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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
9
Miss Sarah Marsden of Roxbury won a $10,000 verdict against William Todd Meek in a breach of promise to marry suit. The jury deliberated about 20 minutes in Judge Hall's Suffolk Superior Court. Marsden, 65, sued for $50,000. the case, filed in 1916, drew notable attention due to ages and delays.
In a court scene, Mr. Meek head bookkeeper for the Youths Companion testifies he never proposed to Miss Marsden or had affectionate relations. Archibald Briggs and Miss Marsden describe a 1904 boat house incident and a demolished boathouse in Atlantic. Marsden identifies a building in a photo as the former rendezvous site.
Testimony covers a 1904 meeting at a boathouse with Mr. Meek and his nephew Archie Briggs. The woman recounts being locked in, meeting Meek, and threats to exit, while denying ties to Mrs Peabody and discussing living on Madison street and the figure of Madame Ball aka Madame Geneva in the case.
Representative Rogers of Massachusetts introduced a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment granting Congress power to regulate the employment of women and all persons under 21 years of age.
The Rev. Michael J. O Connor, among the chaplains of the 101st Regiment with the American expeditionary forces, is appointed head chaplain. He previously served as chaplain of the old Fight.
In this city word came that the Ninth has been promoted to senior chaplain of the Twenty Sixth Division of the national army. The announcement was received from overseas through general orders read to officers.
Extra guards were set at the Erie Railroad Companys new steel bridge over the Genesee River in Rochester New York after officials received a warning in a womans handwriting that spies in Pennsylvania planned to destroy the bridge to block troop passage.
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