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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1911
Page
3
The cruiser Boston completed a unique naval feat at Portsmouth navy yard by entering the dry dock without stopping from sea, undergoing scraping painting and sea valve adjustments, and then leaving under her own steam to sail for Provincetown within 48 hours.
Five or six men in New York on July 28 sought a drink but had no supplies. Thorn and Sutherland fetched a jar from a laboratory containing Colonel Waring's ashes, who died of yellow fever en route from Cuba. One man dumped the ashes into a gin rickey and they all drank.
Arthur Denyse testified before Governor Dix's special commission investigating Dr. Alvah H. Doty’s management at the New York quarantine station. He recalled incidents from Doty’s absence that fueled rumors about a “green room” among staff. Records note Colonel George E. Waring Jr died of yellow fever aboard a Cuba steamer in 1908. Denyse questioned whose ashes were cremated and where they were placed. Doty refuted the claims, stating Waring was cremated and his ashes sent to his family, with the health officer confirming the family possesses them.
Senator Francis X. Quigley of Holyoke is praised for independence and progressivism while resisting salary hikes for teachers. Senator James F. Powers of South Boston runs an employment bureau on Broadway and helps hundreds of families, with a plan toward future Congress candidacy.
Frank R. Brine, who says he married under duress at gunpoint, was ordered by Judge Jenney to pay his wife seven dollars weekly until the nullity petition is heard and to pay thirty dollars in counsel fees. Brine married the daughter of Thomas Dolan of Boston but left her within days and has not seen her since. He filed for nullity last spring.
July 28 a 17-year-old bellboy Paul Geidel appeared before the coroner's jury to answer homicide charges in the killing of William Henry Jackson, a wealthy broker found dead in his apartment. Geidel described entering via a window, using chloroform, a fierce struggle, and stealing a watch, cuff buttons, and money before fleeing and pawning items.
Geidel admitted the Hotel Iroquois murder of Jackson on Wednesday night and swore to the confession’s truth. Patrick McGrane, who pawned the stolen watch, is held as accessory after the fact. District Attorney Whitman plans grand jury action and speedy indictment next week.
Gloucester July 28 Joseph Makala aged 21 a hoisting engineer for Rockport Granite Company died from injuries suffered at the company's quarries in Rockport. He was caught in a hoisting rope as a car was raised and hurled several feet landing on machinery. His skull was crushed and he died en route to Haskins Hospital.
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