New York Detectives Name Graft Ties to Rosenthal Case
Detective Burns testified before the grand jury detailing a list of gambling houses, owners, protection payments, and patrons, signaling warrants for those who refuse to testify. Investigations extend to police graft links involving seven officials and a wider probe into Schepps escape and Rosenthal murder.
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Rosenthal
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Dougherty
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Sam Schepps
Schepps
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Robert Stewart
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Taft Attends Washington Baseball Game
President Taft and aides watched the Washington club face Chicago in a box at the American League park. The president expressed optimism for Washington to win the pennant this year and may travel to Boston to see the Nationals play the Red Sox next month.
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Taft
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Clarence R. Edwards
W. C. Herron
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Chicago
Boston
Heverly
Nationals
Red Sox
Safe blast fails to loot Fortune in Royal theater break
In New Westminster on August 13 a safe blowing crew used nitroglycerin at the Royal theater but fled empty handed after the explosion. The shattered safe did not yield the fortune visible nearby at the Bank of Montreal, two blocks away from the police station.
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Royal Theater
Bank of Montreal
Cobb Stabbed in Detroit En Route to Exhibition Game
Tyrus Cobb center fielder for the Detroit American league club was stabbed during a confrontation with three men in Detroit as he and his wife drove to the station for an exhibition game trip to Syracuse. Cobb escaped serious injury, receiving a back wound and brief medical care.
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N.Y
Tyrus Cobb
Detroit American League Baseball Club
Detroit
Cobb
Trumbull
Bagg
F. W. van Lengen
Man Kills Two Then Shoots Self in Chicago Lodging
In Chicago at 2907 West Madison Street J B Lautzenheiser killed Mrs Mary Burwell aged 55 and Thomas Dugan aged 50 before shooting himself in the head. Mrs Burwell ran a rooming house and Dugan worked as a Chicago Railways motorman. Police seek motive.
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Chicago
J. B. Lautzenheiser
West
Madison Street
Lutzenheiser
Mary Burwell
Thomas Dugan
Post Office Officials Accused of Opening Letters
Senator La Follette charged post office officials with rifling his mail to learn an investigation's results. He showed a bundle of opened letters in the Senate. President Taft commuted the death sentence of Mattie Lomax, a Black woman, to life imprisonment for murdering her husband.
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LaFollette
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Senate
Taft
Mattie Lomax
Case Reeks with Perjury in Darrow Trial
Deputy District Attorney Ford opened the Darrow jury trial with bold perjury accusations against defense witnesses and implied bribery ties to the McNamara defense. He compared Darrow to traitors, argued the Times building attack implicates him, and urged a condition verdict. Darrow objected, calling the remarks an outrage.
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Cal
W. J. Ford
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
McNamara
Darrow
Ford
Joseph Scott
Judge McNutt
Judas Lecariot
Benedict Arnold
Francis Bacon
J. B. McNamara
Thessistant
Darren
Times
Unfinished remarks prompt appeal over McNamara case
The quoted passage shows Ford stating that what was said about him is utterly untrue and malicious. He halted mid statement about the duty he owed to the mother of the McNamaras as the appeal proceeded.
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Ford
McNamaras
Patricia Wins Big Race in Great Lakes Motor Cup
Patricia, the Canadian challenger, won the second of five races in the Great Lakes competition aboard the Kitty Hawk Ir. from Detroit. The 32 foot class race covered 30 miles on a seven and a half mile course, with four laps. The Baby Reliance sank after a rollover off Van Buren Street. two men were rescued by Chicago Yacht Club motor boats.
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Patricia
Great Lakes International Ciyg
Michicago
Kitty Hawk Ir
Courier
Detroit
China Nearing $50 Million Loan Amid Rival Offers
A Peking correspondent says China is on the verge of taking a $50,000,000 loan, though the lender is not yet known. Rival syndicates have pressured the six power group to accelerate negotiations, offering funds to China on broad terms.
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China
Peking
McKinley defense on 1905 funds under Senate inquiry
Washington reports that in 1905 the Republican congressional committee fund did not take big business contributions, says McKinley. Secretary H. C. Loudenslager gathered most money for an estimated 60 000 total. He cites his own donation of about 5600 to 7000. He denies receipts from Steel, Harvester, Tobacco, or Standard Oil interests. Cincinnati obituary notes bond, Morgan captain, Ohio gubernatorial nominee, dies at home.
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Republican Congressional Committee
Senate Committee
William B. McKinley
Congressional Committee
McKinley
H. C. Loudenslager
New Jersey
Mr. McKinney
Clapp
MIKADO COFFIN TO BE DRAWN BY OREN ROLLA WELLS
Tokyo officials publish the funeral program for Emperor Matsuhito who died July 30. The procession begins September 13 at 7 PM with Yoshihito meeting on the parade ground. The coffin is drawn by oxen and Shinto rites follow the procession to Aoyama. Henry of Prussia named to attend as imperial representative.
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Japan
Randford S. Miller
State Department
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Matsuhito
Yoshihito
Joyama
Aoyama
Aiia
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Acyama Road
Prince Henry
Mikedo
Berlin
Germany
Henry
Prussia
William
Peror
Adopt Bourne plan ends Senate post office debate
Senate approves Bourne parcels post zone plan and a joint committee for national road building. It also requires sworn post filings by publishers and editors. War reports note a 50 000 round ammunition capture and a wounded soldier later captured. House votes 121 to 1 to oust Representative Catlin and approve a new district court seat.
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Senate
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Post Office Department
War Department
Steever
Philip Fletcher
Great Bend
Rice
Incarnacion Tabara
Fletcher
Salawar
Senator Cullam
Illinois
Lyndon Evans
United States Circuit
Peters. Grosseup
United States District Court
House
Taft Adherent Gen Brown Nominated In Ohio Governor Race
In Columbus on August 13 Gen R B Brown announced he will run as an out and out Taft man and back the platforms from the national and state GOP conventions. The Republican committee chose Brown to fill the governor vacancy left by Judge Ditlon and he also voiced support for woman’s suffrage.
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Taft
R. B. Brown
Reputican State Central Committee
Ditlon
Woman Flyer Reaches 3000 Feet Over Bay Area
Mrs Jane Wildman Henton, noted aviatrix, made her initial flight on the Alameda marshes crossing the bay. She ascended to 3000 feet and swept over Oakland before descending, with Roy Francis as observer.
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San Francisco
Jane Wildman Henton
Alameda Marshes
Oakland
U S Warns Nicaragua Leaders Over Armistice Breach
Washington instructs American minister to inform General Mena that no injury to property will be tolerated and requests response. Armistice unchanged but insurgents reported to have begun movement near San Juan Del Sur south of Managua as government troops advance.
Corsican Hops to Break British Altitude Record
A clipped dispatch reports the Corsican liner bound for Liverpool and other Baltic notes. Havilland’s biplane attempt to set a new British altitude record by a serviceman is described, with details of the aircraft and expected flight.
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Maj. P. By Gin
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