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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
16
Clarence V. Richeson will be joined by his colored attendant Harry Butts who pleaded guilty to manslaughter. The agreement, set with District Attorney Pelletier and Sheriff John Quinn, extends until ten days before execution in the state prison electric chair.
Richeson learned from the sheriff that Butts would be sent to Charlestown for sentencing and fears the swift transfer could bring danger to Richeson in the coming months. He spent a quiet day yesterday while awaiting developments.
An elderly man died suddenly under peculiar circumstances in a saloon at 125 Pleasant Street on Wednesday. The body remains unidentified at City Hospital morgue pending further investigation.
New York January 25 Cardinal John Cardinal Farley was elevated to the senate of the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony at St Patrick's Cathedral attended by Cardinal Gibbons Archbishop Prendergast and a large assembly of clergy and worshippers. A solemn pontifical mass followed by a sermon and addresses closed the Rome arrival festivities.
Donald L. Persch and three associates named Henry Ingraham Charles Mitchell and William Pollock were arrested in brokerage offices in New York on charges of stealing 15000 from William G. Schinks of Springfield Massachusetts Indictments were returned against Persch Ingraham and Mitchell yesterday and they are held in heavy bail for trial Detectives conducted the arrests following a lengthy search related to the Windsor Trust stock-hypothecation case.
Captain William Herbert Dyer after 89 years in the police department and 34 years in investigating city claims will retire from active service in two weeks due to ill health.
Elizabeth Williams a direct Mohegan descendant who lived in Providence died at age 100 years 60 days. Born in Franklin Connecticut she had long been known as the last of the Mohegans.
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