Rich slayer who fled asylum now in California
Vermont legal battle over George W. Duncan 36 of Los Angeles an escaped inmate seeks to be adjudged sane after murdering his wife in Rutland in 1916. Attorney generals oppose. extradition blocked by California on insanity grounds. Duncan lives in California as a real estate financier and bank director.
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Harry Thaw
George W. Duncan
Los Angeles
Calif
Vermont
Frank J. Archibald
Manchester
Charles Novak
Rutland
Dorsey and
Kenny
Duncan
Frank L. Fish
Rutland County
California
State Hospital
Waterbury
Instituton
Charge murder to four Blackhanders
Police announce the January homicide of Michael Scapone on Unity Street is solved with four men arraigned in Superior Court and remanded without bail. The suspects Giuseppe Simboll Francesco Tosceano Giuseppe Anzardo and Luigi D Padovo face indictments after allegedly writing two letters to the victim demanding $400 and firing pistols as he walked to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Scapone
Unity Street
Giuseppe Simboll
New York
Boston
Francesco Tosceano
Hull Street
Giuseppe Anzardo
Luigi D Padovo
Six Die In Air Collision Near Beauvais
A mid air crash near Thieuloy Beauvais claimed six lives when a London bound French plane and a Paris bound English plane collided at about 2 p.m. amid low clouds and poor visibility. The wreckage fell on a village roof and sparked a fire. victims included Jean Mire the French pilot and several passengers and crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thieuloy
St. Antoine
Beauvais
Cantigny
British Air Ministry Reports A Vanishing Collision Over France
The British air ministry says low clouds and light rain were present when a British DeHaviland mail plane and a French Goliath airliner collided near Granvilliers about 70 miles north of Paris. Visibility was declared good, and air currents are blamed for the crash at 500 to 700 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anhour
Paris-London
Paris
Beauvais
Poix
Arbeville
Boulogne
Dover
London
United News
British
Air Ministry
Granvilliers
DeHaviland
Daimler
Goliath
Grands Express Aerians
SAILORS MASS UP OFFICER IN GALVESTON BRAWL
Patrolman William Desmond of City Hall Avenue was assaulted by two sailors Clarence Timmins and Fred O'Brien near Tre mont row Galveston late last night. Desmond, injured and mussed, arrested O'Brien after a scuffle that saw Timmins as a rear guard and a brief street fight with marines nearby.
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William Desmond
City Hall Avenue
U. S
Galveston
Clarence Timmins
Fred O'Brien
Desmond
Tremont Row
O’brien
Timmins
O'Brien
Desmonds
Three Indicted for Springfield Post Office Hold Up
Michael Moriarty Edward J. O Connor and John R. Ronayne were arraigned in federal court on a secret indictment charging a West Springfield post office substation robbery on February 16. They pled not guilty and were released on $2000 bail each. The indictment alleges the trio entered Irving A. Darling’s drug store and fired several shots to steal 80.74 dollars from the post office where Darling served as postmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Moriarty
Edward J. O'Connor
Weat
Springfield
John R. Ronayne
Mittineague
West Springfield
Irving A. Darling
Darling
Winter wheat and rye output forecast by Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture issued its first season estimate noting winter wheat production at 572,974,000 bushels and rye at 69,667,000 bushels for the year, in Washington on April 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
New England Methodist Conference Tackles Reform And Ratzell Question
At Centre Church Malden the New England Methodist Conference approved measures to back the Volstead Act endorse strict anti-ism policies and set secret sessions to address long running church issues Finance pensions and ministerial duties including a decision on Rev Harold Ratzell whose status is under review tied to radical activities A Monday executive board session will decide his membership while officials push state federal law harmonization for enforcement of prohibition and church education concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Methodist Conference
Centre Church
Malden
Harold Ratzeil
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Ratzell
O. C. Poland
Waltham
Methodist Church
Cox
Allen
Senate
Young
House
John W. Hamilton
Washington, D. C
Parochial schools attacked as threat to democracy
The Rev Walter Scott Athern denounces parochial schools as undermining democracy and claims Catholic schools compete with state education rather than cooperating. An executive session precedes Rev C C Rarick's address on Present Day Ethics by the Board of Temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Rarick
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
Walter Scott Athearn
Church of Rome
Funeral for Lieutenant Lawrence J. Flaherty Tomorrow
The funeral for East Boston war hero Lieutenant Lawrence J. Flaherty who died at Epieds France in July 1918 will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Lawrence J. Flaherty post American Legion on Meridian Street East Boston. Services will be at the Church of the Sacred Heart with Rev James H O Neil officiating. A large delegation of former service men will escort the caisson from the post headquarters to the church.
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Lawrence J. Flaherty
Boston
Epieds
France
American Legion
Meridian Street
East Boston
Church of the Sacred Heart
James H. O'Neil
Flaherty
Marriages at 73 as Simeon Smith Weds Nellie Flanagan
Simeon F. Smith aged 73 of 183 Lincoln Avenue East Saugus marries Nellie F. Flanagan aged 26 at his home. The ceremony was performed Tuesday night by Rev. Shirley D. Coffin of Cliftondale M K Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simeon F. Smith
Lincoln Avenue
East Saugus
Nellie F. Flanagan
Shirley D. Coffin
Cliftondale M. K
Mr. Smith
Stolen Quiz Scandal Grows in Boston Police
Suspension of at least 10 officers over alleged theft of civil service exam copies for promotions expands. Detective-Sergeant Albert Carnes, awaiting trial, provided a written statement to superiors about knowledge of the stolen papers. A special civil service inquiry probes further involvement beyond two clerks who resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Albert Carnes
Automobile Bureau of Police Headquarters
Carnes
West Roxbury
Civil Service
Payson Dana
Civil Service Department
Herbert A. Wilson
Michael Crowley
Civili Service
Dana
Clerk Hill
Municipal Court
Edward Lord
Hill
John, P. Feeney
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Burt Murphy
Holland Hotel
Merchants Row
Liberty Avenue
Wolf’s
Hanover and
Portland
Washington Street
Pau
French Line
Jean Mire
Bruce Yule
Hotel Moderne
le Bourget
Europe
Ministry
Vingie E. Roe
the King
Smokey Slopes
Boston Sunday Post
Sloan
Methodist Conference
Regent
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa CO
Value
Women’s Union
Forest Mills
Amoskeag
Rite G
Koveralls
Popsin
Athletic Union
MY Clothier
Portland Sts
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