Insurer Official Seized in Bank Theft and Insanity
Washington manager for the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, said to have drawn money from a bank hours before an alleged collapse, was placed in a strait jacket after a struggle with police. Only $1.06 found on his person. He was taken to Washington Asylum while his wife awaited at Union Station for a planned train to Richmond.
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Life Insurance Company of Virginia
Washington Asylum
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Richmond
Sims Case in Brief
Sims an insurance man in Dr William G Youngs office attempted to shoot himself but was disarmed. He fought officers, was strapped in a straight jacket and taken to Washington Asylum Hospital. Police found only 169 in his pocket after he grew rich briefly. A letter to his wife with a $50 bill on the doctor’s table suggests robbery and possible drugging after leaving the bank.
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Wiilliam G. Young
N Street
Washington Asylum Hospital
Man Armed Suicide Attempt Ended in Disarming Struggle
John G Sims a Washington Life Insurance Company manager went berserk in Dr William G Youngs office at 1315 N Street NW yesterday afternoon flourishing a revolver and threatening to shoot. In a fierce struggle by brave bystanders he was disarmed and beaten himself, then taken to Washington Asylum Hospital. Police suspect robbery foul play as Sims reportedly drew 1000 from a bank before vanishing, an envelope with 50 tied to his wife found later, investigators scouring for movements and motive amid reports he was drugged and lured to the physician’s office. Capt Peck led the hospital transfer as Sims remains violently insane with little prospect of improvement.
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Sims
Washington
Life Insurance Company of Virginia
Washington Addium Hospital
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Prissian
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Poice
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Davis
Station House
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Peck
Washington Asylum Hospital
Fifteenth Street
New York
Mr. Young
Insurance Manager Vanishes After Union Station Plan
A Life Insurance Company of Virginia manager, Sims aged 35, planned a 5 o clock train to Richmond with his wife but disappeared after a call to their physician. Mrs Sims learned of his condition at a hospital and found $1000 missing, with detectives investigating. Sims had told coworkers he would be away for some time. He recently relocated from Seventeenth Street NW to a new home.
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Life Insurance Company of Virginia
Richmond
Seventeenth Street
Gov Crothers Suspends Commissioners Amid Police Guard Standoff
Special to The Washington Post. Gov Crothers suspends the county court commissioners amid pending charges of incompetence over protection money from cocaine sellers and unlawful practitioners. Armed guards patrol the courthouse as temporary replacements are named for Independent Roger Curl Republican Isaac Field and Democrat Robert Biggs, who declined. The governor plans mandamus if entry is denied and hints at police department head changes.
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Isaac Field
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Not Everybody's Aunt Miss Delia Torrey 85th Birthday
Miss Delia C. Torrey of Millbury aunt of President Taft marked her 85th birthday in Newburyport with a city drive and a tea hosted by Mrs Clara Waters. She dislikes being called Aunt Delia and asks newspapers to call her Miss Torrey. she remains in good health and enjoyed a pleasant summer.
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Washington Post
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Mass
Delia C. Torrey
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Taft
Clara E. Waters
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Misa Torrey
Delia
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Danish Inventor Demonstrates Wireless Lamp Lighting
Danish inventor Valdemar Pousen has succeeded in lighting incandescent lamps by wireless transmission of electric current. The report from Copenhagen notes the breakthrough and details plans for demonstrations and potential applications.
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Copenhagen
Valdemar Pousen
Bomb at her door. Mrs Potter Palmer in peril in Chicago
A man who threw a bomb near the Palmer mansion in Chicago was caught after his coat was shredded and he bled from cuts. He claimed a fight, then confessed he placed the bomb to create a dramatic impression. A letter from Des Moines, signed Mary, tied to a niece of Senator Cummins, and a possible mental illness were noted.
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Washington Post
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Iowa
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University Avenue
Warnes Students of Graft at Cornell University
President Schurman lectured to Cornell students warning that graft seeds begin with cheating. He cited exam dishonesty and urging zero tolerance in the university community. He noted a faculty inquiry found ten percent of students behaved upright, while ninety percent were not fully above reproach.
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British Vice Consul Held After Santo Domingo Shooting
A 44 year old British acting vice consul A W Lister was arrested in Puerto Plata after killing a Haitian who insulted him. Lister, now in Fort San Felipe, is reportedly well connected with prominent social circles. Eyewitnesses attended the incident, but no one heard the preceding argument. sympathy favors Lister amid claims provocation must have been extreme.
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Washington Post
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Fort San Felipe
Lister
Harrison
Woman Dies On Railroad Tracks In Goshen
In Middletown New York on September 30 Mrs Amelia A Splera of Montclair New Jersey mother of A R Spiers of New York City and patient at Interpines Sanitarium Goshen was killed by a train on the Montgomery branch of the Erie Railroad. She had been admitted in February after suffering from paresis and arterial hardening. Today she went to the tracks and lay down across the rails and her head was severed.
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Washington Post
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Interpines Sanitarium
Goshen
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Montgomery
Erie
Boy Wounds Bank Bandit as 17 Year Old Captures Robber
Julius Walter, 17, at the Bank of McClelland during a picnic lull, drew an automatic, fired seven shots then two more, wounded robber Welford Kirby in the right arm, pursued him across fields, and delivered the captured man to the town marshal. The incident left the town of about 200 deserted.
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Washington Post
McClelland
Iowa
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Welford Kirby
Oakland
Ja!r
Sigel case suspect held at border over looks
Immigration officers detain a Chinese man who spoke fluent English and resembled Leong Ling, the alleged killer, as he sought entry at the U S port. He claimed the name Mei Sing, said he had lived in the United States, but lost papers and will be held until New York police review a photo.
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Texas
Leong Ling
Misse Blegel
New York
United States
Mei Sing
Admiral Sah Ping Sees Submarine In Newport Visit
Admiral Sah Ping leads three Chinese naval officials on a tour of the naval training station torpedo station and War College in Newport Rhode Island. He rides the submarine Octopus under Neer gett Bay for about half an hour, becoming the first such dive for him. Commander Mark L Bristol hosts the guests and conducts the undersea voyage.
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Sah Ping
Mark L. Bristol
Neer ”Gett Bay
Roosevelt Seeks Specialist After Threat During Speech
New York reports Theodore Roosevelt consulted as a threat specialist in the city after a dangerous outburst following his Barttage address. He recalls a prior failure when threatened during a European tour after an African hunt and plans to remain alert with days of rest before a planned Southern trip.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Barttage
Europe
Jo_key left fortune from investments under Rothschild guidance
Jockey Pom Loaten died in Brighton England leaving about 1.16 million dollars largely from investments guided by Leopold de Rothschild, his chief employer. Loates twice won the Epsom Derby in 1868 and earlier, with the 2 minutes 32 seconds time still noted.
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Pom Loatan
Leopold de Rotha
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Loates
Mug the US by Bertillon system debate
Albert H Hall urged national Bertillon style citizen registration including photographs and fingerprints as a police aid. Delegates, led by Gov Gilchrist and Justice De Courcy, opposed and urged practical reform, warning such measures are premature and sentimentally driven.
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Charles Be Courcy
Dfvision
Supreme Court
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United States
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de Courcy
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John E. Wigmore
Howland sues for 100000 over alienated affections in Philadelphia case
John Arthur Howland, a Spring Lake life guard, files a suit in St Louis seeking 100000 damages for alienation of his fiancee Helen O'Brien Howland. He alleges Mrs Rose O'Brien, Marie O'Brien and John McKeown plotted to keep him from the woman he eloped with at a summer resort. He cites a Philadelphia letter from Sarah Hayes as triggering the suit and details claim of love, marriage, and Catholic upbringing disputes.
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Washington Post
St. Louis
John Arthur Howland
Spring Lake
N. J
Life Guard
Rose Carlan O’brien
Marie O’brien
John McKeown
John “O'Brien
Howland
T Louis
Barah Hayes
Philadelphia
St Louis
O’brien
Helen
County bookkeeper confession shocks Nassau treasurer family
William Rapelyea, bookkeeper in Nassau county treasurer’s office, confessed to robbing the county by falsifying tax receipts. He claimed a $16 shortage, but authorities say the loss is closer to a larger sum. The confession implicates J F Baukney, former assistant treasurer who died by suicide after leaving a note to his wife.
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Willliam Rapelyea
Nassau County
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J. F. Baukney
Baukney
Buffalo youth gets five years for slot theft
A Buffalo youth with prior record was convicted of stealing five cents from a slot machine and sentenced to five and one half years in Auburn prison. Justice Emery considered his past record in imposing the term.
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Bpader
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Roosevelt Attacks Interests at Saratoga Rally
Theodore Roosevelt addresses the National Republican League in Carnegie Hall praising the Saratoga gathering as a people’s convention free of special interests. He contrasts it with Rochester’s Democratic convention and outlines three core platform points: honesty, governmental efficiency, and citizen control. He endorses Henry L. Stimson as governor candidate and cites press descriptions to argue for broad Republican appeal.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
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John Hays Hammond
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Hammond
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Democratic Ticket Nomination At New York State Convention
The Democratic State convention in Rochester nominated John A. Dix for governor and Thomas J. Carmody for attorney general among others after hours of sessions. Rep William Sulzer drew 16 votes for governor. Col. Bacon faced disruptions over Independence League remarks as Dix secured the nomination with 434 votes to Sulzer’s 16.
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William Sohmer
New York
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Penn Yarn
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Kimiray
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Alexander Bacon
Sulzer
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Madman Draws Gun Money Missing Firebrand Scandal
Page one item highlights a sensational crime with a man drawing a gun and money missing, a claim of a defiant Crothers, and a claim that a heiress was courted. The issue also notes Roosevelt opening a campaign and gubernatorial nominations amid a broad skimming of financial and social items.
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Crothers
Eheol
Maurice Levy Dies in Paris at 72 Former Academy President
Special cable reports Maurice Levy a noted scientist teacher and writer died in Paris at age 72 He previously served as president of the Academy of Science and was a prominent figure in scientific circles in France and beyond.
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Academy of Science
Paris
Washington Post
Maurice Levy
DIX NOMINATED BY DEMOCRATS IN NY CONVENTION
New York Representative receives 16 votes on the ballot for associate justice and faces a stormy scene as the governor nominee holds out against accepting the honor. Leader of the party works through the day in conference and the aspirant surrenders only at the last minute after demanding pledges from others.
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