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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
12
Carmine Ticcento shot his 18 year old niece Antoinette Dicco in a woods behind Stansbury Street after planning an elopement. He then killed himself with a second gunshot. The niece survived long enough to report the incident to police.
In the woods this afternoon a man Ticcento and his niece Miss Cicecco were found fatally wounded beside a revolver. They had planned to marry despite Ticcento's wife in Italy. Miss Cicecco later revived briefly and said he shot her after luring her to the woods. Both are not expected to survive.
Quincy police Captain Daniel R. McKay seeks James Flaherty's sister. The 60 year old town character has slept where he could, and the officer hopes the married well-to-do sister will intervene to save him from a pauper's grave.
Speakers at the Bull Moose gathering denounced the Wilson administration as harmful to business and urged support for Bird in the gubernatorial race. They criticized Governor Walsh, praised Chairman Matthew Hale, and called for broader party fundraising beyond wealthy donors.
Fire Commissioner Grady ordered the retirement on pension of Captain Martin A. Kenealy of Engine and Captain John Kippenberger of Engine 22. Kenealy, 15 years on the force, suffered a serious head injury after a fall from a ladder last year and will receive 900 dollars annually. Kippenberger, injured two years ago when impaled on an iron railing at the Revere House fire, is unable to perform manual labor and will receive 933.33 dollars per year.
The Brookfield post office was wrecked by nitro glycerine early today. Robbers escaped in an automobile with about $1000 in stamps and cash. Postmaster Edward F. Delaney discovered the wreckage at 7 o'clock after townspeople heard two explosions at 2 am.
A post office was ransacked by robbers using nitro glycerine wrecking the interior and shattering the safe. A reported $1000 in stamps and cash was taken while the building suffered extensive damage and many windows were broken. A witness, Miss Mary Meehan, noted an automobile nearby guiding investigators through several towns.
Boston painters union District Council 41 rejects a $9000 pier contract to a non union firm. Business Agents Boudrot and Welch press Port Directors in conferences to block the award and keep work union only.
At a meeting at the Harvard Club last night the Harvard Alumni Association elected directors Odlin Roberts chairman J H Perkins and Robert H Galdine Jr. Overseers were William Cameron Forbes Evert J Wendell Edgar Co Conway Felton Williams Slocum Thomas Y Williams Slocum and William Endicott Shyahs.
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