The news, as printed onThursday, September 30, 1926
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As printed: MERTON WAS GIVEN ONLY USUAL AID, OFFICIAL TESTIFIES
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was attorney general under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War, including shares of the American Metal Company. Julian W. Mack is the federal judge presiding in New York, and Jesse W. Smith was an aide of Daugherty's who died in 1923.
As printed: Mrs. Sielaff Was Coached in Hoax Word of Benedict
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped; Kenneth G. Ormiston was the temple's radio operator, and Mrs. Minnie Kennedy is the evangelist's mother. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial.
ContextThe Rev. Edward W. Hall, a New Brunswick rector, and Mrs. Eleanor R. Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on an abandoned farm in September 1922; New Jersey authorities reopened the case this summer and the inquiry is centered at Somerville, the Somerset County seat.
As printed: VERA CRUZ STORM INFLICTED DAMAGE TOTALING $100,000
ContextVera Cruz is Mexico's principal port on the Gulf of Mexico. Cable companies with offices in the city relayed the first word of the storm to New Orleans and Galveston.
ContextBread and water was a punishment diet then ordered for prisoners in federal custody. Arthur W. Henderson and Howard T. Jones are officials of the Department of Justice.
