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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
3
A Public Service Engineer argues that Boston pays the lowest wages for engineers among comparable cities. He notes high standards and training requirements, calls for standardized pay scales, and asserts improved efficiency and fairness would result for the city’s engineering force.
The Middlesex grand jury in East Cambridge indicted both William J. Rounds Jr and Herbert Larner for mutual assault and battery stemming from their April 16 duel over Rounds's treatment of his sister Lillian. The panel also returned murder indictments against three other defendants, including Kid Carter for a 1912 Revere murder, John F. Branagan for killing Bridget Hall, and William A. McDonald for killing his wife.
Soo Hoo Wing posted $300 bail for Chinaman Wone Wing and his white wife after police found $250 worth of opium in a hole under the floor during a raid at 30 Oxford Street. The case was continued to next Wednesday in Municipal Court before Judge Creed.
London society discusses a domestic scandal as Lady Churston wife of Lord Churston Reginald Yarde-Buller leaves her homes at Bexley Kent and Brixham Devonshire to be with a younger English nobleman.
Lord Churston, a former Scots Guards captain, asks Scotland Yard to search for his wife Denise Orme, alleging she eloped with a former rival. He cites evidence they may have gone abroad, possibly to America, and Scotland Yard has wired the New York police to assist.
In April 1907 London society buzzed as Denise Orme alias Jessie Smither drew noble admirers at the Gaiety. Reginald Yarde-Buller, heir to the Churston barony, courted her amid opposition from a rival noble. Lord Churston later joined Lady Churston on foreign travels and the couple remained prominent in charity events and Albert Hall costume affairs.
Benjamin Dronick eight of 9 Bowdoin Street West End fell fifteen feet from a porch in Pemberton square into a vestibule and was imprisoned there nearly half an hour before cries brought Chief Engineer Crimmons and Detective Sergeant Burke to his assistance at the courthouse.
Paris June 6 The Women's International Congress adopted a resolution urging suffrage for women, starting with municipal voting to allow women to prove their capacity for the broader franchise.
Baroness Vaughan the Morganatic wife of the late King Leopold and former wife of Emmanuel Darieux withdrew charges of attempted blackmail against her former chauffeur Lochet. She accused him of demanding a large sum to suppress a memoir manuscript revealing her life with Leopold and her ex-husband. Lochet was released from prison.
In Peabody this season educated pheasants have caused more than 10090 dollars in crop losses by destroying young corn and sprouts. Scarecrows fail as the birds ignore them and threaten to educate crows, risking complete crop obliteration. Law penalties set at 20 dollars per bird shot.
Closing arguments concluded around 6 o clock last evening as William R. Scharton spoke for three days without notes urging justice for Dakota Dan. Attorney Nason offered a brief reply before Master Pevey said he would study the vast evidence and prepare a report over weeks or months due to hundreds of exhibits and thousands of pages.
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