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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1908
Page
3
Aug 9 South Framingham a large Sunday crowd attended the regimental camp on the State grounds. The Fifth Regiment and the ambulance company presented an unusually creditable display. About 8000 spectators were reported to have viewed the proceedings.
Ideal weather draws relatives and state residents to the camp where officers from Brigadier General Brigham to Major Perrins are noted. The day features reveille to taps, inspections, a garrison review, and planned drills for the Fifth Regiment. A brawl near the canteen leads to arrests. Gov ernor and staff schedule a garrison review tomorrow.
John Hall a grocer in Methuen reports being held up by two foreigners near the murder scene last week and provides descriptions. Lawrence reports a torn coat foreigner at the New Central House seeking whiskey with nervous behavior and a dash down the street before vanishing. The description notes about 5 feet 10 inches tall, average build, rough clothes, straw hat, dark worn suit.
John Hail, a Methuen grocery wagon driver, says two men held him up near the scene of the two officer killings. He gave a description to Officer Flynn and recalls the assailants emerging from bushes and ordering a stop. No shots fired, but he believes the men were armed and may be the killers of the two officers.
Thomas McGann of Fall River lies between life and death at Boston City Hospital after his brother John McGann of Brookline struck him with an axe at a window. Police say John believed the act justifiable and he was not arrested.
Paris reports enthusiastic French press praise for Wilbur Wright's Lemans flight. The papers call the Wright brothers leaders in aerial navigation and hail the act as a triumph not a mere success. They commend his machine control and sharp cornering as revolutionary to science.
In Methuen, Emerson and McDermott, two veteran officers on a night patrol, were found dead after a brutal clash with armed bandits in peat meadows near Lawrence. A blood trail, missing revolvers, and a rye loaf link the killings to a Lettish or foreign-farmed district, with a dawn manhunt and widespread local fear.
Lawrence Mayor John P. Kane links a gang of unemployed foreigners to the double murder of two policemen near Methuen. He describes their deaths as brutal and vows patrols and state detective aid. Methuen officers recount a trail of blood and bodies found in a peat meadow, with witnesses noting six attackers and foreign suspects.
Two large rocks were thrown from behind as officers fell. They attempted to rise but were struck with clubs and Emerson was believed to have been stabbed. The injured men were beaten unconscious and left to die.
Methuen Aug 9 State Officers Fred F Flynn of Lawrence and Arthur Wells of Lynn head the case as 15 man posse around the scene. Police say they have nothing to work on tonight and no progress until daylight. They formally take possession of the field where the bodies were found and will not permit entry without proper authority until a thorough search is made.
Investigators pursue six men seen near the scene asserting that fewer could overpower the victims without fatalities. Police cordon off the area to preserve clues and track possible assailants through neighboring country routes.
A reporter quotes a witness describing gruesome injuries in a fatal attack. The skulls of two officers are reported crushed almost to a jelly, noting an extreme level of violence and fatal outcome.
Harry Amey sues Seymour Johnson of New York for 5000 damages after his wife was struck by Johnsons car on Friday. Johnson, aboard the yacht Sappho, was arrested on civil writ but released after surety was furnished.
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