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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1917
Page
7
In closing arguments, Keyes is branded a villain by both the state and defence as the Varney trial nears its end. The contentious bid to sway voters in Roxbury is described as a baseless fabrication born from Keyes’s own mind.
Harriet A Varney is found not guilty in the murder case in Dedham. The courtroom drama ends as she is discharged and walks free, ending Massachusetts’ most talked about trial.
Adjutant General Jesse E. Stevens directs widespread notices to all draft age men in the Commonwealth. The posters warn that failing to report an address change can brand registrants as deserters and urge immediate notification to the adjutant-general or local board. Applies to those 21 by June 5, 1917 who had not passed 31st birthday as of that date.
In France and Belgium little action beyond shelling and small recon patrols. In northern Italy Austro German forces fail to pierce the Italian line at Caprillo Hill and suffer heavy casualties. Berlin reports a British attack on the Italian front repulsed. In the North Sea German naval foray sinks one British and five neutral ships and four minesweepers. two British destroyers are damaged or sunk.
Berlin dispatch reports German Foreign Secretary Dr Richard von Kuehlmann will travel to Brest-Litovsk during the week to take part in peace negotiations with Russia. Amsterdam dispatches note the voyage and talks form part of the peace council efforts.
Charles Wesley Atkins, 63, a well known real estate broker and contractor, died suddenly at his home 46 Irving Street Everett yesterday. Assistant Medical Examiner William H. McBain ruled death due to acute dilation of the heart.
Paul K. Rust announces reels from France showing American soldiers in action to be shown in Symphony Hall for a Christmas gift to Marshal Joffre’s fatherless children of France. The program includes gas attack and liquid fire scenes and other Army Navy footage.
A fire at the Southgate Press plant on 889 Broad Street started on the top floor and spread rapidly. Six workers escaped as alarms triggered multiple calls. the blaze jumped to a five story building housing the General Express Company. Damage is estimated at $15,000. The ground floor houses Baker Brothers tobacco.
Victor Hugo Duras of Nebraska, former American vice consul at Liege, freed by the Bolshevik government in Petrograd but cannot yet leave Russia. Arrested August 1916 at the Finnish frontier on suspicion of spying, authorities cited items seized including a supposed American legation seal and a signed note from the Romanian mission. Duras disputed the charges, explaining the German pass came from Belgium. the U S embassy sought explanation as Russia called him a spy.
Robert Warm a United States cavalryman from Pottstown Pennsylvania who was recently found guilty of manslaughter in the death of his young sweetheart Jennie Hemingway filed a petition for a new trial claiming that new and important evidence had been discovered.
Mexican federal soldiers fired on an American cavalry patrol near Fabens Texas, killing a horse and wounding another, with an American return fire that left a Mexican soldier down. In Cleveland Ohio John D Rockefeller's Forest Hill home burned in a rapid blaze likely incendiary, destroying a 60 room mansion with paintings bronzes and tapestries. losses exceed 50 000 dollars.
A special committee proposing a dog law submitted a tentative bill at a State House hearing. The measure imposes a 5 dollar license for males and 6 dollars for females, orders seizure of dogs found at large, confines dogs on owners premises from sunset to two hours after sunrise between April 1 and November 1, and allows officers to kill any dog running at large in violation.
A Massachusetts group, the State Union of Women’s Clubs with 600 members, circularizes opposition to Mayor Curley. The note accuses him of using black henchmen and selling out the race in Birth of a Nation. It cites federal anti lynching history and urges Black men to vote against James M. Curley.
Miss Hattie Frost aged 26 from Clyde Street Newtonville vanished from her home yesterday and is believed to have gone toward Worcester. She had told a friend she might travel to New York or to Ayer to see an army officer. Her father and Worcester police, plus Ayer authorities, are searching.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a sequence of prices such as 79¢ 19¢ and 1.45 3.45, followed by vague terms like Sweat and two OS references, but no coherent item or event is identifiable.
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