Confession Read In Schmidt Murder Trial
In New York on December 12 Hans Schmidt admitted to killing Anna Aumuller. Police Inspector Faurot read the confession to the jury and reenacted the scene as Schmidt watched with a calm, sorrowful demeanor. He testified Schmidt cried and claimed he killed her “because I loved her.” He said he was ordained by St. Elizabeth after Father Quinn questioned his priesthood.
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New York
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Faurot
Schmidt
Father Quinn
God
St. Elizabeth
Fakers' Row Abolished on Tremont Street
Police Commissioner Stephen O'Meara issued an order banning Fakers' Row along Tremont Street in front of Granary Burying Ground. The curb merchants who sold toys and trinkets from Park Street to Tremont Building are removed after complaints of broken toys and excessive noise.
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Tremont Street
Stephen O'Meara
Park Street
Tremont
Boston Pupils Best Thinkers in City Arithmet ic Study
In the Boston annual report, superintendent Franklin B. Dyer unveils a large scale arith metic test of 26 000 pupils in 29 schools. The study, by S A Courtis, shows Boston pupils surpass New York in reasoning. The report highlights school hygiene, dental care, tuberculosis findings, and calls for higher teaching standards and better teacher preparation.
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Superintendent of Schools
Franklin B. Dyer
Boston
New York City
S. A. Courtis
Department of School Hygiene
Dyer
Boston Public Schools
Thomas F. Harrington
Watertown High Lab Nitric Acid Burst Injures Two Students
Harold Kinchla an 18 year old Watertown pupil was severely burned in a nitric acid incident at Watertown High School and may lose eyesight. Fellow student Harold Johnston aged 17 was cut near the right eye by flying glass but had no burns.
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Harold Kinchla
Thomas Kinchila
Galen Street
Watertown
Watertown High School
Harold Johnston
Woman Purchases Revolver Then Kills Self in Salem
Mrs. Ross G. Hutchins, 30, bought a new 44 calibre revolver and shot herself in the bedroom at 18 Mason street Salem. She had been under a doctor’s care for a nervous breakdown. Her visitor Miss Edwina Hatton alerted police after discovering the body. The revolver and box of cartridges were found at the scene.
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Salem
Ross G. Hutchins
Mason Street
Mra Hutchins
John C. Ellery
Edwina Hatton
Lowell Street
Lynn
Frederick Warburton
O'Neil
Warburton
Mrs. O'Neil
Paul Jennings
Michael O’connell
Jennings
John Foley
Frei Curtis
Curtis
John Sty
Frenzy Tries to Kill Wife in South Boston Tragedy
A family of six children faces potential orphanhood after Jeremiah O Neil shot his wife at 6 Fountain Street in South Boston and then killed himself. The wife survived the initial attack but faced severe injuries as neighbors rushed to aid.
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George A. Neville
Boston Y. M. C A
Cambridge Street
Charlestown
South Braintree Heights
Jeremiah O’neil
Fountain Street
O'Neil
Quincy City Hospital
O’neil
New Haven Railroad
South Boston
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West Hanover
City Hospital
Inglis
Gorton Street
E. B. Horn CO
Waltham Watches
Ideal
The
E.b.horn CO
Washington St
Continental Ee House
Washington
Boylston
G. O. Blake
Duff Gordon Shei Cobb
Aldrie
O’meara
Tremont St
Health Department
City Board of Health
W. J. Gallivan
Board of Health
Talbot’s
Hanover ST
Boys’ Dept
Hanover Street
John T. Manning
Winter St
Eqnie
Annhaynnains
Boston Post
Bromfield Street of Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association
O'Neill
New England
Morse
Oxford Meltons
Broadway
Oxford
Adams Square
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