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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1921
Page
8
Salvatore Cala, 31, an Italian, has made a written confession that he and another Italian murdered Daniel Kaber, a wealthy Cleveland publisher, by stabbing him in his bed. The confession is now in the hands of the district attorney.
Cala, pressed by arrest and extradition papers, claims Emma Colavito promised $5000 to kill Kaber and that Victoria Pisselli aided the slaying. He says he and the women entered Kaber's house the night of the murder while Colavito planned the poisoning attempt and that he did not meet the partner for 15 months. He fled during detention but surrendered when surrounded by revolvers.
Bankers from Chicago and vicinity met with J. P. Morgan to arrange a loan of 950 million dollars for the cattle industry. New York bankers will supply half the funds and Western bankers are said to commit the rest.
Philadelphia June 17 United News. After six years of marriage and two years estranged, Cordelia Biddle Duke sues for divorce. Counseled by John C. Bell, the action was filed in Common Pleas. Angier B Duke, heir to a tobacco fortune, is 24 and valued at about 10 million. the couple’s wedding drew crowds, police had to control throngs with A J Drexel Biddle Jr. later marrying Miss Mary Duke.
Fred L. Greely testifies in a suit by Mrs. Jane Frost Rogers that Cyrus Greely, 87, had proposed to several young women in Lewiston. An indignation meeting followed the engagement announcement on Oct 16, 1915. Greely signed the guardian petition after learning of the romance and denies involvement in obstructing the marriage. He contests a $10,000 bill for Nora Greely’s services as excessive.
Arthur Lyman, chair of the Democratic State committee, wrote Governor Cox urging appointments to the special commission on Commonwealth departments. He called for a Republican women representative and a Democratic women representative, offering to submit a list of capable Democratic women for consideration.
A firm plans to lift the fishing schooner Esperanto from the ocean floor off Sable Island using 800 pound pontoons filled with compressed air. Despite novelty and no prior success on Sable Island wrecks, a company representative voiced confidence in completing the salvage.
Saliger Ship Salvage Corporation officials say each pontoon will lift 2 tons and six pontoons aboard the Fabia rescue ship will be deployed. Deep sea diver Jock Gardner of Brooklyn will hook pontoons to the sunken craft, deflate them, then pump up against water pressure to pull the Esperanto to the surface.
Officials plan to raise the Esperanto using steel hooks and pontoons. Divers may face difficult conditions from weather and tides off Sable Island. After pumping compressed air the vessel should surface quickly, then be towed with its bottom torn off.
Seven of eight indicted for the murder of James Walker, seaman aboard the schooner Mary F. Barrett, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Portland. Sentences ranged from two to eleven years in state prison, with defendants including Peter Dirks, Antonio Andrade, Neils Clausen, Daniel Fallon, William Garrity, Thomas Harty, and Neils Readquist.
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