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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
7
Freeland H. Huston and others of Winchester sue the Boston and Maine Railroad in East Cambridge Superior Civil Court claiming injury to Sarah J. Huston at Winchester on September caused her death. Plaintiffs seek 40000 in damages.
Mayor Hibbard directed all city department heads to inventory current stock and halt purchases until the counts are submitted. The move aims to reveal department needs and guide prudent supply spending for future use.
Mrs. Sara White Lee, active in historic circles in Boston, married George Mortimer in a quiet ceremony at 1408 Beacon Street Brookline. Rev. Goodsell and Rev. Bugbee officiated. They plan to reside at 1908 Beacon Street after a Canadian honeymoon.
Papers served on Arthur Osborne stop marriage to Helen Eugenie Maloney, daughter of Philadelphia magnate Martin Maloney. She plans to wed Samuel Clarkson of England with papal blessing, after elopement to Canada and marriage in Montreal. The 1905 Mamaroneck ceremony was alleged mock wedding.
Frederick W. Owens, a Stony Hill farmer near Bethel, found 13 sticks of dynamite with percussion caps and scrap iron in his workshop. The box was near the door posing a danger in the dark. Owens has been harassed by an enemy suspected in earlier stock poisoning. Albert Zetberlein, a former Owens farm share, was arrested on charges of poisoning livestock.
In Chicago on January 9 Judge Kohlsaar of the United States Circuit Court ruled for the government in the case against Captain Oberlin M Carter a former U S army engineer accused of embezzling 700000 through conspiracy with contractors Greene and Gaynor The decision ends the case and Carter and the contractors face sentences.
In Milford a painting dating over 400 years was found by Mrs. P. A. Putney. The work, a Melancthon portrait, came with a note claiming it was seized from King Ludwig's palace in 1594 and secretly brought to the United States.
Sensational charges of collusion emerged in the Worcester divorce of J. Moon. Mrs Moon claims any alleged cruelty by her was in self defense and that she and her husband conspired to let him obtain a divorce on cruel and abusive treatment while she would not defend.
Albany Jan 9 Chester Gillette appeals his first degree murder conviction and death sentence for the alleged 1906 killing of Grace Brown at Big Moose Lake. Ex State Senator A M Mills leads his counsel with C D Thomas. the People are argued by George W Ward.
Trixy the all black monster cat owned by the X Zalia Corporation Boston is entered in the largest cat and best office cat classes at the Boston Cat Show next week. The new entrant has drawn wide attention with praise from observers and a boastful remark from Mr N A Whittier of Old Orchard Maine.
William Fr. O'Meara a Red Hook Point School teacher Brooklyn N Y was arrested in Stamford Conn on the charge of attempting to abduct his two year old son. He and his wife separated last September and he took the boy toward New York near his wife's parents home and was caught as a train halted at Sound Beach station.
Inspectors Abbott and Knox rounded up two women on a department store tour. Fannie Brooks, 40, of Putnam Street Somerville, was booked for larceny of furs valued at 15 dollars. Myra Clark, 30, of H Street South Boston, is charged with larceny of waists valued at 12 dollars. They will be arraigned in court this morning.
During Miss Bessie Walsh absence yesterday noon thieves forced the front door with a jimmy at 198 St Botolph Street and took jewelry valued at 300 dollars. A friend rang the bell as they worked on the second floor, and the burglars fled in a hurry, avoiding greater loss.
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