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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1919
Page
2
Miss Alice Simpson testified in Augusta Maine that Langdon Bates of Winslow fired the shot that killed Edith Cole in Winslow on August 13. She said Bates confessed to her and warned that “it is your turn” after the act during the murder trial.
A witness recalls pleading for mercy before a man fired, wounding a woman in the shoulder. The incident prompted police to investigate and seek a suspect.
John Goodine and Chester Ward testified they saw Bates that night and heard him say he sought fame and that it might be now. They heard rifle shots. Waterville Marshal Farrington said Bates confessed he did not know why he shot the two women. The defense may plead insanity. Prosecution says Bates shot Mrs Cole by mistake aiming at Miss Simpson.
Viola Ernst aged 68 was found dead in bed at 45 Spring street with illuminating gas flowing from an open jet in the next room. A pet dog also lay dead. Police suspect she woke in the night and accidentally opened the jet. Her husband Henry Ernst is in Stamford Vermont and has been notified.
John Foster, secretary of the Giants, announced that the Giants and Washington Senators will play two games in Norfolk, Virginia, on April 16 and 17. The Giants also expect to face Yale at the Polo Grounds on April 22, the day before the major league season opens.
Winthrop Coffin of Brookline is named to the Boston Elevated Railway Company board of public trustees. Governor Coolidge appointed him January 29 and the nomination was confirmed after Coffin accepted despite health concerns. He replaces Galen L. Stone and cites decades in street railways and banking work as his qualification.
The famed French ace Guynemer downed his eighth Hun plane and suffered facial wounds plus two bullet hits in the arm in the next instalment of his life story in the Sunday Post.
A meeting at Giants offices tomorrow will form a committee to raise a memorial for Captain Eddie Grant third baseman killed in the Argonne forest. John McGraw and Billy Murray are expected to head the committee with baseball officials players writers army officers and fans to contribute.
New York Feb 12 S IX Sanborn longtime Chicago baseball writer and Baseball Writers Association president is recommended for chairman of the national commission by William Veeck National league committeeman He has the support of Ban Johnson and may be elected by Johnson and Heydler during his stay in New York
Advertises solid mahogany gate leg tables reduced from 37 50 to 16 50 and mahogany and walnut tea wagons from 22 to 12 50. Also lists telephone sets in all finishes reduced from 7 to 3 75 and dining extension tables in all finishes with reductions.
The second day of the Massachusetts agricultural show at Horicultural Hall highlighted milk supply concerns from the American Public Health Association and labor guidance for fruit farms. An exhibit stressed ecorn-borer prevention by removing corn stalks, while prize apples showcased sprayed and pruned trees. Friday will spotlight women’s farm work with lectures and moving pictures.
Senator Weeks urged the Senate banking committee to abolish the Treasury comptroller post and transfer powers to the Federal Reserve Board. He argued the office concentrated too much authority in one man and clashed with the Reserve Board. He also called John Skelton Williams temporarily unfit.
The steamship Santa Teresa arrived with 1456 troops and 14 convalescent detachments bound for Virginia and Georgia. The Peerless carried 157 officers and enlisted men and will dock tomorrow. Stockholm followed from Brest with 2084 troops including headquarters, medical detachment, and several companies of the 98th Division, plus 400 other casuals and 14 nurses.
Advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a physician prescribed kidney liver and bladder medicine. It claims long tested effectiveness and urges purchase at drugstores or request a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY with Boston Daily Post noted.
The Senate received a favorable report from the committee on federal relations on Senator Curran of Boston urging President Wilson to back self determination for Ireland at the peace conference. Massachusetts war service members would be exempt from poll taxes for 1917 and during the war up to their discharge year, and soldiers and sailors would be exempt from civil service laws.
Martin K. Olsen, 38, of Dorchester, taken to Field’s Corner Police Station for drunkenness and later identified as a repeat burglar with a record of jewelry thefts. He had fled from the police earlier and was sought by Brookline Milton Braintree and Brockton authorities for two months on breaking and entering and larceny charges.
Willard Storage Battery Company service station dealers conclude a two day meeting in Fremont Temple with a symposium on questions in the automobile and storage battery trade led by William W. Wyneken and Harry S. Bentley. An educational film titled Through Service We Grow was shown detailing a Willard dealer’s development under company policies. The film is highlighted as an early example of dramatic industrial cinema in business storytelling.
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