18 Dec 1896
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
1
Henry L Peirce recounts the gurgling sound that woke him as he found the captain and his wife murdered aboard the vessel. He details brain behavior, the axe discovery, and the vessel’s progress to Halifax. Wheelman Brown is slated to testify today.
A New York diamond dealer Mayer Herzog reported a wallet with about $15,000 in unset diamonds missing after visiting Hanover Street stores. He suspects a pocket pick while in crowds. Separate testimony from the Bram murder case provided details of a shipboard incident with Captain Nash and Mrs. Nash, as Monks described the events and gunfire in a Boston court.
An axe killing on a Maynard farm leaves John Dean dead and two daughters prostrate. A coatless, short, thick set man seen near the Dean place about 6 45 p m is the only lead as police search nearby towns. Dr Rich and Medical Examiner Hoitt attend the sisters and arrange autopsy.
Two highwaymen held up a west bound Southern railway passenger train near Bryant station twenty five miles west of Birmingham tonight and escaped with a large amount of money. Deputies with dogs have gone to the scene.
The Hon. Henry L. Pierce died last night at his friend Thomas Bailey Aldrich's house in Mount Vernon Street after a two week illness. He planned wintering in the West Indies aboard his yacht Hermione, which lay at South Boston. He collapsed from paralysis while visiting Aldrich, never regained consciousness, and died quietly with many gathered friends and family nearby. Funeral will be Monday from King's Chapel with public exercises, interment in Old Dorchester burial ground. he left no wife or children.
Henry Lillie Pierce of Stoughton was born August 23, 1820, and rose from Walter Baker & Co. to Boston politics. He served as alderman, mayor of Boston, and congressman, shaping health and fire departments and opposing the force bill. A self made man, he led tariff reform efforts, opposed the Tilden count-out, and declined a governor bid in 1883. He remains a wealthy, influential Boston figure with farms, jewelry of leadership, and a quiet charitable bent.
Washington December reports from US Consul Bergholtz estimate fifty thousand Armenian children under 12 have been orphaned by the Turkish massacres. Missions are considering relief plans and Britain weighs sending widows and their children to Cyprus.
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