A Little History In and Around Buffalo, NY

as published in the Buffalo Evening News  'NEW VISTAS' FOUND IN RELIEVING PAIN BY BRAIN SURGERY By Ed Kelly  Dr. Walter Freeman, of Washington, the neurologist who first introduced the controversial brain surgery known as pre-frontal lobotomy into the United States, declared Monday Evening that the operation has opened "new vistas" in the relief of excruciating pain which accompanies aumerous physical ailmets. The same psychosurgial method which Dr. Freeman said has been successful in restoring many mental cases to usefulness in society is being used to remove "the fear of pain which is often as great as the pain itself" in patients suffering from cancer, phantom limb, neuralgia of the face, causalgia and conditions developed by amputees. The 51-year-old president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and professor of neurology at George Washington University, paused here, en route to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to address more than...

As published in the Buffalo Evening News:  STELLA HODGE'S DEATH RECALLS QUEER HISTORY Mania for Entering Into Sensation Murder Cases Either as Chief Witness or Alleged Principal Brought Her to Notice of Nearly Every Sleuth in Country. With the shipment of the body of Stella Hodge, the woman of mystery, who died yesterday in the Buffalo State Hospital, to Milan, Pa., for burial there is closed a chapter in criminal history that has carried with it deep interest to detectives and police officers throughout the country. Stella Hodge, by her own confessions, projected herself into two sensational murder investigations and figured conspicuously in half a dozen other criminal cases of lesser importance. The NEWS yesterday exclusively published the news of her death and her identification. Stella Hodge confessed the killing of Emile Amann at Warren, Pa. in 1911. Later she repudiated the confession, but it was not until she had succeeded in completely disarranging the plans of t...

As published in The Evening News of the Tonawandas: FINAL TOLL OF DEAD IN BLAST MAY BE 11 Efforts were being made today at the Erie County Morgue to identify two bodies which were recoved from debris of the Lucidol plant. More gruesome, however, was the task of morgue attendants who were trying to piece together what appear to be parts of several bodies of men killed in Wednesday's tragic explosion. Seven of the blast victims have been identified. There are four men still unaccounted for. The final death toll is expected to be 11. While emergency workers continued to probe the Town of Tonawanda plant rubble, the Erie County Medical Examiner's office was trying every known means of identifying the two bodies so badly charred as to be nearly unrecognizable. Parts of bodies in the morgue defied easy identification. \ Last body identified was that of Thomas Williams Jr., 426 High St., Buffalo. The NEWS yesterday was the first Niagara Frontier newspaper to list MR. Wlli...