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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1911
Page
2
In a Boston scene Mrs Cusumano’s children Jennie six and Mary eight waited before their mother’s door amid the verdict news. Mrs Indelicato refused to see the reporter as the children posed for photos, the exit from a North End discussion mirrored in Hast Boston.
A woman was held up and a taxi fled after two shots were fired by Cambridge police near Henry and Brookline streets. Police reported a robbery of a young woman in the same area within 15 minutes, causing neighborhood excitement early yesterday morning.
Cambridge police recount two separate nocturnal attacks after two officers fired in the air at a speeding taxicab near Putnam avenue and Brookline street. A second report links a bag snatch at Granite and Brookline streets to a dark colored robber and possibly the same driver, with a $2 bill and change missing.
Dr. James C. Donoghue of 236 Newbury Street Georgetown died suddenly at his parents home. Born October 9 1864 in Georgetown he trained at Harvard and Tufts and taught at Harvard Medical School and Tufts. He leaves parents Dennis and Sarah Molloy Donoghue two brothers S A Donoghue and Dr Francis D Donoghue. Funeral set for St Marys Church Georgetown at 9 15 a m.
Charles Franklin Kittredge a leading attorney in Dorchester died suddenly from a heart event at his home 285 Ashmont street after a day spent at work He was born February 24 1841 in Mount Vernon NH educated at Appleton Academy Dartmouth College 1859 and served in the ordinance bureau and as a private He held key posts including Boston city solicitor assistant and counsel for banks rail interests and major projects leaving three children with Adelaide L Lee as his wife.
Police rushed to 16 Nahant Avenue in Revere after cries of murder. Harry Manchovitz lay bleeding in a lounge with a head wound from a knife. Mendel Dine, jailed at the station, allegedly stabbed Manchovitz following an accusation of cheating at a card game hosted by Dine, with Dr Bannon treating the victim.
The Plymouth county trial ends with Lena Cusumano and Enrico Mascioli found guilty of first degree murder. Nine year old Lucy Accusia Cusumano testified that Mascioli brought the axe and that the quilt wrapped around Frank Cusumano’s body belonged in her mother’s house. The jury’s decision follows a lengthy capital case noted as the county’s longest and first Sunday verdict in 25 years.
Boston based group presents Pam o Shanter a musical sketch inspired by Burns at Jordan Hall next Thursday. Burns portrayed by Thomas Henderson with Tam o Shanter by James Gilbert. landlord Jeordie Tamson and Tam’s crony appear in lively song and dance with Highland numbers by Miss Wood troupe. An overture and curtain-raiser Breaking Into Scotch precede the main piece under conductor Charles Frank with Boston Opera orchestra players.
Mrs Maria Daornina and Mrs Accusia Indelicato, sisters of Mrs Cusimano, show little concern after her first degree murder conviction. Daornina smiles in a crowded room and declines to discuss the case, speaking through an interpreter about where she lives and her lack of comment.
The article recounts Bathsheba Spooner, executed July 2, 1778 in Worcester for murder, the only woman hanged in Massachusetts for more than a century. It notes her trial, reprieve claims, and the era's gendered death penalties, alongside earlier cases and later references to Sarah Jane Robinson.
The Rev. C R McMeekin announced yesterday that he will resign his pastorate at the Houghs Neck Congregational Church in Quincy in the near future.
About 200 men attended a vesper service in the Wellesley College chapel breaking prior records since a rule barred male callers from seeing students unless escorted to vespers. The number of callers fell by half on Sunday after the rule took effect.
The divorce case of Mrs. Sadie Slay ton Downs against her husband, the Rev. William W. Downs, once pastor of Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, is expected to be called for trial in the East Cambridge divorce court today before Judge Joseph Francis Quinn.
Funeral notices for Henry Barry Julia Beh Margaret Coughlin Carol Coyne Jeremiah Crowley Charles Davis James Donoghue Thomas Joyce Rudolph King Daniel Miley George Mintosh Thomas O Connor Georgiana Parsons Catherine Rourke Aimee Sparks Alice Sweetser Alice Wadsworth Lydia Wadsworth Abby Watson Mary Whalen and Mary Waldron in towns including East Boston Dorchester Roslindale Charlestown Brighton Cambridge Somerville Brockton Northampton Brookline Bridgewater and more with funeral times venues and interment details.
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