Art His Undoing Ten Dollar a Week Clerk Charged
Allerton Merritt son of William H Merritt of 425 West End Avenue faced charges in New York after allegedly embezzling 18000 of funds from the Weolawken Wharf company at 26 Cortland Street. The 10 a week bookkeeper, famed for rare books and paintings, is accused of misappropriating company funds and had a levy placed on assets. The Supreme Court has ordered action and the matter was turned over to the sheriff with an outstanding balance and a gas bill noted.
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New York
Allerton Merritt
Wiliam H. Merritt
West End Avenue
Weolawken Wharf Company
Cortland Street
Avie Af
Setrandlag Riscred Landard
Supreme Court
Young man flees after confessed embezzlement at company
A young employee, after confessing to misappropriating company funds, notified the president he would leave the state. He had taken money for personal use while valuable property including pictures engravings and books remained behind. Father Merritt supplied an affidavit supporting the incident.
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Burns
Burks
Willismnui “Merritt
Tewksbury Found in Mexico After Disappearing Debts
Lewis G. Tewksbury a New York stock broker and Topeka figure disappeared last June leaving creditors about 500000. The World reports he is living in opulence in Mexico City under an assumed name, with a store on Calle de San Francisco and a grand residence, surrounded by officials and social circles, while his vanished debts fade in the shadows.
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Lewis
Tewksbury
New York
Topeka
Mexico
Col
A. 8. Johnson
New York World
Lewis G. ‘Tewksbury
Broadway
Republic of Mexico
Underman Americana
Calle de’ San Francisco
City
Republic
Upper West Side
Custie
Wall Street
Agtoe
Guta
Tewkabury
Manchester
N. H
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Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange
San Francisco
Bia
City of
Tewkesbury
Tewksbury and the Mexican Absconding Case Revealed
An unnamed narrator recalls meeting Tewksbury in Mexico City and noting his unfamiliar face and repeated attempts to identify him. The tale mentions Tewksbury’s upon sale of his Seventy-second Street house, striking fittings and bric a brac, including bronzes and tapestries, later connected to items found in his Mexican setting and hints at an absconding scheme.
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Tewksbury
City of
Mexico
Seventy-second Street
Tewkebuey
Fishley
Tewkeby
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets Offer Safer Effective Cure
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets claim advantages over liquids by avoiding injurious drugs for children and adults, preserving medicine in tablet form, and delivering antiseptic ingredients like eucalyptus bark red gum blood root and hydrastin into the blood. Local treatments fail to reach the blood, while tablets provide a complete internal remedy available nationwide.
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Stuart
Medical Department
United States Army
United States
Canada
Missouri Pacific Lines No 2 Leaves Kansas City For St Louis
Missouri Pacific Lines No 2 departs Kansas City at 9 50 a m in a solid vestibuled consist to St Louis with smoking car coaches reclining chair car and Pullman parlor car seats free connections at St Louis union depot with eastern lines for New York and Atlantic coast points. Lv Kansas City 9 50 am 0 16 a.
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Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Louis Union Depot
Eastern Lines
New York
Atlantic Coast
Deaf Mute Cobbler Held By Widow's Promise
New York dec 1 a deaf mute named Louis Samuel a cobbler at 3 Coenties Slip boarded with widow Conkley at 183 Third Avenue He claimed she promised to marry him after he paid her board and demanded his money back when she reneged Quigley and a patrol from Old Slip recounted the tale at Coentis Slip court as Samuel confronted the widow in the case
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New York
Palse
Conkley
Louis Samuel
Coenties Sip
Third Avenue
Louis
Aetna Seb
Euiavid
Tlouls
Quigley
Coentles
Samuel
Coe Street Court
Cass
Mgistrate Bissainti
Quii
Nena Lopherenat
Penels
Binyele
Ieee
Police Biot
Pia
Judicial mind hears a tale of passion and theft
A chaotic court scene shows a deaf mute exchange amid threats and love vows as a magistrate presides over a domestic dispute. Separate news from Scranton reports that the Pennsylvania Coal company and allied coal interests confirmed a major sale to the Hill railroad, involving mining workings and 2,000,000 tons of coal and many workers.
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Scranton
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hile Railroad
George B. Smith
Dunmore
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Townsend, C. P. & T. A
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