Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Gerald Chapman was sentenced last Saturday for the murder of Patrolman Skelly, "strong men cursed and women wept" over his fate, according to all news reports. To the citizens of Hartford where he was tried for his New Britain offense. Chapman was a vivid figure, a notorious bandit, a popular hero whose name was one to conjure with. Eighteen years of crime, the gigantic New York mail robbery, and the cold-blooded shooting of Officer Skelly only added to the glory of his name. The papers played up to him, the people applauded him. When he is hanged next...
...became a successful attorney. From 1908 to 1912, he was State Attorney General. He won a murder case where the plea of insanity was made, but wept when the man was sent to the gallows. At one time or another, he represented the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston & Maine Railroads and the American Express Co. in Vermont litigation...
...year was announced yesterday by the officers of the Senior class. The plan, which contemplates a goal of $150,000 as a minimum, is of the participating type and involves the purchase of policies of $250, $500, or $1000 by individual members from the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford at a premium of about $10 a year...
...Chicago was held last week the 38th annual exhibition of the Chicago Architectural Exhibition League. Many famed architects displayed designs: James Gamble Rogers, builder of the Harkness Memorial at Yale, showed a group for the AEtna Life Insurance Co., Hartford-an interesting study in late colonial. Architects Holabird and Roche exhibited their model for a stadium at Grant Park, Chicago, the Propylseum of Athens transplanted, magnified. Yet, for all the presence of these able builders, the exhibition seemed to be a memorial to one now dead, one who was perhaps the greatest of U. S. architects -Bertram G. Goodhue...
...electric and telephone companies have for some time undertaken to market at least part of their obligations among their patrons, but the application of this practice to railway financing is novel. Recently, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, whose financial ups and downs have affected the greater part of New England, decided to try the expedient...