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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
3
The second of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels under the East River between New York and Long Island is practically cut through. The report notes progress on the tunnel project as crews advance toward full connection, marking a milestone in the ambitious transit link.
Report notes engineers expect to join tunnels from both river banks on Wednesday with a third tube to cut through days later. In Ohio towns, a published claim of a teacher driving a tack through a pupil’s tongue was proven false. she was fined $10 and costs for threats, then dismissed.
Two more defendants Guey and Yee Wat testified for themselves. Guey placed alibi at a banquet at 1212 Oxford street and claimed Moy Mow orchestrated his arrest. Wong Jack, jailed in Fall River for failing to appear, corroborated the Oxford street timing and Guey presence. Joe Archer, a cook aboard the Winnisimmer, confirmed being at the same banquet and Guey's presence.
Dr L G Verrill of Dover was held without bail for the September term of the Superior Court in Rochester New Hampshire on a charge of causing the death of Mrs Artie Miller of Newcastle by an unlawful operation. The operation is alleged to have occurred February 5. He was taken to the Dover jail.
J Frank Hale former clubman and heiress husband of Tessie Mooney filed a writ of attachment for 50 000 against Congressman John W Weeks and Henry N Sweet of Hornblower Weeks in Middlesex County Court. He alleges misrepresentation over 40 000 in securities sold about a year ago in a tort action. Attorney William A Morse filed the attachment. Sweet declined to comment.
Fred A. Darling owner of a local dry goods store died in a Pawtucket Rhode Island hospital from a laudanum dose taken in a personal crisis. The death occurred in North Attleboro on March 2. The incident is investigated as a probable suicide.
In Lynn on March 2 Ernest Kelley 18 was jailed on $1800 bail for selling cocaine via a patent medicine Catarah Cure. His acquaintance Frank Mullen confessed to acting as Kelley’s agent and to selling the product for a commission while Kelley testified against himself in court.
Comptroller William B. Ridgely in Washington declares a 60 percent dividend for depositors of the Jewellers' National Bank of North Attleboro. The payout, about to be mailed through the Boston Assistant Treasurer, totals $400,209 and will be distributed by month’s end.
New York March 2 The trial of comedian Raymond Hitchcock on indictments from a young girl's charges was adjourned to March 10 because Hitchcock's counsel was engaged in another court.
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