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Yesterday, "Sonny", piloted by Arthur Knapp of Princeton, crossed the finish line almost ten minutes ahead of the Yale boat, which lead the Harvard boat by over two minutes...
...Knapp, denied knowing anything at all about her relative's doings...
Three and one-half years ago, 1,530,000 men and women voted for a middle-aged widow named Mrs. Florence E. S. Knapp and elected her as New York State's first female Secretary of State. Last week, twelve New Yorkers, sitting on a jury, voted to send Mrs. Knapp to jail for grand larceny in office. During the taking of New York's 1925 census, Mrs. Knapp put her stepdaughter's name on the payroll, then received the stepdaughter's checks herself, forged the endorsements, spent the money on clothes. On the witness stand...
...presiding judge, Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Callaghan, pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs. Knapp on charges similar to the step-daughter graft...
...Knapp had been considered a gentlewoman. She was descended from Ebenezer Hancock, brother of famed John Hancock. She had held positions of high responsibility, including superintendence of public schools and the deanship of the Home Economics College at Syracuse University. Now, grey-haired, handsomely dressed, she must go to jail...