Thaws Counsel Denies Dissension Amid Rush on Thaw Papers
New York reports Thaw denies rumors of counsel discord as affidavits are readied for a lunacy commission. Lawyers on both sides work through a busy day at the Criminal Courts Building preparing briefs and final statements for Judge Fitzgerald while Thaw’s third statement is issued from his cell.
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Commissioner of Correction
New York
Mar
Harry K Taan
Justice Fitzgerald
Russell Peabody
Mate Tal
Thaw
Tha
Delmas
Messrs
Hartridge and Peabody
Fitzgerald
Jerome
Garvan
Kartridge
O'Reilly
Criinal Courts
C Gargan
Fitegerald
Harry
Crimial Courts
Clifford W. Hartridge
Daniel O'Reilly
Library of the Bar
West Forty-fourth Street
West Seventieth Street
Lakewood
Henry Clay McPike
Mr. Delmas
Obituary notices and legal reporting from March 1907
A collage of death notices and court news. William Colegate Parker dies in Berwyn Maryland in his fifties with services at St John’s Beltsville. Masso and Reed obituaries noted with funeral details. Thaw case updates describe legal maneuvers, lunacy commission briefs, and a personal visit by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw to the Tombs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington ‘University Hostal
George Redd
Birehs Undertaking Establishment
M Street Northwest
Swann
Louisa Orrick Swann
Otte FL
Otte FL. & Williams, Fairfax Counts. * Funeral Notice Later, Wint
Philadelphia
Briz
Thieodore J Wint
U.S A
Northminster Presbyterian Church
Baring Streets
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Washington
Arington National Cemetery
Funeral Directors and Embalmers Listed by Washington Firms
A scanned row of funeral homes and undertakers is listed with addresses and contact numbers in Washington area. Firms include Hindle and Bayliss, Nalley & Son, Harvey's Sons, John M. Mitchell's Son, W. R. Speare, Adolph Schippert, Thos. S. Sergeon, Costello & Bro, WM. S. Riley, Frank Geier's Sons, John R. Wright Co., J. William Lee, WM. H. Sardo & Co., George P. Zurhorst, Geo. C. Shaffer, and others. Each entry notes location, phone or telegraph references, and basic service descriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hindle & Bayliss
Thos. R. Nalley & Son
Finfrai
Embalmers
Harvey’s Sons
W.R. Speare
F Street
N. W
Ferones
Adolph Schippert
Peagent Cally
Phone West
Thos. S. Sergeon
J. William Lee
Pennsylvenia
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Hat Na
George P. Zurhorst
East Capital
Acquittal in Carriage murder case linked to Thaw parallels
Arthur Sanderson of Carriage Missouri was acquitted of murdering Dr Solomon D Meredith the family physician. Mrs Sanderson testified the doctor had affairs with her and that Sanderson confronted him and killed him. Defense likened case to Thaw and claimed Sanderson acted to avenge his wife.
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Carriage
Lar
Arthur Sanderson
Solomon D. Meredith
Urthage
Sanderson
Meredith
Shannon
Speeding Chauffeur Fined record 100 in New York trial
Michael Jackson, charged with driving a high power auto at an incredible speed through Upper Amsterdam Avenue on January 13, was fined 100 in Special Sessions Court. Detectives clocked parts of the mile at six miles a minute before Jackson was arrested near Seventy fifth Street. His attorney whispered and the judge imposed the city’s heaviest first offense speed penalty.
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New York
Mary
Michael Jackson
Special Sessions Court
Amsterdam Avenue
Jackson
Marriott
Ormond Fla
Casey
Mallon
Central Office
Bingham
10Th Street
Deuel
Tne
Art Thieves Band Together in Raffles Style Heists
A Washington Post report traces a global wave of art theft, led by organized “Raffles” type gangs. It details Wertheimer’s $6 million collection and $250,000 robbery, listing stolen works by Reynolds and Gainsborough, and notes the thieves’ skill, access, and elusiveness.
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Sassoferrato
Comnoisserie
Charles Wertheimer
Washington Post
New York
Mar
Rooma
Gainsborough
Duchess of Devonshire
London
Messra Agnew
United States
Europe
America
Charles Wartheimer
Great Britain
Wertheimer
Nancy Parsons
Charlee Yorke
Joshua Reynolds
Reynolds
Romney
Norfolk Street
Marble Arch
Park Lane
Girls Tortured In School By Rubber Band Punishment
Miss Grace O Sargent and Miss Grace Bennett, two Ordway School teachers, are charged with brutal lip snapping punishment on whispering pupils using elastic rubber bands until lips bled. A board member recalls prior notice but calls the affair exaggerated. Reports name a pupil, Jennie Ives, and a patrolman’s daughter among alleged victims.
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Washington Post
Amesbury
Mar
Grace O. Sar- Bent
Grace Bennett
Ordway School
George W. Cate
John M. Garland
Thomas C. Miller
Harrison Avenue
Miller
Cuba
Miss Sargent
Jennie Ives
J. Fred Ives
Black Hand Duel Fatal in Bellefontaine Street Fight
In Bellefontaine Ohio a street duel left Joseph Demar dead after being shot by three unknown men linked to the Black Hand Society. Salvatore Cirra and brothers Charles Demar and others fled. Tony and Sam Demar were arrested later as suspects.
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Weahington
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Mar
Joseph
Charles Demar
Salvatore Cirra
Tony
Sam Demar
Lost Boy Not in England Sparks Dover Kidnap Probe
Dover and London dispatches report detectives narrowing the Horace Marvin Jr disappearance to not involve the Portsmouth crew. A Philadelphia mission adds no arrests as investigators renew a cautious local inquiry amid fears of lynching and public hostility.
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London
Horace Marvin, Jr
Delaware
Portsmouth
Phillipa
Minneapolis
Marvin
Dover
Del
Philadelphia
Marvin Farm
Roosevelt
H. W. Bearce
Pinkertons
Troy
Mechanicsville
Uttle Horace Marvin
Horace N. Marvin
English boy kidnapped near British consulate in Salomki
Robert Abbott, son of a British subject, was abducted from his father’s garden near the British consulate in Salomki, European Turkey, on March 24. Authorities are pursuing the case, believed to aim for a ransom and the seizure is being energetically investigated by officials.
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Salomki
Turkey
Robert Abbott
Twe
Hash Poisoning at Soldiers Home Kills One Man
Leavenworth Kansas March 24 One death occurred today among about 900 old soldiers at the National Soldiers Home after tainted hash poisoned them yesterday. William J. Cook aged 64 of the Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry died. Seventy five veterans remain seriously ill though officials say most will recover. Some reports of missing men were denied by home officials. The government physician says only those with preexisting disabilities and weakened condition are seriously affected.
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Leavenworth
Kans
Mar
National Soldiers' Home
William J. Cook
Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry
Mexico
Buried Alive in Snow At Howe Sound Mine
Eight miners were buried by an avalanche at the Britannia mine on Howe Sound, forty miles north of Vancouver. Four were killed, four were rescued, after conditions trapped workers yesterday as rescue efforts continued.
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Bellingham
Ebritaania
Howa_ Sound
Vancouver
Ous Gea
Home Remedy Promises Quick Backache and Kidney Relief
A circulated prescription claims to relieve backache and kidney trouble with a plant based mix that any one can prepare at home. It lists Fluid Dandelion, Compound Kargon, Compound Byrup Sardaaperilia and advises taking a teaspoon after meals and at bedtime. It claims rapid relief and cites a well known roggist for authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydneys
New York
Mayor Combe Credited With Saving Brownsville Town
Maj Penrose, just acquitted of neglect of duty in the Brownsville raid, praises Mayor Frederick Combe for handling a mob of 300 armed men in Brownsville Texas last August. He says Combe ordered the group to return and led police to prevent disaster. Penrose heads to Washington to testify before the Senate committee, leaving Tuesday.
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San Antonio
Tex
Frederick Combe
C. W. Penrose
Brownsville
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Dr. Combe
Combe
Maj. Penrose
Washington
Senate
Panic at Lyceum Theater From Pepper Powder Prank
Harry Hammer, 20, arrested in Wilmington for causing a theater panic by blasting pepper powder from the gallery. The crowd sneezed as the show halted. police seized a bottle labeled cachoo and irritants. Earlier, a moving picture show and a restaurant reported similar incidents as authorities hunt the pranksters.
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Washington Peat
Wilmington
Del
Mar
Harry Hammer
Lyceum
Hemmer
Evans
Same Girl Same Fortune Ambassador Exposes Old Spanish Swindle
Special to The Washington Post New Haven Connecticut March Hartford resident Garrett T Tracy proprietor of four grocery stores received a sensational letter from William Milter Collier American Ambassador in Madrid exposing a swindling scheme. Don Ramon Montilla claimed a fortune and demanded court fees. Collier warned that hundreds of similar letters exist and urged public exposure to halt the scam.
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Ambassador Collier
Washington Post
New Haven
Conn
Mar
Garrett T. Tracy
Hartford
William Milter Collier
Madrid
Spain
William Burns
Tracy
Burns
Colliers
United States
Land
New Hampshire
Willam Burns
America
Montana
Columbus
Ohio
Regation
Regation, As Mr. Tracy
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