Thaws Counsel Deny Dissension as Harry Thaw Denounces Rumor
New York report details Harry K Thaw denying rumors of counsel discord. It notes affidavits prepared at Delmas and Hartridge Peabody offices, Thaw’s mother’s sworn statement, and a busy day for lawyers drafting briefs for Judge Fitzgerald on the lunacy commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Obituary notices and court news from March 1907 era
A collage of obituary notices for Parker, Massno, Reed, Swann, Wint and others, with funeral times, places like St John’s Beltsville and George Washington University Hospital, plus court details on lunacy commission proceedings and Thaw prison visits. Names include Parker, Masslo, Reed, Swann, Wint, Thaw, O'Reilly, Hartridge, Delmas, Coggey, and others, with dates in March 1907 and references to Philadelphia, Arlington National Cemetery, and West Forty-fourth Street.
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 Undertakers Listings
A dense list of funeral directors and embalmers with addresses across Washington D C. Names include Hindle Bayliss Nalley Sons Harvey s Sons Mitchell s Son Spear Riley Geier s Sons Wright Lee Sardo Shaffer Zurhorst Shaffer and others with phone numbers and location notes. The ad promotes services, modern chapels, and modest prices.
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
Free on Thaw's Plea acquits Sanderson in murder case
Carriage Missouri trial ends with Arthur Sanderson acquitted of killing Dr Solomon D. Meredith. Mrs Sanderson testified the doctor had affair with her. defense likened the case to Thaw. Attorneys argued egoism and providential motives, while Meredith denied any illicit relation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carriage
Lar
Arthur Sanderson
Solomon D. Meredith
Urthage
Sanderson
Meredith
Shannon
New York Chauffeur Fined for 60 Miles a Minute Speed
In a Special Sessions Court in New York a chauffeur named Michael Jackson was fined 100 for driving at an extraordinary speed on Upper Amsterdam Avenue on January 13. Detectives timed a portion of the run at six miles a minute, and the court called the action the heaviest fine for a first speeding offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Global Masterpiece Heists
A Washington Post dispatch details a sprawling theft network dubbed Thieves Men of Culture. In Europe and America, prized canvases and jewels were stolen from Wertheimer's gallery and other prominent sites. The raid on Wertheimer's collection, worth millions, yielded portraits by Gainsborough and Reynolds, miniatures, and rare snuff boxes. Police worldwide circulated descriptions as investigators pursue a highly skilled ring believed to operate with connoisseur-level knowledge of art values and rotations. The piece links similar heists spanning years, including the Sassoferrato theft in Rome and other high-profile grabs, highlighting an organized criminal underworld of art theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Beni’ de Castellana
Mra
Charles Xerke
Froude
House 19
Po Hce
Patrick Sheedy
Adam Worth
Worth
Sheedy
Chicago
Pat” Sheedy
Murillo
Paris
Raisuli
Pat Sheedy
Pierpont Morgan
Ascott
Italy
Little Girls Tortured by Rubber Band Lips
Amesbury March 24 Miss Grace Sargent and Miss Grace Bennett two Ordway School teachers are charged with brutal punishment of whisperers by snapping their lips with elastic bands until they bled The chair of the school committee Hon George W Cate says the matter may be exaggerated and recalls police reports of a pupil and a patrolman’s daughter among those threatened by the rubber cure for whispering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Ohio Street Shootout
In Bellefontaine Mar 24 a street duel left Joseph Demar dead. Salvatore Cirra and three Black Hand men attacked the Demars and Cirra near home. Demar fired back mortally wounding one attacker before they fled. Tony and Sam Demar were arrested as conspirators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weahington
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Mar
Joseph
Charles Demar
Salvatore Cirra
Tony
Sam Demar
Lost Boy Not in England Reappears in Kidnap Case
March 24 reports from London and Dover detail detectives tracing Horace Marvin Jr. as part of a broader kidnapping investigation. Authorities say the Portsmouth crew was a misconception, while new sightings near Mechanicsville prompt caution about lynching amid renewed inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 in European Turkey
Robert Abbott, son of a British subject, was abducted from his father's garden near the British consulate general in Salontiti European Turkey on March 24. Authorities are acting energetically as officials fear a ransom demand may follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sa Jomki
Turkey
Salontiti
European Turkey
Robert Abbott
Twe
Hash Poisoning Claims One Life at Kansas Soldiers Home
Leavenworth Kansas March 24 One death occurred today among about 900 old soldiers at the National Soldiers Home after tainted hash poisoned them Tragedy centers on William J Cook sixty four a member of the Fourteenth Missouri Cavalry who left a widow at Mexico Missouri Some seventy five veterans remain seriously ill but officials expect most will recover The outbreak affected those already weakened by disability as officials denied missing men reports
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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. Four men died and four were rescued as crews battled to reach the surface near Vancouver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellingham
Ebritaania
Howa_ Sound
Vancouver
Ous Gea
Home tonic prescribed for backache and kidney trouble
An at home tonic claims to relieve backache and kidney issues with vegetable extracts. It advises Fluid Dandelion, Compound Kargon, and Compound Byrup Sardaaperilia mixed and taken after meals and at night. A pharmacist can supply ingredients and a claim of quick relief is noted by a well known druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydneys
New York
Mayor Combe Credited With Saving Brownsville Town
Maj. C. W. Penrose, recently acquitted by court martial, lauds Mayor Frederick Combe for preventing disaster during the Brownsville raid. He says Combe faced a 300-strong armed mob, commanded police, and refused to waver, keeping Brownsville intact. Penrose departs for Washington to testify before the Senate committee investigating the affair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Frederick Combe
C. W. Penrose
Brownsville
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Dr. Combe
Combe
Maj. Penrose
Washington
Senate
Panic at Wilmington theater from pepper prank
Harry Hammer, 20, arrested for causing a theater panic by dispersing red pepper powder during a Lyceum show. Police found labeled irritants on him as crowds sneezed. earlier a moving picture manager and a restaurant reported similar incidents. Authorities hunt the pranksters behind the street disturbances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Peat
Wilmington
Del
Mar
Harry Hammer
Lyceum
Hemmer
Evans
Same Girl Same Fortune Ambassador Exposes Spain Swindle
Special to The Washington Post New Haven Conn March 4 Garrett T Tracy a Hartford grocer received a sensational letter from William M Collier American Ambassador at Madrid exposing a sweeping swindle promising a fortune and a guardian daughter. He warned that hundreds of similar letters have followed and urged public exposure to prevent further losses across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Woman kills rival in acid suicide in Nashville alley
WNettle Green, a colored woman, shot and killed another Black woman named God and drank carbolic acid. She died about two hours later at City Hospital in awful agony. The killing happened in an alley near Union Station, with jealousy named as the motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Mar
Wnettle
Alte God
City Hospital
Union Station
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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
Stanfod White
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Ftrat
Commiasioner of Corrections
Commissioner Coggey
John H. Wade
Hotel
Lorraine
Strom
Northwest
Geo. C. Shaffer
Stern
To-Kalon Wine Co
14Th St. N. W
Sassoferrato
Comnoisserie
Charles Wertheimer
National Portrait Gallery of London
Thomas Dimedale
Henri
Aden Perk
Cincinnati
Mr. Adler
West Seventy Fourth Street
Julian Dupre
de Debat-Ponsan
Reyna
Gorter
Arthur O'Grady
the Apollinaris Coo., Ltd
England
Marvin Child
Father's Farm
Hash
Penrose
Moving Picture Show
The
Daily
Sunday Post
Jamestown
Office of
the Post
District of Columbia
City of
Alexandria
Virginia
Maryland
Department Service
Alexandria City
Alexandria County
Fairfax County
Loudoun County
Montgomery County
Prince George County
Charles County
Arphive
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