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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1912
Page
5
The Thaw case ends with State attorney William Travers Jerome opposing release from Matteawan. Justice Martin J. Keogh will issue a ruling late this week or early next week.
Jerome asserts in court that Thaw was never insane and pleads that prior insanity defenses were mistaken. He contends the alienists and jury were misled in two homicide trials and urges the court to accept Thaw’s current assertion of sound mind and the absence of insanity at the time of White's murder.
Washington July 22 The historic Lee surrender site at Appomattox Court House is to get a replacement tree planted by Governor Woodrow Wilson. Colonel George A. Armes reports Wilson has accepted an invitation to plant the new tree within weeks during a visit to Sea Girt.
Detroit July 22 Hudson Maxim inventor of engines of war visits Frederick Ek and reveals a design for a semi-submerged cruiser that sinks to conceal guns and rises for action. He claims it will outpace and outgun dreadnoughts and describes a new faster, longer range self propelled torpedo system.
One man was killed and three others seriously injured in an automobile rollover near Rochester New Hampshire. The car, owned by Charles W Piner of 7 Brenton Street Dorchester, carried four Boston area residents when it turned turtle on the outskirts of Rochester yesterday.
Mr Piner died instantly while G M Olive Jr Miss Mary Hastings and E A Warwick the chauffeur were severely injured. The car plunged eight feet after the driver swerved to avoid a Boston and Maine train crossing near Kezar Lake Maine. Olive son of Cambridge druggist George M Olive had been staying in Centre Lovell with his family and brother in the insurance business. Hastings reportedly Olive’s fiancée though unconfirmed.
Dr. Paul H. Provandie and Miss Margaret Bell wed in Colingwood Ontario after a five year romance that began at Melrose Hospital. Provandie, 35, a Harvard graduate living in Melrose, met Bell when he performed his first operation. Bell, 28, a trained nurse from Melrose, worked at Melrose Hospital and now resides in Boston.
The bribery trial of Clarence S. Darrow was stopped when juror N A Leavitt fell ill with appendicitis. If surgery is needed, thirteenth juror A M Blackely may be summoned, potentially making an alternate a regular juror for the first time in American court history.
Kenry Clay Frick planned a monster art gallery at Pride's Crossing beside his mansion but the project stalls after Daniel Hudson Burnham, the architect, died in Heidelberg Germany. Burnham’s preliminary plans are secured in German vaults and cannot be reproduced for a year or more.
The Frick family will add a two story stone and brick gallery to their mansion east wing. Interior cues mimic the first floor with mosaic marble floors and imported marble staircases with gold grill work. The collection is valued at about 10 million, including the 200 thousand Rembrandt The Polish Rider.
Postmaster Edward F. Mansfield announced Joseph K. Eichorn will fill the Brookline post office vacancy after the death of Isley M. Fogarty. Eichorn previously served as roundsman and letter carrier in Boston since 1883. Superintendent John F. Keegan of East Milton replaces Eichorn, with James W. Sweeney succeeding Keegan at East Milton.
Rep Martin Littleton of New York files a minority report with the House investigating committee. He agrees with some parts of the Stanley report but disagrees with the proposed trust legislation. Other signers include Rep Beall of Texas McGilicuddy of Maine and Bartlett of Georgia.
Democrats and Republicans debate trust reform with Representative Littleton proposing a federal oversight framework for interstate business. He envisions a government functionary and a board to screen admission, exclude holding and overcapitalized firms, and set anti trust penalties. Gardner counters that the minority report will surprise the country.
Veronica St. John, Boston’s largest baby, is five months old, weighing 30 pounds 4 ounces. Born in Fall River on March 10 at 11 pounds, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph St. John of 127 London Street, East Boston. Her father works as a Fall River machinist, and the family resides in East Boston for the summer.
Boston branches of the United Irish League plan a meeting at the American House next Thursday evening to arrange a welcome for Hon. William H. Redmond M P of East Clare. He will visit Boston to speak at Tremont Temple in support of home rule on October 1 and sails September 12 aboard the Baltic to attend the United Irish League of America convention in Philadelphia September 25-26. He then speaks in New York September 29 before arriving in Boston. Enthusiasm runs high as plans for a grand reception are laid out.
Herbert Jaques a Chestnut Hill Mass manufacturer obtained a marriage license to wed 24 year old Mary B Townsend of Overbrook Philadelphia. Mrs Townsend said the couple will marry October 18 though the engagement had been public knowledge.
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