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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1910
Page
4
Philadelphia heiress Roberta De Janon and Frederik Cohen, a waiter she eloped with on December 29, left Chicago for Philadelphia today accompanied by Detectives A. J. Emanuei and James Scanlon. The party is expected in Philadelphia late tomorrow.
Detectives moved the elopers by a closed carriage to a station and a baggage room before boarding a train. Cohen’s Bertillon readings were taken in Chicago. Miss de Janon defends Cohen, vows to testify for him if prosecuted, and plans to return to Philadelphia with her grandfather meeting the train. Detective O Donnell urged taking her to the theater the prior night.
Charles Head senior member of Charles Head & Co. Boston and New York died of apoplexy at his Mills Building office in New York. Born July 8 1849 in Medford he built the firm after a banking career at Kidder Peabody and Hill Head. Survived by two daughters, wife died last April.
After one day at sea en route to Honolulu to join the fleet in the Orient, the cruiser New Orleans was forced to return to San Francisco because its boiler tubes developed leaks.
Metropolitan Opera presents Wagner's Lohengrin in Boston with new Bos ton singers. Carl Jorn from Berlin leads as Lohengrin. Allen Hinckley debuting in his native city. John Forsell as Telramund. Florence Wickham substitutes for ill Mme Homer as Ortrud. Johanna Gadski sings Elsa. Herbert Witherspoon and Alfred Hertz conduct.
The Post invites readers to check the boys and girls page in next Sunday's issue for a major, confidential notice described as too good to reveal in advance. Readers are urged to obtain the page to learn the details.
Frank Crosby of 6 Pratt Court Roxbury saved an insane prisoner from drowning amid sensational reports last Sunday. He has been pardoned for the offense that had him serving a three month term at Deer Island.
Crosby plunged into icy Boston Harbor off Deer Island and swam 100 feet to aid J. H. Kearnes as he sank. Guards on shore shouted guidance while Crosby, prison inmates William Green and Teddy Zalko helped, and Penal Commissioner Guy Femerson ordered Crosby's release. Kearnes hospitalized after the struggle.
Crosby a Spanish war veteran with two bravery medals saved the drowning inmate Kearnes in 20 feet of cold water after an alarmed crowd of about 30 officers and guards gathered on shore. Crosby and helpers pulled the man to shore after ten minutes in freezing conditions.
Susan P. Wainwright of Weymouth won a $24,350 verdict against Alexander S. Porter and Charles O. Wainwright of Marblehead. A court attachment was issued yesterday on Porter's real estate in Marblehead for $23,711.54 due to alleged nonpayment of the judgment.
The Navy Department received today by wireless despatch news of the arrival of the battleship fleet at Guantanamo Cuba. The ships listed include the Connecticut Vermont Kansas Minnesota New Hampshire New Jersey Rhode Island Missouri Wisconsin Idaho Mississippi Georgia and Nebraska.
Two unidentified Turkish men were instantly killed when struck by a train on the Western division tracks of the Boston and Maine railroad within 100 feet of Saco station. The incident occurred on January 12 as witnesses reported the men near the rails. Authorities have not released names pending identification.
The article notes the exploits of The Reincarnated Man and reports that in next Sunday's Post his recovery of treasures from an ancient Pharaoh tomb is described.
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