Thief Caught In Hot Chase At Exchange Building
Thomas Cunningham fled with fifty six dollars stolen from Olive G. Nugent before Edward McNulty and about a dozen bystanders pursued he was captured near the Exchange building. Officer Driscoll arrested him on Nugent's complaint as she deposited funds at Fourth National Bank. Nugent recovered the money.
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Thomas Cunningham
Exchange
State Street
Edward McNulty
Cunningham
McNulty
Driscoll
Station 2
Olive G. Nugent
Miss Nugent
William Nolan
Tremont Street
Volunteers Save Church as Firebugs Threaten Greenwood Church
In Wakefield on June 4 volunteers formed an impromptu bucket brigade to stop a fire at the Union Church in Greenwood. Fire damage was kept to about $1,500 total with police expecting arrests of several youths soon after. In Los Angeles on the same date Marcus A. Pierce testifies in divorce case that Lulu L. Pierce offered no affection in 20 years of marriage. The suit by Mrs. Pierce cites desertion.
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Wakefield
Union
Greenwood
Los Angeles
Cal
Marcus A. Pierce
James Court
Lulu L. Pierce
Jeannette and Lewis Return From Europe on Lusitania
Joe Jeannette the Negro heavyweight and Willie Lewis the New York middleweight arrived in New York from Europe aboard the Lusitania.
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New York
Joe Jeannette
Willie Lewis
Europe
Lusitania
Grave torn by ghouls at Ballou grave in Oakland Cemetery
Providence police investigated vandalism at the Oak Land cemetery where flowers were removed and earth roughly 18 inches dug up at the grave of 20 year old George Earl Ballou. Ballou died after an appendicitis operation at a local hospital.
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Providence
R. I
George Earl Ballou
Oakland Cemetery
George E. Ballou
Ballou
Senate Debates Cotton Schedule in Sweltering Chamber
Washington June 4 The Senate spent the day on the cotton schedule with La Follette denouncing Dingley rate changes and defending his attack while Penrose and Aldrich clashed over committee work. A vote on the cotton schedule was expected to return tomorrow as heat and tension lingered in the chamber.
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Washington
Senate
LaFollette
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose
Aldrich
Finance Committee
Hay Shed Fire Sparks Back Bay Flight
A $5000 blaze at a Boston and Albany hay shed off Dalton Street in Back Bay drove residents from nearby homes at 1:30 this morning. District Chief Ryder issued a second alarm as the stubborn fire spread, traced to spontaneous combustion. John Shual, the night watchman, discovered the blaze. two freight cars of hay were destroyed.
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Boston & Albany
Dalton Street
Back Bay
Ryder
John Shual
Confessed Murder on Her Deathbed in Cornish Case
The deathbed confession names a Cornishman and a female accomplice in Olive Broad's murder near Cornish Fair. She described planning theft, striking the victim with an iron pipe, then shooting her with a 22 caliber revolver as she woke, before hiding the body. Attorney Emery links the confession to police findings and warns of possible legal steps if the male suspect flees.
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Cornish
Olive Broad
Emery
Woman Wades 10 Neck to Save Drowning Girl
June 4 in Dedham Mrs. Fred Carey of Bussey Street waded up to her neck in Merchants Woolen Mills pond to save 4 year old Sulawath Sapiro. The girl was rescued by a nearby teamster as the brave effort failed.
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East Dedham
Fred Carey
Bussey Street
Merchants’ Woolen Mills
Sulawath Sapiro
Rescuer Pulls Girl From Hyde Park Pond
Thomas Christopher of Walcott square Hyde Park a Readville coal company driver retrieved a drowning child from the pond after her playmates alerted Mrs Carey and her mother in law Mrs William Carey. The girl cried Mamma and was revived by physicians on shore.
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Thomas Christopher
Walcott Square
Hyde Park
Readville Coal Company
Lost stores in land deal exchanged for worthless plots
Witnesses testified in the Superior Criminal Court that drug stores variety stores and restaurants were traded for land in Franklin and Walpole that proved worthless. They said nothing was ever received for the lots given for their properties in the so called business chances cases.
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Franklin
Walpole
Superior Criminal Court
Yale Lock Inventor Linus Yale Jr. Named Device
The Yale lock is patented to Linus Yale Jr. and produced only by Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. Buyers are advised to seek locks bearing the name Yale to ensure genuineness.
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Hat
Yale
Linus Yale, Jr
Yale &Towne
THE
Yale & Towne Mfg. CO
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