Brooklyn Lawyer Frank Marrin Linked to Storey Cotton Failure
Special to The Washington Post reports Brooklyn lawyer Frank C Marrin behind the Storey Cotton Company at 11 Broadway a venture that collapsed last week, with Marrin also tied to the Provident Investment Bureau. Marrin’s career spanned Western Union handling a delayed message, stock brokering, and multiple schemes. he fled to Europe, was later traced across Chicago Philadelphia and San Francisco, and used many aliases including Frank B Stone and Judge Franklin Stone before resurfacing in Philadelphia with a crooked firm. The piece outlines Marrin’s rise, frauds against a widow, and the tangled web of storey and investment ventures ending in bankruptcy and notoriety.
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Washington Post
New York
Storey Cotton Company
A& Get Rich
Broadway
Frank C Marrin
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Ito
Hdre
Bowling Green
Storey Company
F E Storey
Martin
Jffp Kearns
Coney Island
FY EO Storey
Marrin
Provident Investment Bureau
Fiemingh
R. G. Ingersoll
Robert G Ingersoll
Garfield
Tenth Ward
Chicago
Barry
Europe
Colombia
Panama
Frank Stone
G@ Bennett
Investors Protective Association
Frank B&, Stone
Securities Savings Society
Sophia Beck
San Francisco
Beck
Franklin Stone
Frank E., Story
F Ewart Storey
Cotton
Storey & Co
Frank E. Stone
Francis Stone
Franklin KE Story
Howart Storey
Arthur & Foster
Arthur & Foster & Co
Provident
Fraud Schemes Hit New England Investors in Storey Cotton Case
Boston reports hundreds lost savings in the Storey Cotton Company scheme with Miss Marion Duffrey managing its Boston office. Police and inspectors note no clear criminal liability in Massachusetts though losses run into hundreds for New England investors. Post office warnings previously made, connections to Provident Investment Bureau explored as Chicago and Indianapolis officials chase suspect Frank Marrin and other aliases.
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Provident Company
Marrin
Europe
Brooklyn
New England
Boston
Snow
Storey Cotton Company
Miss Marion Duffiey
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Provident Investment Bureau
Accused the Judge Vigorous Fight for Delay
Montreal magistrate case sparks heated exchange as Gaynor and Greene accuse extradition commissioner Judge La Fontaine of being under contract with the United States. Briefly, the defense seeks pause while documents and ministerial opinions are reviewed, case set before Chief Justice La Coste. Also notes Ohio prisoner Herman Hamilton electrocuted at state penitentiary in Columbus.
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Montreal
Fugures
United States
Magtstrates Court
Gaynor and Greene
La.Fontaine
la Fontaine
la Coste
Donald MacMaster
Taschereau
Minister of Justice
Macchaster
Canada
Jude la Fontaine
Taschereaus
Taschereaugain
MacMaster
Marion Erwin
Georgia
E J Johnson
Washington, DC
George W Marler
New York Court
Ohio
Columbus
Oho
Herman Hamilton
Lee Culver
Norfolk and Western
Portsmouth
Hamilton
Russians Weakened in Manchuria as Vladivostok Feared
From St Petersburg and Gunshu Pass reports March 23 24 the Russian position in Manchuria grows strained as Gen Linovitch may retreat beyond Harbin jeopardizing Vladivostok. Japanese flanks flex with turning movements while calls for war supplies for a two year siege arise and reinforcements must reach Harbin to counter 200000 troops.
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Linsvitch
Vladivostok
Apm
Sungari
Chunchiatsu
Harbin
Manchurian
Amur
Linovitch
Associated Press
Linevitch
Lanevitch
Lake Baikal
Oyama
War Office
Gunshu Pass
Santoupy
Sungari River
Chantchiatsu
Siberia
Siberian
Russia
Ringrite
Br Ey
Dee
Russian forces report Mukden fighting and Changtu pursuit
A dated dispatch notes Chinese and Japanese forces in Manchuria with claims of Russian forces entrapment by bandits in Mukden on March 10 and a pursuit toward Changtu on March 21. It mentions the Russo-Chinese Bank attack in Kirin Harbin and Oyama informing Gen Linovitch that the Russian medical staff in Mukden survived.
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Kirin
Harbin
Mukden
Oyama
Linovitch
Tokyo
Imperial Army Headquarters
Changtu
Hts
Rumored Russian Fleet Movements Scrutinized
London reports offer vague notes on Rojestvensky’s squadron with no solid confirmation. Port Louis Mauritian sightings of a torpedo boat and a following warship fleet lack precise numbers. Madagascar dispatch suggests a possible flying division, while Crete’s third division reportedly sailed toward Port Said with no confirmation of arrival.
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Rojestvensky
London
Port Louis
Mauritius
Colombo
Ceylon
Antananarivo
Madagascar
Pacffc
Ness Be
Rojestvensky’s
Rojest
Whiteman Acquitted In Buffalo Grand Larceny Case
Alonzo J. Whiteman of Dansville New York and former Minnesota legislator was acquitted of grand larceny in a Fidelity Trust Company swindle involving a 49000 draft. Jury deliberated about thirty hours. He was remanded for forgery indictment and jailed awaiting bail. Whiteman, arrested in St Louis, fled extradition, was at large six weeks, and hidden at his mother’s Dansville home.
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Washington Post
Buffalo
Alonzo J. Whiteman
Dansville
Minnesota
Fidelity Trust Company
Coateworth
Whiteman
St. Louis
Dunkirk
Mexico
Stricken in Wife's Tomb
Jonathan Reed a retired Brooklyn business man was found unconscious and dying on the floor of his wife's granite tomb in the Evergreen Cemetery after suffering a stroke. He had spent seven years daily in the tomb except when winter storms closed it. A laborer found him and an ambulance took him to hospital where he had a faint breathing and a fair chance of recovery. Reed had requested permission to place a cot in the tomb to stay there full time but was refused and he kept an imaginary conversation with the dead.
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Brooklyn
New York
Jonathan Reed
Evergreens
Waa
Reed
Alexander M Gorman
Kellogg
F Street
Hula
Gorman
Bond
Kelloggs
Martin
F Martin
Mr Gorman
Nolice
Corman
Buffalo Bill Cody Loses Wyoming Divorce Suit
Col William F Cody known as Buffalo Bill fails to prove wife Louisa Cody cruel or guilty of poisoning. Judge R H Scott rules charges unproven though he cites her forgiving devotion and enduring care. Case to appeal with new trial motion. details include daughter Arta Thorpe’s letter and Cody’s alleged conduct at Chicago and Fort McPherson.
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Scott
Cok Cody
Bessie Isbell
Cody
Chicago
Fort McPherson
Mrs. Coady
H. Ridgeley
Col. Cody
Supreme Court of Wyoming
Peace Steps Toward Russia Japan Peace Talks and Obstacle Found
Reports from St Petersburg and London indicate pacific proposals to end the Russia Japan war are advancing, with European jealousies blamed as the main barrier. The influence of London Berlin and Paris financiers is cited as lifting hopes for a near peace, though some officials dispute mediation ties. Other items note a missing crew from the Mars wreck, a Philadelphia murder over insult to a wife, and a double train service to race events with SundayPost promotions.
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St Petersburg
Pacific
Japan
Associated Press
Washington Post
London
Central News
Russia
Roosevelt
Manchuria
8&T
Berlin
Paris
Fyre
Mislaid her baby returns home after 200 mile rail detour
Hillsdale March 28 Mrs RK Merryman has a six week old daughter who was carried 200 miles by rail while visiting a nearby town. On returning home she forgot the sleeping infant in her haste to depart. Train workers in Iowa later found the child safe and sleeping and sent her home with the train crew.
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Til
RK. Merryman
Mra Merryman
Mra. Merryman
apHlatenass
Idwa
GESSLER ROSSEAU ON TRIAL IN NEW YORK
New York March 24 Gess er Rosseau charged with sending an infernal machine to the steamship Umbria on May 3 183 was tried today before Recorder Goff and a jury The indictment accuses labeling the explosive and sending it to a structure with people to destroy it The defendant was arrested in Philadelphia January 14 after an earlier attempt to wreck the statue of Frederick the Great at Washington The trial continues tomorrow.
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New York
Maren
Gess'er Rosseau
Goff
Mves Rosseau
Philadelphia
Frederick the Great
Washington
Two freshmen may die after campus fight at Mines
Golden Colorado March 23 Harry E F Clapp of Denver and Arthur J Weinig of Durango freshmen at the State School of Mines suffer injuries from a class battle between freshmen and sophomores. Clapp lies unconscious from brain concussion and may die. Weinig is injured internally in critical condition after a flag fight that began early morning and continued through the day on campus with a rough, hour and a half clash.
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Golden
Colo
Harry FE Clapp
Denver
Arthur J Weinig
Durango
State School of Mines
Clapp
Weinig
Newfoundland Retaliates Against American Vessels
The Newfoundland government ordered customs collectors to refuse fishing licenses to American vessels for bait in colonial waters. It plans legislation at the upcoming session to enforce the “ball act” against Americans as stringently as against the French, citing the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Bond-Hay treaty. Proponents say the crusade can hit Gloucester as effectively as St John’s.
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St Johns
Newfoundland
Gloucester
St. Jerre
Man electrocuted by door knob during storm in St Louis
During a heavy spring storm in St Louis John McGovern a engineer at the insane asylum was instantly killed when an electrified door knob he touched sparked from a wire broken by the weather. The scene involved a charged wire across the knob and the doorway leading to an insane asylum interior.
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St Louis
John McGovern
Insane Asylum
Ina Hole
Coroner Orders Arrest Over Tenement Fire Negligence
New York reports a coroner finds Mrs Celia Lerner guilty of gross negligence in the Allen Street tenement fire that killed twenty. The inquiry censures the tenement house commission for lax inspections and notes the roof trap-door was kept locked, hindering escapes. Cause of fire undetermined. Also mentions a Havana fare promotion and local beer ad.
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New York
Tenement House Commission
Celia, Lerner
Allen Street
Leiner
Philadelphia Promoter Disappears
Promoter disappears amid a sensation in the Greene Gaynor case and other international and domestic headlines. The item notes a mysterious absence affecting Philadelphia circles and related legal and social headlines of the day.
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Philadelphia
Greene-Gaynor
Buffalo Bill
Santo Domingan
Acute Insurance Company
Delaware
Fairbanke
North Carolina
Shaw
Virginia
Maryland
Edward
Benning
Senators
New York
Lieute d Arrowood
Havana
Don Azpiroz Ill With Plethora of Honor and Illness
Don Manuel de Azpiroz Mexican ambassador in Washington lies gravely ill at the embassy on I Street Northwest amid a deteriorating heart condition and a six month bout of illness. His diplomatic precedence and a prior White House dining incident involving the Austrian ambassador are noted, with the Mexican government informed and Azpiroz near death at nearly seventy.
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Don Manuel de Azpiroz
Franz A . Jung
Capitol
Kent McKinley
Mexico
Ladislaus Hengelmuller von Hengerver
White House
Hengelmaler
Diplomatic Corps
Senor Azpiroz
Washington
Senor
Don Matias Romero
Julan Pauncefote
Lord Pauncefote
Preston
Senor Romer
Senor Romero
State Department
Aspiroz
Senora
Dona Luz de Azpiroz de Perez Rivera
Belen de Azpwuz
Don Rodrigo de Azpiroa
Real estate broker Gorman found poisoned in Kellogg Building
Alexander M Gorman a prominent real estate and insurance broker lies recovering at Emergency Hospital after an alleged laudanum overdose in the Kellogg Building at 1416 F Street NW. A nameless man summoned a janitor and disappeared, offering no explanation to police.
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Kellogg
Unknown
Miss Craig Sues Dermatologist Over Nose Alteration
Miss Emily E Craig, a noted lecturer, sued a New York dermatologist for 2000 dollars claiming a worsening red nose after treatment in 1902. She testified the procedure ruined the tip’s vein and her life, while the defendant denied responsibility and the complaint was dismissed.
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Miss Craig
Washington Post
New York
Beef Trust Inquiry Secrecy Shrouds Witnesses In Chicago
Chicago March 23 witnesses from packing firms and meat dealers testified before a special grand jury probing the beef trust. The proceedings forbade public disclosure and witnesses feared naming themselves after coaching by authorities. Key witnesses included R C Rowe of Armour & Co Omaha W Kelly Cedar Rapids Iowa and Robert Hail Kansas City Sun Sunday Post and the Favorite Newspaper. Cabin John Bridge Hotel noted as a popular visitor rendezvous with dining options and driving access via Conduit road. Royal Pilsen advertised and Aregacht at Coldenstroth's 218 6th mw.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Cay Morrison
R C Rowe
Armour & Co
Omaha
Kelly
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Robert Hail
Kansas City
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Iith & G Nw
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Colorado School of Mines
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