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Subject: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] Hughes, Taft, Anderson, Ashley, Valentine,Nelson, Filley, Gravatt, Doyle, Connelly
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:20:14 EDT

Sunday April 25,2010 Troy Record Article 100 years ago Monday, April 25,
1910.
"Governor Charles Evans Hughes of New York has been nominated by President
William Howard Taft as the next associate justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court,The Record reports."
Monday March 1 ,2010 Troy Record Article 100 years ago Tuesday, April 26,
1910.
“ Harold P. Anderson and John Ashley got into what witnesses call a
friendly scuffle in a
Lansingburgh saloon almost three weeks ago. Is it Anderson’s fault that
Ashley died a week
later?That’s what police court magistrate Frank B. Valentine has to decide
this week after hearing testimony from Anderson and a number of
eyewitnesses. The “scuffle” took place on the morning of April 6 at John Nelson’s
saloon. An autopsy determined that Ashley died of complications from a skull
fracture above the right eye suffered during the fight. He appeared to
recover quickly after hitting his head on the sidewalk outside Nelson’s, but his
undetected injury led to the meningitis that eventually killed
him.Anderson is represented by
state assembly Fred C. Filley,while district attorney Abbott H.Jones
prosecutes the case. Jones calls Coroner Edwin J. Gravatt to relate the findings
of the autopsy and his opinion that the fatal injury was “directly due to
external violence of some kind.”John Nelson was away from the bar at the
time of the scuffle.His wife Honsena witnessed the encounter. Testifying for
the prosecution, she describes the fight as a “friendly scuffle” over a
derby hat. Nine neighborhood men then testify about the scuffle and its
aftermath. Harry Doyle and John Connelly saw it from inside the saloon. Connelly
says that he saw Ashley punch Anderson in the face and threaten to throw
his antagonist out. No one outside saw him actually fall, but one witness
recounts asking Ashley what happened.The doomed man told him that he had
tripped while wrestling with Anderson, and denied that Anderson had knocked him
down.After John Nelson adds some character testimony on Anderson’s behalf,
Valentine schedules his verdict for Friday morning. "

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