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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1910
Page
9
St Louis Post Dispatch publishes alleged confession by Ray Lamphere. It describes Mrs Belle Gunness death and the killings of ten people buried on her Laporte Indiana farm. Lamphere died in prison while serving time for arson and related acts in the case.
Rev E A Schell former Laporte president of Iowa Wesleyan University at Mt Pleasant heard Lamphere’s confession after arrest in April 1908 but denies disclosure. The confession links Lamphere to Mrs Gunness and three children with Jennie Olson, chloroform, murder, and arson at the Gunness farm.
In Dutchess County New York on January 13 Sarah O Breymer 26 a governess at the summer home of Mr and Mrs Barnes Compton Millbrook was found strangled in bed. Frank Schermerhorn 26 a coachman at the Compton estate is charged with the murder and later attempted suicide by cutting his throat.
Mary Fennell awakens to a man leaving the corridor. Governess Miss Breymer is found dead with strangulation marks while Polly Compton, three, is unharmed. Police suspect burglary. Chief McCabe questions staff. coachman Schermerhorn wounds self and confesses under pressure. He claims the Japanese butler aided the crime, a claim police doubt.
A civilian assault on patrolman Donovan near Beach and Hudson ends in his death. The attacker fled toward Kingston street after a single brutal blow fracturing the skull. Witnesses Mrs. Sadie Lewis and Miss May Callbeck alerted others as Donovan died at Grace Hospital. Donovan, 35, had a long service history with the force and a family at 56 Johnson street, West Roxbury.
Coroner Robert W. Andrews ruled the governess died by strangulation after autopsy. He noted criminal assault and black marks on the body and on painted surfaces, with investigators focusing on servants as potential witnesses.
Clarence Morse a National Soldiers Home band musician in Togus Maine denies he married or engaged to Miss Breymer who was killed by burglars in Millbrook New York. He says he knew her about a year and has lived in Townsend Massachusetts while serving at the home for nearly two years.
Meriden Connecticut reports that nurse Miss Sarah Breymer, who was murdered at Millbrook today, formerly lived with Mrs. Robert B. Ferguson in Meriden and later married in Togus Maine.
A public health note contrasts smallpox fears with kidney disease tolls. It argues ordinary kidney disease kills more people in three months than smallpox does in a year, urging calm and perspective in disease headlines.
A Victorian style health notice urges attention to early signs of kidney and bladder issues. It claims neglect worsens death rates and promotes a herbal mixture of Buchu Balmwort and Sarsaparilla to restore health with a daily dosing schedule.
Washington dispatch notes the landscape gardener job in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds pays $2400 annually but attracts no takers including a Yale man. The role decorates the White House grounds and has long been held by notable artists like George R. Brown, with Col Cosby now unable to fill it after Brown's November death.
Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy seeks habeas corpus for daughter Natalie. Judge N C Smith hears testimony from witnesses alleging the artist Gabrielle Christy is unfit for custody, citing years of drunkenness abuse and improper conduct with models.
At the Lenox last evening the dioce of St Pauls Roxbury was treated to a banquet by Bishop Joseph G. Anderson. Guests included Revs Frederick J Allchin and William A Connor. A quartet sang solos with Miss Margaret Coveney and Miss Annette Carew and John R Campbell and Dr Daniel A Sullivan. Miss Alice M Sheehan played piano with Alex J Donoro directing the sanctuary choir.
Marshalfield Oregon January 13 Harry Kentzell first assistant engineer is sole survivor of the iron steamer Czarina wrecked on Coos Bay Bar yesterday with a loss of 30 lives. U S life saving crew and Marshfield residents fought to rescue crew members who clung to the rigging through the night.
Aboard the Czarina Kentzell and six others clung to the foremast rigging as waves and shifting currents drove them to sea and shore. He regained consciousness on a beach beside a large fire in San Francisco after dawn revealed six men perished and rescue hopes faded.
The Czarina, sailing from Marshfield under stormy conditions, reportedly had a broken rudder and began to drift toward the bar. The vessel struck near the entrance as two sailors from the Oregon Pacific Company were aboard.
The Common Council adopted an order allowing the city auditor, with the Mayor's approval, to transfer appropriations between departments. It also approved spending 75000 from the Parkman fund for a Boston Common music pavilion and canceled unused loans totaling 270,000 for Mount Hope cemetery Evergreen cemetery Dorchester burial grounds Boston Insane Hospital Independence Square and the Boston Common parade ground. The body defeated a 49999 appropriation for a new bath house at Dewey Beach Charlestown.
A Charlestown gathering of 999th Artillery Association members at the Main Street club house is expected to decide on disbanding. The group has fewer than 50 members and holds $27,000 in property. Once list included many prominent residents.
The funds committee reported $4000 more pledged toward the Cambridge YWCA building drive, bringing the total to $36,433.25. The campaign continues as supporters commit additional gifts to reach the goal.
Dr. Hugh White, surgeon on the Allan line steamer Pretorian arriving from Glasgow and Halifax, has handed in his resignation and will take up medical practice in Glasgow, making his last voyage on that vessel.
In New York on January 13 Mrs. Arthur Drummond Barton formerly Madeline David son of Springfield Massachusetts says she married on a dare. She refuses to name the minister church or street while the groom, a young English army lieutenant, remains silent.
Mrs Barton declares she runs the interview and will do all the talking, joking about Englishmen and American brides. The couple dismiss reporters after a glance at the marriage certificate is mentioned, and Mr Barton thanks them as they leave.
Dr. E A Allen of the University of Missouri English department argues Shakspere would enjoy modern American slang. He notes Hamlet as a student used slang and cites Rosencrantz to Hamlet with terms like pickers and stealers and lunch hooks as echoes of current speech.
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