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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1913
Page
5
Catholic and Protestant clergy hosted a morning meeting after services to discuss ill treatment of young girls. Plans were set for a mass meeting Tuesday to show conditions to fathers and brothers and push for state legislation to protect girls across the Commonwealth.
Two young men, about 20, tried to steal Charles G. Andrews’s auto on Brimmer street in Back Bay. Andrews chased the vehicle, grabbed a rear door, and the thieves leapt out as speed carried the car toward the esplanade. Citizens joined the pursuit but the pair escaped.
A four year old, George Tennant of East Hartford, was killed at East Hartford station when he fell under a moving train as he waved goodbye to his wife and children. Authorities say death was instantaneous and occurred while attempting to jump to a car step.
John B. Bacheller a lodger on Union street Lynn was arrested last night for cutting off the braid of 14 year old Ethel Sollett of 514 Eastern avenue Lynn. She and her sister saw a man near the candy store window and heard scissors. Police say Bacheller committed a similar act in Boston.
An automobile owned by C E Osgood of Brookline was stripped of its tires and tool box by thieves shortly after 9 PM while parked on Whitby terrace Dorchester. Chauffeur Joseph Knox had the car and was visiting friends.
Three youths Edward Doody 13 Edmund White 15 and William Hughes 14 fled their homes in Boston and headed for Maine to seek woods camps and logging life. Patrolman John Cronin found them in Lynn and brought them to the Central police station where their parents were alerted as they readied to return home.
Assistant Deputy Warden Frank Eb. Benjamin of the State prison at Charles town retires after 31 years in active service, appointed in 1882. He will receive a pension of 800 dollars annually. James Br. Hogsett, formerly a Boston police officer, is appointed to succeed him with a salary of 1800 dollars a year.
Rockland Missouri worker John Stearns of StanleyJane uncovered a 1802 cent while digging for a sewer at the foot of Cedar Street. The coin bears a Jeffersonian head and date.
The funeral services for George P. Sanborn, a retired Boston businessman, were conducted at his late residence, 121 Oak Street, with relatives and friends attending the rites.
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