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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1910
Page
3
New York February 20 autopsy on Miss Lucille Clerk the English girl who died Friday at the Hotel Grenoble failed to identify the poison. Coroner Hellenstein said decomposition prevented determining the exact poison despite the examination.
Coroner's physician John J. O'Hanlon reports the autopsy shows noneptomaine poisoning and notes the organs decomposed rapidly. The body belonged to a young woman who died after Friday alive, with numbness spreading from the extremities to the heart. A Los Angeles despatch hinted at possible poisoning and missing nurse witnesses.
The report recounts Miss Clerk’s fading observations as she died, describing numbness, chest oppression, and a final heart failure. It traces her origins from India to Scotland, ties to Francis Fry and Mrs. Fry, and notes an ongoing search for her mother in India while coroner’s officials consider police involvement.
Agnes May Galletly, 17, graduate of Eastern District High School and daughter of William Galletly of 270 Ainslie Street Williamsburg, reportedly died of heartbreak after a woman physician ruled her physically unfit for the training school. She led her class and had sought a teaching certificate to enter the Training School for teachers.
New York February 20 Prosecutor P P Garven intensifies probes into the New Jersey Food Trust. He vows indictments will be issued by the grand jury on Wednesday and transportation of key packers to Hudson county court is anticipated.
The Hudson county grand jury indicted the National Packing Company over alleged cold storage to regulate the market for long frozen foods. Evidence cited includes directors spanning Armour Swift Morris and related firms, with Kenneth K McLaren the only director not on the indictment list. After indictments are public, copies will be sent to police chiefs for custody. Garven plans a cold storage labeling bill to require date labeling on frozen foods to aid consumer judgment.
Mrs. Claudie Vester formerly of Nashville is revealed as the heiress to about 235 thousand dollars left by E. D. Ennis who once lived in Birmingham. Ennis shot a man in 1892 and fled to Jamaica where he amassed a fortune and died after injuries from a fight with a Spaniard. Jamaica authorities sought Miss Clark, and Daniel Jones, alcalde of Jamaica, helped locate her in Birmingham. The Jamaica governor offers 1000 dollars reward to informants, shared by Mrs. Mary Lytle and J. B. Smiley of Birmingham.
President Taft for first time since election joined Friends Church on I street NW for weekly worship. Henry W. Wilbur of Swarthmore, Penn., was to speak, and Taft was urged to attend. Captain Archibald Butt accompanied him from the White House.
A 15 year old girl named Ethel Prowse from Everett Massachusetts told a policeman she left home to seek work after taking ten dollars from her mother’s purse. She said the money was later stolen on a train. Everett police report no such girl is known at the provided address and she was handed to the Children’s Society for care.
Miss Margaret Marshall secretary to Thomas J. Barry died suddenly last evening at her Roxbury home after a brief illness aged 26. A brother John Marshall of the city collector's office and two sisters survive her.
Ex-president Ze laya of Nicaragua has reached Madrid on February 20, arriving amid political attention and confirming relocation to the Spanish capital for unspecified purposes.
Weather permitting Boston will witness bi plane trials next Friday with Victor W. Page and Oliver Light of Providence attempting a flight on Boston Common or Franklin Field. Miss Alice Nielsen will christen the machine on display in Mechanics building and make a flight becoming the first woman in New England to pilot an aeroplane.
Miss Nielsen joins airship show crowd and meets Paul Guespereau the French aviator as Providence Page Light airship rises in interest. She plans to buy an airship for personal use and christen the biplane if Boston flights cancel, wearing a special aeroplane gown. She says she is not afraid and has flown balloons before.
Chelsea February 20 Samuel Jones an elderly resident was burned to death at his son Samuel O Jones's home at 143 Bloomingdale Street while smoking in bed late tonight.
In Atlantic City on February 20 police said Orvis Seyler, brother of William Seyler, promised to reveal what he knows about the case. He led officers to the million-dollar pier, indicating where he stood with Alice Adams when Jane Adams was urged to leave William Seyler, and where William Seyler and Jane Adams were last seen.
Captain John E. Casey of Engine 5 saw smoke from the Jones home and forced entry but thick flames blocked the second floor. Firefighters found 78 year old Mr. Jones dead on a burning bed. He came from Rockport and lived with his son for 16 years. another son George E. Jones, assistant inspector of buildings, survives.
Detectives Miller and Malseed and Captain Whalen questioned William Seyler at the pier amid a police statement from Orvis. Seyler refuses involvement with the Adams girl on the night of her disappearance, while authorities seek a circumstantial case. The coroner’s inquest is scheduled for Wednesday night.
A fire at the State Street saloon owned by John K. Wasserboehr & Son damaged the wholesale liquor firm at 292 State street to about $1000 yesterday forenoon. Ladderman Daniel Crowley of Truck 8 received a deep cut on his right hand while in the cellar.
Washington, February 20. Favorable indications appeared today in the condition of Senator Tillman. His partial paralysis and loss of speech have abated and improvement has commenced, according to a bulletin issued by the three attending physicians.
The Senator spoke two words today after being stricken last Thursday. Family physician and Doctor White were among those who saw him. Physicians report favorable progress with no signs of deterioration. He passed a comfortable night and shows improved speech while remaining resting, pulse 72 and normal temperature.
New Haven reports a Yale special study showing about a quarter of half a century of entrants did not graduate. The Medical School has over 50 percent non graduates, while other departments range 19 to 84 percent. The study notes many non graduates became prominent in various fields.
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