Thaw Verdict Near Accepts Evelyn Story
A prosecutor doubts parts of Evelyn’s account while the jury tightens toward a verdict. The defendant is described as a skulking coward and a prisoner who did not go directly from Paris to the murder scene but has been wanted for years. The case centers on claims about a wife’s alleged shame and public exposure.
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Paris
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
White
Gus
Srry
Jerome
Moodesen
Thor i
Court of Novus
Harry ii
Mr. Jerome
Evelyn
Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
Europe
Mr. Littleton
Rma
Thaw Case Brims With Passionate Defense at Trial
A court session hears William Travers Jerome indicting Harry Thaw and defending Evelyn Nesbit. Jerome denounces Stanford White as a degenerate and portrays Thaw as driven by passion yet contends the case centers on morality, not vengeance, amid a crowded gallery including Cecilia Loftus and Mrs. Thaw.
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Mr. Jerome
Justice Dowling
Cecilia Loftus
Robert Collier
Bob Tilhard
Charles Talingham
Col
Lovell Jerome
Richard Harding Davis
Virginian 50 Marries Old Sweetheart’s Daughter at Mount Horeb
Joseph Ret a 50 year old Bristolsburg planter married Miss Lady E Byrd aged 20 at Mount Horeb Church. The groom had long courted Miss Byrd’s mother years before and remained bachelor until the daughter revived the old romance.
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Washington
Morrisville
Joseph Ret
Bristolsburg
Lady E. Byrd
Mount Horeb
Homer Welch
Red
Byrd
Bloodhounds for Panama aid in canal pursuit
The U S government buys Texas bloodhounds to track canal zone criminals. Lieut Stephens pays 300 dollars each for the dogs in San Antonio after tests by soldiers from Fort Sam Houston crossing streams and through cattle pens in attempts to throw off the trail.
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Texas
San Antonio
Tex
Panama Canal Zone
Lieut
Stephens
Fort Sam Houston
Seattle
Old Master Sir Oliver Lodge Endorses Communications From the Dead
London reports Sir Oliver Lodge at the Physical Research Society meeting claimed that communications from the dead occurred during tests using mediums like Mrs Piper and Mrs Verrall. He described automatic writing and talking as evidence, citing Edmuda Gurney Hodgson Myers and their cross correspondence as proof, while many doubts remain about identity and memory. The story notes the planned full report by the society and Myers' prior pledge to continue testing after death.
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Washington Post
London
Oliver Lodge
Physical Research Society
Oliver
Piper
Verrall
Sir Oliver
Edmuda Gurney
Richard Hodge
F. W. H. Myers
Tess
Iriifes
Myers
W. BH. Myers
Burglary suspect Louis Wolf nabbed after subway pocket theft
Brooklyn rug manufacturer Louis Wolf, freed on bail after county court, was arrested again in the Fourteenth Street subway station on a pocket-picking charge. A bribery scheme involving a lawyer and Kloster Brewery manager Heene surfaced as investigators push the bribery case. Brothers in law, witnesses, and Wolf’s past pocket-picking record are noted as the case unfolds.
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Brooklyn
Subway
New York
Louis Wolf
Fourteenth Street
Duncan C. McKinley
Wolf
Englehardt Heene
Kloster
Frank Helble
Heene
Helble Qt
Num
Herble
Walt
Milder
Fawcett
Jefferson Market Court
Cours
Manhattan
McKinkey
Fouteenth Street
Fulton Street
Reynolds
Ralph Avenue
William Wilmer
Naumer
Frank Heible
Long Island City
Wall
Neible
Kahne
Chicago
St. Louis
Fulton and
Bradford Streets
Newlands Talks Waterways Unity for Transport Reform
Senator Francis G. Newlands Nevada spoke at a Trafic Club banquet urging integration of rail and water transport. He proposed a joint board including army engineer chiefs and Coast and Geodetic Survey officials to plan river improvements and canal construction. He noted money is available through Union Trust deposits that earn interest and are checkable.
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Chicago
San. Sy
Francis G. Newlands
Nevada
Trafic Club
Engineer Corps
Army
Coast
Gendetic Survey
Panama Canal Service
Forestry Service
Bank Ag Dept. of
Union Trust Co
Rth
Hasta
Lisbon Plots Suppressed as Police Raid Restaurant
In Lisbon on January 3 a police raid on a suburban restaurant halted a suspected conspiracy. Nine attackers were killed and several officers wounded during a volley of bullets. Dozens of agitators were arrested later that night and imprisoned, with leaders from Dissident and Republican factions jailed amid wide public fear and government denials of any state of siege.
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Lisbon
Oflivera
Almeida
Coata
Rebetta
House of
Senor Alpoin
Portugal
Premiser Franco
Mauretania Sets Record On Eastward Voyage
The Mauretania arrived in Queenstown after five days eleven hours at sea averaging 23.90 knots. On one eastward leg she ran 75 knots between Tuesday noon and Wednesday noon, the fastest day’s run yet. On board were Captain Taylor Engineer Wankin and deckhand Coffin from the Fall River wreck.
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Queenstown
Cunard
Taylor,Wankin
Coffin
New York
Fall River
Methodist Quarrel Aired Over Buckley and Bowne Trial
Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, faces charges of disloyalty and scandal by Rev. George A. Cooke of Brandon Vermont. A Brooklyn preliminary court hears the case behind closed doors with ties to Buckley's Bowne trial defense. a May conference decision looms.
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Washington Post
New York
James M. Buckley
Christian Advocate
George A. Cooke
Brandon
Buckley
Brooklyn
Hanson Place Methodist Church
Brooklyin
Cooke
Dr. Buckley
Bowne
Oriental Bank Stands Run In New York
The Oriental Bank withstood a run all day paid off all depositors and settled 15.0 percent balance at the clearing house without aid. Its main offices are at Broadway and John Street with a Bowery Grand Street branch. Directors plan a 9 o'clock meeting to decide on opening tomorrow morning.
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New York
Oriental Bank
Broadway
John Street
Bowery
Grand Street
Hugh Kelly
Oren Root to Wed Ada de Acosta in Society Note
Special to The Washington Post reports the engagement of Ada de Acosta daughter of Mrs. Ricardo de Acosta to Oren Root nephew of Elihu Root and son of the late Professor Root. Root a Hamilton College 1884 graduate and general manager of the Metropolitan Street Hallway System.
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Washington Post
New York
Ada de Acosta
Ricardo de Acosta
Oren Root
Elihu Root
Root
Misa de Acosta
Philip Lydig
Marie A. de Acosta
Misa Micaela H. Hernandes Y. de Alba
Hamilton College
Corporate prosecutions push to fix industry at banquet
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, told the New York Manufacturers Association at the Union League Club in Brooklyn that corporate wrongdoing should be charged to the corporation, not its thousand dollar clerks. He urged tariff reform and a tariff commission to advise Congress by March 1, 191? with details to adjust duties to current business needs.
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New York Manufacturers’ Association
van Cleave
New York
Herbert Knox Smith
Manufacturers’ Association of New York
Union League Club
Brooklyn
Roosevelt
Smith
LeRoy D. Thoman
Ciicage
James W. van Cleve
National Association of Manufacturers
J. Sloat Fassett
H. B. Macfarland
A. W. Kirchway
Columbia University
van Cleve
Congress
Haveridger
Wife Missing With Gems Promoter’s Wife Vanishes in City
New York report says Minnie Tobin disappeared in daylight January 18. Husband fears foul play but police consider mental derailment. she had $750 and jewelry, last seen at Dr Frank E Smith’s office. Also noted Roosevelt honored in Uruguay and a rail promo stating Baltimore trip.
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Washington Post
New York
Minnie Louise Tobin
W. M. Tobin
Indians Slay Murderer on Mencalero Apache Reservation
An Apache group tracked and killed a man named Da-ga-in-ka after a white cowboy J A McLane was found dead from a head wound on January 12. The pursuit covered the Sacramento Mountains toward Mexico with bloodhounds aiding the investigation. No other injuries reported.
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Tobesman
New Mexico
Leupp
J. A. McLane
McLane
Carroll
Da-ga-in-ka
Mexico
Gov. Carry
Pallee
Sacramento Mountains
Nine Miners Die In West Virginia Mine Explosion
A blast at the Lower Boone mine near Hawks Nest, Charleston, leaves nine dead and about twenty-five men in the shaft at the time. Survivors suffer only light injuries as physicians attempt to aid those harmed. The Boone Coal Company property, four deputy inspectors due to investigate, cause attributed to dust though not confirmed.
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Charleston
W. Va
New River
Lower Boone
Hawks Ness
Grover Bowles
Lawrence Shares
Harry Wilson
Wilbur Wilson
Grandison Coles
Charles Workman
William Buffman
Bowles
Boone
Boone Woal and Coke Company
Paul
Fund To Aid Young Artists In Philadelphia
James Lambert bequeathed 50000 dollars to the Academy of the Fine Arts to purchase paintings by promising young American artists with no standard reputation. He also left more than 109100 dollars to charity.
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Philadelphia
Van
James Lambert
Court rules motorists must yield to pedestrians in LA case
District Court of Appeals yesterday held automobilists must look out for pedestrians and avoid running them down. Pedestrians cannot be charged with contributory negligence if they do not step into the way. The ruling affirmed a $7,000 damages award to Stanley King, struck by E. K. Green's car.
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Los Angeles
Cal
District Court of Appeals
Stanley King
E. K. Green
Captured in Manchuria McKinley Land Fraud Convict
Horace G. McKinley, convicted of government land frauds, who fled to the Orient while awaiting sentence, sailed from Hongkong for Portland in custody. He jumped bonds after his October 194, escape from a Tientsin prison and was recaptured in Manchuria.
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McKinley
Oregon
Portland
Oreg
Horace G. McKinley
Orient
Hongkong
Fortland
McKintey
Tientsin
Mar
Churia
Warship for Haytians special cable to The Washington cum
The steamer Columbine once Admiral Fisher’s yacht sailed to Port au Prince under Commodore Meyer to serve as a gunboat for Haytians. Seaboard Florida Limited advertises best service to Florida from 18 Pa.
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Washington Cum
Hamilton
Bermuda
Columbine
Sir John Fisher
Hayden
Port Au Prince
Meyer
St. George's
Seaboard Florida Limited
Florida
War Over Hughes Ready for the Primaries
Ex governor Hughes faces a fight as Odell forces march to the March primaries to pick delegates for the spring convention. Herbert Parsons, Republican county committee chair, accuses Odell allies of using Hughes’ candidacy to advance their control and vows readiness for clashes over roll calls and resolutions.
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Odell
Hughes
New York
Gov
Herbert Parsons
Republican County Committee
Gus. Hughes
Parsons
Quigg
Gov. Hughes
Saratoga
Parsona
Washington
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Maude Gonne Loses Appeal in Dublin Divorce Case
Paris Jer wa Superior Court today rejected an appeal from Mrs McBee known as Mead Gonne the Irish Joan or Are who sued her husband Maj McBride for an absolute divorce on cruelty grounds. The lower court’s judicial separation was upheld as the marriage was contracted in Ireland where divorce requires Parliament act.
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Paris
Jer Wa
Tower Court
McBee
Mead Gonne
Joan
Are
Maj. McBride
Lower Cour
McBride
Boer Anny
Ireland
McBridy
Bethany College Students Strike Over Expulsions
Sixty five Bethany College students in Bellaire Ohio abandoned classes after the faculty refused to reinstate expelled students for taking part in the effigy burn of President C. Ramble ten days earlier. Among thirty girls, twenty five refused to return to work. In Girard Ohio a fire killed Dr J C Brigham and damaged eight stores and residences causing about 25000 dollars in losses as he tried to aid victims.
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Bellaire
Ohio
Bethany College
C. Ramble
Girard
J. C. Brigham
S Suung
Brigham
India
Iesha
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Mauretania
Prof. Bowne
Aida de Acosta
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International Congress of American Students
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Manchuria
Haytians
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State Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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