Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-12-28


manipulation of Jurors checks.
April 12-
Greene and Gaynor found guilty o.
conspiracy to defraud the government
in connection with Savannah harbol
improvements.
April IL
Stanley Francis given FIVE years
Imprisonment for participation il
Storey Cotton company swindle al
Philadelphia.
May
Henry C. Coll, former cashier Of
First National bank of Milwaukee
given ten years in prison for partici
patton in President Bigelows embez
Elements
Josephine Terranova, 17-year-old
Italian girl, placed on trial in New
York for stabbing to death her aged
uncle and his wife.
June
Bertha Claiche, French girl who
killed Emil Gendron in New York,
whose trial brought about prosecution
of several New York policemen on
charges Of protecting vice, sentenced
to two years and two months in pris.
on.
Ferdinand C. Borges, promoter of
Ubero investment companies, based
upon fictitious Mexican plantations,
found guilty of swindling and sent to
prison.
Charles L. Tucker electrocuted at
Boston for the murder of Mabel Page.
John ]. Kean sent to prison for
twenty years for kidnapping Freddie
Muth in Philadelphia.
June rs
Harry X. Thaw, of the wealthy Pitts.
burg family, who married Evelyn Mes.
bit, an artists model, shot and killed
Stanford White, famous architect,
during a performance in the Madison
Square roof garden.
July
Famous gambling casinos at French
Lick and West Baden, Ill, said to be
controlled by Thomas Taggart, chair.
man of Democratic national commit.
tee, closed by order OF Governor Hanly.
Robert G. Proctor, private secretary
to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, found
guilty of misappropriating 1925 Of con-
tributions to the Republican campaign
fund.
Arnold DAILY, the actor, who had
been arrested following his produc.
ton Of Bernard Shaw's play, Mrs.
Warren's Profession" acquitted in
New York court of special sessions.
Hargis and Callahan, on trial at
Beattyville, KY, for the murder of ].
B. Marcum, found not guilty.
Former mayor OF peteSsonsz-aatS. J j., |
William H. Belcher, who absconded
with 100000, returned to Paterson
and surrendered, after wandering
about the country for year. Pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to prison.
At Mayfield, KY, July 81, Allan Ma
this, a negro held for assaulting a
white girl, was hanged fifty-ive min
utes after the jury that tried him was
sworn.
August g.
Milwaukee Avenue State bank of
Chicago closed by bank examiner when
it became known that the institution
had been Systematically looted by it's
chief officers. President Stensland
fed. Cashier Herring arrested and con
fessed.
At Salisbury, N. c., mob overpower.
ed jail officers and lynched three ne
groes, charged with the murder of the
Lyerly family three weeks before.
Divorce trial of Augustus Hartje, a |
wealthy Pittsburger, who sought re-
lease from his beautiful wife, Mary |
Scott Hartje, by presenting evidence
to prove improper relations with her
coachman, Tom Nadine, and also with |
a former negro coachman, Clifford |
Hooe, brought to a close In Deem
Der the court rendered a decision in
favor of the wife. The negro coach |
man was sent to prison for perjury, |
and charges against Hartje are still
pending.
Buffalo's former auditor, John w.
Neff, given seven years in prison on
charge of grand larceny in connection
with the graveyard scandal.
September
Paul o. Stensland, fugitive president
of Milwaukee Avenue State bank of
Chicago, caught at Tangier. Returned
to Chicago, pleaded guilty and given
indeterminate sentence in prison.
Cashier Herring also sent to prison.
Body Of Mrs. Maurice ID. Lewis
found September 10 in a closet at her
apartment house in Philadelphia, stab
bed to death. Mrs. Lewis 2-year-old
baby only witness to the crime, which