23 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1901
Page
1
The mayor indicates no plan to seek office but aims to pursue legislative work. Republican leaders have urged him to join the city committee to replace Jesse Gove, yet he refuses. Two years ago he was a Speaker of the House candidate and may be again.
Weather from Washington reports continued unsettled conditions across the Atlantic states and Great Lakes region with rain and fog through Tuesday and Wednesday. In New Hampshire a teenaged boy drowned after a boat capsized on the Ammonoosuc River near Woodesville.
Alfred Curtis 25, heir to a large estate, marries Helen McCarthy 23, cloak model at C F Hovey & Co. The marriage links the Curtis, McCarthy, and Skinner/Carr families in Back Bay society following the prior wedding of Francis Skinner and Sadie Carr. Miss McCarthy's Cambridge firefighter father noted.
The weddings of Nellie McCarthy and Alfred Curtis cap a high society tale linked to last spring’s Skinner Carr romance. Curtis, heir to a Boston fortune, works as a clerk after abandoning indulgent pastimes, while Miss McCarthy, a cloak model, rose from a discreet social circle. Their five month courtship spanned secret meetings near Hovey’s and Park Street subway entrances, sheltered from a vigilant coterie.
The article describes juror impartiality in a murder with malice aforethought case where death is the penalty. It covers the jurors' questioning, the importance of neutrality, and the swift impaneling after a tense in-court scene including the defendant's father observing and a juror asking for a pencil loan from the reporter.
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