07 Feb 1913
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1913
Page
1
The famous assault case proceeds with the jury expected to hear more today. A society woman testifies about her son, while the husband resents a suggestion of plotting to fasten the crime on a certain man. A witness declines to answer further questions during cross examination.
Frederick O Beach testifies he did not assault his wife in Aiken County court. Mrs Beach recounts a violent breaking attack by a "big bread-colored" negro, slashing her throat and striking her head, prompting her to scream as Beach rushed to aid. Prosecution and defense cross examine, with evidence and witness rebuttals continuing.
The body of Lillian Lorraine Hollis known as the child of tragedy was cremated after being found dead in a furnished room. A procession of actors stood in mourning as the coffin left for the hearse. Her mother Laura Fair, famous in San Francisco, had a notorious romance and a murder trial involving Judge A.P. Crittenden decades earlier.
President elect Wilson weighs key policy aims including tariff antitrust and currency reform as priorities for Congress. He plans a brief inaugural address and may read it quickly if the weather is cold. He will not attend Washington events memorializing Sherman. brother Joseph Wilson visits Princeton before heading to Washington.
In Salem on February 6 Dr Harvey F Newhall of Lynn at Salem Hospital performed the Albee operation to prevent humpback from spinal tuberculosis. The procedure grafts healthy bone into the spine to straighten spinous processes and avoid a spinous knuckle. It replaces the plaster jacket method previously used for two years.
Chin Guy, a high priest in a Chinese joss house, was assaulted in the street as a Mongol youth snipped at his queue. Chin fled to police with others amid clashes over New Year celebrations between Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars.
Inspector Dennis Sweeney and Captains James Hussey and James F. Thompson are suspended amid graft confessions. District Attorney Whitman plans indictments, pursuing an inspector and deputy commissioners tied to protection money from illegal traffic. Walsh’s confession points to politicians and a vast graft network. Eight raids on gambling venues with firemen’s aid highlight a city-wide police corruption probe.
Police squads followed eight crime scenes after word spread whether the fire was used to gain entry. In all sites no one was found to arrest and entry was blocked by tipped off proprietors. Officers seized a large Rambling instrument collection valued at $25,000, loaded into seven vans for transport to station houses.
Herbert Repsold, famed burglar, escaped San Quentin January 10 and was found dead in a marsh two miles from the prison. Authorities believe he killed himself after parole prospects faded. Son of a Sacramento wine merchant, he had baffled California police for months with audacious, signature heists. Warden Hoyle said he fled on the eve of parole after fearing loss of credits for rule violations.
Miss Stella McCalla daughter of Rear Admiral Bowman H McCalla will arrive in Newport Rhode Island next week to recruit winter colony supporters for the suffrage parade on March 3 in Washington. She is staying with her sister Mrs Dudley W Knox and has been in frail health, having canceled a trip to Richmond for the same purpose. Strong social suffragists here are expected to join the effort during the inauguration period.
Mrs Blanche O Neal Green of Tall City sails from New York for Europe to wed Eugene Newton Curtis former rector of St Barnabas Episcopal Roseville N J. Green divorced William Green of Middletown and met Curtis through church. Curtis had resigned from ministry last August as it clashed with church ethics. Green is daughter of the late William F O Neal Orange County attorney.
Baltimore February reports Mrs Theresa Deems claimed she had never been kissed. her husband George W Deems recounts kissing her and her mother, noting a long marriage, jealousy, and a fondness for kissing family. He says he kissed the baby thousands of times and would not have married her otherwise.
Mrs John Clifton Williams known as Miss Bessie Farr bride of a deputy chancery court clerk was found partly burned in an old pit under the kitchen after a robbery. Jewelry taken and house shut. Five men were arrested as investigators followed clues from the victim to the pit and a railroad crossing.
Mrs Margaret Farmer obtained a divorce from John Farmer in Denver on grounds of nonsupport. Judge Rothgerber offered alimony but Mrs Farmer refused to accept, arguing she could support herself after ten minutes of courtroom debate.
Miss Martha Bowers daughter of the late Lloyd W. Bowers lay on the Garfield Hospital operating table for over two hours while surgeons bound splinters of her right forearm with silver wire and sewed tissues. She watched without flinching as cocaine was used due to a cold, and doctors expected she could leave for home Monday. Helen Taft, present at the hospital, sent messages of cheer during the procedure.
In Cincinnati on February 6, crowds of women and men pressed to enter insolvency court to witness testimony in the divorce suit of Mrs. Thorne Baker, wife of a prominent attorney and former state senator. Police aided bailiffs as the courtroom filled and doors were blocked with crowds, some entering through windows.
Mrs Emma Kerner 45 of wealth Philadelphia family believed to have fallen to death in the ocean from the east side of the steel pier. She eluded her nurse Miss Alice Toplin who turned away for a moment and vanished. Footprints and marks found on the snow near the guard rail with her pocketbook nearby.
London Feb 7 A Constantinople dispatch to the Daily News says heavy fighting has lasted two days in Gallipoli with the Bulgarians gaining ground. Turkish losses are pegged at 5000 men as Turkish and Bulgarian positions shift along the Gallipoli front.
In Muskegon Michigan on February 6 the Goodrich steamer Alabama is hemmed by ten to fifteen foot ice and has made no headway all day. About five people are aboard as a blizzard sweeps the lake and temperatures drop toward zero making release unlikely for days.
Nineteen people perished when the schooner Granada was wrecked off Greytown Nicaragua this morning. Only two survivors were saved. The boat carried twelve passengers and seven crew members, according to advices received at Bluefields Nicaragua on February 6.
A compact report notes Mrs. Beach describes an assault she endured. The account emphasizes her statements and brief context within today’s issue.
Mrs J C Smith widow of a Titanic victim, formerly Bertha Barnes, of Chicago, lies in the Grand Hotel with physicians attending. Reported to suffer from phthisis, the case is tied to her expected marriage to Albert Sylvestre Clafford of Adrian, Michigan, who is staying in Nice.
New York reports show a mob at Williamsburg shops used a bomb injuring officers. A thousand operatives returned to work with demands granted. Rochester leaders Abraham Zeitler Louis Solomon Ben Derulh Harry Schrebnick Isadore Miller arrested for inciting riot after violent attack on Saulor shop. Ida Berman died.
A massive slide in the Culebra cut at the Panama Canal filled 800 feet of the east bank and buried three tracks and a drainage ditch. Officials estimate at least 1,000,000 cubic yards of material, but say work will proceed as dredges remove debris after turning in the water. No casualties due to timing.
Johnson of Kentucky shows little effort to oppose the measure and both claim victory as it passes 61 to 58. Appropriations of 500,930 are struck from the district budget, which now stands at 10,721,004.
The House passed a heavily pared district appropriation bill reducing financed projects including New Central High School New Colored High Asphalt plant site and garbage plant inquiry. It eliminated two new school buildings and the asphalt plant project, while debate centered on funding of the districts funded debt and the half and half system leaving matter to Senate and legal review.
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