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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1922
Page
1
A charged reminiscence recalls a white woman assaulted by a Black man, followed by mass arrests of Black residents. The narrative shifts from speculative outrage to a confirmed arrest, with a Georgia man identified by the victim and sentenced to twenty years. The piece critiques bias and echoes a past case. Dabney.
Col Charles Young Military Attache in Monrovia Liberia has died. He was the highest ranking Negro officer in the U S Army, born in Ohio and a West Point graduate. His widow returns to America and his children study in Europe.
Louis H Capelle Negro County Prosecuting Attorney orders subpoenas for witnesses and aims for immediate grand jury action and trial for James Morris accused of attacking a woman near her Lockland home on December 27. The note defends impartial justice regardless of race or politics and contrasts with a separate case of a white woman’s killing of a colored boy.
Mrs Lydig Hoyt shocked New York society by attending a Liberator radical ball while Claude Mackaye and Art Young joined the event circuit at Tammany hall. English sculptress Claire Sheridan and artist Nazia McMein were also noted guests as costumes proved striking and even sensational.
Philadelphia January 14 reports say Senator Boies Penrose, guided by his physician, amassed a subterranean stock of vintage wines and rare liquors valued at 250000. He anticipated the Prohibition era and warned friends to prepare, storing barrels of fine whiskies and casks of prized wines in ample quantities.
Dry spells spark inventive use of a blanket to capture odors and alcohol. A colored citizen operated a still beneath a blanket that filtered the moist vapors into a bucket and bottles the liquid. Authorities suspect more scents and liquids hid in the blanket’s prior use.
In Crisfield Maryland Miss Mamie Sterling aged 21 and William Ward aged 40, both white, died when their Ford sedan plunged through an open draw of the Jersey Bridge into ten feet of water. Albert Whittington witnessed the attempt to warn them as the bridge opened for a passing vessel.
Survivors describe rushing water flooding the submerged vehicle after the windshield shattered. Miss Sterling and Ward were trapped as attempts to open the doors failed. The rapid inflow from bottom and sides led to swift drowning.
New York January 15 Accused of operating on the wrong foot of a club footed child Dr Samuel Kleinberg Brooklyn surgeon has been named as defendant in a $100000 suit filed by David Engle father of the patient.
The petition notes the error was disclosed after surgery. The doctor's patient now has crippling injuries to both feet while his daughter had one foot before. The piece recalls several mistaken operations, including a claim against a doctor for leaving cotton batting and shears in a patient, and another undisclosed incident.
James A. Allen, famed detective, died about 2 a m Thursday morning. He had achieved national recognition for his investigative work and his passing marks the end of an era in crime detection.
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