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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1917
Page
12
Patrolman Murphy arrested Henry Driscoll and Johannan Poppadogian after a $2 bill passed in a doorway led to a bribe attempt. The men allegedly met by appointment and offered protection to a gambling house for $5 weekly, with a $2 payment witnessed by an inspector hidden in the doorway.
Passengers and officers aboard the American liner Kroonland report sighting two mysterious ships on Feb 5 in mid ocean. One vessel resembled a submarine while another appeared as a German raider or supply ship with a single funnel and dark paint. No signals were exchanged and the ships vanished after a brief close approach.
On February 1 the Dutch freighter Kroonland was 1 1/2 miles off the Irish coast when a submarine fired and sank another Dutch ship. Survivors took a lifeboat, the submersible towed it, and the freighter went down in about five minutes. The Kroonland’s crew saw the submersible surface and fire three shots from a deck gun. A British cruiser had been seen earlier.
Ten teams competed for a 350000 fund to build and maintain a Charlestown clubhouse for enlisted Army and Navy men under the YMCA. After a week the total reached 125574 with team splits listed, led by border team members who served at the Mexican border.
The executive committee of Governor McCall's new public safety panel sat in the council chamber from afternoon until near midnight. Valuable information came from Robert Bacon former ambassador to France and J W Powell president of the Fore River Shipbuilding Corporation.
Mr Bacon outlined civilian organization expectations while Mr Powell detailed State industrial resources and wartime use. The executive committee met in the council chamber at 10 30 this morning with President A Lawrence Lowell to discuss Harvard regiment details. Walter C Fish Howard Coonly H C Dodge Commodore James P Parker and officials from Red Cross and other groups are slated to testify today and tomorrow as Adjutant General Pearson briefed the panel. Chair James J Storrow noted the committee is gathering facts to present to the 100 on Wednesday and will keep information confidential for now.
In Manchester New Hampshire two attempted suicides occurred within 24 hours. Flora Isabelle 24 of 182 Merrimac Street is dying at County Hospital Grasmere after swallowing corrosive sublimate tablets in her apartment. A brother in law said she wanted to die. Patrolman William Stewart forced entry at Lake Avenue and Elm Street after tenants smelled gas and found an unconscious man. The man was revived with a pulmotor and taken to County Hospital in critical condition.
The German torpedo boat destroyer V-69 departed Ymuiden Holland at 6 45 last evening aided by a German tug. Dutch cruiser Noord Brabant and six Dutch torpedo boats escorted the warship through territorial waters. The V-69 had been damaged in battle with British destroyers weeks ago and previously steered south.
London Feb 11 The British steam ship Japanese Prince torpedoed without warning by a German submarine. The vessel carried many Americans and all crew were landed, according to a despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
A lawyer’s receipt for defending two men charged with breaking and entering was found by Dorchester police in the possession of Joseph Goldman, who was arrested on the piazza of Elliott D. Jacques residence at 31 Wellesley Park in Dorchester Centre.
Goldman 24, a hotel Langham resident and theatrical worker, was caught with a two prong jimmy on the Jacques house piazza. Police tie him to a burglary ring after finding a attorney fee receipt for Brookline suspects and photos in his pockets. He faces Dorchester court arraignment on carrying burglars tools.
The Boston Gaelic School Society passed resolutions at a mass meeting thanking Congressman Gallivan for his work toward an embargo on foodstuffs. The society also praised his commitment to Gaelic people in the U S and Ireland.
The Duke of Norfolk, senior English Catholic and Earl Marshal, died in London after a brief illness. Born December 27, 1847, he served as postmaster general and led Belgian relief funds, and his heir is the eight year old Earl of Arundel and Surrey with an estate valued at about $1.5 million annually.
Mark A. Hanley, 27, of 146 Summer Street, Lynn, was found dead in his room yesterday from accidental asphyxiation due to a gas stove with burners lit and cocks open beside the bed.
William Lavery a prominent Amesbury phosphate manufacturer was found frozen to death under his overturned sleigh on Buttonwood road at about 2 30 am Patrolman Fred Ives located the sleigh Lavery appeared unable to free himself and froze to death before aid arrived The horse was still hitched to the sleigh Medical Examiner Murphy reviewed the body
A Boston reader asks in a letter to the Post which first class hotels have ample, readily reached fire escapes. He notes several cheaper hotels with visible iron stairs but cannot recall any escapes on the high priced houses. Boston, Feb. 11.
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