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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1920
Page
11
Proseuctor Hatfield said confessions may clear up the August 21 Rahway road murder of Miss Edith I. Janny and Edward Kupfer. Two Auburn prisoners, Charles Porthand and Howard Jamble alias George Brandon, claim they hitchhiked with the couple, then shot them during a failed robbery.
Dorchester judge fined Annie Dudley of 67 Stoughton Street 100 dollars for operating a lodging house without a permit. She received six months in the House of Correction and appealed both sentences, with 800 dollars bond set for the Superior Court.
An advertisement urges readers feeling run down or anemic to try Bitro-Phosphate. It claims many people lack phosphorus and that the product, deemed a potent essential, is not a patent medicine and is prescribed by physicians. It promotes a $39 guarantee and availability through local druggists.
Washington reports that Jose G. Guerra the deposed Bolivian president and several ministers were deported yesterday by Bolivia's new regime. American officials at La Paz escorted Guerra to Arica Chile, where he is expected to board a vessel. The move follows his refuge in the American legation.
A telegraph from Tarapaca via La Paz reports Mayor Cusicamuti of La Paz assassinated. Bolivian counter revolution led by Colonel Montes, aligned with the fallen government, with revolutionary troops moving from La Paz to Corocoro to defend the capital.
Federal agents raided the Areyto saloon at 9 Federal Street and the Jacobs grocery at 5th and 2d, South Boston, finding liquor at both sites. The Areyto raid drew hundreds as five gallons of colored spirits were seized. Jacobs’ store yielded two quarts of moonshine and used whiskey glasses. Murphy and Jacobs face Federal Court charges for violating the national prohibition law.
The Census Bureau released revised figures showing Quincy Massachusetts with a population of 47 876 up from 47 611, altering the citys apparent growth for the period.
Miss Helen Taft daughter of former President William Howard Taft married Frederick John Manning at Union Church Murray Bay in Montreal. Manning Yale graduate 1916 served as U S Army lieutenant. Bride wears white taf feta lace gown, train borne by Taft nephews, with Edith Morgan of New York as maid of honor.
Barney Allen reports on the ongoing state decision regarding the slayer of Patrolman Deininger and parallel inquiries in Suffolk and Middlesex counties. Middlesex is noted as a stronghold of the auto ring as investigations continue and more individuals connected to the gang are being pursued.
New disclosures from Barney trigger a mass exodus from Boston as Middlesex officials promise arrests, aiming to uncover complicity from Cambridge officials and a Boston policeman. Key witnesses include Charles A. Harris of Brattleboro Bank, a Cambridge official, a fireman, and inmates from Charlestown State Prison.
The body of Justin Baker of North Clarendon, a Rutland Business College student, was recovered from 10 feet of water in Oter Creek where he drowned. The body was entangled in tree roots and logs.
The Poston Sunday Post Magazine will print James Oliver Curwood's tense descriptive story The Object Lesson, praised as a masterful example of narrative craft. The feature underscores Curwood's reputation for vivid scene setting and brisk pacing.
Ethrin Kershaw admits to courts that 17 year old Ethel Kershaw is not his daughter and that he had taken her to live with him in Philadelphia as an infant. Judge John J. Winn had sentenced him to 30 days in jail after testimony of assaults on Ethel and two other 13 year old girls. The clerk said an investigation of Kershaw's record would follow with Pennsylvania authorities.
An advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate for improving brain and nerve energy. The tonic is promoted as a vigor boost sold by druggists in the current issue.
Arlington police arrested Thomas F. Mooney a 16 year old from 88 Prospect Street Cambridge on parole from Lyman Reform School. They tie him to multiple Arlington burglaries including a break at Reuben W LeBaron supervisor of wires home at 29 Wyman Terrace. Police say several hundred dollars in jewelry and cash were stolen including two gold watches.
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