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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1918
Page
8
Penal Institutions Commissioner David B. Shaw discharged James H. Burke master of the Deer Island House of Correction. Burke pledges to expose charges Shaw cited and Shaw must grant a hearing, set for April 24.
Burke refused a shipment of 21 chests of tea branded OK from Shaw, triggering a high tone exchange with Shaw and a later testing plan. He cited below standard quality and described related disputes over rotten salt fish and mismanagement at the penal institutions department. Shaw suspended Burke for rule infractions, absenting himself without notice, and inefficiency, with discharge intended.
Patrick J. Sullivan is positively identified at New Haven jail as the man seen with Stella Soldi on Rigby street minutes before her murder, by Mrs. Michael Burke and Mrs. Michael Ball. Extradition to proceed as police link Sullivan to the April 5 crime, with authorities noting time and distance. The state police plan to push extradition, urging strenuous efforts alongside public bond appeals.
Frederick W. Greene of Westfield and Leon L. Fuller of Worcester were held in $20000 bonds for Superior Court on larceny charges for stealing $200000 in blueprints and machinery plans from the Norton company of Worcester. Authorities say the plans were taken to aid a rival seeking to build a grinding wheel plant in France.
Receiver Wallace B. Denham sought court authority to repay 27000 dollars of Lowell Lawrence and Haverhill street railway bonds and settle a 50000 dollar short-term note with Salem Five Cents Savings Bank. A hearing on the petition is set for April 24.
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