
Allen County
Harry Pierpont
Charles Makley
Russell Clark
Dillinger
Hera
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DR. Wynekoop
Isle In Bay
F.D.R
Lake County
Lillian Haley
Illinois
Pennsy Cop
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