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...World but continued to run it through subordinates. In Manhattan his house contained a sound proof room designed by Stanford White. By 1898, he was nearly blind. Of the things that filled the World from then until he died in 1911 - War with Spain, the assassination of McKinley, the Roosevelt Administration, the election of Taft - Joseph Pulitzer saw almost nothing. Last week Joseph Pulitzer Jr., 49, was cruising around the world with his wife on the Empress of Britain. When the huge Canadian Pacific liner reached Manila, the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had to cancel a speech...
Died, William H. Wall. 58. longtime private policeman who helped capture Leon Czolgosz (President McKinley's assassin); of automobile accident injuries; in New York City. After the capture Czolgosz was hurled to the floor of a carriage where Wall sat on him with drawn revolvers during the ride to the Buffalo jail...
...David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept. 11 & 25). He clawed the ceiling like a rat in a flooded bunker. From inside the jail two trails of blood led across the court yard, across the street, stopped beneath two trees in the park. Not far from a statue of assassinated William McKinley, the murderous kidnappers were hanged. Governor Rolph, who prides himself on his hearty Western ways, declared: "This is the best lesson California has ever given the country. We show the country that the State is not going to tolerate kidnap ping. "I don't think they will arrest anyone...
Died. Thomas Penney, 74, Buffalo lawyer, prosecutor (as district attorney) of Leon Czolgosz (executed assassin of President McKinley); in Buffalo...
Clad in white-collared grey uniform, Kathleen Knox, 21, socialite grand daughter of the late Philander Chase Knox. onetime Senator from Pennsylvania, Attorney-General in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Secretary of State under Taft, was found running errands as a page girl in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., controlled by Andrew William Mellon. Canny Miss Knox refused to discuss her job, remarked: "I'm interested in learning banking or I wouldn't be here...