Baby Believed Alive At Murder Farm Mystery
Reporter details a bizarre case at the Belle Guinness murder site near Laporte with crowds of 10 000, an excursion train from Chicago, and morbid curiosity surrounding the fate of Belle Guinness and her children. Ten thousand visitors, sightings of a motor car, and investigative delays frame the ongoing inquiry into whether the murdered woman survived the flames or not.
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Chicago
Sooth Bend
Laporte
Guinness
Maryland Man's Escape From Wealthy London Scot? No
A Maryland man, resident eight miles north of Hagerstown, escaped a matrimonial ruse involving Mrs Belle Guinness. The case centers on forged letters, fake engagements, and a Norwegian-born woman posing as Sella Nelson to lure him from Washington to meet in Martinsburg. Local residents identify Mrs Guinness with the supposed con artist.
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Hagerstown
Stoner
Lee
Chiago
Trensir
Martinsburg
Washington
Ner
Fashonable
Rine
Lleitershig
Cening
Vrs Guinners
Imall
Citiens
Petersburg
Five Sink With Launch At Plum Island Mouth
A naphtha launch with nine men capsized near the Plum Island mouth of the Merrimac. Five drowned, including Italian workers from local shoe shops. George E Busey, owner, and three others were rescued by passing boats.
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Newburyport
Mass Way
Heter
Plum Island
Merrimac
George E Busey
Prisoner Feared Mob Violence As Sentence Is Read
Arthiat Rawl v temie is convicted of a brutal crime against Mrs Mery Ward. He will be moved from Calvert County jail to await execution while townspeople fear lynching. A heavy guard accompanies the sheriff and prisoner for transport to Baltimore awaiting further arrangements.
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Arthiat Rawl
Temie
Mery Ward
Calvert County
Haltimore
Che Gul
Lfteen
Owings
Baltimore
Sheruf
Vanderbilt Filly Wins Prix de Rochette at Paris
W K Vanderbilt's Foresight captured the Prix de Rochette at Paris with Armande second and Philomene third. Post odds were 5 to 2 for the winner, 9 to 2 for Armande, and 25 to 1 for Philomene. Also listed are excursion routes from Union Station via B and C to Harper’s Ferry Martinsburg Berkeley Springs and Cumberland with round trips priced.
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Paris
Allies
W K Vanderbilt
Aumonts Armande
Count St Phallis Philomene
Armande
Philomene
Harpera Ferry
Martinsburg
Berkeley Springs
Cumberland
Union Station
Eressere
Death by own action ends life of Lt Bamford in Washington hospital
Charles Exton Bamford twenty six year old former Thirteenth Cavalry lieutenant killed himself in a Washington Hotel Regent room. Diary entries reveal melancholy views. health problems and failed reinstatement plans preceded the act. Brother officer and chambermaid details, with a coroner's verdict of suicide and notes on Bamford's Army record and family background.
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Army
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Trenton
Regent
Regent Intending To At Once Make Application For Reinstatement In the Cavum
Om Se Army
Real Alives
Hamilton Avenue
N J
United States Army
Washington DC
Field Artillery
West Point Im 190
Thirteenth Cavalry
Chase Bamford
Chestnut
Ilamilion Avenues
Elaimart
Fort Myer
J Goethe
West Point
Charles HB
Preaches From Coffin in Mourning Salvation Scene
In Pittsburg on May 10 Staff Captain Treve of the Salvation Army preached from a coffin at the local barracks on the question After Death What The room was somber with funeral dirges as crowds from the lower city watched He warned that all must face the final summons and choose the company of Jesus or the devil before tomorrow robs us of life
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Washington
Pittsburg
Treve
Salvation Army
Jesus
Emery Turns To Taft Favors Roosevelt Policies
Lincolnnite Lewis Emery Jr of Bradford Pa, a Republican delegate in the Twenty first district, backs Taft at Chicago, arguing he supports Roosevelt policies. Knox county Republicans plan to contest his seating, asserting Emery’s Democratic past and gubernatorial bid undermine his Republican qualifications and loyalty to party platform.
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Lewis Emery Jr
Bradford Pa
Twenty First
Taft
Keystone
Knox
Bradford
Emery
National Committee
Lmery
Congress
Bryan
Roosevelt
W KR Andrews
Pennsylvania
Elks to Found a Church in Poughkeepsie City
Elks pledge to raise 80 000 for an Elks church in Poughkeepsie with Rev Maryin V Jacobs slated to take permanent charge. The plan includes a voluntary 23 cent assessment on 350 000 Elks nationwide to fund the project.
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Washington
Poughkeensley
Elks
Maryin V Jacobs
Pine Plains
Poughkeepsie Lodge
Jacobs
United States
Son Born to Mme Toselli in Rome Gossip
Florence May 10 Mme Toselli formerly crown Princess of Saxony gave birth to a son last Thursday morning. The birth was kept secret and not yet registered. It is said the infant will bear his father Alberto’s name.
Revolt in the Congo District Reported by Washington Post
Special cable from Brussels dated May 1 describes a widespread revolt in the Abji district of the Congo Independent State. Natives refuse to collect rubber, attack whites, and burn several factories with heavy casualties reported.
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Washington Post
Brussels
Abji
Congo Independent State
Ttie
Bank's Loss Grows Cashier's Hope in Pull Calls for Help
Special to The Washington Post from Pillsburg May 10 details William Montgomery cashier of Allegheny National Bank facing defalcation estimates up to 750000. The piece links Montgomery to political influence with M S Quay, claims involvement with Harrison bets, and suggests high officials may intervene to keep him from prison. It notes bank reserves drained to cover losses and mentions related cases of other Pittsburgh banks and a notable furniture auction by Wilson & Mayers.
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Pillsburg
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Plutrobure
M S Quay Maki
United States
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Enterprise National Bank Alleghany
Lee Clare
National Bank
Wagersburg Pa
F Rinehart
Luton Trusty
Pittsburgh & Hixon
Unfford Wray
Oakland Savings and Trust Company
William Workman
Workman
Farners Deposit National Bank
John Young Audtter
Henry Reiber Paing
Allegheny National Bak
Pittsburgh
William Montgomer
Joss
Montgomery
George W Delemater
Meadville
Robert E Pattison
Quay
Pattison
Delemacer
Mesare
Wilson & Mayers
Idleplay
Rock Crash Injures Passengers on Baltimore and Ohio Train
A rock rolled from a hillside near Fairmont seven miles east and smashed the roof of an emigrating car on the Baltimore and Ohio Express. Injured are JB Powell of Fairmont with a head cut and bruises, B Fairmont of Goshen with a head injury, and Griffith Jones of Fairmont who is slightly hurt. Powell and Gilmore were taken to a hospital as the train, traveling about forty miles an hour, stopped at Fairmont for medical care.
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Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Ohia
Hammond
Fairmont Pearly
JB Powell
Fairmore
Goshen
Grifith Jones
Phsicians
Charce
Powell and
Gilmore
California: For Roosevelt at State Republican Convention
San Francisco May 10 an unusual situation faces the California Republican State convention in Sacramento next Thursday The unofficial primary ballot showed voters favoring Roosevelt over other candidates Taft ranked second and Hughes third Gen George Stone says the convention will likely instruct for Roosevelt with Taft as second choice.
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Sacramento
Roosevelt
California
Roosevelt Taft
Hughes
George Stone
Republican State Central Committee
Taft
Elfie Fay to Be Navy Bride in Washington Ceremony
Milwaukee May 10 Elfie Fay known as Belle of Avenue A plans to wed Lieut Demon Plett of the U S Navy after his three years of shore duty in Washington He arrives from Guam to marry in a ceremony attended by naval officers and diplomatic attaches The Corsican born naturalized graduate of Annapolis is to be part of the wedding plans and the couple expect a home on shore duty upon marriage
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Quay
Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
United States
Montgomery
Monty
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Montgen
Harrison
Piettri
Guam
Washington Post
Milwaukee
Elfie Fay de ‘Belle
Avenue A
Good Old America
Miss Fay
Washington
Lieut Ptettin
Lst
Annapolia
State Heads Arrive At Unprecedented Roosevelt Forest Summit
Forty one other officials land from Hawaii as the gathering begins today and tomorrow. Only five executives from California Oregon Georgia Massachusetts and Texas will be absent when President Roosevelt calls to order the unprecedented meeting to consider means to preserve forests.
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California
Oregon
Georgia
Massachusetts
Texas
Roosevelt
Governors Meet to Plan Conservation Conference
President Roosevelt to host three dozen governors at the White House for a three day conference on natural resources. Governors Kibben Frear Pindall will attend with Cabinet members and invited experts. sessions aim to coordinate forestry, water, coal and mineral strategies and outline long term conservation programs.
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Ommmssian
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Whlute
Gord Tinghot
Rudesland
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Roosevelt
Andrew Carnegie
Hitt
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Emery R Johnsen
University of Pennsylvania
Putnam Electrical
Lew Lok Powerth
Chamberlan
University of Chicago
Sai
Kansas
George M Kober
George Pardee
Oakland
Jozeph
Cheyenne
Double murder on Apples Island rocks Watertown area
Watertown reports a night of terror after a window buckshot attack on card players. Jerry Apple was killed, Albert Crowder fell next in a fight near Apples Island on Black Lake. Mrs Royal Dunning, Apple’s daughter, escaped and brought news to Watertown as Royal Dunning, her husband, was arrested claiming innocence.
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Jerry Apple
Apples Island
Black Lake
Soamian Albert
Crowder
Royal Dunning Apples
Thin City
Royal Dunning
Woman's body found near pond in Philadelphia scene
Police probe after a well dressed blonde about 35 is found dead on a clay bank beside a small pond in southwestern Philadelphia. A carbolic acid bottle is nearby. footprints suggest possible foul play or an unseen carriage, with the body carefully covered by a coat.
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Philadelphia
Grace Snell Reconciles With Sixth Husband in Los Angeles
Grace Snell Coffin Walker Coffin Laymar Love withdraws her sixth divorce suit and reunites with H M Love, secretary of the Los Angeles Board of Health. Love rejoices, noting their marriage marks a return to harmony. Snell Love is described as daughter of A I Ane, a Chicago capitalist murdered years ago.
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Washington Post
Los Angeles
Coffin Coffin Walker-Coffin-Laymar
Love
H M Love
Los Angeles Board of Health
James C Walker
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