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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
9
A crippled switch in the East Boston yards halted Narrow Gauge service to and from Lynn Revere and Winthrop shortly before 8 PM for about half an hour. Several hundred commuters were affected as trains could not run on the line.
A blaze destroyed Rockefeller Hall at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, leaving four foreign students from Smyrna among many who lost belongings. The dormitory housed 90 and, now gone, could force enrollment limits next fall amid an acute housing shortage.
Endicott Peabody Saltonstall former Middlesex County district attorney was honored at a Brookline First Parish Unitarian Church service attended by bar dignitaries and federal state and local officials. The East Cambridge Superior Criminal Court closed in salute and the burial followed at Harmony Grove Cemetery Salem.
Children discover their parents dead in a Sookiasian tenement after a Christmas tree feast. A .38 revolver lies clutched by the father, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot. Medical examiner calls it murder suicide amid jealousy allegations.
Police say quarrels sparked suspicions in a Lynn couple of Armenian descent. Mr and Mrs Sooklasian, born in Constantinople, came to Lynn eight years ago. Children sent to their maternal uncle Kitkos Manovdian at 380 Chatham Street. Parents' bodies taken to Lynn undertaking rooms.
In Mineola New York on December 21 Mrs Hazel Hirsh was acquitted by a jury of shooting her husband at a party earlier in the summer. The defense argued the shooting was accidental while she tried to avert his self harm. The verdict came after a brief deliberation of about one hour and eighteen minutes.
Mrs. Hirsh embraced her husband and kissed her lawyer George Levy and friend Mrs. Carrillo after a trial for assault. She declared happiness and pledged to prove via future actions that she deserved the verdict. Hirsh then testified he shot himself accidentally while she tried to stop him from self harm.
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