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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1922
Page
8
The Boston Post offers a $1000 prize pool for the best twenty jury stories. Prizes range from $500 to $5 with fifteen $5 awards. Submissions must be original, up to 250 words, on one side, to the Jury Story Editor at the Boston Post. Judges include Massachusetts officials and lawyers.
A parade of light courtroom anecdotes from New Hampshire and Massachusetts recounts jurors mischief and missteps. A Canadian plaintiff weighs a half inch ankle difference in a frivolous suit. A male prisoner jokes about a sentence from twelve women jurors. A Plymouth case recalls armistice chaos and a staged verdict. An Exeter jury acquits citing left-handedness.
Wilfred Mulveny, once with three Boston broker offices, was returned from New York for arraignment in Superior Court on charges of conspiracy to steal about $40 000 and fraud against Abbie Flagg for $25 000. Police say his dealings affected several hundred people with blue sky securities.
Captain John J Canney of the Central Square Police Station Cambridge seeks a woman to return a gold wedding ring. The sole condition is that she can identify the initials engraved inside the band.
Clinton launches a drive to reduce school salaries, proposing a $100 cut for all staff earning over $1200 yearly. The plan targets the superintendent, high school principals, and about 60 teachers, with town laborers also slated for wage reductions. Appropriations totaling $291,000 are approved.
The Rev. Harding Hughes a superannuated minister was found guilty of murder in the death of Mrs. Anna McKennon last May The jury fixed his punishment at life imprisonment at Mount Ida Arkansas February 17.
Street commissioners rejected the petition to rename Kneeland Street from Washington to Atlantic Avenue to Stuart Street for a new connector from Huntington Avenue to Atlantic Avenue. The $2,500,000 project, approved in Mayor Peters’ era with a $350,000 net city cost, prompted Mayor Curley to joke about naming the street Larceny Lane at the hearing.
The Men's Glee Club with the Banjo Club performed in Jacob Sleeper Hall while the Girls' Glee Club at the College of Secretarial Science sang in the assembly hall with help from the Mandolin Club. The quartet featured Dorothy Herrick Kathryn Knudsen Mary Mortimer and Gladys Ewell.
Mayor James M. Curley announced a plan to convene all Boston public health agencies at City Hall with the new health director to create a clearing house for health improvement. The meetings would occur biweekly, with fallback to the assistant medical examiner if Dr Francis X Mahoney is not confirmed. The plan would channel part of George W White’s 7 million gift into five health units aiming to cut Boston infant mortality by a quarter within five years.
Twenty Roxbury storekeepers will appear in Roxbury District Court Monday morning to answer charges of violation of the Sabbath laws.
George W. Dunham of Malden pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the shooting death of his sweetheart Althea B. Knight at her father’s grocery on Ferry street Malden on October 31 1921. Judge Brown sentenced him to 18 to 20 years in State prison.
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