Robins Charged in Canada Asset Theft Case
Government testimony described Edward D. Robbins former general counsel of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad as moving the Billard Company books and assets to Canada and blocking their production before the Interstate Commerce Commission and grand jury. The case against Robbins and 10 other former directors for alleged Sherman Act violations nears its end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward D. Robbins
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Canada
Billard Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Grand Jury
Government Today
Robbins
the Road
Samuel C. Morehouse
New Haven
Boston & Maine Railroad
Metropolitan Steamship
Harvard
Yale
Pacific Coast
Charles S. Mellen
Morehouse
Montreal
St. Lawrence Securities Company, Ltd
The
Wedding Will Unite Theatrical Families on Monday
The upcoming marriage connects two longtime American stage families. Miss Fanny Lydia Davenport Seymour, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Seymour, will wed Richard Montgomery Field of Jamaica Plain at Marble Collegiate Church New York City on Saturday January 8 in the afternoon. Field is son of the late Franklin Darracott Field and grandson of R M Field longtime Boston Museum manager. he graduates Harvard class of 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Lydia Davenport Seymour
William Seymour
Richard Montgomery Field
Jamaica Plain
Marble Collegiate Church
New York City
Miss Seymour
Fanny Davenport
May Davenport
Boston Museum
Old Museum
Mr. Field
Franklin Darracott Field
Alveston Street
R. M. Field
Harvard
Goshen Woman Charged in Poisoned Pen Letters Case
Miss Tessie Samuels of Goshen New York was arraigned in New York on charges of sending more than twenty poisoned pen letters to engaged women. She pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on eight thousand dollars bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tessie Samuels
Goshen
N. Y
Rev. C. J. Wigren Dead in Ansonia Conn
The Rev. C. J. Wigren aged 64 formerly presiding elder at the Swedish M. E. Church Boston district and longtime Quincy resident died yesterday in Ansonia Connecticut. He leaves a wife and three sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Wigren
M. E. Church
Boston
Quincy
Ansonia
Conn
Decision Held In Reed Will Case In Supreme Court
Closing arguments in the Levi Reed will contest at Holbrook filled the day as Judge Pierce heard three weeks of testimony and reserved his decision on the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Reed
Holbrook
Supreme Court
Pierce
Father in Mattapan Trial for Daughter Non support
Albert F. Baldwin of Mattapan faced a Superior Court trial on charges of non support of his 18 year old daughter Emma. Emma testified that her father whipped her several times and on June 21 1915 inflicted a severe beating forcing her to flee to her aunt in Roxbury where guardianship proceedings are underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert F. Baldwin
Mattapan
Superior Criminal Court
Emma
Josephine Bleiler
Roxbury
Baldwin
Asquith's Wife Sues for Libel in Chancery Court
Mrs. Herbert H. Asquith wife of the premier files in Chancery Court seeking an injunction to prevent publication of alleged libels by the Globe. Her attorney stated the case at the hearing today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Herbert H. Asquith
Chancery Court Today
The
Globe
Mrs Asquith Libel Case Drags On In Press Attacks At Donnington
The Globe faces a libel writ over a year of accusations against the wife of a cabinet minister described as disloyal and allied with German prisoners. The case, amid anonymous letters and social slurs, was adjourned with the plaintiff denying the charges under oath and evidence cited of a prior apology and donation to the Red Cross.
Kitchener Denies Engagement Rumor
London dispatch reports that Earl Kitchener the British Secretary for War was not engaged to the Dowager Countess of Minto. A private secretary states the engagement rumor is absolutely untrue and without any foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Earl Kitchener
Countess of
Minto
Captain Coffin Funeral for Towboat Man Coffin
Funeral services for Captain George F. Coffin, a known towboat man, who died of heart failure at Relief Hospital, will be held at his home 362 Meridian Street East Boston tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Hospital
Meridian Street
East
Boston
Whitney Will Case Settled After Estate Dispute
A settlement of the contest over the $230,000 estate of Theodore D. Whitney, a Boston linen merchant, has been effected. While interested parties acknowledge the settlement, the exact terms could not be learned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore D. Whitney
Boston
Widow Wins Amid Will Contest Over Whitney Estate
Mrs Annie I Whitney the widow contested the Whitney will claiming lack of sound mind and undue influence but the jury found no unsoundness and properly executed will. Settlement negotiations followed and are described as a victory for her counsel. Attorneys included J F D T and J P OConnell for Mrs Whitney with Governor Bates for Barker and Ogden for Myrick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie I. Whitney
Whitney
Amy H. Barker
Brookline
George L. Mayberry
John L. Bates
Barker
Hugh Ogden
Whipple, Sears & Ogden
Myrick
Contributions Acknowledged for Children’s Hospital Fund
Treasurer Gordon Abbott records numerous individual and anonymous donations to the Children’s Hospital at 17 Court Street. Gifts range from 5 to 1,000 dollars, with many entries naming donors such as Mrs. William H. Coolidge, Mrs. Edward L. Davis, Amory Eliot, Anonymous benefactors, Edwin S. Webster, and Mrs. Charles G. Weld, among others, totaling significant support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Abbott
Children’s Hospital
Court Street
Talbot Aldrich
Samuel Appleton
Alton B. Atwool
Eugene Battelle
Boylston A. Beal
William P. Blake
S. Parker Bremer
Theodore G. Bremer
Samuel Carr
Iccscceecceeene
Ale
Arthur E. Childs
William H. Coolidge
H. G. Curtis
Charles Davis, Jr
Edward L. Davis
Franklin Dexter
Louis Leviseur
W. GH. Lincoln
TOS Aer Rep
Augustus P. Loring
Guy Lowell
C. M
Galen L. Stone
Eve
Amory Eliot
Henry Fay
J. Brooks Fenno
L. A. Frothingham
B. F. Greene
H. S. Hunnewell
Oscar Iasigi
Kaan
Arthur
Johnson
Yaa Ee
Edward
A. P. King
George B. Leighton
Richard Olmey
R. T. Paine
Ain Aeares
William Y. Peters
Dudley L. Pickman, Jr
H. M. Pierce
Cpaeae
Vas
Nathaniel J. Rust
J. M. Sears
Philip S. Sears
Seebes
G. H. Shaw
Ces Nee
Abby M. Storer
Cacamena
Mary G. Storer
Erie Y
Alice P. Tapley
Siecasonee
H. D. Tudor
J. F. Tyler
Levesahs
Bayard Warren
Port of Boston officials push Sunday loading rights
Edward F. McSweeney, head of the Port of Boston Directors, testified in Municipal Court that steamship firms should be allowed to load and unload on Sundays to maintain schedules. The court ruled against Clyde Steamship Co and fined employees Robert Melzer and John Phelin $10 each for unnecessary work on the Lord's Day. An appeal is planned as a test case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. McSweeney
Boston
Creed
McSweeney
Clyde Steamship Company
Robert Melzer
John Phelin
Three Big Ships to Be Built at Fore River
The Fore River Ship Building Corporation signed contracts to construct three large steamers. Two vessels are for Edgar F. Luckenbach of New York City and one for the Argentine government. The total cost is $2,600,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fore River
Fore River Ship Building Corporation
Edgar F. Luckenbach
New York City
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Pop
Waterman
Felder
L. E. Waterman Company
St. Boston
Billard
REED
Girl
Asquith
London Globe
Kitchener
Captain Coffin
Boston Post
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Houghton & Dutton
Pern Vali
Union
Ilson Bros AS
Scollay SQ
Mt. Vernon
Ginter Co
Elm & Union
Washington St
Canal St
Bromfield St
Thety Co
C. B. Brown Co., Inc
Scie Tasebens St
Adams House
Specialty Shop, Inc
Trement St
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