Short Trial for Thaw Hints at Startling Defense
New York January 4 special to The Washington Post reports the prosecution plans a brief direct case in the Harry Thaw murder trial of Stanford White. About five witnesses will detail the Madison Square Garden shooting while White watched a performance. defense may mount an unwritten law and insanity strategy. The district attorney holds letters and testimony against Thaw’s wife Evelyn Nesbit and mother Mrs Holman may be called to challenge evidence.
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Washington Pew
New York
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Madison Square Roof Garden
Madison Square Root Garden
White
Thaw
District Attorney's Office
Velyn Nesbit
Cr. Holman
Pittsboro
Evelyn Nesbit
Holtman
Willam Thaw
O'Mara
Pittsburg
Countess of
Yarmouth
Jerome
Greenbaum
Mattenwan Asylum
Court of Appeals
Maas Newton announces marriage in Washington and London
The marriage of Katharine Wuckle Foote Newton of Washington to Mr Sador Maas of London is announced for November 20 1906. The couple plan to spend winter in London.
Romance Ends Before Bride Says I Do in Jersey Romance
William Bookman sues for divorce from Maria Bookman after a Jersey City ceremony where the bride elect rapidly declared she could not love him. The quick elopement lasted minutes before witnesses and guests fled as she rejected the marriage, returning to Philadelphia. The suit for desertion follows three years later.
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Washington Post
New York
Meyer Bookman
Maria
Pierre Cook
Jersey City
Bookman
Philadelphia
Justice McKenna
Man Accused Doctor Killed in Home Shooting at Carthage
Carthage Mo Jan 4 Dr Meredith died from a gunshot Wednesday fired by Arthur Sanderson the family physician to the Sandersons Sanderson released and rearrested on a first degree murder charge He allegedly cried I am sorry for that My God I am sorry for that after learning of the death He had claimed Meredith ruined his home and was shot as he approached the door to enter the residence.
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Carthage
D. Merfaith
Arthur Sanderson
Banderson
Meredith
Sanderson
Br. Meredith
Weather Troubles Drive Man to Attempted Suicide
In Pittsburg Jen on April 4 Anthony Koecher was hospitalized in critical condition with wounds to the face and abdomen from a razor in a suicide attempt. He reportedly said he tried to kill himself because he was tired of the weather.
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Pittsburg
Jen
Anthony Koecher
Koecher
Licensed to Marry Fragments in Baltimore and Elkton
Fragments report marriages or betrothals involving Engar It 31 and Anna Miler 33 in Baltimore Rev Bristol RC Wilson 23 of Elkton Frs Flora D Street 2% Rev Earl Cranston Wham Perry 31 Mamie Ogham HM Rev quill Zeyles.
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Engar
Harrison
Anna Miler
Baltimore
Bristol RC
Blue Laws Stir Hub Court Summons In Boston
Boston faces a wave of Sunday law rulings as 1200 residents are summoned after Municipal Court decisions. The cases pit District Attorney John B. Moran against Police Commissioner Stephen O Meara over alleged Sunday violations and involve theater, hotels, ice delivery, baggage transfers, and federal employee actions. The federal government plans to defend William Hessian, a Federal Building worker, against sidewalk cleaning charges. Case continued to January 14.
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Boston
John B. Moran
Stephen O'Meara
Hits Theatrical Companies
Dutt
Justice Duff
Wiliam Hessian
Federal Building
United States
Lewis
Hessian
Cocaine Addiction Cases Shake West Side Court
Two youths, including a sixteen year old, face magistrate Whitman on disorderly conduct charges as mothers seek treatment bonds. The feature cases show mothers accusing teens of Cocaine use in the Tenderloin area with victims narrating addiction and degradation.
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Washington Peat
New York
Whitman
West Side
George Frome
West Thirty-ninth Street
West Thirty-seventh Street
Thirty-ffth Street
Frome
Bealfes
West Side Court
Harriman Power and Deals Plotted in Union Pacific Minutes
Testimony details Harriman driven moves at Union Pacific the purchase of Illinois Central stock and other securities using company funds and broad borrowed power. Minutes show ratification by executive committee including notes on dividends profits and collateral pledges.
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Union Pacific
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Lane
Board of Directors
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Northern Pacific
Chicago and Alton
Millar
Harrimton Lines
HH. Harriman
Hackiman
Hartiman
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Harriman
Union Pacific Company
Illinois Central Company
Gulf
Chicago
Dinos Central
James Stillman
H. H. Rogers
H.C. Frick
Kuhn, Loeb, & Co
Railroad Securities Company
Stuyvesant
Fish
Central Railroad
Cosh
The
Executive Committee
Baltimore and Ohio
Four Pacific
Lovett
Northwestern
Knapp
Trusts Bar to Babies Contracted Trial Marriage
Lydia Kingsmid Commander wife of Rev. Herbert N Casson published a forthcoming book arguing race death by own action stems from economic barriers preventing large families She describes an advanced marriage to Casson they signed a flexible contract and lived in New York while she toured as writer and lecturer She cites Roosevelt letter and conducts field observations in New York apartment houses to support her theory that economic pressures and the wage system threaten population growth
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Lydia Kingsmid Commander
Herbert N. Casson
Drs. Commander
Commander
Casson
Mr. Casson
Ruskin Co-Operative Colony
Tennessee
Hudson
Dickson
Tenn
New York
Eli
Birth rates, divorce, and the American woman in 1900s discourse
Mrs Commander, linked to the Equality League, argues motherhood requires support for working women and proposes cooperative housing as a solution. She discusses hard times lowering birth rates in New York, rising divorces, and a book outline on American self-preservation, race, and the price of motherhood. The book, to be issued soon by Barnes & Co.
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New York
City
Ife
France
Barnes & Co
Equality League of
Inquiry into Hughes fund broadens scope of probe
A Washington dispatch reports Gov. Hughes campaign costs were about 900 dollars while Republican fund sources remain under scrutiny. Attorney General Jackson promises a sweeping inquiry into election receipts and expenditures, widening beyond Hearst’s expenses and into broader campaign finance practices. He revoked William R. Davis’s designation to represent the state in related actions, citing a need for a comprehensive, nonpartisan investigation.
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Washington Fort
Albany
William 8. Jackson
Mayer
Gherard Davis
New York
Association
William R. Hearst
Davis
Hearst
al Vicisti
Jackson
William R’ Hearst
Greenland Coast Expedition Planned by Duke and Belgica
Copenhagen reports Duke of Ori jeahs plans a spring voyage in the Belgica to push northeast along Greenland coast. The aim is to join the Danish Mylius Hichaen expedition that departed last June to survey the same area.
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Copenhagen
Duke of
Orijeahs
Greenland
Mylius ‘Hichaen
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Health Office Record
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Mass
Florence Buchandn
Haromerstey Et A
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Monroe
James L. Johnms
Bruce Ave
Garfield
D. Co
A . Sheehan
Monte
James Talivan Davia
Victor E. Adler
7Th St
Corner of
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