Despondent 85 year old man commits suicide in freight car
Charles Carroll Lee aged 85 hanged himself from a beam in a freight car near the ice houses of David Hemeron at Pentucket Pond. Dr Root, medical examiner, ruled death by hanging.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1922
Page
12
Charles Carroll Lee aged 85 hanged himself from a beam in a freight car near the ice houses of David Hemeron at Pentucket Pond. Dr Root, medical examiner, ruled death by hanging.
Governor Percival P. Baxter declined an invitation from former State Attorney General William R. Pattangall to hold joint August campaign meetings. Baxter said he would accept non political speaking engagements and only comment on state business in nonpartisan terms through September 11th.
Charles W Morse, his three sons and eight others must stand trial in Washington on indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the United States through wartime ship contracts with the emergency fleet corporation of the shipping board, a District of Columbia court of appeals ruling announced today.
Eliot Wadsworth assistant secretary of the treasury, and Nancy Whitman widow of Guy L. Scull, were married at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest. The bride, given in marriage by her mother, has ties to Washington and Boston. The groom is a Harvard graduate and former Red Cross official, with a noted life connected to Scull, the 1900s yacht Mayflower tragedy survivor.
Edward Hines of East Boston, separated from the Henrietta, drifted in an open dory for three days amid fog and rough seas. A passing American steamer saved him, pulling him aboard and reviving him with food and rest. He planned to reveal the mystery vessel and alleged mistreatment once safe.
The public utilities commission authorized the Boston and Maine Railroad to issue $1,000,000 bonds. Proceeds will partly pay the balance owed to the director general of railroads for funds spent on improvements during federal control, applied to the company and its subsidiaries in Augusta Maine.
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