Alibi claims from Shaw and Mead under murder probe
The pair, aged youths, present a detailed alibi of movements in Malden and Boston on the murder day. Police counter with witnesses and locations placing them near the crime scene or on the way to it. A neighbor identifies the boys on Lewis Wharf and other residents challenge the alibi as a fabrication.
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David M. Shaw
Wakelins
William J. McCarty
Tremont Street
Shaw
Mead
Young Shaw
Lebanon Street
Malden
Sullivan Square
Boston
Lewis Wharf
Melrose
Priggery
Wakelin
John McDonald
Broadway
William Ford
Towner
Frank M. Richardson
Shawsie
Fannie Laskey
Linden
Shaw and Mead
Maplewood Square
Lewis H. Davidson
Swain’s Pond Avenue
Sigurd Olsen
Border Street
East Boston
Saturn
Meadon
Frank McDonald
Juno
Robert Adair
Ceneral Avenue
Edith
Adair
Edna Wood
Grove Street
Edward M. Wood
Nantasket Beach
Metropolitan Park Police
Shakspere Festival Planned for Boston Fourth of July
City Hall announced a mammoth outdoor Shakspere festival to be held in Boston on the afternoon of July 4. The event will celebrate American independence and the literary genius of William Shakspere with participation from leading stage artists.
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Curley
Robert B. Mantell
Viola Allen
Thomas A. Wise
Genivieve Hamper
Frederick Lewis
John Drew
Howard Vroom
Henrietta Crosman
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Lyn Harding
William Faversham
James O'Neil
Richard Mansfield
Beatrice Cameron
William H. Crane
Julia Arthur Cheney
Mary Shaw
Wilton Lackaye
Shakspere
William Shakspere
Boston
England
City Hall
East Boston To Field Semi Pro Ball Team This Year
Former league and college players form a semi pro club in East Boston with manager O. N. Olson of 270 Maverick Street seeking competitive dates to showcase top regional teams.
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East Boston
O. N. Olson
Maverick Street
Boston Men Start for Plattsburg Training Camp
A group of 290 Boston business and professional men departed from North Station by special train to the Plattsburg federal training camp on Lake Champlain. Over 1000 more are to follow through the summer for four weeks of intensive drills amid patriotic cheers.
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Boston
North Station
Plattsburg
Lake Champlain
Former Mayor Fitzgerald Joins Plattsburg Recruit Train
The party included former Mayor Fitzgerald and his family as they sped to a special train carrying Plattsburg recruits. The camp opens July 5 for undergraduates and under 21, with seniors starting today and several sessions through October. Major Murray leads the camps with army officers aiding, while notable Boston figures join the train and support preparedness.
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John F., Jr
Thomas
Plattsburg
John J
New England Telephone Company
Cummings Machine Works
I. C. Decatur
Decatur
Boston
Peter Murray
U.S. A
Army
Panama Canal Zone
Eugene Sleeper
Thomas 8. Bradlice
Nahant
Allan L. Daniels
Ellerton Lodge Dorr
Brookline
William S. Fearing
James Norman Hall
Roxbury
Meyer Bloomfield
Samuel Cabot
Samuel Cabot Company, Inc
William H. Eaton
Pittsfield
Maton, Crane & Pike Company
Homer St. Gaudens
Windsor
Sinclair Kennedy
Ellerton James
S. Parkman Shaw, Jr
Old Colony Trust Company
Jeremiah Smith, Jr
Norbert Wiener
Wiener
Harvard
William E. Hocking
Straus hints progressives may back Wilson if Roosevelt not chosen
Oscar S. Straus of New York, a Progressive delegate, says if the Republican convention fails to nominate Roosevelt, the group may endorse Wilson for re election and adjourn. He notes Wilson has many supporters among progressives and mentions Hughes as acceptable to some, warning against dragging the Supreme Court into politics.
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Chicago
Oscar S. Straus
New York
Roosevelt
Wilson
Mr. Straus
Hughes
Supreme Court
Progres sive national committee holds meeting before Hughes convention
The Progressive national committee plans final convention preparations for June 7 at the Auditorium with no contested seats. Roosevelt attendance is denied. McGrath says the colonel will stay at Oyster Bay. Ickes and Dye issue statements on Hughes and Roosevelt, with Oregon Republicans swapping delegates and alternates. 33 women among delegates. Walter Brown eyed as permanent chair. Deliberations favor delaying nominations until after the Republican action.
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Chicago
Progressive National Committee
Roosevelt
John W. McGrath
Oyster Bay
Harold L. Ickes
Illinois
William Holton Dye
Indiana
Justice Hughes
Mr. Ickes
Dye
Oregon
Washington
New England
Massachusetts
William G. Dwight
Elizabeth Towne
Agnes Victor
Harriet L. Kennedy
J. B. Gerould
Maud H. Elliott
Rhode Island
William Flinn
Pittsburg
Walter Brown
Ohio
George W. Perkins
New York
Memorial chimes dedicated at First Unitarian Church
A set of chimes installed in the tower of the First Unitarian Church West Newton was dedicated yesterday in a special service. The bells honor three former parishioners Benjamin F Otis, Mrs Helen Haynes Jaynes, and Mrs Otis.
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First Unitarian Church
West Newton
Benjamin F. Otis
Helen Haynes Jaynes
Hughes and Hyphens in Sagamore Hill stir Republican race
Lucien L. Bonheur, ally of Colonel Roosevelt, warned at Sagamore Hill that Justice Hughes must speak on the German American Alliance or risk being deemed its candidate for the Republican nomination. Roosevelt declined to comment on politics.
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Bonheur
Chicago
Hughes
German-American Alliance
Roosevelt
Hughes Declined Once as Roosevelt Fights Nomination
Roosevelt supporters in Chicago marshal history to argue Hughes may repeat in the current convention. A memorandum notes that in 1909 Hughes was nominated for mayor of New York but declined, forcing a reconvened municipal convention and a potential repeat if he wins this week.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Hughes
Roosevelt Republican Committee
New York
Justice Hughes
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