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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1922
Page
6
Joseph Gomes and John Machado DaRocha, both 19 from Taunton, received 2 to 25 years in State prison for a December criminal assault on Miss Lilla Davis, a Raynham housekeeper. Judge Lummus cited public welfare over the offenders' futures as she described the attack after a Christmas tree festival.
Representative John J. Heffernan urged a bill before the public service committee to add ten assistant district attorneys in Suffolk County. Six would earn 5000 dollars and four 4000 dollars annually, with a law clerk at 2500. All salaries would come from the State treasury. No opposition was voiced.
Mrs Della Vine of Westminster Terrace Roxbury testified in federal court that she pawned her diamonds to raise a fund for her husband during his last illness in New York. She disputed claims by a niece of the deceased husband that the wife deserted him before his death at Blackwell's Island Hospital.
Senator William H. McDonnell denounced the Concord reformatory as the worst state institution for teaching crime to young inmates. He spoke before the Joint Judiciary Committee during hearings on bills to place convicted persons in reformatories for three to five year terms, beyond the current two and a half year limit. Commissioner Sanford Bates opposed the bills.
Representative Stephen C. Sullivan urged the Legislature to elect the successors of DAs removed by the Supreme Court by popular vote rather than gubernatorial appointment under certain conditions. He spoke to the joint judiciary committee yesterday.
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