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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1919
Page
2
Rafaello Rizzo age 28 of 34 Oneida Street South End returned home for supper to find Salvatore Campagno 25 in his wife Susie’s arms. Rizzo wrested Campagno's revolver in a scuffle and shot Campagno killing him. The weapon was Campagno's revolver.
Seven shots were fired and Rizzo fled the scene. Police are searching Italian districts for him.
Shortly before 6 pm last night Laborer Rizzo returned home on the second floor and found Campagno embracing Mrs. Rizzo. A scuffle ensued in the kitchen between Rizzo and Campagno, who was shot and died. Rizzo fled as Mrs. Rizzo and their two children sobbed. Mrs. Rizzo admitted Campagno had proposed leaving the house but urged her husband to stay.
Major General Clarence R. Edwards, commander of the Northeast department, is kept at his Back Bay home by physician orders due to a throat irritation. He reports feeling well but will follow throat specialist guidance. Adamson's Cough Balsam advertised.
A sailor from Pembroke Missouri, Vester J. Clark, allegedly murdered Mrs Addie S Smith and her five year old son Frank lin Johnson at 531 Revere Street Revere after a night of liquor. Clark, dying at Frost Hospital Chelsea, had lived with Mrs Smith as Mr and Mrs Peter A Smith while her husband served with the American expeditionary forces in France.
Police reveal a web of murder and mayhem centered on 531 Revere Street. Mrs. Smith and her lover Clark tied to a brutal double murder after Clark shot himself, with a young girl and child found among the victims and a sailor’s $500 missing amid investigations. The case entwines a sailor’s voyage, a former husband’s letters, and a mother’s troubled past in East Boston.
Hanover N H Jan Professor Frank Maley Anderson of Dartmouth College history department has been appointed by the State Department to the staff of the American commission to negotiate peace at Paris. He recently returned to Dartmouth after serving on the Washington investigation committee.
Secretary Daniels told Philadelphia Mayor Smith that unless vice conditions are improved immediately the government will take steps to protect the thousands of young men in uniform who must visit Philadelphia or be denied liberty due them.
Health experts report a significant decline in influenza across the state based on yesterday's epidemic reports and four days of figures, with optimism for a rapid return to normal health conditions.
Four days show Boston new infection totals below 250, down from about 600. Deaths reached 29 yesterday, with 25 influenza and four pneumonia. prior days 46 and 42. Health officials plan car inspections by 69 staff to rate cleanliness and ventilation on street cars, aiming for clearer public health progress.
Major General Bell, aged 63, died suddenly after illness not initially deemed serious. Born January 9 1856 in Shelbyville Kentucky, he rose from Ninth Cavalry lieutenant to major general and earned the Medal of Honor for actions in the plains and Sioux campaigns. His death alters plans for Roosevelt funeral representation.
The record traces General Bell from 1891 as secretary of Cavalry and Light Artillery School to aide to General Forsyth in the western states. It notes his Medal of Honor award on November 27, 1899 for actions on September 9, 1899 near Porac Luzon Philippines. He commands various divisions and departments in the Philippines and the United States, serving as chief of staff from 1906 to 1910, leading the Philippines Division 1911 to 1914, and holding multiple department commands including San Francisco and the East until 1917 before taking charge of the 77th Division at Camp Upton and resuming command of the Department of the East.
The Legislative Access Commission reports inland waterways hold 606 593 horsepower while only 172 782 is developed. It notes water wheels in streams with 25 382 horsepower capacity produce 100 000 horsepower and urges legislation to greatly raise productivity and promote use for factories and electricity.
Governor Coolidge filed the annual budget with the Legislature showing total appropriations for the coming year. The figure is about 2 million less than departments requested but roughly 8 million higher than last year's budget of 27 488 488 39 and 35 301 312 97.
Boston residents will conduct a tag day in Greater Boston this Saturday to raise funds for the welfare of officers and men of the 102d Machine Gun Battalion and Headquarters Troop 8th Division. A Boston bulldog insignia, painted on battalion equipment, appears on posters and sale tags inspired by the unit’s nickname the Boston Bulldog Battalion.
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