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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1913
Page
7
Police Inspector Dennis Sweeney and two policemen Hartigan and Robinson were indicted by the extraordinary grand jury on graft charges. They were arrested on bench warrants after a confession linked to Police Captain Thomas Walsh. Sweeney posted 10000 dollars bond for a hearing next Wednesday.
John Tancredi, owner of a small restaurant on the upper East Side, told the grand jury that he paid monthly sums of 40 to 60 dollars to a police collector while operating a legitimate business. District Attorney Whitman presented Tancredi’s check stubs showing payments to “Gendarmerie, police” and gave his testimony as a witness.
John Garrity aged 75 of 9 La Fayette Park Roxbury died at City Hospital yesterday noon from injuries after leaping from a third story window of his home to the sidewalk at 5 AM amid temporary insanity.
An advertisement promotes gallol as a remedy for “well rounded” figures. It claims starvation causes skinniness and that dissolving gallol in sugar water, then taking two teaspoons before meals, improves a woman’s form with privacy.
A fire in an ell of the Royall House on Main Street Medford last night caused about 5000 dollars in damage. Caretaker B F Fenton estimated 3500 on the ell and 1500 on the main colonial mansion, with much of the relics saved by firefighters. The Royall House, built in 1690 and once home to Governor Winthrop, is being restored by the Royall House Association.
Mrs Margaret Deland hosted her 19th annual Jonquil sale at 35 Newbury Street yesterday afternoon. Nearly 300 pots of fragrant blooms including jonquils narcissus tulips and hyacinths were sold from 2 to 5 30 in the library for charity benefiting an invalid as a throng filled the house to purchase flowers.
The Boston Children's Aid Society met at the Twentieth Century Club with Horatio A. Lamb presiding. The treasurer reported $4314.71 spent in January, $17020.24 since Oct 1. A $500 legacy was received. Fourteen children were placed in families, 128 considered, and 616 referred this year.
Washington February 17 a bill to authorize construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Baton Rogue La was approved in the House Memphis Tenn becomes the farthest south point bridged on the river and the city gains a new connection to the waterway
Promises a miracle hair remedy for baldness dandruff and scalp itching. Claims European Gold Medal status and rapid growth with a money back guarantee. Advertises Cresto Laboratories offer mail-in coupon and American rights for Crystalis.
A reader notice offers free information from Cresto Laboratories of Binghamton New York about Crystalis claims to stop falling hair banish dandruff and itching scalp and promote new growth whitening color without dyeing. The request asks for full proof and particulars and to enclose a two cent stamp.
New Haven February 17 Yale University head Arthur T Hadley was granted a leave of absence for several weeks due to illness and a recent facial abscess operation. He will travel to California for rest with Mrs Hadley and their two sons remaining in school. Department heads will handle duties and Secretary Stokes will sign papers as needed.
The funeral of Mrs Margaret Lucy Wagner Evans of Dorchester was held yesterday from her home at 17 Everett Avenue after her death on February 14 in her eighty third year. She is survived by four sons including Boston police officers, one daughter, and a granddaughter. Born in Dunmanway County Cork Ireland she came to the United States as a girl and lived in Boston over 65 years. The interment was in Mt Hope Cemetery.
Police investigating a Sunday safe robbery at the E. E. Gray Company grocers in Hanover and Blackstone streets believe inside assistance was used. They think a confederate in the store planned the heist and timed the break, which yielded between 10 000 and 12 000 dollars in cash and silver.
Police trace entry to basement door at 83 Union Street and escape through the same door by 10:15. A visiting businessman's routine confirms the time frame while a watchman noted the door was left ajar. Silver found in the adjoining room suggests the safeman’s leather bag was dropped during the theft.
James C. Eckert sues to claim half of the 2 000 000 estate of General Thomas T. Eckert, late Western Union president. The defendant is Thomas T. Eckert Jr., the plaintiff’s brother and principal legatee. Eckert contends unduly influenced the elder Eckert, who died at age 92, and seeks a share under the will’s provisions.
Reverend Fred P. Haggard of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society told First Baptist Church audiences that gifts of 50 000 and even 1 000 000 should be expected as the denomination launches a 3 000 000 fund drive over three years. He urged members to double their contributions and modeled success from other denominations.
President John H. Patterson of National Cash Register Company was sentenced to one year in county jail at Troy, Ohio, and fined 5000 dollars. Twenty eight other NCR officials and employees received jail terms from three months to one year and were ordered to pay court costs.
Judge Hollister denounced the defendants business methods as needless in a case where millions could be made legitimately. Sentences ranged from three months to one year for numerous officers and staff, with Edgeter’s judgment set aside for noninvolvement during the indictment period. Bonds were set at $10,000 for Patterson and $5,000 for others as appeals were noted.
Chicago February 17 Lieutenant Governor Barratt O Hara urged whipping posts for mashers as a curb on white slavery. He said he already backed whipping white slavers and now wants to extend the plan to block street predators who accost women on the public highways.
Four Haverhill shoe manufacturers Hilliard Taber Leavitt Witherell Dobbins Perry file bills in equity in the Superior Court to stop strikes and prevent interference with employees. John A Oldham and other officers of United Shoe Workers of America Cutters Local 63 are named as defendants.
Poughkeepsie Feb 17 Dr James Monroe Taylor president of Vassar College since 1886 today tendered his resignation to the Board of Trustees to take effect at the end of the college year in June The board also announced the resignation of Mrs J Ryland Kendrick principal effective at once
Walter G. Jenness, a wealthy Somerville lumber merchant, served with a divorce libel by Mrs Florence Ada Jenness who asserts she is his stepdaughter not wife. The filing details her age, marriage at Dover in 1892, and life with him across several cities, with two children including an eight year old still in his household. The article mixes this with unrelated ship and market notices, including cargo vessels, fish prices, and port imports.
A crew of 31 fishermen including two steam trawler hands waited at T Wharf yesterday as receipts fell short of demand but prices eased from last week. Haddock led with 355700 pounds, cod 52400, hake 65100, pollock 10200, cusk 18700 and scrod haddock 13000, with the latter split between the Crest and Foam. Cusk was landed by the Clara G Silva Mary Sears and Josephine De Costa 1000 pounds each Adeline 500 pounds Mo
Maritime listings show arrivals from Britain Germany and colonies including Median Braunfels Ely Christophersen Palenque Esparza Mader City of Columbus Diehl Kershaw Johnson May Archer Archibald and more. Clearances include Carpathia City of Columbus Savannah and H F Dimock while sailings list Sicilian Naneric Erroll Howard James S Whitney and tug connections with Edwin L Pillsbury and Tabor.
A rich shoe manufacturer Leonard H. Spaulding and his colored chauffeur Evan S. Cameron of 49 St. Marys Street Brookline faced an attachment filed yesterday for 25000 with the registrar of deeds at Fast Cambridge as the result of an alleged assault.
Attorney John L Hall said the filing of suit against Spaulding for assault follows a vestibule fight at 2 am on January 22 near St Marys street. Chauffeur William Grant confessed to injuring Cameron a former Princeton football standout now home with facial wounds. Judge Perkins noted Cameron would be justified if Grant had died and held Spaulding partly responsible while delaying Grant’s sentence pending the other case.
Pekin February 17 Six parliamentary overseas representatives have been elected to the new Chinese National Assembly. Included are Tong King-Chong editor of a San Francisco Chinese newspaper and Choo Shen-San of New York, among others, to replace the provisional Parliament.
A reader asks how to choose medicines wisely. The reply argues experience from common use guides selection. Advertising can start trial, but lasting trust comes from proven relief of coughs colds catarrh and other ailments. Peruna cited as best remedy for everyday climatic issues.
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