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It looks like he was a witness in a high profile investigation of police graft in NYC. Since he was ill, it looks like these are photos of arrangements to take his testimony at his home. Here are some articles and another LOC photo: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This other LOC photo also mentions "Captain Walsh" www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2765471328/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- this article talks about taking Walsh's testimony at home, because he was ill: WHITMAN DEMANDS WALSH'S TESTIMONY; Wants a Sub-Committee to Visit Sick Police Captain at Once and Question Him Fully. December 26, 1912, Thursday Page 5, 1714 words Unless Police Capt. Thomas W. Walsh, who is ill of heart trouble, recovers sufficiently to appear before the Curran Investigating Committee within the next few days a sub-committee will probably be named to examine him at his home, 1958 Madison Avenue. Capt. Walsh was in command of the East 126th Street Station for five years and a half. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B07E6DC163FE633A... ------------------------------------------------------------------- and this 1913 article mentions Captain Walsh also: WALSH LAYS BARE SIPP CONPIRACY; Four ex-Inspectors Hear Him as a Witness Tell How They Raised Bribe Funds. May 1, 1913, Thursday Page 1, 3338 words Ex-Police Capt. Thomas W. Walsh, whose graft confession forms the basis of the prosecution's case, was on the witness stand all day yesterday in the trial before Justice Seabury in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court of former Inspectors of Police Sweeney, Hussey, Murtha and Thompson for conspiracy.... query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E1DA1F3AE633A... ------------------------------------------------------------ looks like they got a guilty verdict in May, 1913: Convicted of Graft Conspiracy Without a Formal Ballot.; WHITMAN'S GREAT HOUR May 7, 1913, Wednesday Page 1, 7172 words Ex-Police Inspectors Dennis Sweeney, John J. Murtha, James F. Thompson, and James E. Hussey, jointly indicted for conspiracy to prevent George A. Sipp, the former Harlem hotel proprietor, and his son Howard from testifying against the police graft system, were found guilty last night by the jury which had been hearing the evidence before Justice Seabury, in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505EFD8173FE633A...

Hussey, one of the convicted inspectors:

Benjamin Barr Lindsey (1869-1943) and his new bride Henrietta Brevoort Lindsey (they wed in late 1913 or early 1914). Lindsey's papers are at UCLA: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5q2nb9fb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lindsey_(jurist)

The bride alone:

Oscar Solomon Straus - Jewish statesman and diplomat to the Middle East, influential in the late 1880s to 1890s as US Minister in Turkey. Later U.S. Sec. of Commerce & Labor in 1900s under President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt - Served one year again in Turkey, as Ambassador, under President Taft. Wrote his autobiography in 1922, "Under Four Administrations: From Cleveland to Taft." His older brother, Isidor Straus and his wife were among the victims in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

The photo was taken at a reception for New York Bull Moose candidate for Governor Oscar Straus and Mrs. Straus, held at the Port Washington, Long Island, home of Bull Moose congressional candidate -- and former Congressman -- Bourke Cockran, on September 28, 1912 -- a kick-off event for the fall campaign of the Nassau County Bull Moose (Progressive) Party. Story in The New York Times, September 29, 1912: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F04EFD9113AE6... Other Bain/LOC photos of the Lawn Fete for Oscar Straus:

LOC -- Mr. Cockran's name is misspelled in your title, and in Bain's as well.