Trio Held Guilty After Five Week Mail Fraud Trial
A jury in Criminal Court No. 1 found John Huston Jarvey M. Lewis and Liverett Dufour guilty of conspiring to defraud firms through mail schemes. Deliberations lasted over four hours with the court setting bond at $3,300 each pending possible new trial. The trial marked the first major case for District Attorney Wilson and featured noted defense counsel as well as extensive testimony on the National Trust Company and related entities.
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Wilson
Criminal ‘Court No. 1
Justice Wright
John Huston
United States
Jarvey M. Lewis
Liverett Dufour
Henry J. Davis
Lnto
Clarence BR. Wilson
Jusview Wright
Henry K. Davis
Charles TL. Turners
Wright
Huston
Lewis
Dufour
National Trust Company
Delaware
Enterprises Trust Company
Mutual Securities Compan
American Finance Company
Fluston
Treasury Department
Bufour
Washington
Nationa’ ‘Trust Company
W21
FP Street
Post Office Department
Post Office
Carter B. Keene
Frank Helan
Clifford Grant
James J. Fletcher
Marshal
Campaign letters and courtroom names emerge in local trial
The article outlines figures linked to a trial including Harvey Lewis of Buffalo and John N. Huston, Indiana political veteran and former U S treasurer. A taft Ohio connection, a White House letter describing “Dear Harvey,” and local attorney teams for Huston Dufour and Lewis appear, with Huston’s political history noted and Dufour described as a longtime Buffalo resident of good repute.
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Lewis
oJhn N. Huston
Indiana
Republican Central
Harrison
United States
Hoosier State
Taft
Buffalo
Ohio
White House
Harvey
Dufour
Huston
George E. Floover
Conrad Syme
John C. Gittings
Michael W. Sullivan
Henry Davis
Federal Troops Rout Rebels Near Guerrero Chihuahua
Reports from Mexico City detail a five hour battle near Cerro Prieto in Chihuahua where about 1,000 federal troops defeated an estimated 400 to 500 revolutionaries. Seventy rebels were killed and many wounded or captured, while federal casualties included fourteen killed, two of them officers.
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State of
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Navarro
Peers Prieto
Guerrero
Department of War
Hernangez
War Department
Guerrer . Laredo
Tex
Miguel Diebold
Neuvya Laredo
Enrique C. Creel
Cerro
Chihuahua Distri
Ballot fraud deemed worse than presidential assassinations
Camden New Jersey December 12 Supreme Court Justice Garrison told the grand jury that ballot fraud is a greater danger to national institutions than the assassination of presidents. He argued suppression of suffrage strikes at the government’s core more than violence against any leader, stressing the enduring impact of electoral deceit.
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Camden
N. J
Supreme Court
Garrison
Grand Jury
Perkins Statue Gifted to Torpedo Boat Destroyer Crew
Mrs Larz Anderson widow of Commodore Perkins presented a statuette of her father to the destroyer Perkins at Charlestown navy yard this morning. Hamilton Perkins and wife attended with other relatives while Lt Comdr Twining and Lt Comdr Pringle welcomed the party aboard. The running note mentions travel in New York's financial district and Jersey City transit but is tangential.
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Washington
Boston
Larz Anderson
G. H. Perkins
Perkins
Charlestown Navy Yard
Perking
Hamilton Perkins
Nathan C. Twining
Ata
John C. Fremont
Pringle
Perkina
New York
Baltimore & Onto
Jersey City
Judge Favors Girl in Glover Murder Case
Cambridge dispatch reports Judge Bond ready to finish charge as Hattie Le Blanc faces jury. Defense claims motive of Mrs. Glover and jealousy as factors. prosecution seeks conviction. Testimony centers on disputed timing and whether others were present in the laundry during the shooting.
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Hattie
Bond
Acquittal Plea Follows Massachusetts Child Case
District Attorney Higgins argues for the prosecution in the Hattie LeBlanc case, contending the evidence shows she shot Clarence Glover in a laundry dispute, while defense lawyer Mr. Johnson pleads for acquittal to reunite the girl with her family and appeals to moral outrage and Christmas mercy. The judge rules that only competent evidence is admitted.
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Johnson
Hattie LeBlanc
Elmore
Higgins
Grover
Mré. Glover
Glover
Hattie le Blanc
Mrs. Freeman
Mr. Higgins
Mrs. Glover
Hattie
Commonwealth
Lady Washington Orpington Hen Worth 12000 in Poultry Show
Special to The Washington Post from Philadelphia reports Lady Washington, a raven black Orpington hen, valued at 12000 dollars, has a rare rival only in her daughter valued at 10000 dollars. Each egg laid is treated as a valuable asset. Lady Washington arrived from Factoryville, Pa, with two attendants aboard a specially constructed coop.
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Lady Washington
Washington Post
Philadelphia
Factoryville
Suitor Agent Fires at Target. Girl Killed in Crossfire
Belle Vernon Pa December 13 Miss Effie Smalley 17 of Fairhope stepped in front of a rifle used by her sweetheart William Grant 20 as he shot at a target. A bullet pierced her neck and she died instantly. Grant, grief stricken, fainted and attempted to shoot himself but was restrained by a companion. Mrs Smalley had tried to force a marriage with another man.
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Washington Post
Belle Vernon
Effie
Smalley
Fairhope
Wilam Grant
Grant
Miss ‘Smalley
Theft case eyed to locate full $680000
New York officials say they have information to account for every cent of the $680,000 in securities pilfered by Erwin Wider, a Russo-Chinese bank cashier. Wider faces sentencing next week as prosecutors seek to implicate others and recover one third of the stolen funds allegedly salted away pending his release.
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New York
Erwin Wider
Wider
Rom
Boy Robs Cars with Empty Gun Confesses in Court
William Jackson Jr a 17 year old schoolboy from Trenton N J admitted to police he was the highwayman terrorizing two city sections and holding up streetcars in the past week He said the revolver was empty yet he bluffed conductors and passengers and earned just 345 from six stickups He faces charges in New Orleans and is wanted in Chicago by authorities.
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New Orleans
Wiliam Jackson, Jr
Trenton
N. J
J . Jackson
Ao Téme
Lee Circle
Jackson
Chicago
Berlin Reichstag Riot Marks Chancellor Liar Claim
A violent row in the reichstag over the Moabit strike trial erupted as Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg faced charges of bias toward police. Socialist critics denounced his remarks while non socialists shouted back. A shout of You have lied sparked a chorus before order was restored.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Moabit
von Bethmann-Holmes
David
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Herr Kuhnert
Millions for peace trustees to use funds
Andrew Carnegie plans a $10,090,000 gift to a new peace foundation to fund international disarmament and war prevention efforts. The trust, to be led by Elihu Root and Nicholas Murray Butler, could fund arbitral justice, peace research, and existing global peace groups, with annual income around $500,000. Carnegie’s past philanthropy and new foundation aim to boost harmony among nations.
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American Society For the Judicial
New Willard
Carnegie
Washington
Carnegia
United States
Elihu Root
Nicholas Murray * Butler
Columbia University
Knox
Congress
Foundation For the Promotion of Peace
Carnegie Foundation For University
Willard Hotel
Nicholas Murray Butler
New Peace Fund
Senator Root
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Robert H. ‘Brookings
St. Louis
H.P. Walcott
Cambridge
Mass
Flexner
New York
John S. Billings
Annapolis
Thomas Feil
Praised White Baldwin Not At Banquet
Colonel admits he is radical yet not too radical and urges conservatives to carry out his program. Timie has come, he tells Chamber of Commerce, as business men must direct wealth distribution. Nation must deal with corporations as a householder with a grocer.
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Timie
Chamber of Commerce
New Haven
Conn
Theo Roosevelt
Chamber‘ of Commerce
Supreme Court of Errors
Simeon
Baldwin
Republic
Carrie
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt speaks on sane progress and reform in New Haven
Theodore Roosevelt addressing the New Haven chamber of Commerce denounces extreme radical labels and calls for sane progress through conservative leadership. He urges state and national action to regulate big corporations, ensure fair distribution of wealth, support labor, and uphold equal opportunity within a modern square deal framework.
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Col. Roosevelt
Republic
Roosevelt
Delared
Huston and Others Guilty in Peace Case
A multi item page brief reports Huston and others found guilty in a peace cause case while a judge favors Le Blanc girl. The page also notes Mexican rebels routed and Roosevelt toasts Taft as Democrats plan in Congress. Washington seeks canal fair amid other items on civic experts and local notes.
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Huston
le Blanc
Roosevelt
Taft
Congress
Washington
Pinchot
Schenk
Watson
Howard University Hall
Clapp
O Financial_ News of
Alexandria
Daniel
Democrats Plan January Caucus To Shape Tariff Revisions
Democratic lawmakers elect plan a January caucus in Washington to draft a tariff revision and to decide how House committees will be chosen by election rather than by the Speaker. New members from the Sixty-second Congress will guide policy and shape a plan aimed at a revenue basis and eventual changes by 1912.
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House
Congress
Washington
Days and Means
Champ Clark
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Taft
Democratic Party
Baltimore
Boat Upsets Leave Six Drowned in River Tragedy
Marysville dispatch reports a closed cabin launch capsized on the Snohomish River with seventeen aboard. Six sailors drowned while eleven escaped through the cabin or through openings as the vessel turned bottom up in treacherous conditions.
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Seattle
Maryaville
Sfnohomish
Axe
Capital Seeks Fair Washington Exposition Endorsement
Washington Chamber of Commerce votes to send a committee to Congress for endorsement of a international exposition to be built after the Panama Canal completion. The large meeting approved the plan, with plans to press Congress and promote Washington as the expo site and future permanent exhibition buildings.
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Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Congress
Chamber
Gude
Robert N. Harper
Board of Trade
Capitol
Ocean
White House
Card of Trade
Pastoe Glenn Brown
American Institute of Architects
Senate ‘Park Commission
Potomac Park
A. Lisner
Wiliam E. Shannon
Lisner
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Melvin M. Johnson
John J. Higgins
Bandit
Steel King
New York Peace Society
Interparliamentary Union
International Conciliation Society
International Law Society
American Society For the Judicial Settlement of
Palace of Peace
Bureau of American Republics
Costa Rica
Cartago
League of Peace
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Venezuela
Peace Court
Theodore Roosevelt
United States “Supreme Court
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West
Sayre Qu Ird
Committee
Granville M. Hunt
Army
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Arthur C. Moses
Navy
E. H. Daniel
Board of Education
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