Wife pond victim held. Whitmore's mode of confession revealed
Theodore S Whitmore, a former convict, admitted quarrels and gave contradictory statements as police detained him after a woman’s death. Despite attempted letters from Mrs Whitmore, investigators corroborated by sisters tied the case to a murder at a Brooklyn home. Identification of the victim and linked items, including a trunk and personal effects, point to a planned crime with financial motive and witnesses naming a suspect.
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Theodore S Whitmore
Mrs. Whitmore
Bala
Lessee
Helene Satter Whitmore
Throlae
Viums Street
Brooklysa
Sustn
Dirry
Martin Brank
Anur
Bristol Board Rejects Indorsement of Freight Suit
After a stormy session the Bristol board of mayor and eldermen refused to endorse or assume responsibility for complaints filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission against Virginia and Southern Railway Southern Railway and Virginia Iron Coal and Coke Company. Coal operators in Tennessee and Kentucky allege a conspiracy to fix freight rates hindering their markets. Alderman Engish led the opposition to ratify the city’s involvement, saying the city was used as a tool by interests and trapped into the suits.
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Bristol
Bristol Tomight
Interstate Commerce Commission
Virginia and Southern Railway
The
Southern Railway
Virginia Iron, Coal, and Coke ,Company
Tennessee
Kentucky
C. Engish
Black Mountain
Mrs John Van Ness Roberts deaths tied to alleged
Mrs John Van Ness Roberts known as Katherine Stuyvesant Roberts died of morphine poisoning at Riverside Drive. The incident followed a pending district attorney investigation into a Massachusetts deal involving thousands of dollars in which she was a principal. Reports say she posed as an heiress and Wall Street promoter while juggling creditors, an estate claim, and a past life in life insurance.
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John van Ness Roberts
Jerome
Massachusetts
Washington Post
New York
Riverside Drive
District Attorney’s
Roberts
Wall Street
Katherine Stuyvesant Roberts
Iio Rantes Reader
Lea
Marge Capital
Thera
District Attorney's
Hoberts
Schoonmaker
Philadelphia
Mutual lafe + “society
Fifth Avenue
Cereal sausage ruling blocks cereal water mix as adulteration
Lansing Jan 3 Circuit Judge Wiest ruled in Armour Co suit that cereal and water added to sausage constitutes adulteration under the state pure food law. He said the common definition of sausage is chopped meats seasoned, not cereal and water, and the public memory of family sausage dictates the standard.
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Lansing
Mica
Wiest
Armour & Co
State Dairy and Food Department
Powers Jury Still Out in Goebel Murder Trial
Georgetown Kentucky January 3 Caleb Powers fate rests with jurors after long deliberations in his fourth trial for accessory before the fact to the murder of William Goebel. Jurors went to bed at 7:30 after hours of talks without reaching a verdict. Also notes a 1.25 Baltimore and return fare advertised for Saturdays and Sundays via the Pennsylvania Railroad with tickets valid through Sunday night.
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Georgetown
Caleb Powers
William Goebel
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congressional Limited
Ame Sues Her Earl Over Mo Life and Trial Tragedy
Pittsburg and New York society stories center on Mary Copley Thaw mother of the Countess of Yarmouth, whose daughter Alice Thaw wed George Francis Alexander Seymour Earl of Yarmouth in 1908. The marriage halted the earl’s stage career, and rumors of annulment and estrangement followed after a harsh court drama and the Holmes tragedy involving Harry Thaw. The couple’s troubles, the mother’s illness, and the family’s public interconnections with Pittsburg society form the core of ongoing revelations about loyalty, finance, and reputation.
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Mo. Carlo
England
Marchioness of Hertford
Pittsburg
Mary Copley Thaw
Countess of Yarmouth
Yarmouth
Lynhurst
New York
Alice Cornelia Thaw
William Thaw
George Francis Alexander Seymour
Earl of
Newport
Rndy
Lady Yarmouth
London
Harry
Madison Square
Wiliam Thaw
Josiah C ‘Thaw
George Lauder Carnegie
Edward Seymour
Thea Groom
Countess of
Alice Thaw
Slater
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Marchioness of
Hertford
United States
Thal
Europe
America
English noble divorce case tied to Thaw murder trial
London repercussion as Countess of Yarmouth Alice Thaw seeks annulment from Earl of Yarmouth amid public scrutiny. Divorce hearing held in camera due to medical evidence. Earl elusive, domestic scandal affecting Hertford family, while sister of Harry Thaw faces US court action. Meanwhile, Sloan's sells furniture and a symphony organ today.
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London
Countess of
Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Pittsburg
William Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
New York City
Earl of Yarmouth
Countess of Yarmouth
Park Hall
Evesham
Worcestershire
Slean
Terminal Storage Co
Sloan's
Republicans Pledge Loyalty to Speaker Cannon in Champaign
At a large Champaign County convention on January 3, Republicans pledged unwavering loyalty to Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois as their Republican candidate for President. Congressman W B McKinley, chairman of the Cannon campaign committee, led the meeting and was enthusiastically greeted.
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Champaign County
Champaign
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
United States
McKinley
Rush for Bishop Cure
Special to The Washington Sea from Chicago dated January eight reports Bishop Samuel Fellows head of a new Christian psychology cure for diseases overwhelmed by demand. He says his work has increased about a hundredfold and he has about a hundred letters to open daily while he has made his wife his assistant. Prominent national figures are also sending letters seeking aid.
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Washington Sea
Chicago
Samuel Fellows
New Christian Psychology
National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers Formed
The Washington dispatch reports the National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers adopting a constitution and electing officers led by President Henry W. Savage. The group includes a board of directors and about sixty managers representing 200 shows valued at $5,000,000, aiming to curb piracy, contract jumping, labor disputes, and unfair practices through arbitration.
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New York
National Association of Theatrical Producing Managers
Henry W. Savage
Charles E. Blaney
Samuel Scribner
Hollis HK. Cooley
H. B. Harris
Jules Murry
Gus Hill
George Tyler
Harry Martel
Benjamin F Roeder
al H
Two Claim Dead Wife Coroners Jury Puzzles Alderman’s Case
A Janesville Wisconsin coroner's jury wrestles with the death of Maude Odell Lanayette. Two men claim to be her husband, Frederick J Lanauette and another man from Fond du Lac. A toxicology expert found no poison in the body.
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Janesville
Wis
Maude Odell Lanayette
Clayton
Chicago
Frederick J. Laneuette
Clairvoyant
Fond du Lac
F J Lanauette
Maude Odell
Frederick J Lanauette
St Joseph
Mich
Odell J
Lanauelte
Lanauette
Fire rips Waverly Hall as Daughters of Liberty flee
In Brooklyn Jan 3 a blaze at Waverly Hall, a four story brick building, forces about 100 Daughters of Liberty members to flee with no wraps. A janitor’s family on the fourth floor suffers deaths as a mother leaps to the sidewalk and dies, and a child is burned. Loss near ten thousand dollars.
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New York
Daughters of Liberty
Waverly Hall
Brooklyn
Gerardint Tedeschi
Pittsburg County Republicans Back Roosevelt Against Taft
In a Missouri Convention held in McAlester on January 3 the Pittsburg County Republican meeting elected delegates to the Congressional convention and praised Roosevelt as the greatest living statesman while opposing instructing delegates to vote for Taft as his successor. The convention sentiment was strongly anti rough rider.
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Washington Post
McAlester
Okla
Pittsburg County
Roosevelt
Taft
Union leaders jailed for three months in Butte
Five union labor leaders in Butte receive three month sentences for contempt after failing to purge themselves by disregarding an injunction aimed at preventing interference with nonunion workers on the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company project. Also notes travel fare details for Baltimore and Ohio trains and city offices addresses.
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Helena
Mont
Fudge Hunt
Rocky Mountain Fell Telephone Company
WABASH AND 9.4. L. SEEKING SOUTHERN OUTLET
Richmond reports that Goulds and Wabash back Williams to regain Seaboard control via receivership. Plans extend Seaboard lines to Washington linking with Wabash, with a Williams Gould alliance and mixed share control among Seaboard factions. Court appoints counsel for receivers and Warfield, Williams, and Hunton named to lead.
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Wabash
Untermayer
Williams
Richmond
Washington Post
Goulds
John Skelton Willams
Seaboard Air Line
New York
Gould
Seaboard
Washington
Virginia
Wiliams
Williams-Middendorf
Ryan-Blair
Settlement Remarks on Ryan Blair Property Financing and Williams Critique
The text details how Ryan and Blair and associates invested over 12 million in precarious securities, enabling the property to grow and yield over 44 million in three years. It argues Williams offered no aid, instead abusing and misrepresenting those saving the project, and notes Byrne and another speaker helped arrange Williams's representation in receivership. The aim is to bury past disputes and achieve lasting peace.
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Williams
Williama
New York
Wilamyaged
Duronete
Ing
Messrs
Ryan
Blair
Taft Seeks Hitchcock Role in South Campaign
First Assistant Postmaster General Frank H Hitchcock may join Secretary Taft’s bid for the Republican nomination, with a pivotal South focus. Secretary Taft’s backers expect Hitchcock to lead Southern outreach while maintaining his Post Office post, potentially coordinating with Arthur’s World and Taft loyalists.
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Roosevelt
Frank H Hitchcock
Taft
Hitchcock
Arthur
Columbus
Ohio
South
Varys
Vorys
Middle
Foraker Attacks Primary Rules as Illegal Scheme
Akron Ohio January 3 Senator Joseph B Foraker denounces the state central committee call for an early primary and March convention as unlawful and burdensome He argues nominations by petition are excessive and could allow contested delegations He says counties are not bound by the call and vows to refuse compliance while Dick supports Foraker and hints at a potential at large candidacy plans.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
Joseph B Foraker
Republican State Central Committee
Columbus
Taft
State Central Committee
Bokker & Vine Friends
Ile Caxecutise Committee
Senatr Poraku
Ulatiere
Hiw
Annatt
Cleviland
Akron
Oho
Forsaker
United States
Foraker
Taft Tha
Miners Entombed Hopeful After Rescue Efforts Progress
Rescuers narrowing the Alpha shaft reach a point about seventy five feet below the surface and progressing at about ten feet daily. Three entombed miners were told they would likely remain imprisoned for four more weeks before any release, though they are reported in good health and spirits.
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Nevada Shaft
Auy, Wev
Alpha
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