Won Green A Pardoned Man After Twenty Years In Prison
A Virginia woman from Culpeper persisted for twenty years to gain the clemency of President Harrison for Albert Green, a colored man serving life for a killing in 1869. Green, 42, was pardoned after testimony showing intoxication at the time and no premeditation, with a small pocket knife as the weapon.
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Munner
Culpeper
Alvert Green
Virginia
Green
Green Plantation
Mra. Green
James Lucag
Girl Slaver Paolucci Sentenced to Death by Hanging
Joseph Paolucci was sentenced to death by hanging in Criminal Court No 2 for the murder of 17 year old Elizabeth V Dodge Taft. The case, heard before Justice Barrard, followed a trial in which the defense admitted the killing and sought a second degree verdict on insanity claims after being spurned by the girl. Paolucci’s lawyers may appeal to the President to commute the sentence to life imprisonment.
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Joseph Paolucci
Justice Barrard
Elizabeth V. Dodge Taft
Paolucci
Casset
Prolucel
Miss Dodge
Fifth Street
Paoglucci
Death by own action adds to week’s record
Maria B Hungerford, a 35 year old colored woman of 171 Tenth Street Northwest, was found dead in her bedroom from gas in an open jet. Coroner Nevitt issued a death by own action certificate after her husband Thomas Hungerford, a night watchman, found her in bed after she had been described as critically ill and after she reportedly swallowed black powder.
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Maria B. Hungerford
Tenth Street
Nevitt
Thomas Hungerford
Grade Damage Claim Hearing Involving Talty Case
Evidence for Stephen Talty and others on damages from a grade change on M street northeast between Third and Fourth streets. Heard yesterday before the Union Station grade claims appeal jury. Damages were originally awarded about a year ago but set aside after District government objection. Hearings resume Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Talty
M Street
Union Station
Five Thousand Dollar Claim In District Suit
Evelyn W Glascott seeks divorce from Hugh Ginacott in District Supreme Court while Thomas Blackman names District of Columbia and others among defendants in a separate suit alleging infidelity. Names include John W Box ley Samuel E Bogsey Charles Lock and others in the filed action.
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Evelyn W. Glascott
Hugh Ginacott
Spreme Court
Milwaukee records link Bart Anis to past incarcerations
A damaged record notes Bart Anis, once housed at Milwaukee Reform School in 1868, arrested twice in 1902 and 1904 on suspicions, given four months in Oshkosh for larceny in 1905, and later jailed 90 days in Milwaukee for vagrancy. Adams not identified in the report.
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Bart Anis
Milwaukee“Reformatory
Milwaukee
Oshkosh
Woman Convict Ada Cross Paroled to Insane Hospital
Ada Cross alias Ada Gray, a twenty year prisoner at Moundsville for house breaking, killed fellow inmate Lottie Hoffman on February 12. adjudged insane, she was sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane yesterday after delivery to U.S. marshal for the asylum move from West Virginia. Cross has a long record as a servant thief and housebreaker with prior sentences in Albany and a 1904 term at Moundsville. The Hoffman death followed a February 2 quarrel during which Cross struck with a sharp instrument, and Hoffman died from the wounds.
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Ada Cross
Ada. Cross
Ada Gray
Moundsville
Lottie Hoffman
Government Hospital
United States
West Virginia
Police Aay
Albany
Must Pay Hotel License Investigations Rolled Out
Commissioner West orders a broad inquiry into apartment houses using hotel headings to house transient guests. Inspector Donovan reports the Catro, an apartment building, requires a hotel license under the law that any place providing food and lodgings to transients is a hotel. The aim is to identify establishments described as hotels that lack proper licensing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner West
Icenses
Donovan
West
Indians Sue For Lands In Cherokee Allotment Case
Four claimants, led by John Allison, seek writs of mandamus in district court to force the Interior Secretary to restore their names to the Cherokee citizenship roll and grant them their share of lands and funds. Their allotments were canceled by an Attorney General ruling they call irregular. they assert the land claims are valuable and off-bearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Allison
Charles H. Merillat
District Supreme Court
Secretary of the Interior
Gauging Street Plans and Local Improvements Highlight City Bulletins
District commissioners are urged to include funding for Girard Street completion in annual Congress estimates. Randolph Place improvements northwest of First and Second streets will be issued soon by Engineer Hunt with costs not to exceed 300 dollars. Park Avenue surface lowering and regraveling in Brightwood also planned. Filipino midgets exhibit at 315 ib straw attract crowds. Various local ads note services from Shaffer to Schneider's Crab Feasts and Pape paper orders.
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Girard Street
Brookland Citizens” Association
Congress
Twelfth Street
Brentwood
Public Roads
Grablll Ft
Hunt
Randolph Place
P. Hinkel & Co
Successora
Thorpet Cleaning Co
Maine Ave
Pape
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Saks & Doorpenny
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Layer &Ls
SOS
Solitiers
Heye
A.f.bornoté Bro
F. St
N.w
Stumphifyford
Mass. Ave
Ace Law
John Wedderburn Co
B. Kuppenheimer & Co
I. Grosner
Penna, Ave. N. W
Elizabeth V. Dodge
Lundroh
Shaffer
Mth & I
City Bulletins
Chicago
Bakers
C.a.muddiman &Co
Schneider
Hotel Johnson
Hilt -Water
St. C.a
Stone & Fairfax
York
Ave
Patommnoda
Fulie
Aly
Wedderburn
Potomac Electric
14Th Street
N. W
Horn
John Weederburn
Whodersurn Co
Seventiy Street
Fiére
Washington
Hecht
Bers Evans
Keeley
North Capitol ‘Street
Washington, D. C
Crumble
Maryland
North Randle High
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