The Undoing of Hilton Hy
Georgie Hilton faces ruin after a phonographic record prank. Three club friends steal a record, rework its tune into a vicious verse about Hilton’s drinking and alleged misdeeds, then gift it to his wife. The couple plays it aloud at dinner, revealing the taunting song. The episode ends with Hilton’s foregone fate.
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John Stroply
Georgie
Fred Atkinson
George Hilton
Josh
Hilton
Providence
Gaddis
Edward
Atkinson
Phonographic Companies
Clarence
Stroplye
Phonograph
Unwelcome Friendship in Train Car Exchange
In a staged exchange from the Indianapolis Press a red faced passenger declares friendship to the Boers during a train ride. A slim passenger responds from a corner expressing concern for the Boers if the other is allied with them.
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Indianapolis Press
Wheels on Railcars Run Distances Reach Record Levels
Pennsylvania made car wheels are used 4000 miles on passenger coaches before moving to freight cars. A 42 inch wheel in the shops has covered over 700000 miles and a 36 inch wheel has traveled about 600000 miles.
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Pennsylvania
Vermont deputy slain by jailbreakers as bloodhounds pursue
Dunstan Shaw and his son Frank Shaw escaped Windsor county jail in Woodstock and shot Deputy Sheriff George W. Hoffman during a confrontation in Barnard. Hoffman died from abdominal wounds after being rushed to a nearby house. Escaped fugitives, well armed, flee into the woods as a statewide manhunt intensifies with officers from Rutland, Brandon and Woodstock aiding the pursuit.
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Windsor County
Vermont
George W. Hoffman
Hoffman
Dunstan Shaw
Frank
Woodstock
Barnard
Herman
Shaw
Frank Shaw
Young Shaw
White River Junction
Rutland
Brandon
Stafford
Pauli Pinkham
Fugitives Shaw brothers escape search in Vermont woods
After bail release two Shaw fugitives fled into Vermont woods with rifles. Sheriff Stafford and a large hunting party, aided by bloodhounds, pursued near Rutland and Ripton as dawn broke. The elder Shaw demanded surrender and fired, but the pair again escaped as officers pressed relentless pursuit.
Desperate fugitives believed in the Green Mountains
Rumors swirl about the whereabouts of two desperate fugitives as searchers press the chase through the Green Mountains. Officials say capture or death seems imminent, though no reliable leads have emerged.
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Green Mountains
Wagering During a Train Wreck Ends With Cash
A veteran traveler recalls a Louisville horseman who bet a hundred on the car not falling from a trestle during a Kansas derailment. The train rolled on level ground. no one died. The gambler handed over the stake, joking he would have won if the wreck had occurred on a trestle.
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Louisville
Kansas
Kentucky
Ghosts of Peyton Randolph Haunt Carpenter’s Hall
A Philadelphia legend places Peyton Randolph in Carpenter’s Hall with nocturnal visits. Attendant Mrs Hirons recalls nightly cellar and garret knocks as echoes of a diseased revolutionary prison era and lingering spirits in the old building.
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Peyton Randolph
Catherine Alice Hirons
Carpenter’s Hall
Hired to Murder In New Jersey Capers
Two New York detectives disguised as tramps tracked a murder plot in New Brunswick New Jersey. They accuse Rosa L Ruck a hobo house operator of attempting to bribe them to kill Middlesex County Prosecutor John Voorhees. Ruck denied the charges claiming the detective suggested the killing and that she was intoxicated.
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Down Jersey Way
New York
Sylvester F. Cosgrove
James Hill
New Brunswick
N. J
Rosa L. Ruck
John S .Voorhees
Midliesex County
Ruck
Kuhn
Coins Found Back to 1830 in Old Log at Nuacup Farm
Workmen tearing down a Marysville area farm discovered a log containing 3155 coins wrapped in an old ram. The coins date from as early as 1830 with none earlier than 1745. Local authorities note the find at the Nuacup property once owned by William N. Nuacup.
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William N. Nu” Acup
Marysville
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Tom Gladdis
Chicago Tribune
Sen
Deputy Hoffman
Rutland County
New York State
Shaws
G. W. Flanders
Ripton
Desperado
Bet
Carpenter’ S Hall
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