Dorothy Arnold death claims center of Pittsburgh case
District Attorney R H Jackson said evidence suggests Dorothy Arnold died in the Bellevue House after being treated by Dr C C Meredith. A New York family attorney and his search of the Meredith facility are cited, with claims of possible substitution and hidden rooms. Meredith, Lutz, and nurse Lucy Orr were bailed on charges related to the case as clothing and a secret path linked to the house are noted.
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Pittsburg
Dorothy Arnold
New York
C. C. Meredith
Meredith “Hospital
Arnold
R. H. Jackson
Miss Arnold
Belevue House
J. S. Keith
Keith
Meredith
Jackson
H. E. Lutz
Lucy Dorothy Orr
House of Mystery
Largest Elk county gas well drilled on Fisher farm
Kane Pennsylvania April 10 The Beaver Gas and Oil Co drilled the deepest Elk county field well on the Fisher farm four miles from Ridgway. Gas gushed at 2700 feet with pressure rising to 55 800 000 cubic feet, after lease bought from Charles Halberg of Ridgway for 30 000.
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Kane
Elk County
Fisher Farm
Ridgway
Beaver Gas and Oil Co
Johnsonburg Capital
Charles Halberg
Pennsylvania State building contract for Panama-Pacific Exposition
Harrisburg April 8 The Pennsylvania State Commission let the contract for the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition building to Neil A McLean of San Francisco for 34980 with the structure price 30000. Six bids were received from San Francisco firms. The pavillion will feature Independence Hall style details in the central structure with two wings, and about 35000 is planned for embellishment and surrounding gardens.
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Harrisburg
San Francisco
State Commission
Neil A. McLean
Independence Hall
Hulings Secures Honorable Discharge for Soldier Rogers
Rep. Willis J. Hulings wins House passage of a relief bill for Lucien P. Rogers of Warren Pennsylvania, an old Civil War veteran who served under his own name after filing false enlistment details and received no pay after 1864. The bill, urged for years, faces Senate approval with expectations of official War Department recognition.
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Washington
Willis J. Hulings
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Lucien P. Rogers
Warren
Joseph Sibley
Nelson P. Wheeler
Peter M. Speer
House
Military Committee
Hulings
Rogers
Adjutant General
Army
Illinois Infantry
Seargant
Greembaum
Roger
Tennessee River
Lookout Mountain
Missionary Ridge
Sherman
Kennesaw Mountain
Barker
Bradshaw
Chattanooga
Construction Corps
Senate
War Department
Union
Falls From Levee Claims Local Mill Foreman
Frank Newmaker, forman at Newmaker and Reed lumber mill on the Island, fell into the Allegheny River while helping raise a levee front and drowned. Workers began a search immediately and recovered his body about an hour later.
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Allegheny River
Frank Newmaker
Forman
Newmaker & Reed Lumber
Young Secretary Meyer Serves Lane at Interior
Herbert A. Meyer, private secretary to Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, is the cabinet’s youngest private secretary at twenty seven. A civil service product, he was born in Chillicothe Ohio and educated at Staunton Military Academy in Virginia.
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Herbert A. Meyer
Franklin K. Lane
Interior
Mr. Meyer
Chillicothe, O
Staunton (Va.) Military Academy
Four Rosenthal killers die in Sing Sing electric chair
Ossining N Y April 13 four gunmen convicted in the murder of Herman Rosenthal were executed in Sing Sing prison. Cirofici first to die at 5 44 followed by Seidenshner 5 52 Horowitz 6 03 and Rosenberg 6 17 after four shocks to end the sentence.
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Ossining
N. Y
Herman Rosenthal
Sing Sing
Dago Frank
Cirofici
Louie” Rosenberg
Albany
Whitey Lewis
Jacob Seidenshner
Seidenshner
Lefty Louie
Louie
Father Cashin
Rabbi Goldstein
Rosenthal
Seidenshwer Ried
Becker not involved in Rosenthal murder says Cirofici
Albany April 13. Before his death at Sing Sing Cirofici claimed Horowitz Rosenberg and Wallon fired the shots that killed Herman Rosenthal and that Becker had no part in the crime. He said he was five miles away when the murder occurred and Whitey Seidenseiner did not fire. He admitted being in the original plot and riding with gunmen that night but left before the shots.
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Albany
N. Y
Dago Frank
Cirofici
Sing Sing Prison
Clancey
Gyp
Horowitz
Louie’ Rosenberg
Harry Wallon
Herman Rosenthal
Becker
Whitey Lewis
Seidenseiner
Rosenthal
Crime and Conviction of the Four Gunmen
In July 1912 Herman Rosenthal was assassinated outside the Hotel Metropole in New York. Gunmen fled. Becker, a police lieutenant, was later implicated. Three go-betweens testified Becker used his office to extort gambling houses. Becker was convicted and sentenced to death, later granted a new trial.
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Herman Rosenthal
New York
Tenderloin
Becker
Brooklyn
Jack Rose
Bridgey Webber
Harry Wallon
Sam Schepps
Rose
Webber
Vallon
Rosenthal
Two Civil War Soldiers Breaks for Love and Fear
The fragment notes one man grew frightened while another deserted to bail out his sweetheart Jean Gordon who had been arrested. The brief hints at a sentimental escape amid wartime peril.
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Qone
Jean Gordon
Becker to be tried May 4 if Whitman can obtain order
New York April 13 The second trial of Charles S Becker, former police lieutenant found guilty of murder with the four gunmen executed today, will begin May 4 if the district attorney has his way. Whitman to appear before a Supreme Court justice to move for the date and request a special panel of talesmen.
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New York
Charles S. Becker
Whitman
Supreme Court
Embezzlement hits Odd Fellows Cemetery funds
Attorney Guy C. Swanson, a Warren County Bar member and cemetery association secretary, embezzled over 18000 dollars from the Odd Fellows Cemetery Association. Bonded for 5000 dollars, only 3500 dollars were recovered due to a bond technicality. Swanson has two eighteen month sentences and remains in jail for about a year more. Trustees Dr. W. C. DeForest and Peter Olson named. April 28 meeting to consider expanding the board from three to five members.
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Odd Fellows Cemetery Association
Guy C. Swanson
Warren County Bar Association
Odds Fellow’s Cemetery Association
Lodge
Swanson
Odd Fellows
W. C. DeForest
Peter Olson
Association
Thaw Habeas Corpus Granted by New Hampshire Judge
Concord N H April 14 Harry Kendall Thaws petition for a writ of habeas corpus was granted by Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United States district court. No discharge order will be issued until appeal steps to the United States supreme court are arranged. Thaws lawyers summoned for conference on next steps. bail question not decided.
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Concord
N. H
Harry Kendall Thaw
T. D. Collins Cause of Death Marked by Long Timber Wealth
T. D. Collins an 83 year old lumber magnate died at 8:45 this morning at his home in Nebraska Pa Forest County after a two week illness. His son Everett Collins rushed from Washington state arriving Erie Tuesday morning then traveled by special train to Nebraska. Collins born in Cortland New York in 1831 built a fortune in Pennsylvania and New York timber.
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T. D. Collins
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Forest Co
Everett Collins
Washington
Erie
Philadelphia & Erie Division
Warren
Sheffield
Cortland
N. Y
New York State
Sylvia Pankhurst barred from public meeting in Dresden
In Dresden on April 15 Miss Sylvia Pankhurst English militant suffragette was prohibited by police from addressing a public meeting.
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Dresden
Germany
Sylvia Pankhurst
Washington party optimism cited by Detrich in PA politics
Philadelphia April 12 A Nevin Detrich chairman of the Washington party state committee says the party offers a light in Pennsylvania amid turmoil in Republicans and Democrats. He notes no primary fights in his party and that candidates are chosen on principle over ambition as they prepare for May primaries.
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Philadelphia
A. Nevin Detrich
Washington Party State Committee
Detrich
Washington Party
Pennsylvania
Pinchot Talks to Big Audience in Warren Rally
The Progressive party held its first Warren mass meeting at Library theater with Gif ford Pinchot and Hulings headlining. Pinchot framed living costs and monopoly, praising Hulings and DeFrees while urging conservation and stronger Sherman law to curb monopolies.
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Forester
Warren
Library Theater
Progressive Party
Gifford Pinchot
Theodore Roosevelt
J. C. Russell
J. H. DeFrees
State Senate
General Hulings
United States
Senate
England
Wilson
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Pittsburgh
Keiths
L. P. Rogers
ODD Fellows’ Funds
Tak
Ing Cemetery Association
Thaw
Sylvia
Pinchot
Standard Oil Company
Tobacco Trust
Forest Service
Wyoming
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