TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; News, Comment and Incident, On the Stock Exchange and In the Financial Markets.
Date: 18 October 1928
Interest in yesterday's trading on the Stock Exchange centred upon a handful of issues in which violent advances took place.
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LONDON IS THRILLED BY NEWS OF TAKE-OFF; Macdonald Noted for Daring-- Started for India After 26 Hours of Flying.
Date: 18 October 1928
LONDON, Oct. 17 (AP).--London was thrilled today to the news that Commander H.C. MacDonald had hopped from Newfoundland on a transatlantic flight is a tiny Moth airplane.
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PAPER SUES WARREN TO GET POLICE NEWS; Evening Post Gets Court to Order Commissioner to Explain Why He Bars Its Reporter. SEEKS 'FREEDOM OF PRESS' Police Head, Who Will Argue His Own Case, Ignored a Letter of Inquiry, Petition Asserts. Queen Marie Ill With Influenza.
Date: 18 October 1928
Asks court to order Comr Warren to explain why he bars reporter, L Davidson
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CONNOLLY IS FOUND GUILTY WITH SEELY IN SEWER CASE AND GETS JAIL TERM OF YEAR; TWO SPEND NIGNT IN CELLS Former Borough Head Is Fined $500--Aide to Be Sentenced Saturday. JURY OUT OVER 25 HOURS Ex-President of Queens Pales and Sinks Into Chair at the Verdict--Engineer Dazed. COURT CALLS FINDING RIGHT' Both Defendants Plan to Take Appeals--Harvey Now Asks City to Sue for Losses. Attendants Learn of a Verdict. Excitement Is Intense. Foreman Delivers Verdict. Prisoners Give Pedigrees. Connolly Is Sentenced. Can't Break Me," He Says. Grand Jury to Continue. Wife Collapses at News. Jury 9 to 3 on First Ballot. Chosen from "Blue Ribbon" Panel. CHARGES MADE IN DECEMBER. Inquiries by Smith Appointees Preceded Connolly Indictment. PREVIOUS QUEENS SCANDALS. One Other President Went to Jail, Three Left Office Under Fire.
Date: 18 October 1928
Connolly and Seely found guilty; former sentenced; will appeal
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