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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
3
Mrs. Eber Thompson, mother of Esther Thompson, 17, testified in Superior Criminal Court yesterday that her daughter's act stemmed from the company she kept and from open streetcars. She said the girls routinely rode for free with conductors and motormen and returned home late, starting in childhood.
A dramatic courtroom scene ends with a girl attempting poison after a mother’s denial of parole. The younger sister serves at Lancaster Industrial School while the elder, named Esthe, begs for another chance. An officer quickly intervenes, forcing soap and water, saving the girl who is now under care at the Relief Station with prospects of recovery.
Colonel Alexander P. Graham is invited by the Canadian Club of New York as an honored guest to a reciprocity banquet with President William H. Taft as special guest. The event will be at the Manhattan Beach Hotel in New York on Thursday evening June 22. Taft will deliver a special address on reciprocity.
James P D Casey of Brookline leaves an estate valued at 300000 with 175000 personal property and 125000 real estate. The will provides 300 to several charitable homes and smaller sums to siblings. Wife receives Brookline household effects and horse drawn vehicles with a 25000 cash option if she remarries. The residue is held in trust for four children until age 35 with eventual equal division. House on Longwood Avenue to be sold and a new home purchased for the family during minority.
Police seized morphine and other drugs after a raid at 224 Harrison Avenue last night. Three men were arrested Thomas Reagan 298 John J. Smith 22 and John F. Sullivan 19 who claimed addresses on Harrison Avenue and Washington Street.
In dense fog the Red Star liner Rosa Lind traveling from Montreal to Charlottetown, P E I, stranded on a sandbar near the breakwater in Sydney N S. There are 50 passengers aboard and a large general cargo. Tugs failed to pull her free, but high tide is expected to lift her off.
Edward Valentine Lee, a paymaster's clerk who stole 46000 from the battleship Georgia on February 11 at flavana, was arrested in Buffalo New York by Detective Thomas O'Grady. Agents traced him from Toronto to Washington before the arrest during a routine traffic stop after a park ride with a girl.
President Taft praised the Supreme Court rulings in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco cases at Yale Alumni luncheon in New Haven. He said the decisions clear the way for honest, intelligent business men to proceed without fear of the Sherman act.
The President asserts the Supreme Court steadies the nation guarding liberties and guiding business. He honors Associate Justice Lamar for his Yale degree and defends court decisions on conspiracy and restraint of trade, urging businessmen to follow a clear standard against monopolistic aims.
The Cunard steamship Franconia arrived from Liverpool and Queenstown with Boston tourists including Major Henry J. Higginson who appears well and stronger after illness in Europe. H. D. Peirce of Cambridge, longtime U S diplomat to Norway, completed 17 years in service. Mr and Mrs F J Carpenter, aboard when the Ivernia accident occurred near Queenstown Harbor, praised passenger conduct amid danger.
James Gordon Gilkey of Watertown Harvard junior wins the Sargent prize of 100 dollars for a metrical translation of Horace seventh ode from book three. Gilkey, editor of the Harvard Advocate, recently earned the Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of 100 dollars and a silver medal for Boston As Seen From Harvard Bridge.
The Rev. Dr. A. A. Berle, pastor of Shawmut Congregational Church, has been named Woodbridge professor of Applied Christianity at Tufts College. A Harvard ’D1’ graduate, he studied theology at Oberlin and pursued studies in Germany France and England focusing on sociology and the social effects of industry.
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