A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

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

as published from Olean Times Hearld in 1973. By Mike Abdo This a story Chuck Ward or Chuck Pollock should be doing, something that is right up their talented literay alley. . . but they were only "So High" when it happened.   It's a story that Bob Daviex can't do because he wasn't traveling in this circle...so, it's one that I'll have to tell.   Not that it's a chore - far from it, considering the memories - but there will have to be a number of read-it-between - the -lines areas for you and, of necessity only a few will be named.   It's the Jack Hord story ... the story of Jack Hord as I know him from the mid 1930s and on. The complete Jack Hord story would require a number of other chronicles who could travel back further, to the Prohibition era, to World War I and before that.    JACK HORD - the fellow that an old boss of mine, John Morton, use to call "Jason" and "the Lord of the Manor" - came to the end of life's