Mystery Deepens in Dr Knabe Case as Key Reappears
Indianapolis November 4. Detectives report a key to Dr Knabe’s flat found on a chiffonier after repeated searches. A bunch of administrator drawers disappeared with the flat key, suggesting someone entered after her estate was placed in administrator. The coroner notes a three quarters inch by one inch laceration on Dr Knabe’s left forearm with no blood on edges or hands, implying washing to conceal a death by self harm.
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Indianapolis
Dr. Knabe
Augusta Knabe
Durham
Auto Rager Is Badly Injured In State Fair Race
Joe Jagersberger of Racine Wisconsin driving a Case at 67 mph was badly hurt when a tire came off at a turn and the car crashed into the outer fence at the Columbia District State Fair track. A later item reports F W Woolworth Company forming a $65 million 600-store 5 and 10 cent chain including Kirby Co and Woolworth Co with offices in Wilkes Barre and New York.
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Columbia
D. C
Joe Jagersberger
Racine
Wis
Rodgers Nearing Coast to Coast Flight Finish at Los Angeles
Calbraith P. Rodgers left Imperial Junction Cal for Los Angeles on the last leg of his coast to coast journey. He flew 62 miles from Yuma and is 184 miles from Los Angeles. Rodgers will stay the night, having covered 4,029 miles in 4,703 minutes for an average of 51.3 miles per hour.
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Imperial Junction
Cal
Calbraith P. Rodgers
Los Angeles
Yuma
Rodgers
Sheepshead Bay
Mrs D H Ingersoll Wife Will Aid the State
Mrs D H Ingersoll is reported to assist the state in the case tied to McNamara affairs, with plans to support prosecution and participate in related legal actions.
Forty New Talesmen in McNamara Trial Vote
The McNamara case voir dire continued with forty new talesmen seeking excuse from service as eleven jurors had been seated. W. H. Andrews pressed to be qualified as a fair juror while Harry Chandler of Times Mirror looms as likely not to be examined. Colonel Allen Worth, a prominent Black Angeleno, appears as another potential juror candidate.
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Los Angeles
Cal
McNamara
Bordwell
W. H. Andrews
Harry Chandler
Times Mirror Company
Allen Worth
Husband Opposes Wife in McNamara Trial Testimony
In a San Francisco case about the McNamara trial a man posing as J B Bryce and two associates bought dynamite. Lena Ingersoll, who runs a boarding house, claims Bryce is James B McNamara. Her husband recruits Darrow to defend, threatening to testify she cannot be trusted. The dispute mirrors the McManigals’ conflicting accounts.
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San Francisco
McNamara
Ingersoll
Lena Ingersoll
J. B. Bryce
McNamara Brothers
Los Angeles
Bryce
James B. McNamara
Browne Testifies In Lorimer Inquiry Details Enmity With Sullivan
Lee O Neill Browne state representative and former Illinois House minority leader testified before the Lorimer investigating committee about the fifty three Democratic votes for Lorimer in 1909. He denied planning to vote for Lorimer or urging colleagues to back a Republican until Speaker Shurtleff pressed him. Browne described strain with Shurtleff and long running feud with Roger C Sullivan.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
Illinois House
Lorimer
Browne
Senate
United States
Shurtleff
Roger C. Sullivan
Mistrial in Tulane student murder case
Opelousas La November 4 a mistrial was declared in the case of Mrs Zee Runge McRee charged with killing Allan Garland a Tulane University student She had contended she shot in defense of her honor and anticipated a swift acquittal
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Opelousas, la
Zee Runge McRee
Allan Garland
Tulane
Shanghai Arsenal Taken by Rebels in Chinese Revolt
Rebels seized the Shanghai arsenal and native city late in the afternoon with no resistance. They expect Wu-Sung and up river forts to fall and predict Nanking and Ching Kiang will be captured. Foreign volunteers reinforced concessions as rebels hoisted flags and gained control. Yun Nan province has declared independence.
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Shanghai
Wu-Sung
Wu-Sung River
Nanking
Ching Kiang
Kinh-Kiang
Sampson
Hankow
Yun Nan
China
Escort for Vaniman Commander Chandler to Follow Big Dirigible
Atlantic City dispatch reports that if Melvin Vaniman begins his transatlantic flight in the dirigible Akron a commander Chandler will lead war vessels in pursuit or escort. The item notes the historical project and the plan to follow the airship across the Atlantic.
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Chandler
Atlantic City
N. J
Melvin Vaniman
Vermilya Poison Plot Case Prompts Exhumations
Chicago authorities prepare to exhume the bodies of Arthur P. Bissonette and two other deaths at the home of Mrs. Louise Vermilya amid fears of a large poisoning scheme. Coroner Hoffman calls it a Gunness style case as nine deaths linked to the Vermilya address are under renewed scrutiny.
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Chicago
Walter S. Haines
Ralph W. Webster
E. R. LeCount
Arthur Bissonette
Arthur P. Bissonette
Louise Vermilya
Mercy Hospital
Mrs Vermilya
Archie Bissonette
Policeman Bissonette
Vermilya
Hoffman
East Twenty-Ninth Street
Smith
Fred Brimkamp
C P Rodgers Aviator Nearing Pacific Flight Completion
C P Rodgers, noted aviator, nears completion of a flight toward the Pacific. Details indicate continued progress amid challenging conditions as supporters track his progress and expect a final approach soon.
Vermilya Family Deaths Document Troubled Inheritance Dispute
Coroner Hoffman investigates a cluster of Vermilya family deaths linked to property disputes. Obituaries list first husband Frank Brimkamp dying in Barrington in 1910, sonFrank Brimkamp at 417 Fast 29th Street, second husband Charles Vermilya at Maplewood in 1909, Jillian Vermilya in 1906, stepson Harry Vermilya in 1904, and two Brimkamp children dying in Barrington.
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Vermilya
Barrington
Frank Brimkamp
Maplewood
Jillian Vermilya
Groveland Avenue
Harry G. Vermilya
Hoffman
Crystal Lake
Cora Brimkamp
Florence Brimkamp
Berrington
PRESIDENT CHANGES TRAVEL PLANS FOR REST AND RALLY
Hot Springs Virginia reports Tate trims rest to three days and moves to Cincinnati then Kentucky and Tennessee for a presidential tour while Hilles works in Washington on data for the message to Congress. In Wisconsin Charles Spurr founder of Sparta dies at eighty five.
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Hot Springs
Tate
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Tennesee
Hilles
Washington
Congress
Sparta
Wis
LaCrosse
Charles Spurr
Divorce Trade Grows in Nevada Courts
Reno reports a surge in divorce filings with fifty seven complaints filed in October, more than double the twenty seven filed last year. The district court shows civil and criminal actions totaling ninety for the month, with divorce making up over sixty percent of the docket.
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Reno
Nevada
District Court
French Protectorate Is Guaranteed in Congo and Togoland
Reports from Parle say a Franco German accord analysis confirms France will control key regions in the Cameroons and north of Togoland while retaining Congo areas. Both accords require any disputes to go to the Hague with France upholding Berlin treaty limits.
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Hague Tribunal
Cameroons
France
Legone
Chari
Congo
Bonfa
Mangui
Lausanne- Mangu
Togoland
Germany
Ubangai
Belgian Congo
Hague
Immortals List Grows From Hunting Fatalities
The U S Biological Survey tracks fatalities in hunting accidents. This year adds forty seven names to the mortality roster as officials seek life saving laws. Michigan leads with fifteen deaths, New York nine, Washington and New Jersey three each.
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Washington
United States Biological Survey
Bureau of Chunting
Palmer
Bureau
Michigan
New York
New Jersey
Seaboard passenger train derailed near Raleigh injuring eighteen
Eighteen people were injured when Seaboard Airline train No. 43, bound from New York to Jacksonville, derailed at Merry Oaks, twenty miles west of Raleigh North Carolina. The cause of the wreck was not yet determined.
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Raleigh
N. C
Seaboard
New York
Jacksonville
Merry Oaks
Weather forecast for Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin
Clouds and somewhat warmer today then fair tomorrow with moderate south and southwest winds across Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Indiana
Tllinois
Wisconsin
Government troops defeat 200 rebels under Velisquiz in battle
In Puerto Cortez on November 4 government troops clashed with 200 revolutionists led by Ocho Velisquiz, a cabinet member. Rebels suffered heavy losses, Velisquiz reportedly escaped to Salvador.
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Puerto Cortez
Ocho Velisquiz
Velisquis
Salvador
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McNamaras
Lorimer Investigating Committee
Mistrial
Woman
Uncle Sam
American Press Association
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Arsenal
Reb
Els
Yun-Nan
Vaniman
Lloyd Chandler
Atalatic
T. J. Allen
Bright
Gunness
R. T. Smith
C. P. Rodgers
Pacific
Tuesco
Freedom
Temps
Honduras
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