Dugan Retires From Boston Police After 44 Years of Service
Deputy Superintendent Joseph Dugan, famed homicide expert and head of Boston's bureau of criminal investigation, retires after 44 years and 5 months. Captain John R. McGarr succeeds as detective chief, with Ainsley Armstrong as first assistant. Dugan’s record includes major cases such as the Avis Linnell murder and reforms to inquest timing and records. He will receive half of his $3,000 salary as pension.
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Joseph Dugan
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Police
United States
Boston
Dugan
Stephen O'Meara
John R. McGarr
William B. Watts
Ainsley C. Armstrong
McGarr
Thomas F. Gleavey
George J. Farrell
John F. Linton
Watts
Boston Police
Horner
Not Guilty Plea Filed in Carmel Girl Murder Case
J Sherman Gray a farm hand pleads not guilty to a warrant charging him with the murder of 14 year old Naomi Mitchell in Carmel last Wednesday night in Bangor Municipal Court He had been missing and was found in Brooks waived examination and was remanded without bail to await a hearing set for August 6 He was not represented by counsel.
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Bangor
Naomi Mitchell
Carmel
J. Sherman Gray
Gray
Brooks
Thompson
Carmel man Gray questions in murder case after grocery visit
Gray, at Carmel, said he did not see Naomi Mitchell after she left the corner store with purchases and walked home a mile away. He denied knowledge of the murder and said witnesses are only those in the store. Grand jury in Penobscot county likely to hear evidence August 6. Naomi Mitchell was found murdered a week ago, body mutilated, hands tied, gag in mouth, throat cut.
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Carmel
Mitchell
Gray
T. H. White
White
Grand
Penobscot County
Naomi Mitchell
Edward Everett Hale Statue Nearly Complete
The heroic bronze statue of Edward Everett Hale by Bela L. Pratt nears completion. A prominent, well‑visited site is sought by the statue committee and the Boston Art Commission. Unveiling is hoped for in November with a Taft attendance possible.
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Edward Everett Hale
Bela L. Pratt
Boston Art Commission
Taft
Belal
Pratt
Death ends practice of half a century in New Milford
Dr John Bassett a 84 year old physician who practiced fifty years with an office on West Thirty-first Street New York died today in New Milford Conn where he was a summer guest He was a Berkshire Medical School graduate of the early sixties His body will be taken to New York for burial He is survived by his widow one son and three daughters An advertisement promotes Horsford acid phosphate as a wholesome tonic for convalescence and recovery
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New Milford
Conn
Johns. Bassett
West Thirty-first Street
New York
Bassett
Berkshire Medical School
Moody
W. S
State Ends Evidence in Grace Case
Atlanta July 31 After forging the last link in the chain of circumstances which connects Mrs Daisy Opie Grace with the shooting of her husband the prosecution rested its case late today Mrs Grace is expected to take the stand at court opening tomorrow to tell her own story.
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Atlanta
Daisy Opie Grace
Grace
Grace letters admitted in alibi dispute at trial
The State won two points as letters allegedly written by Mrs Grace to herself under her husband’s nickname Gene were admitted after a two hour fight. Her greeting to him at the hospital was also admitted as evidence, with city detective George C Bullara testifying. The judge restricted some follow up remarks while allowing the first statement.
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Gene
Newnan
George C. Bullara
Dorsey
Roan
Vaudeville to open the Vanderbilt Ball in Newport
Mrs. Cornelius Van derbilt plans an elaborate Beaulieu ball on August 23 with a large stage near the cliffs and a Hammerstein troupe staging a complete vaudeville show despite the distance from Broadway.
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Newport
R. I
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Beaulieu
Hammerstein’s
Broadway
Boy Drowns While Fishing Near Southampton Street Bridge
Joseph Levy aged 12 of 12 Pem broke Street drowned last night in the South Bay while fishing with friends. He lost his balance fell in and sank before aid could reach him. Harbor police on the power boat Alert recovered the body after 8 pm and it was taken to North Grove Street morgue with the medical examiner notified.
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Joseph Levy
Pembroke Street
South Bay
Southampton Street
Levy
North Grove Street
Fourteen year old injured in Dorchester car crash
Fourteen year old Thomas S. Lawton of Wendall street Dorchester is in serious condition at Relief Hospital after being thrown from a moving car when two electric cars collided at Franklin and Federal streets. Lawton rode on the left running board of a south bound Field's Corner car which struck a north bound Postoffice square car.
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Thomas S. Lawton
Wendall Street
Dorchester
Relief Hospital
Franklin
Federal Streets
Lawton
Postoffice Square
Senate passes bill over Taft veto for Corbett tunnel costs
Washington July 31 The Senate 42 to 17 passed over President Taft's veto a bill to reimburse those who furnished labor and supplies to contractors on the Corbett tunnel in the Shoshone Wyoming irrigation project to the extent of 42000 Democrats Progressives Republicans and regular Republicans from Western States voted for it
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Corbett
Shoshone
Wyo
Cambridge Police Lieutenant James McNulty Dies
After several days illness, Lieutenant James R.E. McNulty of the Cambridge police force died yesterday morning in Massachusetts General Hospital.
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James RE. McNulty
Cambridge
Massachusetts General Hospital
Women Lead in Strike Riot in New York
In New York on July 18 a riot by strikers and sympathizers in the wholesale district on Seventh Avenue was led by two women. Police reserves contained the disturbance after two strike-breakers were escorted home. One woman was struck by a cane, multiple injuries reported, seven strikers arrested.
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New York
Seventh Avenue
Twenty-sixth Street
Anna Techusky
Death by own action at Boston Insane Hospital
Arthur E. Gould, 23, an attendant at the Boston Insane Hospital West Roxbury, killed himself by shooting through the right temple in his Fisher building room shortly after 8:30 last night.
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Arthur EE. Gould
Boston Insane Hospital
West Roxbury
Fisher Building
Workman Falls Fifty-One Feet From Workplace
Salvatore Ferrari aged 29 of 10 Barton Street tumbled from a staging at 137 Peterboro Street in Back Bay yesterday afternoon. He was taken to City Hospital in serious condition and his name was placed on the dangerous list.
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Salvatore Ferrari
Barton Street
Peterboro Street
Back Bay
City Hospital
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