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Judge Julian W. Mack called the twelve jurors to him, explained to them the law and the charges, told them to start deliberating. That night they called for a section of the exhibits (evidence); pondered thereon; went to their rooms at the Hotel McAlpin, Manhattan. All the next day at the federal building they tried to reach a decision, failed. Judge Mack told them to try again. More nights in locked hotel rooms, more days in a stuffy juryroom with peekers looking through the windows . . . blasphemy, threats . . stubborn Juror No. 9 . . . sick Juror No. 6 who had been shell-shocked...
...President found new fisheries twelve miles from White Pine Camp on the former preserves of the late William Rockefeller. These lands, 52,000 acres, are now owned by a syndicate headed by Colonel B. B. McAlpin, potent Manhattan hotel man and financier...
Engaged. Marion Angell, daughter of Yale President James Rowland Angell; to William Rockefeller McAlpin, of Morristown, N. J., grandson of Colonel B. B. McAlpin and grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller...
...said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth Ave., in the ownership of which there were associated with him "General" T. Coleman du Pont and "Colonel" Benjamin McAlpin, potent financiers...
After he had retired from business he started to clean up "Delaware politics," and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1918. In the same year he went into the hotel business (WaldorfAstoria and McAlpin, New York, arid Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia). "One of the most democratic of men, liked by all who come in contact with...