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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
7
Attorney General Palmer announced he will travel to San Francisco for the Democratic national committee meeting on June 25 and remain through the convention session. He will depart Philadelphia Monday with Mrs. Palmer on the special train carrying the Pennsylvania delegation.
Federal officer William J. McCarthy asked for dismissal of charges against Dr. Waldo D. Jones, a South End physician accused of possession of 114 quarts of whiskey and selling to a federal agent. Commissioner Hayes ordered the charges dismissed.
June 16 in Lawrence Miss Bwilda Dollar wed Harry Metzer at 3 Hampshire street Assistant City Clerk John J. Daley officiated. A year earlier she and Emerson Prew of Pawtucket sought a license after Prew appealed to former Mayor Hurley to find him a wife. Prew then disappeared.
Formal dedication at the Bunker Hill post home at Chestnut and Adams streets Charlestown will be followed by a tag day for the building fund. Admiral Dunn commanding the Charlestown navy yard and Congressman Joseph Eagle of Texas will speak. Navy yard band and a company of marines detailed for the ceremonies.
In Suffolk Superior Court the will of late Lieutenant William L. Drohan of the 101st Regiment is challenged by his brother Benjamin D. Drohan. The dispute alleges fraud and undue influence by executor Patrick H. Graham or his wife Margaret. The 1916 will leaves specific sums to relatives and friends with the bulk to Rev. John Farrell, and a codicil later revokes Benjamin's $2000 bequest.
Prohibition Agents Hurley and Conley of Enforcement Supervisor McCarthy's staff were offered 500 dollars and a weekly salary of zero to ignore a private distillery trap during a liquor raid in Lowell. Officers seized a 75 gallon still and mash at Eudouarviste Barrette's Siken avenue premises. Barrette faced federal grand jury charges with bail set at 1000 dollars while Henry Rouselle was discharged for insufficient evidence.
London June 16 officials of the wireless operators association say marine wireless workers are joining the strike as ships reach port. They predict the Mauretania bound for New York will not depart Saturday as pickets stand at the wireless station.
The U S Supreme Court dismissed the petition for a writ of certiorari from Dr Harmon P MacKnight now jailed in East Cambridge He must serve a five year sentence in Greenfield jail imposed over a year ago for using the mails with intent to defraud
Mary King aged 60 collapsed while employed at the Wright & Potter printing plant yesterday and died soon after at the Relief Station. She lived at 1 Elmwood Court Roxbury.
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