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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
1
State council to investigate Foxboro Inebriate Hospital amid charges of lavish expenditures cruelty to inmates improper detention and lack of discipline. Suits against attendants alleging assault and mistreatment are pending as inquiry proceeds.
The council committee on pardons charitable institutions and prisons will investigate the Foxboro State Hospital. Lt Governor Draper is named. Members include Councillor David G. Pratt Middleboro Councillor Lewis H Bartlett Lynn Councillor Albion S Bemis Brookline and Councillor Edward P Barry South Boston.
Governor Guild proposed a thorough inquiry into the Foxboro State Hospital amid reports of lavish expenditures discipline issues and abuses. The move follows talks with Foxboro trustees chair and aims to decide the institution’s future with possible abolition as hearings will probe management and pending suits alleging abuse of inmates.
An inquiry into Elmer Fernald of Everett Massachusetts and his father George of Jackson New Hampshire, after exhumation for Dartmouth testing, reveals family rifts over suspected poisoning. Ada McLeod, a niece and beneficiary, faces accusations from Jackson relatives while officials demand solid evidence before action.
Dartmouth chemists will test the stomachs of Elmer E Fernald and his father after their bodies were dug up by order of New Hampshire authorities. An undertaker claims embalming fluid containing arsenic was pumped into both men, a fact that may impede precise chemical determinations. Dr Morris, who attended the elder Fernald, cites brittle veins observed before death as noted in his interview.
The forecast calls for fair and cold conditions in New England Thursday with colder air in the south, diminishing northwest winds. Friday is expected to be fair and warmer. Winds shift from northwest to west, and steamers to European ports may see diminishing northwest winds with fair cold weather toward the Grand Banks.
A continuous line of people suffers from catarrh asthma or bronchitis at the Austrian dispensary in New York City. The ad promotes Aseateo the wonderful drug claiming remarkable results and offers a few days treatment or free samples by request to any address in America.
J N Hanna ford of Northern Pacific testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Chicago, arguing about passenger service on the Chicago St Paul line versus the Boston New York route. The government attorney called the midnight horrors on New York Boston to illustrate lack of competition.
Republican lawmakers in Concord nominating caucus renominated Henry E. Burnham of Manchester for the U S Senate after a tense session filled with bribery and intimidation charges. Burnham secured 194 votes with rivals Currier 31 Leighton 28 and Baker 14 as the party eyed formal confirmation next Tuesday.
The Savannah liner City of Macon sails from Lewis wharf at 3 p m bound for New York. Fare six dollars includes meals and state room facilities. For reservations call Rich 390.
At 9 15 p m a four car train carrying about eighty passengers wrecked in the smoking car on the elevated line near the junction of Atlantic Avenue loop and the main line at Washington and Castle streets. Six persons were injured. Loss included rolling stock and a switch tower. The system was tied up for a half hour and the subway two hours.
A smoking car on the Atlantic avenue line bound for Dover Street derailed near Washington and Castle streets shortly after 9 PM. It struck the signal tower causing extensive damage and trapping ten passengers in the wreck. Six passengers are reported injured while others escaped as traffic on the line was halted and the car moved to Dudley Street station. Authorities had not released names or conditions by morning.
An indictment involves prison guard John E. Morrison who is held as the prisoner was to be taken by New York police today.
Description of John Glover age 40 height five foot six inches weight 140 pounds with a light beard and pale face. He wears an ordinary business suit and has a third finger amputated on the right hand. A crucifix and the letters I H S are tattooed on his forearm.
John Glover escaped by leaping a low roof and dropping 25 feet to ground. John F. Morrison East Boston assistant engineer and jail steward was arrested on District Attorney Moran’s order, indicted by the grand jury, and held on $1000 bail. Morrison bailed by James A. Mc Laughlin and W. H. Hodgkins in $1000 each. Glover remains at large. Morrison discharged by Sheriff Seavey and taken to the district attorney’s office.
After a two day rampage in an aristocratic Jamaica Plain area five children were bitten or scratched by a large black cat. Patrolmen McAdams and Riley killed the animal under the Tileston mansion porch on Glen road. The victims are children of the Tileston Dole Brewster and Newhall families. The cat's carcass lies in Dr. Austin Peters barn ice box while a microscopic rabies test is planned.
The Siberia of the Hamburg American line reported passing wreckage about 100 miles south of Sandy Hook. Some believe the debris may be from the steamer Ponce of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company, long overdue. Three revenue cutters and the U S S Connecticut have joined the government search.
In spite of cold weather the Boston and Worcester trolley line runs on schedule with cars departing Park Square every quarter hour. Report notes low farms and urges riders to try the service.
A line promotes Ginger by Aimke Sanford as a safe remedy to combat obstinate colds for both old and young.
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