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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1919
Page
3
New Haven mayor David Witzgerald sent a letter to the War Department asserting the city’s claim to possession of a 220-millimetre gun placed on Boston Common. The gun was captured by P Company, 102d Regiment, in the sequence of events noted.
Pitfield February 13 Lincoln Mc Kinley Grant of this city will be tried in Superior Court on April 7 for murder in connection with Miles Hewitt’s death found February 22, 1917. Grant has been held for sanity review. experts say he is sane. It is not yet decided if Mrs. Margaret Hewitt will face trial as an accessory. She is out on bail and lives in Springfield.
William Lustgarten, once president of the Tax Lien Company of New York, accused of misappropriating 500000 to 700000 dollars, has been arrested by French military authorities and will be sent to New York to face civil charges. He disappeared in 1917 amid grand larceny indictment, reportedly seeking death by suicide before enlisting under an alias with the 309th Engineers. A separate item notes a science expedition sailing February 26 led by William Beebe with 18 scientists to collect birds snakes and insects in South America, including Miss Mabel Satterlee and Professor William M Wheeler aboard for bird and ant studies.
A ten percent pay increase at the Charles Town navy yard applies to about 35 workers. Quartermen will earn 10.24 dollars per day and master workmen 14.44 dollars per day under the new schedule.
The British air ministry reports a service aircraft yesterday completed a Paris to London crossing in one hour and fifty minutes, marking a new speed record for the route.
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