Collusion Alleged in Collectors Department Charged
A report alleges collusion within the collectors department with charges of drunkenness and dishonesty. Details remain unclear as the investigation proceeds.
14 Feb 1911
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1911
Page
1
A report alleges collusion within the collectors department with charges of drunkenness and dishonesty. Details remain unclear as the investigation proceeds.
The McCall bill to implement the Canadian reciprocity agreement advances in the House. A test vote shows a tight party split, with 197 for immediate consideration and 120 against. Opponents concede likely passage before adjournment, as support coalesces around the tariff trade measure.
Plymouth on February 13 opened the state’s first Plymouth murder trial in ten years. Mrs Lena Cusumano and Enrico Marsciali known as Harry Marshall stand accused of killing Francisco Cusumano at Hull on September 18 1910. Judge William Schofield presided with Reverend C P Lombard offering prayer.
William Otis Wiley of 580 Commonwealth Avenue was arrested on an indictment warrant for larceny of 2000 dollars from the Henry Price Lodge of Masons in Charlestown where he served as secretary. He was discharged from the Jordan Burnham Coal Co office at 6 City Square, Charlestown, last Saturday. books are under careful overhaul per Henry Gregory Jordan, company president.
Dana J. Flanders says Wiley under suspicion in Henry Price Lodge case after Henry Gregory Jordan notes Wiley was fired and books to be checked. Wiley, longtime Charlestown resident and former Smith & Wiley Coal partner, was arrested after leaving Beverly Hall home and delaying bail.
Hon W Bourke Cockran of New York told Roxbury at the St Alphonsus Association annual dinner that Lincoln is greater than Washington as the instrument of God and the exemplar of justice and morality. He said Lincoln saved the republic from domestic secession and will be viewed as more splendid than Washington.
Mrs. Rose Elvira Lord 24 filed an alienation of affections suit against Mr. and Mrs. George B. Lord of 1428 Emerson Melrose seeking $25 000 damages for her husband Walter B. Lord 21 their son The attachment was filed at East Cambridge and the Lords are a prominent Melrose family with the case expected to draw sensational attention.
Promoters revealed plans for a new palatial hotel on Arlington and Newbury streets in Back Bay. The project would cost $2,500,000 and occupy 20,000 feet of land now owned by the Young Men's Christian Association after recent negotiations reached a definite form.
Mrs Lord, wife of Walter Lord, sues his parents for damages citing hardship caring for her five month old son without the father's help. Rose Elvira Skoglund, formerly their maid, alleges advances by Walter Lord, with the parents not protesting. The incident centers on January 14, 1910.
2:35 a m Box SG Pauls lunch room 1624 Washington street need lews om 055 a m Box 621 L Parsile 2% Everett street East Boston S85 2:36 p m Box 702 M Cohen 34 Billerica street slight 5:47 p m Box 282 J Daniels 18 Normandie street Roxbury slight 7:10 p m Box 76 R D Williams 94 Pembroke street 35 7:30 p m Box 127 Eben E Hartne 16 Lark street South Boston 50 7:63 p m Box 4385 J G Ginn 281 Medford street rear Charles town 10
Coffin and Taber of 24 Milk Street announce plans for a 25 room luxury hotel to rise 100 feet high. The project aims to match Touraine style, with Boston hotel man support and a total city investment in modern aristocratic hotels reaching about 10 million dollars.
Dr. David D. Scannell assailed public school medical inspection as a farce and linked physician appointments to political debts while speaking at the Twentieth Century Club. Courtenay Guild, former city collector, described spoils system evils, including drunkenness and dishonesty in his department.
Chairman John A. Sullivan and other speakers denounced waste, blaming inadequate school facilities and backward streets on money squandered by keeping political heelers in office. Dr Charles W Hi fot president emeritus of Harvard Warren K Spaulding also spoke.
Colin MacRae Makepeace a Goldcoaster at Harvard returns to college after a week in Concord working as a day laborer with an allowance enough for a comfortable family living.
Makepeace from Providence leaves Harvard to seek work after exams. He tries farm work in Concord shovelling snow, then becomes a chambermaid in a livery stable above Hampden Hall. He endures blisters and odor, but is glad for the experience and his Hampden Hall rooms.
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