Grand jury action tied to Big Bill fare case
Formal action on revelations by Big Bill followed by Kelcher's testimony naming police implicated in the fare game. Assistant District Attorney F J Groehl plans to report to District Attorney Whitman while a New York police lieutenant denies taking bribes, amid remarks by Big Bill.
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Keliher
F. J. Groehl
New York
Kelcher
Groehl
Whitman
Post
Martin Walsh
John L. Bates
National City Bank OF
Cambridge
Will Urge Pardon for C F King
The governor's council pardon committee visited Car denio F King at Bridgewater State Hospital and will urge a pardon today. A conference with Governor Foss will decide if an unconditional pardon is possible and how it would be timed with King's recovery. Dr McLaughlin warned the case is life threatening without release.
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Cardenio F. King
Governor’s Council
King
State Hospital
Bridgewater
Joseph I. McQcaughlin
Charlestown
Walsh
Goetting
Frothingham
Denny
Collins
Hamlin
McLaughlin
Foss
Herbert Parker
Boston Public Library Settling Despite Guarded Trustees Report
Engineers report the Boston Public Library has settled slightly over ten years, tilting four inches west and two inches front due to insecure Back Bay foundations. Trustees in the 61st annual report say the settlement is minor and not damaging, noting the Boylston street tunnel excavation as the cause and that a prior grade survey prompted a rapid review.
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Boston Public Library
Back Bay
Boylston Street
Hearst Urges Wilson to Choose Bryan for Cabinet
William Randolph Hearst discusses the national political scene in a Copley Plaza interview. He suggests President-elect Wilson should name Colonel Bryan to the Cabinet if advantageous to the administration and the country, noting strained ties with Bryan since Baltimore. He calls for citizens to suspend criticism of Wilson.
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William. Randolph Hearst
Wilson
Colonel Bryan
Bryan
Mr. Hearst
Copley Plaza Hotel
Baltimore
Champ Clark
Missouri
Hearst
Bootblack Offers Standard Oil Stock as Bail
Leonard Bolpe a bootblack at 26 Broadway offered seven shares of Standard Oil stock as bail for a friend arraigned in Police Court. Magistrate Corrigan considered security as Bolpe produced seven certificates and stated he shines Rockefeller’s shoes and knows the stock value.
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New York
Leonard Bolpe
Standard Oil
Broadway
Corrigan
Staten Island
Bolpe
Prize bulldog Prince Regent obituary verdict awarded
Alf Delmont, a Philadelphia dog fancier, won a $1500 verdict against Adams Express Co in the Court of Common Pleas for the death of his prize English bulldog Prince Regent. The dog, crated and sound, died while being shipped from the 1904 Boston beach show to Devon, Pennsylvania, after being allegedly smothered by piled trunks and baggage.
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Alf Delmont
Adams Express Company
Court of Common Pleas
Braintree
Mass
Express Company
Boston
Delmont
Devon
Penn
Consignee
Suffragettes Sned Pepper to Cabinet Parsimoniously
The Express reports that suffragettes sent pepper dipped letters to every cabinet minister at the House of Commons causing sneezing across the cabinet.
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London
the Express
House of Commons
Mrs Grew Testifies in Slander Suit Over Baby Abuse Claim
Mrs Ethel Hooper Grew of 254 Marlboro street testified for herself in a slander case brought by Nellie N Doane, a former nurse in her employ. Doane claims Mrs Grew told callers that Doane slapped and abused her baby, costing her employment.
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Nellie N Doane
Henry 8. Grew
Marlboro Street
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ethel Hooper Grew
Nellie N. Doane
Moody Doane Sparks Employee Conflict Over Child
Mrs Grew denied telling people Miss Doane was unsuitable yet described the year she worked as satisfactory then not. A fellow employee later testified Doane slapped and abused her child Jimmie, which Doane denied. Mrs Grew, wife of a bank president, said she bore no malice and would recommend Doane for another job.
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Mrs. Grew
Miss Doane
Turks Remain On Defensive as Guns Bombard Adrianople
A Belgrade dispatch to the Daily Mail reports forty Servian seven inch guns bombarding Adrianople. Fugitives say breadstuffs are scarce but some supplies remain, and a Bulgarian aircraft dropped surrender proclamations over the town yesterday.
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Adrianople
London
Daily Mail
Belgrade
Turks Defend Adrianople as Bombardment Recedes
From Techatalja to Adrianople, Turkish defense holds while bombardment subsides. Adrianople fortress reportedly has four months of provisions, with officials in Constantinople confident in the regime. Winter weather and overall condition limit major operations along the Tchatalia lines for now.
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London
Techatalja
Adrianople
Tanin
Constantinople
Servant of Neighbor Attacked on Same Night
Screams heard as a servant of a neighbor is attacked at night. A beach incident follows, with a loud call to a door. Police report a sequence of distressing events near the residence, prompting an investigation into the assault.
Beach Trial Nears End After 8 Witnesses Testify
In Aiken South Carolina on February 4 the prosecution nears completion of its circumstantial case against Frederick O Beach of New York for attacking his wife. Eight witnesses testified. Mrs Beach will testify that a negro, not her husband, slashed her throat at the Beach winter home last February. The Wyman family across the street heard screams around 9 30 that night and a door being rapped with a man shouting This is Beach let me in.
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Aiken
S. C
Frederick O. Beach
New York
Wyman
Beach
Beach details search after wife’s assault claim
Through Dr. Marton Wyman the defense revealed Beach said the next day that after finding his wife prostrated the victim of a negro assailant he carried her inside then went out again to find the man. He returned unsuccessful and said he knocked on the door to be admitted.
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Marton Wyman
Beach
Urge Ants Drinking Bill for Trainmen
A bill to prohibit intoxicating liquors by trainmen drew a large crowd before the railroad committee. Debate centered on enacting a prohibitory statute versus relying on existing rules of the road and the trainmen's union.
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Railroad Committee
Malden Mayor Salary Cut From Two Thousand to Twelve Hundred
Malden board of aldermen, agreeing with the city council, reduced the mayor’s salary from 2000 to 1200 dollars. No Malden mayor had previously earned 2000, the ordinance setting that rate passing only about a month ago. Before that the salary stood at 1000 dollars.
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Malden
Forecast for New England from Washington briefing
Washington reports a forecast for New England with fair weather on Wednesday and Thursday and moderate west winds.
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Boston
Washington
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