Thaw gloom in cell as jurors sought in Thaw White case
Special to The Washington Post reports continued jury selection in the Harry K. Thaw murder case against Stanford White. Justice FitzGerald presides as 99 talesmen remain to be examined from a 20-person panel, with trial testimony possibly starting Wednesday. Thaw spent a quiet Sabbath in his Tombs cell, declining church services after morning papers agitated him.
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Washington Post
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Justice Fitzgerald
Supreme Court Criminal Branch
Harry Thaw
Protestant Episcopal Church
Rev. A. Wade
Obituary directory of funeral directors and embalmers
A dense late era listing shows multiple undertakers and embalmers with services and contact details. Names include W R Speare, WM S Riley, J William Lee, George P Zarhorst, Hindle Bayliss, Harvey’s Sons, John M Mitchell’s Son, and John Mitchell. Addresses span F Street NW and 14th Street NW with telephones and chapel notes.
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N. W
WM. S. Riley
Undertower
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Wd Vt
J. William Lee
Endalmer
Vivenia
Telephone
Mala
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Endertaker
Kat Capital
Hindle & Bayliss
Ondertaxers
R. F. Harvey
Fourteenth ST
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Medersto
Tolentione North HM
John M. Mitchell
Thaw Trial Day Shows Family, Jurors In Quiet Tension
Prisoner Thaw remains withdrawn as jurors in his case take breaks for a drive through Central Park. Reports note tensions with Mrs Thaw, May McKenzie, and the Countess of Yarmouth while observers link his calm mood to writing and editing rumors about his sanity plea.
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Countess of Yarmouth
England
Thaw
Jerome
Yarmouth
Europe
Oisters
George Lauder Carnegie
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Harry ‘Thaw
May McKenzie
Harry Thaw
al Thaw
Miss McKenzie
Two Drown While Skating in Ohio River Frost
Portsmouth Ohio January 27 Pearl and Forest Hide boys were drowned and George Lowry and Houston Rickey barely escaped a similar fate while white skating to di
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Ohio
Pearl
Forest Hide
George Lowry
Houston Rickey
Law on the Thaw Case Clarifies Insanity Defense
A legal primer from William L. Clark analyzes Thaw vs White, outlining New York law on murder, manslaughter, and the insanity defense. It states juries decide guilt from court instructions, not unwritten law, and explains how sanity, intent, and provocation affect degrees of murder.
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Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
William L. Clark
Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure
New York
Silverman
Thaw
White
Court of Appeals
Ruger
Flanagan
Andrews
Noted politicians and church leader dies in 19th century
Boston and other cities report multiple obituaries. Rev John Marshall Masters former Whig official and Daniel Webster associate dies in Cambridge at eighty. John Magner associate editor of Star Chronicle dies in St Louis after hemorrhage. James Wade longtime Cleveland attorney dies, once partner of Henry B Payne. Rev Alexander Gilchrist Presbyterian board secretary dies in Pittsburgh after extended illness.
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Boston
John Marshall Masters
Cambridge
Masters
Harvard
St. Louis
John
Magner
Star-Chronicle
Magnetta
Folk
Gov. Folk
House of Delegates
Cleveland
Ohio
James Wade
Henry B. Payne
United States
New Albany
Pittsburg
Alexander Gilchrist
Home Mission Board
United Presbyterian Denomination
Gilchrist
West Hebron
N. Y
Monmouth College
Tlinois
Wooster University
Second Presbyterian Synod
Synod of Nebraska
Seven Hurt In Runaway At Fort Riley Kansas
Seven members of the Kansas City Athletic Club baseball team and Lieut Mettler of the artillery corps were hurt when a carriage ran away down a hill at Fort Riley Kansas and overturned on the way to the railway station. Mettler suffered compound fractures of both legs. The others were badly cut and bruised.
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Kans
Kansas City Athletic Club
Mettler
Artillery Corps
Trent. Mettler
Fire destroys Columbia County courthouse in Huston area
The Columbia County courthouse, a white marble three story building erected in 1900, burned today in Huston. The loss is estimated around $200,000, housing county offices and Justice Cochrane of the A eta Division of the Supreme Court.
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Burns
Hudson
Columbia’ County
Cochrane
Supreme Court
Fulda Praises America in Wafer of Praise for Women Freedom
German dramatist Ludwig Fulda writes impressions of the United States praising American morals and co education. He compares American and German universities, notes the virtue of American women, and cites baseball as the spirit of national life. He lauds American practicality while warning against excessive commercialism.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Ludwig Fulda
America
New World
Fulda
Germany
Berlin
Hssen
Carnegie
Pittsburg
Fulda Gays
West Virginia mine explosion kills twelve men
Weston West Virginia January 27 District Mine Inspector Barton heads a probe into the Pennsylvania Consolidated Coal Company blast that killed twelve miners last Saturday. A jury appointed to hear evidence found probable criminal negligence by an unnamed miner under surveillance. Powder kettles lay beneath the shaft, ignition likely from a cigar or ash in a worker’s pipe as thirty men were raised in the cage. Roof collapse and gas buildup caused deaths. funerals are planned for Monday.
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Weston
W. Va
Barton
Pennsylvania Consolidated Coal Company
Johns Hopkins Geology Head to Lead US Geological Survey
Baltimore Jan 27 Prof William Bullock Clark of Johns Hopkins University appears set to become director of the United States Geological Survey. Clark, head of Johns Hopkins geology and Maryland survey state geologist, would succeed Charles D Walcott who resigned to head the Smithsonian Institution.
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William Bullock Clark
Johns Haytins University
United States Geological Survey
Clark
Johns Hopkins
Maryland Survey
Charles TD. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Despondent Couple Found Dead in Detroit Lodgings
Thomas Thompson, fifty, and his wife were found dead in their Gramplain Street lodging with an empty strychnine bottle and two glasses. The couple, from England three years ago, faced despondency over the wife’s inability to reform drinking habits, believed to have driven them to suicide.
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Detroit
Mich
Thomas Thompson
Mme
Gramplain Street
England
Cuban Bandit Captured After Terrorizing Eastern Cuba
Havana on January 27 Enrique Mesa a bandit from Santiago province who for more than two years terrorized Eastern Cuba and defied rural guards was captured last night by the secret police The report adds no details on further charges or trials. A separate dispatch notes a teacher Worthy of Dunnellon burned to death in a schoolhouse fire last night his charred remains found among the embers and authorities suspect smoke suffocation before escape.
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Enrique Mesa
Santiago
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Dunnellon
Conried Unable to Direct Met Opera Amid Ill Health
New York reports Meinrich Conried's condition worsened on Friday leaving him unable to actively manage the Metropolitan Opera House for the rest of the season. Otto Kahn says no successor is being named while the company relies on a structured operation to carry through as directors consider options.
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Meinrich Conried
Fri
Affatra
Metropolitan Opera House
Ernest Goerlits
Opera House
Conrie
Tas
Metropolitan Opera Company
Otto Kahn
Conried
Irving Place
San Francisco
Signor Caruso
Walter Damrosch
Grau
Henry Morgenthau
Salome Withdrawal Shocks Opera Stockholders Demand Rises
The Washington Post reports Conried Metropolitan Opera plans to withdraw Strauss and Wilde’s Salome. Despite no final decision, tickets sell briskly for announced performances. Notable stockholders and figures attend dress rehearsal and benefit. Legal questions arise over rights to stage works outside regular seasons. Salome remains on a future Boston second night schedule.
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Washington Post
New York
Conried Metropolitan Opera Company
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company
W. K. Vanderblt
John Jacob Astor
Otto Kahn
Ogden Mills
G. G. Haven
Charles T. Barney
James Speyer
W. S. Vander Wilt
Ogden Mis
H. P. Whitney
Salome
Metropolitan Opera House
Ernest Goerlitz
Miss Fremstad
Atlantic City
Metropolitan Opera Company
Paul D. Cravath
Conried Company
Conried
Metropolitan
Conriea
Richard Strauss
Boston
Boiler Explosion Kills Teen in Butler County Oil Shanty
In Butler Pennsylvania a boiler explosion at an oil pumping house near Chicora kills Judd Steele, 19, and fatally injures Richard Campbell, 25. A defective regulator caused the blast. Oil operator James Byers is also severely burned and believed to have been injured by gas discharge.
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Free Synagogue movement launched in New York
Rabbi Stephen S Wise led the opening meeting at the Hudson Theater announcing a push to establish a free synagogue. He argued ministers are often seen as lackeys of the wealthy and urged delivering the message even if Sabbath forms must be altered to reach Jews.
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