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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
8
The Copley Plaza welcomed the public yesterday with a formal opening planned for Monday. Boston gains a premier hotel as many flocked to register and tour the first floor, drawn by brilliant lights and luxurious interiors.
A wave of luxury surrounds the Copley Plaza opening with 35 guests and 500 staff. Guests include Henry E. Russell and Mrs. Russell of Manchester, and J. E. Fuller of Boston. The hotel features 800 bath-equipped rooms, 2000-person dining capacity, and a lavish a la carte bill with famed chef Eugene Laperruque.
In Los Angeles on August 8 nine witnesses testified in the Clarence S. Darrow bribery case. Five were street car conductors and Frank E.K. Wolfe and O. Hawley, defense witnesses, faced cross examination by Harl Rogers. The day yielded little sensational drama.
Fully 2000 people attended the San Ciriacco Society field day in Thompson Grove Silver Lake Boston with athletic events a dancing exhibition and an outdoor banquet for more than 800. The parade to North Station and a return through the North End closed the day led by President Frank DeDomenicis.
New York August 8 Mary Blair Brokaw secured a legal separation in 1910 from her millionaire husband W Gould Brokaw after a sensational trial and today won leave from Supreme Court Justice James Van Sielen to serve papers in her suit for absolute divorce She cites three corespondents by name.
The body of seven year old Richard D Arcy of 42 Chilton Street Cambridge was hauled to the surface of Jeandreau s pit after grappling with an old mattress bound to the grappling iron. The pit lies close to the boy s home and local pits in the area are to be filled in.
Arthur Perkins aged 25 of 8 Pioneer Street Cambridge fell while trying to board a moving outward bound Brighton and Allston car at Charles and Cambridge streets. He was found dazed and hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital with facial and head lacerations.
Charles Cameron, suspected yegg linked to a spate of New England post office robberies, was arrested today in Bellows Falls by local police and Wood-Morgan agency detectives. The Williamstown, Vermont heist prompted residents to fund detectives as a wave of breaks continued. Further arrests are anticipated.
John D Jr steps up as Rockefeller funds back a widening grand jury probe into police graft and alleged disorderly houses. District Attorney Whitman says Rockefeller officials and detectives provided corroborating evidence, while Becker’s case prompts renewed efforts to uncover money trails and hidden savings accounts.
New York reports six additional murder indictments to be handed to the grand jury naming Jack Sullivan Sam Schepps Louis Rosenzwig Frank Muller Harry Horowitz and Frank Cirofici. A new witness Giovanni Stanich identified Sullivan as among the four who fired at Herman Rosenthal.
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