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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1915
Page
5
Four yeggs entered C. F. Leighton & Co art store at 3 Main Street in Brockton this afternoon around 5 30 pm. They diverted the proprietor and clerks, robbed the safe of 80 dollars in cash 100 dollars in checks and numerous valuable papers before escaping. Police believe the robbers fled toward Boston.
Four men entered the central city art store as two clerks served customers. A duo claimed lodge affiliation and pressed for large framed pictures while the others hid near the rear by the safe. One man masked the operation as the group worked cloaked from view on the busy street.
In Providence on January 1 a fire destroyed a home. One child died despite the mother's heroic efforts to save her infants, while Mrs Philo mena de Angelis and a second baby were gravely burned and in danger.
Mrs. de Angelis saved her six month old from a crib and carried her to safety before reentering the burning home in a failed search for her four year old daughter. Firemen pulled the mother out badly burned as the child died in the kitchen. Doctors fear both lives hang in the balance.
Newburyport news reports a fire at the Turkey Hill farm on New Year’s Day destroying a barn 560 hens 25 tons of hay and farming tools. Owner George T. Borlen of Lynn carried no insurance.
Officials plan a day long celebration in about two weeks to mark the new Boston City Club building at Ashburton place and Somerset street. The event will surpass any previous inaugurations, delayed from New Year's Eve by a labor strike, with preparations intensified and an exhibit of over 150000 dollars worth of paintings loaned from across the country.
Last night two fires struck the South End within two hours, each damaging about 500 dollars. The first burned 03 Middlesex Street in a four story brick house owned by Jacob Garber and occupied by Abraham Brooms. The second erupted at 54 Troy Street in a three story wooden building owned by Isaac Greenberg and occupied by Smith Bros., woodworkers.
The 1914 mill year statement from Fall River shows a drop in total mill dividends by about 145000 dollars. Union Manufacturing Company cash dividend of 600000 and Luther Mills 105000 distort 1914 totals. 14 mills cut dividends, two skipped Q2 payments, six paid none.
Miss Mabel Wilbur a wealthy Easton woman says she fears no one after receiving two black hand letters demanding 1000 dollars and threatening murder. She tells a Post reporter she will not be frightened and is surprised to be targeted.
Miss Wilbur, about 40, says a skull marked note threatens murder or hell if she does not leave 1000 at the cemetery gate by 8. Police and post office officials caution silence. A second note from South Easton repeats the demand as officers guard the cemetery gate.
Rodney F. Hemenway, 56, a special agent for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company with an office in Boston, died suddenly about 6 o'clock in Lowell on January 1.
Mr Hemenway a Lowell Morning Mail reporter and Boston Herald correspondent, died after rushing up stairs from the Lowell depot. Born in Natick and raised in Milford, he moved to Lowell in the early 1880s and was en route to Chelmsford Centre when he collapsed at Barlow Variety Store from acute dilation of the heart.
An incident this evening involved acute dilation of the heart induced by climbing stairs over the tracks at the Lowell depot.
He left the newspaper business in 1994 and became a special agent for the telephone company. He is survived by a wife, who before marriage was Miss Edith Hegemar of Chelmsford, and a child a year old.
William R. Clark aged 77 formerly a director and appraiser for the Equitable Co operative Bank of Lynn died yesterday at his son Willard Y Clarks home in Malden from a fractured skull caused by a fall down a flight of stairs in the dark last Tuesday night.
George W. Jones, engineer of Engine 3, started his 50th year in the service today. He has been attached to the same engine since 1879 and was fireman on the machine when the company helped fight the big fire in 1872 in Boston.
In Middlebury Vermont on January 1 Judge Willard W. Miles imposed a 12 to 15 year prison sentence on Dr. Don A. Bisbee Bristol druggist found guilty of manslaughter for selling liquor containing wood alcohol. Bisbee showed emotion as the penalty was announced and thanked counsel and state attorneys for a fair trial.
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