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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1913
Page
16
Evidence presented in the Pelham divorce trial shows Mrs. Sarah N. Pelham leading detectives to uncover her husband Thomas W. Pelham with another woman. Court heard details of the case and the investigative steps taken.
Five survivors from the Boston schooner Future were landed in Manchester England after rescue 60 miles off Cape Hatteras on January 2. The group includes JH Perry of Malden MA and Julia Salevs Manuel R Silver Rufus Santos and Taro D Rigues of Boston.
Judge Dubuque grants a decree nisi and upholds a court order requiring Pelham to pay Mrs. Pelham two daughters $500 monthly in alimony. The case reveals a wife and two daughters living apart since his departure from Ivy Street. Pelham, a leading corporation counsel, had shown concern for his family and funded education and ventures for his sons.
The Hon J H MeInerney was elected president of the Ward 19 Democratic Club at its meeting last night. Other officers elected for the year were Nicholson first vice president Mantel second vice president Conley treasurer Keough financial secretary Gaffney sentinel Mulroy Finnerty secretaries.
The biggest selling tea in Boston is promoted as affordable and fragrant in a yellow package. Tudor Tea emphasizes strong aroma retention and value for shoppers.
Aboard the ship Future the crew faced a sudden gale on voyage. On January 2 Captain A C Larkin and the mate were washed overboard. The ship flooded and wrecked. five raw potatoes sustained five men. The cook died, others lashed in mizzen chains. Asuncion aided with a lifeboat line and pulled each survivor to safety amid heavy seas.
Josiah V. Thompson, famed coal and coke operator of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was granted a divorce in Pittsburg on January 20. He agreed to pay his wife Mrs. Thompson one million dollars in alimony. The case has run since last May and remained secret. Thompson, 58, and his wife 41 had been separated about two years.
President elect Woodrow Wilson in Trenton announced seven bills aimed at the most extensive revision of New Jersey corporation laws in state history. The measures were introduced in the state legislature tonight as part of his reform program.
Governor Wilson unveils measures aimed at ending trusts and monopolies in New Jersey. The bills, drafted with state needs in mind, target holding companies and watered stock while allowing legitimate expansion. Attorney Chancellor Walker and Judge Van Syckel aided the effort as the Senate opened debate.
In New Haven on January 20 President Taft met Yale Corporation members while Mrs Taft and her sister toured potential homes for Professor William Howard Taft. They viewed three houses on Prospect Hill Willhouse avenue and Whitney avenue with the Whittelsey residence favored. The Taft family will occupy apartments in the Hotel Taft by April 1 and a new bath tub is due by March 1.
President Taft and his party arrived in New York from New Haven shortly after dusk. They went to Henry W. Taft's home for dinner and later attended a theatre, after a Yale Corporation meeting.
An imperfection in the boiler of the William H Lincoln School in Brookline caused nearly 400 students to be excused from classes yesterday. The janitor could not ignite a fire, so pupils were told to report in this morning for continued study.
Horace G. Allen, Transit Commission member, spoke to a large audience at the Charitable Irish Society meeting in the Boston City Club auditorium about the current transit issues facing Boston.
Chicago January 20. In a climactic turn the mobile bandit group loses a member after Detective Peter Hart is shot through the heart in a South Wabash flat while attempting to arrest Bob Webb, tied to James B. Perry, the confessed bandit now in custody.
Webb fires on Detective Hart after grappling for control of a revolver. Hart dies before medical aid arrives. A woman in the flat, identified as Isabella Hastings, is arrested. Casella says Webb gained the weapon while Hart held him.
Two men were arrested by Sergeant Fitzgerald of Station 4 for attempting to force entry to a drug store at 272 Tremont Street. The suspects, Hugh Hogan aged 24 with no home and Albert Peterson aged 25 of 155 Fifth Street East Cambridge, had a fine jimmy in their possession.
A Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the Archdiocese of Boston reunion in Copley Hall Back Bay drew 200 couples for a military march led by Major James J. Monahan and Miss Helen Murphy. Delegations from St. Mary's Malden Revere and Brooke line joined, with four city companies well represented.
Friends of Mrs. Elizabeth V. Browne of Lynn seek a Carnegie medal for courageous acts. She guided an elderly man to safety during a Jan 10 cellar fire at Benjamin Sprague’s 145 Ocean St home and later confronted a burglar in her house, drawing her revolver to deter him.
Captain John T. Nichols was promoted to deputy chief of the Malden fire department by Commissioner Nutter. Lieutenant William Chadwick became captain and Arthur Miller was named hoseman to fill his post.
In New York Jan 20 the prosecution against Edgar R Jackson, ex head of Jackson Brothers Realty Co of 6507 Fifth Avenue, now at the Tombs awaiting sentence for one conviction and facing three more indictments, centers on George C Huff also known as Ernest B Dennison, a former Jackson employee who has long pursued Jackson.
Denison, formerly Ohio agent for Jackson & Bros. Realty Company, claims he sold over $600,000 in Jackson real estate and turned more than $250,000 in cash to friends. He alleges Libbey and Dingley were defrauded of $110,000, and faces sextortion charges that were quashed. Jackson’s crimes include a $5000 larceny and large Maine fraud allegations. A widow killed herself after losing $83,334 to Jackson operations.
The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of Walter B. Grant a Boston lawyer from a contempt order by the Southern New York Federal District Court for failing to produce books sent to him by E. E. Burlingams.
New York January 20 Miss Helen Miller Gould heiress to the Gould fortune will marry Finley J Shepard next Wednesday. She will host a dinner for 1000 bread liners at the Bowery Mission the evening of her wedding. The couple’s plans reflect her longtime charity to the mission and its needy visitors.
Reverend Dr J G Hallimond announces that Miss Gould will host a special dinner for the hungry at the Bowery Mission. 225 men will be seated to roast beef soup pie and coffee followed by entertainment in the chapel with notable speakers and singers. Taft and Governor Sulzer were invited.
A fire at Brattle Square station disrupted signal and telephone service and woke Mary Kelly, a city guest. The blaze began in a partition from crossed wires, prompting a still alarm. the fire was extinguished with about 150 dollars in damages.
Worcester report records a second ice tragedy in four days as 17 year old Pearl Porteous of 544 Pleasant Street and R. G. McGrath of 111 Olean Street perish in Cook's Pond after falling through thin ice.
Four youths slipped through thin ice on a pond after skating near 6 pm. Early Harvey rescued Miss Louise McGrath and attempted to save Porteous and another youth, but two others drowned. A sister of the deceased and the town mourns the double tragedy, recalling a drowning incident the previous Friday on the same pond.
A weather summary notes rain in Buffalo through Columbus and snow in Toledo Detroit and Sault Ste Marie. Northwest fair, Boston streets wet next morning. Temperatures ranged from 32 to 43 Fahrenheit, with historic Jan 20 records cited and a strong year to date warmth trend.
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