Chelsea Woman Refused to Live With Him Dies in Suicide
Lizzie Collins known as Mrs Lizzie Craig refused to live with Frank M Craig of South Gardner Me He shot her in her Chelsea home and then killed himself at Herbert H Carter undertakers station The tragedy occurred yesterday forenoon shortly after 10 o clock as the couple argued over separation and abuse authorities were notified and an investigation followed The gunman faced a troubled history with the relationship and local records indicate a grim domestic fatality occurred in Chelsea
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Lizzie
Collins
Lizzie Craig
Frank M. Craig
Herbert H. Carter
Chelsea
South Gardner
Cambridge
Gardiner
Winnisimmet Street
Post
Frost Hospital
Lizzie Collins
Frank Craig
Chelsea Tragedy Ends in Double Suicide and Fatal Shot
In Chelsea Square a gunman shot at Miss Collins then killed himself after threatening to force marriage. The attacker Craig fired three times, one hit Miss Collins and another killed him. a scalp wound left the woman not fatally injured. Nearby residents rushed to aid, and Miss Collins was rushed to Frost Hospital. The incident unfolded at the Farris home where Collins had lived with her children.
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Craig
Miss Collins
Winnisimmet Street
Chelsea Square
Charles DeMott
Roy Hubbard
Broadway
Williams Street
Frost Hospital
Widow recalls deadly shooting and escape from abuser
In a dramatic confession Miss Collins recounts years of fear under Frank, detailing attempts to end the abuse and a fatal shooting after he threatened to kill her. She says she bore five children by him, mourns the loss of three sons, and faces recovery with two daughters to raise as authorities claim the body.
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Margaret
Frank
Craig
George M
Lynn
Chelsea
Policy Game Continues as Boston Raid Seizes Lottery Shop
Police raided a Tremont Street policy shop led by Sergeant Murphy, seizing a printing press and 1000 slips among furniture and goods. George Henderson, 33, held on a charge of setting up and promoting a policy lottery. bail posted, arraignment expected in Roxbury court.
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Boston
Tremont Street
Murphy
Roxbury
George Henderson
Castoday
Henderson
Roxbury Court
Deaf Mutes Convene in New England Gallaudet Assembly
The New England Gallaudet Association opened its 22nd annual convention at the Revere House with about 20 deaf mutes from New England and nearly a dozen from New York. Governor Crane sent regrets while Henry C. White argued for an eclectic teaching system and demonstrations showcased hearing machines by M. R. Hutchinson to aid deaf individuals in hearing and speaking.
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Esterday
M. R. Hutchinson
New York City
Hutchinson
Juvenile Track Walkers Captured by East Boston Chelsea Officers
Police patrols on the bridge between East Boston and Chelsea trapped a dozen boys fleeing as they spotted officers. Five youths were arrested and jailed at Station 7 East Boston for track walking. others escaped. The Chelsean youths named include Michael White 16 Arthur Gillispie 18 George Powers 16 Thomas McBride 15 Arthur Welford 14 Roch Lavigarie 15. Arraignment set for this morning in Past Boston Court.
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Chelsea
Scoop
McCauley
Wiley
Brown
Flaherty
East Beeton
George Powers
Highland Street
Thomas McBride
Congresas Avenue
Arthur Welford
Roch Lavigarie
Cottage Street
Boston Court
Dedham Murder Suspect Di Pietri Sought After Clue
Dedham police say a new clue to the whereabouts of Joseph Di Pietri, accused killer of Mary Michael Ambroosi Willard, has emerged. A private Italian detective met with Chief Drugan and Officer Donley, with the chief now in Boston’s Italian quarters pursuing the suspect.
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Joseph di Pietri
Mary Michael Ambroosi Willard
Central Street
East Dedham
William F. Drugan
Irving Donley
Drugan
North End
Boston
di Pietri
Eleven Chinamen arraigned for fan-tan gambling in Oxford Street
Eleven Chinamen were arraigned in Municipal Court yesterday morning for being present where gambling in games was found on Oxford Street. Sergeant Hazlett fined them the customary five dollars. Chinatown residents wonder if harsher punishment awaits.
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Municipal Court
Hazlett
Chinatown
Joseph Halliday Dead Stage Carpenter at Tremont
Joseph Halliday longtime Tremont theatre stage carpenter died at City Hospital Saturday night from appendicitis after an operation two days earlier. Age about 38, in the business since boyhood, regarded as highly skilled and inventive. He worked for Manager Schoeffel about eighteen years. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM from his Rhoda street home in Central Station Roxbury.
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Long
Tremonteatre
City Hospital
Schoeffel
Rhoda Street
Central Station
Roxbury
Woman's Desperate Work in Illinois Mob Violence
In Gilman Illinois an all night battle between a mob and Mrs. C W Wright ends with two dead and several wounded. Dessie Salter a 16 year old girl dies and Wright resists arrest. Myers and Mrs Wright fire on the sheriff and aides killing Michael Ryan and wounding Lawrence and Geecee Willoughby. The house is set afire driving occupants out as Myers is found dead and Wright wounded. Mob threatens lynching amid rising tensions.
Stridron Daughters Found in Chicago Home
Two Stridron daughters were located at their aunt's residence, 119 Seeley Avenue in Chicago. They said they had little contact with their father since their mother's death three years ago. He once worked as a clerk at the First National Bank and later with a lumber firm.
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Chicago
Not Known in Boston Statement Points to Chicago Residence
A fragment notes Ford is not known in Boston and asserts the victim’s statement tends to determine his residence as Chicago. The terse remark highlights uncertainty about Ford’s location linking him to Chicago based on the victim’s account.
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Ford
Boston
Chicago
Mayor Hart Proposes $68 000 Loan for Bridges
Mayor Hart will urge the Aldermen to approve a $68,000 loan to rebuild Congress street and Mt Washington avenue bridges. He warns narrow draws impede ocean steamers, risking losses of major business tied to freight. The council may act next month amid a city wide $8,000,000 in public works.
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Congress Street
Mt. Washington Avenue
Cambridge
Boston
Cambri
Malden
Broadway Bridge
Cove Street
Mt Washington Avenue
Rutherford Avenue
Board of Street Commissioners
Seeking Her Husband Stirs Chelsea Family Plea
Mrs Emma Rodd of 1 Hawthorne Court Chelsea with three children under ten seeks her husband August who disappeared August 18 after leaving for work. She is destitute with furniture pawned and seeks work while he is employed as a cabinet maker at Otis Wood Works in Cambridge. He is tall. brown hair blue eyes and a heavy sandy moustache.
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Emma Rodd
Hawthorne Court
Chelsea
August Rodd
Redd
Duchess of Montrose to Sell Jewels Amid Financial Straits
London observers express sympathy as the Duchess of Montrose plans to auction her vast jewels to assist her husband, embroiled by the failures and dishonesty of Lake & Co., Lincoln's Inn. The couple has endured years of family disputes and costly settlements linked to the Duke's mother, the socalled Sporting Duchess.
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London
Lake & Co
Lincoln's Inn
Frederick Graham
Netherby
Earl of Crewe
Lord Rosebery
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