Thaw on Trial: Aged Teacher Testifies About His Youth
Strange details emerge as Mrs Thaw takes stand in the trial to recount anxieties surrounding Harry Thaw. Witnesses describe Thaw as nervous and excitable with moments of outbursts, while notes from his mother warn of potential mental imbalance. Prosecutors press for testimony from Mrs Nesbitt Thaw, with defense seeking to limit questions amid insanity plea.
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Mra
Thaw
Harry—Jerome
Lot
Christopher Baggan
New York
Jerome
Raymond A. Brown
Stan 1
Ford White
Mr. Jerome
Abraham BR. Beck
Harry Thaw
Mr. Beck
Harry
Thai
Mstrict
Writings of Mrs Thaw and Hazards of Harry Thaw
A heavily fragmented account details a letter by Mrs Thaw urging patience with Harry Thaw amid concerns he may be mentally unbalanced. It references past temper episodes, mentions Stanford White’s murder context, and cites testimony and witnesses at hearings, noting investigators’ attempts to assemble all evidence for verdicts.
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Harry
Senit
William Thaw
KO Theo
Roge Grtoler
Ste
Herker
Janes M. Kerk
Weber
Ueston
Pittsburg
Thaw Case Receives Substitution Offers for Prisoner
An unidentified writer, claiming to resemble Harry Thaw, offers to substitute for Thaw and die in his place if his family is paid 3,0000. The letter requests payment to enable a substitution and asserts a desire to aid the Thaw family amid the trial. The writer also hints at hypnosis and elaborate schemes to influence the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Van
Evelyn Thaw
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Blissietter
Flo
Toan
Still Hides Her Motive in Metcalf Shooting Case
Mrs Metcalf denies an affair with Terre Haute lawyer Hamill and explains she sought his counsel only regarding a suit by her first husband Jeff Morris. U S District Attorney Sims says no records were suppressed. In Dublin, the Irish Parliamentary party reappoints John E Redmond as chairman amid a UNRIC directorate vote.
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Hamill
St. Louis
Jeff B. Morris
Thomas Metenif
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Listings
A dense advertisement listing numerous funeral directors and embalmers with their addresses and phone numbers, including William Lee, Frank Geier's Sons, John R. Wright Co, F Harvey's Sons, W R Speare, Frank A Speare, Sardo & Co, Thos R Nalley & Son, Thos A Costello, and Geo P Zurhorst, indicating livery connections and on premises chapels. The columns show varied locations from Seventh Street NW to East Capitol Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Frank Geier’s Sons
Seventh ST. NW
Gall
John R. Wright CO
Embelmers
Joivery
Tenta Conn
Telephone North 47
F. Harvey’s Sons
Cain
IML
R. Nalley & Son
Ith Street
Noutheast
Thos
A. Costello
Funer
H Street
Geo
P. Zurhorst
East Capitol St
Candy aid 70 thief Alice Moss tells her story
The Bronx girl, identified as 16 year old Alice Moss, admits taking Mrs. Robert Fox’s silver bag and items from a Broadway theater theft. She claims she helped a New Rochelle woman and found the bag later worn by luck, denying intent to steal yet yielding furs later to detectives.
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New York
Robert Fox
Broadway
Alice Moss
Caldwell Avenue
Bronx
Alice Moran
West Sixteenth Street
Jefferson Market Court
Alice
Mrs. Fox
Sid
Mrs. Casey
J “T
Mrs Fox
Licensed to Marry in Virginia and Nearby Counties
A list of proposed marriages includes numerous couples with ages and officiants, citing Rev. Grattman, Rev. Skinner, and other ministers. Names such as Reuben Grattman, Hezekiah Taylor, Irene Woodard, Donie W Dyson, and Sarah Proctor appear with associated ages and religious rites. The fragmentary source suggests a broad register of consented unions across local counties with varied ages and officiants.
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Marry Seuwartz
Annie Rubin
Reuben Grattman
Guerrant
Ney
Riche Albert
Frank Wray
Ron Ro Douglas
John Richard James E Dews
Sarah
V. Proctor
Alonzo Olds
Norval Cooper
Mimle
Williams
Theodore Williams
Henry H. Brown
Josephine Brown
M. Bell
Benjamin B Samuel
Sod Juliaa Girrolt
JB. McLaugh Foster Bryant
Elin Mr. Marshall
Paul Grifith
Sadly F. Mekenje M. Curr
Weston Brauner
Rae E Dan
Health Office Record Of Listed Deceased And Residences
Health office record details a list of deceased individuals with ages and residential addresses, including Ammen Divon at 7200 Kat NW and Michael Futlman at U.S. Soldiers' Home. The entry cites multiple names and street addresses with ages ranging from two to 65, illustrating a registry of recent deaths and locations.
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Erine Shea
Nichole Glovknnant
Yanmett Womack
Grant Pl
Bi Fear
Lesele Fanner
MD. Ave. No
Leonard Johnson
Amaen Divon
Young Miner Lifts Pole to Save Express Train
Wilkesbarre Penn Jan 16 Officials of the Lehigh Valley Railroad learned today of a remarkable rescue near Franklin Junction when Thankis Green a Newtown miner and Martin Tierney saw a fallen telegraph pole over the track. Green lifted the pole with all his strength allowing an express to pass safely. He feared the pole might fall between the cars if he tired.
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Sperlalto
Washington Post
Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Valley
Franklin Junation
Thankis Green
Newtown
Green
Martin ‘Tierney
Tolnés
Tierney
Milyukoff Returns Home After Brief U.S. Visit
Russian political leader Prof. Paul Milyukoff, head of the Constitutional Democrats in the Douma, sailed for home aboard the French liner Le Lorraine after a five day stay in America. His Washington dinner and reception were attended by key officials, and a cable from St Petersburg warned him to report his utterances. Roosevelt reportedly friendly but unable to receive him due to Moesian Ambassador objections.
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Constitutional Democrats
Cable
York
America
Paul Milyukoff
Milyukof
Washington
New York
Ablegram
Prof
Milyukoff
Russia
United States
St. Petersburg
Roosevelt
Prussia
Miryukott
Rt. Petersburg
Civic Forum
Bly
Milywkolf
Cannon
House of Representatives
William S. Taft
Loeb
Hoosevelt
Bacon
Congr
Milyukort
Divorce Trial Highlights Household Strain and Wealth Ties
Washington Pa January 16 Mrs Irene A Strain sues for divorce from Thomas F Strain alleging 30 years of neglect including no bathing, abuse and overwork amid a wealth connection to both families. Strain counters for separation as neighbors corroborate the abuse claims.
Shooting accident claim by Mandeville Hall
Mandeville Hall, wounded by a bullet said to have entered his side while cleaning a revolver at home, explains the incident as an accident. He describes a visitor in the house and the moment the pistol discharged, passing through his body and setting bed clothes afire. Hall, a Yale graduate and Delta Kappa Epsilon member, faces no police report on the attempted death by jumping from a hospital window earlier.
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New York
Mandeville Halls
Roosevelt Hillal
South
Hosten
Hull
William (. Hall
New York Life Insurance Company
Harlow Brooks
West
Ninth ‘Street
Young Hall
Hall
Yale
Delta Kappa Epsilon Club
Smallpox Epidemic Strains Minnesota Health System
State health officials report a smallpox epidemic sweeping Minnesota. St Paul isolation hospital is full and health departments must care for cases wherever found. Inspector Sinks has returned from Monterey and Triumph with troubling findings in Martin County where 116 cages were observed. Local boards show little attention to the disease. A Monterey butcher visibly afflicted continues deliveries while a passenger hauler with similar illness operates daily from station to hotel.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Monterey
Triumph
Martin County
Averyman
Reporter Sues Gebhard for False Arrest Damages
Ashley Deering, a Washington Post reporter, sues Frederic Gebhard for 10000 in a false arrest suit. The trial before Justice Giegerich and a jury centers on June 11, 1904 at 109 Fifth Avenue where Deering alleges assault and arrest over a Vanderbilt matter. Gebhard counters that a disturbance occurred, seeks 25000 in a counterclaim, and an ensuing public notice cites Robinson's Stable contact.
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Washington Post
New York
Frederic Gebhard
Ashley Deering
Giegerich
Deering
Reginald Vanderbilt
Gebhard
Fifth Avenue
Jerome
Vanderbilt
Canfield
Gebbard
Honduran Diplomat Manuel Ugarte Confined in Bellevue Ward
Special to The Washington Post reports Manuel Ugarte, 24, secretary of the Honduran Legation, nephew of Minister Angel Ugarte, was taken to Bellevue psychopathic ward from the Hotel Plaza after becoming violently uncontrollable. His uncle Urbano Ugarte rushed to New York as authorities described prior nervous ailments and hospital confinements.
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New York
Washington Post
Manuel H Usarte
Legation
Washington
Angel Ugarte
Bellevue
Hotel Plaza
Ugarte
Central America
Urbano Wgarte
Lois Norping
Jciun
Wil Winess
Manuel Ugarte
United States
New Willard Hotel
jDe
Angel Vigarte
George Washington University Hospital
J. M. Chipman
Chipman
Was & Pillent
WROTE SHE WOULD END LIFE
New York police and harbor authorities search for Mrs. Frederick A. Warner, wife of an English wholesale shoe dealer, who disappeared after telling her brother she planned suicide. She had left Boston for New York, wrote letters and a lengthy diary, and relatives fear she may have harmed herself amid nervous strain.
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New York
Harbor Sian
Frederick A. Warner
Lemdon
England
Warner
C. S. Briel
America
Ashmont
Dorchester
Boston
London
Belmont
Stir
Warmer
Banker's Daughter Dies by Self Inflicted Poisoning
Mrs Ellen Sharpe of Brooklyn daughter of Charles M Davidson and wife of Le Baron Sharpe ingested carbolic acid at 237 Stuyvesant Avenue. She had a two year old son and had been in poor health with despondency. the coroner and police were not notified until today. Her father, a Williamsburg Trust director, has paralysis and her mother is ill. The child was with the grandparents when the tragedy occurred.
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New York
E. A. Folgen
Wast Sixty-third Street
Gustav A. Gayer
Dr. Guyer
Brooklyn
Dan
Ellen Sharpe
le Baron Sharpe
Charles M. Davidson
Williamsburg Trust Company
Stuyvesant Avenue
South for Forest Bill Convention Presses Southern Delegations
Atlanta on January 16 saw the Appalachian Forest Association and allied groups unite delegates from Georgia Alabama Tennessee Kentucky North and South Carolina. They adopted resolutions urging Southern states to send Washington delegates to win approval of the Appalachian White Mountain forest bill by the House Agriculture Committee. Georgia Governor Hoke Smith presided at both sessions. Governors of North and South Carolina Virginia West Virginia Alabama and Kentucky sent endorsements via letters and telegrams.
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Atlanta
Appalachian Forest Association and Allied Organizations
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
North
South Carolina
Washington
Agriculture Committee
National House of Representatives
Hoke Smith
Virginia
West Virginia
Catarre Conquered Drug Upsets New York Sale
The director of the Austrian Laboratory in New York decides to sell ascatco at 50 cents in leading drug stores including Ogram's in Washington. A full month’s treatment remains $2. The product claims to cure asthma bronchitis and catarrh with many reported successes.
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Ascateo
West Twenty-fifth Street
New York City
Ascatco
Gale
Ogram's
Washington
New Science Promises Cure By Vital Force Study
Mr McConnell has founded a new science claiming to boost vital production to cure chronic disease age weakness and low spirits. He says invalids and old people suffer from insufficient vitality and that anyone can increase it through daily study and practice. Jenkins reports indigestion and headaches cured after ten days at the Life Eteo iv Institute with classes offered by mail.
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Mr. McConnell
McConnell
Irs
Jenkins
Life Eteoiv Institute
F Street
Wil Seethasa
Cullinan Diamond to Be Cut in Amsterdam Vault by Scotland Yard
The Cullinan diamond, presented to King Edward, will be brought to Amsterdam in March to be cut at a leading diamond establishment. A bomb proof vault is being prepared with special ventilation and steel netted windows. Scotland Yard will guard the process, with London and Amsterdam detectives supervising. The diamond weighs 310 carats and will become the largest and finest cut diamond, potentially adding twelve ounces to the king’s crown.
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Amsterdam
Cullinan
Edward
Transvantere Tm
Scotland Yard
Diamant Lcutting
Nouncon
Culinan Jem
Winell
London
Unis
Edwards
Henry IV
Agincourt
Kohl Noor
Mirza
Lord Avebury Installed Rector at Se Andrews University
In Andrews Scotland on January 15 Lord Avebury, before his advance to the peerage as Sir John Lubbock, was installed as head of Se Andrews University succeeding Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie’s successor was welcomed with a formal address praising his tenure and vision for the university.
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Si. Andrews Scotland
Lord Avebury
John Lubbock
Tod
Se Andrews Universiy
Andrew Carmber
Carnegie
Negie
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Strain
Garrison Street
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Breen
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18Th’ St
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Appalachian Association
Catarre
Big Labratory
Sele
the Apollinaris CO
Roscoe Jenkins
8Th St. N. E
City
Cullinan Diamond
Andrew Carnegie
St. Andrew's University
Michigan
van Camp
VanCamp’s
van Camp Packing Company
Indianapolis
Ind
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