Thaw to face trial over Stanford White murder
Harry Kendall Thaw, heir to the Thaw fortune, is set to stand in the New York Supreme Court for the murder of Stanford White on the Madison Square Garden roof. Prosecution by Jerome and a special jury panel await trial, with a possible lunacy commission debate looming. Thaw defends a not guilty plea while his lawyers and family monitor developments from confinement in the Tombs.
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Thal
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Ius
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Edward Thaw
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Chitford W Hartridge
Justice Fitzgerald
Criminal Branch
Russell Peabody
Hartridge
Death in Electric Lamp Claims Life of Arthur Thomas
San Francisco January 20. A defective socket in an incandescent lamp fatally electrocuted 21 year old Arthur Thomas at his home 12 Seventh Avenue East Oakland. He was found by his mother Sadie Thomas with burns on his hands and a deep chin wound, the scene showing he struggled to save himself. Arthur was known for his dramatic talent and was brother to California actor William Thomas who appeared at Ye Liberty Theater in Oakland.
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Arthur Thomas
Seventh Avenue
East Oakland
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Sadie Thomas
Thomas
William Thomas
Ye Liberty Theater
Oakland
Shea Jury Deliberating On Conspiracy Trial
Chicago January 20 The jury since Saturday noon has sought a verdict in the case of Cornelius P Shea and thirteen other labor leaders charged with conspiracy tied to the 1915 teamsters strike. Judge Ball kept court ready to receive a verdict as Sunday session marked a Cook County Criminal Court first. Ballots counted throughout the day reportedly showed 7 to 5 for conviction.
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Cornelius P. Shea
Triad
Teameters
Ball
Cook County Criminal Court
Thaw Case Bloodlines Revealed In Holman Statement
Pittsburg dispatch reports a Holman standpoint statement on the Thaw case. Howard Nesbit is said to be the author, aiming to vindicate Mrs. Charles J. Holman and Florence Nesbit Thaw. The document recounts Thaw and White’s influence over Florence and the Nesbit family, including gifts, elopement attempts, schooling, and a forged affidavit in Paris regarding White.
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Washington
Pittabure
Thaw
Holman
Howard Nesbit
Harry Thaw
Young Nesbit
Charles J. Holman
Holmans
Stanford ‘White
Florence Evelyn Nesbit
New York
Nead
Penitent letter clears Nesbit daughter in Thaw scandal
Florence Nesbit submits a long confession denying charges of selling her youth and beauty to Thaw. Mrs Nesbit seeks to vindicate her daughter, recounting strife over Florence and Thaw’s relationship, and detailing an earlier forged affidavit forced by Thaw. The row culminates in Thaw’s Pittsburgh marriage. Nesbit family turmoil is laid bare.
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Evelyn Nesbit
Pistol’s Point
White
Europe
Lombroso on Thaw as hereditary degenerate and moral madman
The famed Turin criminologist Casare Lombroso argues Harry Kendall Thaw is driven by a hereditary degeneracy and epileptic moral mania. He cites Thaw’s jealousy of Evelyn Nesbit, alleged family traits, and the influence of alcohol, suggesting Thaw’s mind lapsed into epileptiform states before the Madison Square Garden murder. Long Branch cottages looted. two Meyers homes hit, losses expected around $3,000.
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White
Hersetf
Evelyn Nesbit
Peter the Great
Charles VI
Cicero
Socrates
Scipio
Goethe
Jacobs
Stanford White
Wis
Evelyn
Guy
Verzin
Holmes
French Church Firm Pope's Position Upheld in Sermon
Father Vincent Montaubet defended Pope Pius X amid France's church state conflict at St Pauls Catholic Church. He denounced the separation law as oppression and said real separation would resemble American practice, warning of state ownership of Catholic property and clerical control by government bodies. The sermon drew a large attentive crowd.
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St. Paul's Catholic Church
America
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Prizna
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Pius 18
Church Reenstates Woman After Murder Trial Failures
Milroy Christian Church in Rushville Indiana welcomes Mrs Anna Bankert who shot Norman Cosk in defense of her honor. She was twice tried for murder but acquitted. The church forgives her and urges an upright Christian life while declining to reexamine the case.
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Rushville
Ind
Milroy Christian Church
Anna Bankett
Norman Cosk
Juru
J. K. Patterson
Church
Bankert
Jews Will Keep On Coming Special
Alexander Harkavy of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society returned to New York aboard the Canardes Campania after two months in Europe studying Jewish immigrants on ships and ashore. He reports generally satisfactory treatment and believes news from Russia will sustain emigration as long as Jewry faces persecution there. He notes immigration will rise births will largely compensate population loss.
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Washington Post
New York
Alexander Harkavy
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Europe
Canardes Campania
Russia
America
Iron Hand of Government Stops French Labor Parade
Paris faced a tightly controlled day as authorities bloc ked demonstrations planned by labor unions. Prefect of Police Leome and Prime Minister Clemenceau denied permits, marshaled troops and barricades, and moved to disperse workers near Place de la Republique and the Grand Boulevards, turning back delegations and enforcing strict Sunday rest rules.
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France
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Place de la Republique
Parla
Clemenceau
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Place de la Republiique
M. Lepine
Labor Exchange
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Philadelphia Struggles Through Worst Weather in Years
The American Line steamship Philadelphia arrives in New York after severe seas from Southampton and Cherbourg. Captain Mills reports heavy waves, a woman passenger injured lightly, and furniture overturned. English actress Miss Eilen Terry and eighteen company members join the voyage. tour spans New York January 28 to May 4 with Empire Theater openings and New Haven finale.
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Cherbourg
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Empire Theater
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Miss Terry
Chicago
Washington
America
Gen G M Shelley Dead Former Alabama Congressman Dies
Gen Charles M Shelley veteran of the Civil War and former Alabama congressman died in Birmingham after a long illness. Born 1833 in Pennsylvania he served in the Confederate army and later held law and Navy Department auditor roles. Survived by daughter Elizabeth and son James E Shelley both of whom are in Cuba and Washington respectively. His career included sheriff and longtime Southern political figure respected for integrity and generosity.
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Ala
Charles M. Shelley
Sullivan County
Penn
Shelley
Congress
Selma
Elizabeth Shelley
J. E Shelley
Cuba
Charles M. S Shelley
Alabama
Navy Department
Cleveland
Washington
Shelley & Martin
F Street
James E. Shelley
Confederaia
Dallas County
Troops Guarding Beaufort City After Fatal Guard Shooting
In Beaufort South Carolina a guard shot and killed William Bennett, a colored man, near the ruined People's Bank after a night guard challenged him. Army troops under Captain Joseph Wheeler arrived from Fort Screven to restore order, patrolling with 45 men aboard the tug Gidoons. The inquest found death by unknown parties, easing local tensions as federal presence quelled potential unrest.
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R. W. Patterson
Fore Screven
Joseph Wheeler
Gidoons
William Bennett
Bana
United States
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