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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
6
A master thief using household staff to monitor targets conducted three robberies between Friday and Sunday nights. The report details Mrs Hanan's losses including a diamond necklace and other high value pieces valued at 150000 dollars. The thieves knew the locations and optimal timing for each theft.
Alarm over a string of burglaries prompts summer residents to vault valuables and hire more guards. Rumsey jewelry, including a second pearl necklace, swelled losses to over 150000 dollars as detectives chase a key clue within 24 hours.
The report outlines a theory that a gang scouted the Rumsey premises on Saturday and planned a daytime absence, then struck at dusk using an unlit car and a side road. Detectives discard an organ grinder or motor boat angle and consider possible inside involvement, with Talbot Hanan denying monkey or outside conspirators.
Mrs. Edith Evelyn Briggs became Mrs. Charles Talbot Smith of Newport after a public divorce threat and his death. She later wed Joseph H. Thompson Jr and then married John Henry Hanan of Hanan & Son, shoe manufacturers, amid society scandal and a sequence of divorces in Newport.
The complete list of jewels taken from Mrs C C Rumsey’s bureau drawer was released. Items include two pearl necklaces valued at about 116 000 dollars, a five karat ruby set in a diamond bar, a Cartier diamond pin, a gold mesh bag with a platinum purse, and a Greek Alexander coin. A young man named Hanan implies suspects are still under the roof and promises untangling soon, suggesting inside involvement.
The Elks society circus opens in Winthrop with Mayor Fitzgerald as ringmaster and a full crowd. Dr. Albert B. Dorman leads the event. clowns include Timothy J. Mahaney John Kennedy Joseph A. Naulty John Cushman and Henry Wilson. The show runs three more nights with Cambridge Mayor J Edward Parry Andrew A Cassassa and Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Leach taking turns as ringmaster.
Former welterweight champion Honey Mellody was arrested at his home on Tremont street after his wife accused him of beating her. He sustained three deep cuts on face and head as a crowd followed to Union Park house where police placed him in custody.
Fiders' Sanitarium at 667 Main Street St Joseph Missouri published a book detailing the deadly effects of tobacco and how the habit can be stopped in three to five days. Free copies are available by mail upon request.
Mrs. Clara Cahill Park, first vice president of the Massachusetts National Congress of Mothers, urged yesterday that children in state institutions be boarded with their own mothers at Commonwealth expense.
Mrs Park spoke at a School of Eugenics meeting led by Dr Evangeline W Young arguing that keeping a child with its own mother costs less than foster care or state institutions. She warned foster placements demoralize children and that mothers deserve legal guardianship when proper.
Joseph J. Flynn of Main street Charlestown faces district court this morning on a breaking and entering charge. Police say he invaded James A. Wallace residence at 86 Bartlett street around 4 am yesterday, a Wallace girl waking to a man answering to You papa, who fled through a window carrying sash. Patrolman Pickett pursued and arrested him.
An accuser claims Mayor Fitzgerald used influence with the Board of Health to revoke a poultry license for an East Boston building to push a lease break and sell the property to associates of Senator James E. Fitzgerald. The accuser seeks to regain the permit via court action.
In East Boston a legal dispute over a poultry business escalates as ex Senator Fitzgerald, mayoral action, and tenants clash. The mayor says he revoked the building license to prevent an unfair eviction after Fitzgerald pressed tenants to leave and new lessees took possession amid injuries and court action. The case heads to East Boston court.
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