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January 7, 1956 - 7 Lucidol Suits Will Be Heard In One Court Case

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  as published in the Tonawanda News  7 LUCIDOL SUITS WILL BE HEARD IN ONE COURT CASE Legal actions steaming from seven deaths in the Sept. 23, 1953, Lucidol explosion will be tried together, Justice Jogn S. March of Supreme Court ruled in Buffalo yesterday.  Under his ruling, four injury suits, which with the death actions total about $1,250,000, will be heard in a second suit. Four of the original 11 death actions have been settled.  An explosion at the Lucidol plant of Novadel-Agene Corp. in Military Rd., Town of Tonawanda, took 11 lives and inured scores of others.  All the lawsuits are against Buffalo Electric Co. Inc., and Joseph Davis Inc., both of Buffalo. The concerns were doing work at the plant at the time of the explosion.  The trails are expected within the next few months, with the death actions given priority.  Plaintiffs in the seven death actions are: Delores Holzman, 31 Calhorn Pl, Town of Tonawanda, for the estate of Allan T. Holzman; Thelma Williams, 426 High St., B
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December 13, 1930 - Suicide Theory Given; Calabro Box Mystifies

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  as published in the Buffalo Courier-Express SUICIDE THEORY GIVEN; CALABRO BOX MYSIFIES Police learn nationally known racketeers visited Niagara Falls this week  special to Courier-Express Niagara Falls, Dec 12 - Police admitted today they had no progress in their effort to solve the mystery surrounding the finding of a box containing clothing and personal papers of John G Calsbro, 301 Monroe Street, Brooklyn, including a telegram from Al Capone, Chicago racketeer, in an automobile owned by Joseph Duce, 181 Sixteenth Street. They gave some consideration to the theory Calabro may have committed suicide here, because the box is believed by Duce to have been placed in his car while it was parked in Riverway a short distance from the brink of the American Falls. Search of the riverbank revealed nothing to bear out the suicide theory.  Police are still waiting to learn the whereabouts of Calabro. According to press dispatches from New York he is at liberty on bail, pending an appeal from a
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December 18, 1923 - Criminal Cases Monday

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  as published in the Niagara Falls Gazette CRIMINAL CASES MONDAY Judge Charles Hickey Has Several Cases Ready for Trial.  Lockport, Dec 18 - County Judge Charles Hickey will resume trail of criminal cases on Monday morning with the following calendar marked ready for trail: Michal Ziordello, Lewiston, charged with assault, first degree, for the alleged stabbing of Joseph Mandia, foreman of a section gang working for the Great Gorge railway last summer. Frank J. Clark, Niagara Falls, charged with abandonment.  John Scarpula, proprietor of the Frontier House, Lewiston, charged with operating a disorderly house.  Joseph Yanik, La Salle, criminal assault, second degree, for an alleged offense against a girl under 17 years of age. 
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October 20, 1913- Stella Hodge is Arrested.

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  as published in the Jamestown Evening Jornal STELLA HODGE IS ARRESTED Woman Involved in Andrews Murder Trial a Prisoner.  ON EXCTORTION CHARGE She is accused of Using the Malls To Obtain Money of E.L. Silcox of Philadelphia. Formerly a Private Detective - The Arrest Was Made At Erie Saturday Afternoon By Federal Officers.  Erie, Oct 20 - Charged with using the United States malls to extort and defraud, Stella Hodge, notorious in connection with the case of the murder of Emill Amann in Warren, was arrested here Saturday by Postoffice Inspecter Robert Lewis. It is charged that the woman wrote a threating letter to H.L. Silcox, of Philadelphia, in which she threatened him with death unless he gave her $500. Mrs. Hodge was arraigned before United States Commissioner Harry L. Moore and held under $5,000 bail for a hearing Tuesday afternoon. In default of the bond she was committed to jail. Mrs. Hodge expressed her willingness to waive a hearing and go directly to Philadelphia for trail. S
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September 2, 1901- Strangled by a Strait-Jacket

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  as published in the New York Times BUFFALO, Sept. 2.- John Kalf, forty-five years old, a patient at the Buffalo State Hospital, died today of strangulation. Kalf became violent, and was placed in a strait-jacket. His struggles in the jacket worked one of the straps tightly about his neck. With his hands strapped to his sides, he as unable to help himself, and strangled.  
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August 30, 1901- Hanged Herself From Transom of Her Door

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  from Buffalo Evening News  HANGED HERSELF FROM TRANSOM OF HER DOOR.  Katie Klotz, Patient in Insane Asylum, Takes Her Life While the Attendant is Absent.  Katie Klotz, 32 years old, patient at the Buffalo State Hospital, committed suicided at 3:30 o'clock yesterday after noon by hanging herself on the transom of the door of her room. Her attendant had been away from her only 10 minutes and four physicians worked over her more than an hour to restore her, but without avail. The suicide was most deliberate.  All the circumstances indicated that the woman, who was unmarried and who had been living with her sister, Mrs. L. Morton at 68 East Huron Street until June 16 last, when she was admitted to the hospital, had placed the deed with the cunning often displayed by insane people. She suffered from acute melancholia and often tore her clothing from her body and scratched herself on the face and arms.  To avoid this the physicians place a muff on her hands which was fastened in a mann
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Location: 400 Forest Ave, Buffalo, NY 14213, USA
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June 30, 1911 - Blasts Name, Saves Man Facing Jail for Her Deed

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as published in the New York Herald Mrs. Stella Hodge Admits Killing Man in Warren, PA., in January.  ACCIDENT, SHE SAYS.  Pretty Widow Tells of Night Drive and Fear the Allowed Innocent Man's Conviction.  {Special Dispatch to the Herald.} PHILADELPHIA, PA, Thursday. - At the expense of the own good name Mrs. Stella Hodge, a pretty widow, whose home is in Warren, PA, has by her confession placed herself in the shadow of the gallows to save an innocent man already convicted of murder in connection with a crime for which she declares she alone is responsible.  The death of Emil Amann, at Warren, on the night of January 27, the conviction of John M. Andrews, Superintendent of the Water Works of the city, for the crime, and the confession of Mrs./ Hodge today furnish one of the strongest examples of the fallacy of circumstantial evidence in the history of criminal jurisprudence.  Mrs. Hodge was arrested yesterday in Atlantic City, admitted the shooting to a detective and today in a Mag
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