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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-01-25
England's Official Regret.

Washington, D. C.-Great Britain
has officially expressed regret over
the action of Governor ~Swettenham,
of Jamaica, in refusing to accept the
relief supplies sent by the United
States Government to the earthquake
sufferers of the island, and in practi-
caily ordering Admiral Davis, with
his vessels on q relief expedition, to
withdraw from the stricken island.
President Roosevelt, after two
conferences with Acting Secretary of
State Bacon and Secretary Taft, has
decided to ignore the action of Gov
erno Swettenham, and no represen-
tation will be made to the British
Government on the ground that the
affront to the American Government
was committed by a subordinate Off
cial of the British Government, who
was nervous, excitable and
able because of the nervous strain
under which he was suffering Incl
dent to the great calamity which Wis
tied Kingston.
In a cablegram to the State De-
partment from Mr.. Haldane, the
British Secretaryo of State for War, the
British Government has made amends
to the satisfaction of officials of the
Government here for the affront.
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HOW WALSH TOOK MILLIONS
Chicago Banker Indicted on 1872
Counts.
Memorandum Notes." Backed by
Unstable Bonds, Depositors' Only
Surety-Defense Confident.

Chicago, 1ll.-John R. Walsh, for
mer president of the Chicago Ma
tional Bank, the Home Savings Bank,
the Equitable Trust Company, head
OF a network of railroads through
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and
reputed to be worth s50,00O,O 900,
was indicted under 1872 counts in the
report of the special United States
Grand Jury to Judge A. B. Anderson.
Mr.. Walsh appeared later before
Judge Anderson and gave bond in
the sum of $4,000 for his appear
ance to plead any time before Feb
ruary 6.
The former financial leader of Chi
cago stands charged with the frau
dulent misapplication of funds Of the
Chicago National Bank to the mount
of $2,668.000, which, it is charged.
he appropriated to his W use. The
law provides for imprisonment for a
term not less than five years nor
more than ten in case of conviction.
The indictment is the longest ever
returned in Chicago by a Federal
Grand Jury investigating charges
against an individual. It is based
upon twenty-five transactions in
memorandum" notes. which the
Government officials declare to be
fraudulent; upon thirteen sales of
bonds to the bank, it being declared
that those bonds were unmarketable
n of doubtful value, and upon fifty
seven payments of the money de-
rived from those transactions.
The memorandum" notes were
discounted between January 81, 1904,
and February Is, 1905, and the total
proceeds were used, the indictment
charges, by Mr.. Walsh personally. 1t
is also charged that between January
ri, 1904, and February Is, 1905,
Mr. Walsh paid out an aggregate of
$2,614,377 to his outside interests.
These payments were: Southern In
diana Railway Company, ~$1,315,000;
Illinois Southern Railway Company,
s375,0O0; Wisconsin and Michigan
Railway Company, $562,000; Equit-
able Trust Company, of Chicago,
$292,377; other bcsiness enter
prises, $4,000.
1t is charged in the Indictment that
Walsh knowingly borrowed money
from the bank on fictitious notes and
that he sold to the bank bonds of
doubtful value and that ne was
therefore guilty of wilful misuse of
the funds of the institution.
1t was announced by Mr.. Walsh's
attorneys that they expect to have
little difficulty in clearing him when
the case comes to trial. They assert
ed that the basis of any offense de-
fined by the National Banking act is
criminal intent and that the defense
Walsh never did a criminal act or
any act with a criminal intent.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Good Roads Report.

State Road Commissioner Elijah G
Hutchinson submitted to Governol
Stokes his annual report. 1t is de
clared that New Jersey is still we'll il
advance of the other States in thu
matter Of highway improvements
The Commissioner says that during
1906 twenty counties of the Stat
spent $471,574 for road work, onl,
Warren County being devoid of i'm
provement of this kind. The sum O.:
$~2,046,827 has been spent for new
roads in the last ten years, the tota
mileage at this time being 1154.O9
The new Automobile law comes il
for praise at the hands of the Com
missioner, who reports that $75, 600
has been derived for road repairs
from the auto license revenue. The
money is distributed to the different
counties for the making of road re
pairs. Commissioner Hutchinson
thinks that more auto inspectors
should be appointed to the end thai
fast driving and destruction of the
improved roads might be reduced tc
a minimum.
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FOREIGN.

The first election returns in Russia
showed that a Radical deputy would
be returned for the Transcaspian ter
ritory.
Terms Of separation of the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough are said
to provide that the former keeps
Blenheim while the latter retains the
family jewels.
The election of President Figueroa,
of the Republic of Salvador, was an.
nounced. The elections, which lasted
three days, were quiet.
1t was learned in Capetown that
the revolt against the Germans in
Southwest Africa had broken out
again.
The body of Lord Delayal Beres,
foru, who was killed in a railway
wreck in North Dakota, was buried
in the family vault atClonegan grave
yard, Curraghmore.
The contract for the four battle.
ships included in the naval
for 1907 has been awarded, and
France now has six great battleships
under construction. They are to- be
called the Danton, Mirabeau, Voltaire.
Diderot, Conderset and Verguiaud.
Members of the Diplomatic Corps
at Teheran, Persia, presented con.
CALCULATIONS of their respective gov.
ernments to the new Shah.
A Philippino-Japanese
has been formed in Toxic for the pur.
pose of Strengthening friendly rela.
tons and the development of trade
between Japan and the Philippines.
German ship owners are forming 2
central society in Berlin to combat
the excessive claims of men and off.
GERS.
Admiral Alexieff has returned to
the Cars favor at st. Petersburg.
Proof of the Duke of Marlbor.
ough's financial straits, since his
wife's purse has been closed to. him,
is see in the advertisement in Lon.
don, which announces that the Duke
will sell by auction, at Blenheim, his
famous herd of pedigreed Jersey cat.
tie.
Count Nicholas Tolstoy, of Russia
was burned to death in an attempt tc
rescue imperial funds in his care
from a fire which destroyed his home
and burned five others to death.
W. T. Stead, of London, was re-
ceived in private audience by King
Victor Emmanuel, at Rome, who ex-
pressed himself heartily in accord
With his guests pacific mission.
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BITS .! Ne VS.
WASHINGTON.

Secretary Taft granted permits for
the use of water from the Niagara
River by power companies.
Without a roll call the House voted
to raise the pay of Senators and Rep
resentatives to $500 a year.
Messrs. oliver and Bangs, lowest
bidders, will receive the contract to
dig the Panama Canal.
The President, in a letter to Chair
man Foss, of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, urges the building of two
first class, heavily armed battleships
Of the Dreadnought class.
President Roosevelt signifies his in
IGNITION of asking Congress to give the
Interstate Commerce Commission
power to deal with the freight car
shortage question.
A request was presented to the
tsthmian Canal Commission for high
er wages for steam shovel men.
II now have under consideration
The question of the prosecution Of the
Sugar Trust under the provisions of
the Sherman Antitrust law" said
Attorney-General Bonaparte.
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HURRICANE AT BUFFALO.
Steel Ships Ashore-Loss There and
at Tonawanda SO, OOO, 900.

Buffalo, N. with the sudden
ness of a typhoon an eighty-five-mile
gale struck this town, doing great
damage here and in the Tonawandas
that is estimated at So, 100000 There
were twenty-three steel freighters,
grain laden, moored under the break
water. Five were piled high and dry
on the beach. Each of these big
boats is worth $350,000, and three of
them will cost "a pretty penny for
their release.
A mile and a half of lumber docks
at the ~Tonawandas were swept into
the river and five miles of docks were
submerged. The damage there is
S1,000,000.
Dunkirk, N. Y.-The widest lake
storm since October 8, 1893, when
the steamer Dean Richmond found
cred off shore with all on board, oc-
Cured here. Two lives were lost,
Pearl Shear, eleven years old, daugh-
ter of J. E. Shear, ice dealer. Mrs.
Frederick Soldwick was fatally in
iured.
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TRAIN RAH PAST LIGHTS
Passengers Burns snd fruSaad
to Death at Fo#ieg Ine.
Cars Catch Fire After Co sion in
Fog on Big Four-Engineer's
Fatal BIunder.

Fowler, Ind.-At least sixteen per.
sons were crushed or burned to death
here in a collision between a freight
train and the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis Queen City
flyer, from Chicago. Ten persons
were seriously injured and several
more slightly hurt.
The passenger train was running
fifty miles an hour, and consisted of
a combination coach, three sleeping
cars and a Big Four private car, oc-
cupied by Mrs. c. T. Schaff, wife of
the vice-president of the railroad.
The train was destroyed by fire, ex-
cept the private car and one sleeping
car. Seven of the dead have been
identified. Eleven of the victims
were burned to death in the COM
bination coach, and only two of these
have been identified.
The crash of the wreck awakened
nearly every person in Fowler.
Among the first to reach the wreck
were the County Recorder and the
County Auditor, who procured axes
and saws, and before the flames
reached the sleeping cars began the
work of rescue. They worked their
way into the mass of wreckage caused
by the tender and combination coach.
Four bodies were seen %protruding
from among the broken seats. John
Meyer, of New York, was rescued
when the fire was within a few feet
of him and he was begging some one
to shoot him. His leg was broken.
1t is probable the exact number OF
victims will be known. Rail-
road officers, of whom there were
several .on the train, said there were
not more than fifteen passengers in
the combination coach, but passen-
gers.say there were nearly thirty per-
sons in that car. If this be true, tile
death list may reach twenty-five per-
sons.
With n exception, every member
OF the passenger train crew was
killed. The known dead are: w. B.
Harris, Indianapolis; died in Elmer
gency Hospital, Kankakee, Ill. 1. H.
Hiddinger, Indianapolis, conductor of
passenger train. I. H. Magee, bag
gage master, Indianapolis. J. A.
ohoHHoH, LlllduuSpOFI, 1Hu., uleQ on
way to Emergency Hospital, Kanka-
kee, Ill. Henry E. Olcott, Cincinnati,
fireman of passenger train. Henry A.
Price, Long Beach, CAL; en- route to
Lafayette; body totally burned. Mrs.
Henry A. Price.
The passenger train, in a heavy
fog, ran by a telegraphic block signal
which called for a stop. The red
light was not obeyed. 1t was prob
ably obscured by the fog. The loco
motive was telescoped with the COM
bination coach, making a mass of
wreckage, under which the passen-
gers in the cars were wedged. Seats
were hurled through the roof and
Goals from the irebox set the debris
in flames.
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LEES MEMORY HoNoRED.
Confederate Leaders Virtues in War
and Peace Praised,

Washington, D. C.-With elabor-
ate exercises and in the presence of a
distinguished audience, the one hun
dredth anniversary Of the birth of
General Robert E. Lee was celebrated
here under the auspices of the United
confederate and Southern societies
of the District of Columbia. A spe-
clal section was set apart for ConfeG-
crate veterans, who marched to the
New Willard Hall in a body, escorted
by the United Spanish War Veterans.
The United States Marine Band
played Dixie" and other Southern
melodies. President Roosevelt sent
a letter, in which he extolled the vir-
tues of the Confederate general in
war and in peace. His suggestion
that the centennial anniversary be
celebrated by the establishment of a
permanent Lee Memorial at some
great representative educational in
stitution Of the South met with in
slant favor. Following brief remarks
by Senator Berry, of Arkansas, and
Justice Brewer, of the United States
Supreme Court, Representative John
Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, spoke.
Lexington, Va. - Charles Francis
Adams, ST., Of Boston, head of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, was
the principal speaker here at the
Robert e. Lee centenary celebration.
Louisville, Ky. General Robert
E. Lees one hundredth birthday an
niversary was celebrated generally
throughout the South. Elaborate
programs were c~arrieiout at Charles
ton, Nashville, Birmingham, New Or
leans, Waco and many other cities.
Richmond, Va. The Robert E.
Lee centenary was generally observed
here as a holiday. State and munich
pal offices were closed and OF st.
Paul's Church there was a memorial
service.
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In All Parts of the State.

Miss Reba Pyle has resigned as SUI
p~erintendent of the Bridgeton Hospi-
tai.
The water company at Marlton is
considering a plan to extend it's sys-
ten to Evesboro.
Judge John G. Horner, of Burling-
ton County, expects to take up his
residence at Mount Holly.
A mad dog appeared at the home
of Fred Carton, near Elmer, and bit
one of his COWS. Carton killed the
dog and cow.
Adam HANDLE has received word
of his recommendation for reappoint-
ment as postmaster at Elmer.
Hammonton Water Commissioners
have elected John A. Hoyle, presi.
dent, and J. L. O'Donnell, acting Sec
rotary.
The State Fish and Game Commits
sion has Sent a large number of bass
and perch to Bridgeton to stock Sun.
set Lake.
For stealing SIS Reuben Baum, a
ffteen-year-old boy, employed by
Frank Carter, a farmer, of Chester
field, neal Bordentown, was sent to
the Reform School at J%aniesburg by
Judge Horner,
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Chagrin Felt in England.

London.-Nothing in>years has SO
CALLED British pride and seif-respect
as Governor Swettenham's letter to
Rear-Admiral Davis. 1t is not too
much to say that there is a universal
feeling of humiliation and shame
throughout the country at the knowl-
edge that a British official could be
guilty of such an exhibition of cad
dishness and ingratitude.
Public sentiment finds sufficient ex-
preston in the press of all parties,
but the printed comments are mild
compared with the private d~enuncia-
ton of the Governor heard on all
sides.
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Young Women Enter Life Service.

The following young women were
received into the Order of the Sisters
of Mercy at st. Joseph's Convent at
Bordentown: Miss Emma Walker, Of
Camden, to be known in religion as
Sister Mary Angela; Miss Catharine
McSorley. Bordentown, Sister Mary
Aloyosia; Miss Elizabeth G. Kelly,
Camden, Sister Mary Rosario;
Miss Elizabeth Glare, Camden
Sister Mary Clare; Miss Alice
M. Sullivan, Camden, Sister Mary
Teresita; Miss Anna L. Dwyer,
Phillipsburg, Sister Mary Aquinas;
Miss Margaret O'Connor, New York,
Sister Mary Jerome; Miss Mary Karr
Trenton, Sister Mary Edmund. Those
who officiated were Mgr. Fox, Vicar
General of the Diocese, assisted by
Rev. D. j. Duggan. Present were
Mgr. Connolly, Phillipsburg; Very
Right Rev. Dean Mulligan, of Cam
den; Rev. Fathers Griffin, of Tren-
ton; Sullivan, of Camden, and Tuck
er, of Philadelphia.
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Woman Works in Mems Clothes.

tits as much a woman's place to
work as it is a mans, and if the
weaker sex would pitch right in and
do what they know, why, there would
be fewer separations" This was the
statement of Mrs. Aletta Mccullough,
the woman who startled New Bruins
wick recently by donning mans at
tire and ascending to the roof Of her
home, where she made herself fast
with a rope to a rafter which had
been exposed by a fire, and then be-
san making repairs to the roof.
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100000 FIRE AT BEAUFORT, s. c.
Business Part of the Town ard Best
Residences Destroyed.

Savannah, Ga.-Fire destroyed a
large part of Beaufort, S. G.. The
fire began shortly after 1 o'clock p.
m, and it was late in the evening be-
fore it was under control. The water
supply failed and there was no way
to fight the flames, which burned
themselves out after cutting a wide
swath through the best business and
residential section of the town.
1t is estimated that the damage is
between 100000 and 100000. The
insurance is light.
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CUTS RAILWAY MAIL PAY.
House Committee Votes to Lop Of
$4,000. 900 a Year.

Washington, D. C.-In response to
the persistent demand of Representa-
tives, the House Committee on Post
offices and Post Roads has determined
to cut the pay of the railroads for
transporting the mails ten per cent.
Under the present arrangement the
railroads receive about $4,000, 900
annually, and the cut of ten per cent.
Will effect a yearly saving of about
$4,300,000 to the Government.
This will be the first readjustment
of the railway mail pay since 1876.
There are many who believe that the
pay, eve with the cut of ten per
cent, is still extravagantly high.
The committee, by a vote of twelve
to six, decided to make the reduction.
1t will not become effective until
after June 80.
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Quarantine officers in Manila, P.
l., have announced that owing to the.
Improvement of health conditions the
daily contagious disease bulletins are
unnecessary.
Cuban papers discussed the propo-
sal for a protectorate form of govern
nent, and warned the natives not to
oppose it.
Every effort possible is being made
TO use native woods for ties in build
ing the railways in the Philippines.
Loans are freely made by the Phil
lppine Commission to the various
provinces for the erection of public
buildings in the islands.
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Newsy GIeanings.

Typhoid fever is raging in certain
sections in the Bronx and Brooklyn,
N. Y.
1t will cost the Belmont syndicate
100000 to substitute trolley lines
for the present horse cars in the city
of New York.
Japan has decided not to send it's
naval training squadron to the Pa
cibc Coast, on account of the hostile
feeling in California.
cont in Wisconsin the railroads
have peg warned to run their trains
n Stlm have a good excuse ready
for commissioners,
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Eight-Hour Day For Policemen

Policemen of Atlantic City are
%overjoyed at the prospect of an eight
hour day planned by the new bill
drafted by City Solicitor Wooten.
Some opposition is likely to develop
to the clause of the bill that places
sovereign powers overthe department
in the hands of the Mayor. The
measure will unite patrolmen. beach
guards and detectives in one body,
under one head.
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Feminine Notes,

Mrs. Russell Sage daily receives
several hundred applications for char
ity.
Wasp waists are to be the mode in
1907, declares n familiar with the
arcana of fashion.
Miss Margaret C. Daily was chosen
as a delegate to the Central FEEDER
ated Union, New York City, the first
woman to be so honored.
There are thousands of women in
England who regularly wear mascu-
line clothes. They are the women
who work at the pit-brows of the
Lancashire coal mines.
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Wedding Surprises Toms River.

Residents of Toms River were sur
prised to learn of the marriage of
Henry A. Low, cashier of the First
National Bank, and Mrs. Margaret J.
Holmes in New York City. Only a
few friends witnessed the ceremony,
which was performed by Rev. George
H. Neal, of Camden, a boyhood resi-
dent of Toms River, and schoolmate
of Mrs. Low,
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SCARLET FEVER IN CHICAGO.
Impure Milk Cause of Disease Which
May Close All Schools.

Chicago, III. The scarlet fever
and diphtheria epidemic in Chicago
and it's suburbs spread like a light
ming streak. Six thousand children
lie stricken with the dread disease,
according to physicians of the Chicago
Health Department ana doctors in
Evanston, Oak Park and other sub
urbs.
Several schools were closed and a
plan to shut all Chicago schools, pub
lie and parochial, was discussed.
Mayor Dunno said he would stand
behind the Health Department in any
action it might take, offering the aid
of the entire Police Department to
shut off from the city a supply of bad
milk, which is blamed for the start
ing of the epidemic.
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Cranberry Growers in Combine.

The New Jersey Cranberry Sales
Company is a new organization form.
ing at Mount Holly, which will han
die about all the cranberries grown
in the New Jersey cranberry belt, ex.
cept those of the larger growers, such
as Joseph j. White, Theodore Budd
& Sons, Evans & Wills, A. J. Rider
and a few others. The committee Sc.
lected to organize the new concern is
composed of Harry L. knight, OF
Medford; Frank S. Gaskill, of New
Egypt, and George E. Gaussler, OF
Philadelphia.
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Damages by Ohio Flood.

Great damage was done by floods
along the Ohio River. At Ports
mouth, Ohio, the levees broke and
about ten thousand persons were
driven from their homes, many in
nightclothes. Heavy damage was
done at Cincinnati, Louisville, Au-
rora and Lawrenceburg, Ind, and the
last named town was in imminent
danger of being completely flooded.
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To Keen Raritan Roads Good.

The Raritan Township Committee,
at Flemington, has just appointed the
following road superintepdents for
the twenty-six respective districts:
Edward Smith, George Fink, Thomas
Hampton. John Hart, William Boyd,
Robert Thatcher, William Y. Holt,
Lemuel Buchanan, Charles M. Sipler,
William Huff, William Wenzel, Will
lam Probasco, L v. Studdiford,
Bishop Holcombe, Charles Harvard,
Judah Ewing, Ross Jones, John v.
Higgins, William Mcpherson, John
Hartrum, William L. Eick, P. G..
Schenck, j. G. Barton, George Risin-
ger, Daniel Marsh and John Etzel.
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Boiler Explosion Kills Three.

By the explosion of the boiler of a
Reading engine attached to one OF
the Atlantic City flyers at Blue
Anchor, N. j., the engineer, Edward
McConaghy; the fireman, Frederick
Arthur, and an extra fireman named
Clark were instantly killed. No pas
sengers were hurt.
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Offers $1,000 Toward New Trolley.

County Clerk Frank B. Ridgway,
who resides at Mullica Hill, has come
forward with an offer to take $1,000
worth of stock in the proposed new
trolley road to Pitman. ~ am salts
6ed," he said, that several thousand
dollars can be raised in a short time
forethe project, as the people are INK
ious to have some way of getting to
Philadelphia without going in the
present roundabout way" The troll
ley project is the talk of the town,
and if there is anything in talk the
road is assured.
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The Field of Sports.

Harvsrd University has started in
earnest to raise money for a new
gymnasium, which is needed badly.
The Aero Club perfected plans for
the international balloon race to be
started from st. Louis next October.
The Aero Club of Great Britain has
decided to send a challenge for the
Coupe International at st. Louis in
October.
Joe Cans and Jimmy Britt will
fight to a finish for the lightweight
championship at Tonopab, New. on
March II.
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TUsKEGEE INQUIRY ORDERED.
Not a Vote Against Investigation in
Either House of LEGISLATURE.

Montgomery, Ala. = The Senate
adopted the House joint resolution to
investigate the methods of the Tus-
kegee Institute, of which Booker T.
Washington is principal.
1t now goes to the Governor.
AS an indication of the sentiment
it may be noted that there was not a
vote against it in either house.
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Southwest Railway Trackage.

A quarter of the railroad trackage
laid in the entire country last year
was laid in the Southwest.
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Leddy Gets Thirty Years.

Harry Leddy was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at Pat
erson, and Justice Pitney at once SEN
fenced him to thirty years in the
State prison.