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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1903
Page
7
Testimony covers the night before the Sept. 7 shooting of Lehne man in Brookline. Duane describes calling Lehne man to leave the house, barricading doors, and attempts for peaceful departure amid a history of intoxication and conflict.
London and Paris dispatches report three official notes on Mr W K Vanderbilt and Mrs Lewis Rutherford engagement. No special Canterbury license granted, forcing ordinary license with 15 days residence. Duchess of Marlborough plans return to London with the duke and Mrs Cornwallis-West. Mrs Rutherford shopped.
Paris reports Mrs Rutherford and Miss White left the Rutherford home for London with substantial baggage before the 11 o clock train. No license application yet for the Vanderbilt Rutherford marriage. William K Vanderbilt not back in Paris. likely still in London.
A Kansas City post office forwarded to President Roosevelt a special delivery letter from Thaddeus C. Histed of Pittsburg Kansas. Histed’s poem praises the President with frontier imagery and loyalty, noting he hopes Roosevelt’s West visit strengthens friendship with settlers and trappers.
Melrose suffered a major fire that destroyed the Methodist Episcopal Church on Main Street. Firemen saved nearby homes and the new high school. The building, valued at 20,000 dollars, was deemed insured for 12,000 and a new church at over 30,000 had already been funded. The church was the city’s oldest edifice, erected in 186 to replace an earlier burned structure.
MR AND MRS JAY HUNT of Bowdoin Square Theatre mark their 25th wedding anniversary at their Thorndike Street Brookline home tomorrow. They have never been separated, four children survive Henry J. Hunt a civil engineer at the navy yard and three daughters Charlotte 18 among country’s youngest stars. Jay Hunt, 47, serves as general stage director for Bowdoin Square Theatre and Lothrop enterprises.
The Cunard liner Ultonia with over 600 passengers and cargo arrived at Quarantine at 8 p.m. and will dock at Boston Harbor after proceeding up the harbor. Captain Jeffries, ex chief officer of Cephalonia, commands the Ultonia. Meanwhile Captain Thomas Potter, former Ultonia commander, reached New York aboard the Aurania with more than 1000 passengers from Liverpool.
Judge Emmons handles near ten cases in East Boston Court testing official conduct of the new Police Commissioner. He sentences a drunk to the Reformatory, rebukes probation questions, and orders fines in larceny and restraint cases while probing each witness. The day closes with a tenement fight where verdicts split between not guilty and a $100 fine.
George Brown an assumed name harvard farmer arrested for assaulting Miss Mary Reed Harvard was this afternoon committed to the Worcester Insane Asylum by Judge Stone He raved and struggled in restraint and tried to bite officers after his transfer to the asylum doctors deem treatment may restore his reason Miss Reed was ready to testify but insanity barred trial
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