Throop Martin Wilder of Springfield Center and New York City, foreman of the grand jury that indicted Charles (Luciano) Lucania and his henchmen of an organized vice combination 20 years ago died Tuesday of last week at Bellevue hospital in New York. He was 72 years old.
Mr. Wilder who was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1907 and served in the Eighty- ninth Division in World War I, led the same grand jury in an attempt to organize a permanent non-partisan committee of prominent citizens to combat racketeering.
Surviving are his widow , Mrs. Dorothea Wardell Wilder, a son Throop M. Wilder, Jr. ,United States vice consul at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, three daughters, Mrs. Florence Foster of Darien, Conn., Mrs. G.F. Kidder Smith of New York City and Mrs. David E. McGiffert of Washington and five grandchildren.
Full article printed in The Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, N.Y. Thursday Nov. 29, 1956 page 1.
Throop Martin Wilder of Springfield Center and New York City, foreman of the grand jury that indicted Charles (Luciano) Lucania and his henchmen of an organized vice combination 20 years ago died Tuesday of last week at Bellevue hospital in New York. He was 72 years old.
Mr. Wilder who was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1907 and served in the Eighty- ninth Division in World War I, led the same grand jury in an attempt to organize a permanent non-partisan committee of prominent citizens to combat racketeering.
Surviving are his widow , Mrs. Dorothea Wardell Wilder, a son Throop M. Wilder, Jr. ,United States vice consul at Zagreb, Yugoslavia, three daughters, Mrs. Florence Foster of Darien, Conn., Mrs. G.F. Kidder Smith of New York City and Mrs. David E. McGiffert of Washington and five grandchildren.
Full article printed in The Otsego Farmer, Cooperstown, N.Y. Thursday Nov. 29, 1956 page 1.
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