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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1911
Page
14
Roy L. Van Wormer of New York was arrested in Boston with Elliot C. Lee of Brookline, linked to Col Roosevelt's former wife, in a case where $800 worth of books were sold for $5000. Book publishers and dealers in Boston called it a long standing scam, with hundreds of similar cases known to the trade.
Van Worner was arrested at Mr. Lee’s Brookline home by Inspector Gilbert Angell on a $5000 larceny charge. Police seek a second man in a scheme posing as book collectors for a Pittsburg millionaire to obtain an edition de luxe of Dickens and a Scott volume offered for 5000 dollars but valued at 800 the pair planned to split profits.
The riot signal sounded at 9 pm in Quincy to summon nearly all the police to Music Hall for the fourth annual Quincy Police Officers Relief Association ball. About 450 couples attended. grand march led by Lieutenant Daniel McKay and Mrs McKay, with Chief Frank E Burrell and Mrs Burrell following. Inspector Alfred Goodhue served as floor director.
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