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...head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police have as yet no definite clues as to his identity or whereabouts...
...detailed the case to Special Officer Robert Dwyer of the Milk Street Station, who now has the custody of the gymnasium building blue-prints, which he is examining for finger-prints. Officer Dwyer traced the blue prints from the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Abbott, and Bullfinch to a Wellesley contractor who was making estimates for the water-proofing of the proposed building. The contractor admitted losing the plans, which he believed to have mislaid on the train, as they had been rolled up on the seat beside him during the trip. A warrant has been sworn out for John King...
...School has recently been presented with a collection of the utensils used for cooking and manufacture in early American homes. The same collection also includes material salvaged from the remains of the second College building. Both groups were given to the library by the descendants of William Manning, the contractor for this building, which was erected in 1677, and burned down...
...smiling face still in Manhattan newspapers. The news, personal, was that Mr. and Mrs. Smith will move, about July 1, to a new apartment building at No. 51 Fifth Avenue, corner of 12th St. The suite (10 rooms, 3 baths) is on the top story; it is believed that Contractor William Kenny (who supplied the campaign private car) will occupy the rest of the floor. Other close neighbors will be Tammany-leader George W. Olvany and Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen, both of No. 43 Fifth Avenue. The new Tammany Hall, at 17th St. and Union Square will be only...
...even churches in Omaha were closed and darkened after nightfall for fear of the "phantom sniper," a creature who, invisible for nearly two weeks, moved through the evening streets firing a silent pistol at whatever human targets took his fancy in the house windows or under streetlights. A contractor was first to die. Then a doctor was slain in his office. A railroad detective was riddled in the freight yards. A bullet smashed past a girl at a drugstore counter. The "phantom" also went shooting in Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River. His weapon made only a muffled chug...