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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1922
Page
4
Continued report on Brewster murder claims the hat belongs to the killer. Sieg autopsy experts say Brewster opened the ticket office door with his left hand to admit the murderer. It is widely believed the murderer was known to the victim, and the shot struck Brewster’s heart and lungs as his left side faced the opening.
Massachusetts investigators in Pittsfield New Hampshire say they found nothing linking a suspect to the Brewster murder. The team leaves town without arrests after exhaustive searches and interviews.
Massachusetts officers led by Silas Smith questioned Brewster family members and townspeople in an effort to uncover motive in a perplexing local murder case. They interviewed Mrs Brewster Miss Araline Green and other residents while detailing notes and visiting neighboring communities for clues.
Mrs Mary Mulry of 23 Magoun Street North Cambridge died yesterday after a short illness. She is survived by three daughters Minnie and Gertrude Mulry and four grandchildren. The funeral will be held Thursday at 9 o'clock from St John s Church North Cambridge.
The civil service commission announced it confirmed Mayor Curley’s picks Francis Peabody as a statistical trustee and Matthew Cummings as a sinking fund commissioner. It also said Benedict V. DeBellis was not confirmed as a statistical trustee.
Dense smoke enveloped a Lynn lodging house and neighboring stores on Western avenue and Howe's court as a fire swept the rear of William Finger's shoe store at 761 Western avenue. Police and fire crews carried out a woman and guided residents down a 40 foot ladder while others escaped through smoke filled halls.
A two alarm blaze damaged a shoe store ell with stock worth about 500 dollars. The fire drove dense smoke into a nearby 12 room lodging house three feet away. Police arrived and hurried residents through the smoke to safety. Mrs,
Minnie King was carried from the second floor by Sergeant James Mackian of the Lynn force. Fred Peterson, blocked by smoke, was carried from the third floor by firemen. John Haley, reading in his room on the third floor, tied to escape but waited as firemen urged him to descend the ladder, then calmly stepped onto the ladder and lit his pipe after seeing the firemen.
A stray piece of paper reports a man fatally struck by an L train as bystanders describe his convulsions and a late attempt to halt the tragedy. The fragment hints at his attire but offers few further details about identity or location.
Investigators consider death on the rail platform as a possible suicide after a 45 to 50 year old man is found with only two cents in his pocket. No witnesses, inbound traffic delayed during body removal. A paper with the name Thomas J. Gullivan Rochester NH offers a possible lead. The victim’s description lists clothing and personal items found in his pockets.
The text cites the Hiram Ricker Company with a listing at 372 Boylston Street and a warehouse at 229 Purchase Street. The body is noted to be in the Northern mortuary.
The ticket seller at Thompson Square could not recall the man who passed the turnstile and officials consider he may have alighted from a train moving in the opposite direction.
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