With the jury on board, the trial of John M. Andrews, the man accused of killing Emile Amann at the city’s water reservoir, began. Both papers devoted a wealth of column inches to the case generally but especially the trial. You can thank me later for summarizing that here. The Mail ...
About two months after John M. Andrews was arrested in connection with the murder of Emile Amann, it was time for trial. “Big crowds still mark the sessions of court today in the Andrews murder trial and in spite of the fact that the securing of a jury is tiresome work the interest of the ...
As the rumors regarding Emile Amann’s murder on Tanner Hill continued - called one of the “foulest murders” in the county - so did the investigation. It was an effort led by two Pinkerton detectives in conjunction with the county’s 30-year-old district attorney - Frank J. ...
A chilling murder. Pinkerton guards. Wild rumors. A post-conviction confession. State Supreme Court appeals. One story that unfolded in Warren in 1911 and 1912 has all of that. I was researching something else (honestly forget what that was) and was surprised by the headlines, the ...
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan.” The Warren Times Mirror ran the entirety of that speech in the Dec. 8 edition, which, outside of the ...
The Allies winning the war in Europe answered many questions about the future of the continent. The idea of Hitler’s thousand year reich was in tatters. But there were just as many unanswered questions that remained on the table. Amid the human destruction, economic devastation and a ...