Forged Exhibits Debated at Russell Identity Hearing
Handwriting expert Dr. Albert H. Hamilton testified that several exhibits were forged or created over time. He argued Detective Herbert Walker wrote two items, found six writings in Comer Commercial College papers, and said only 14 of 60 exhibits were by Daniel Blake Russell. He claimed post marks were double stamped and Exhibit 300 matched the real heir’s signature.
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Albert H. Hamilton
Russell
East Cambridge
Hamilton
Herbert Walker
Comer Commercial College
Daniel Blake Russell
Ieexpert
Daniel Russell
Expert Examines Rousseau Letters On Walker Witness Stand
The expert selected handwriting specimens from Walker during his testimony and compared them with Rousseau letters shown earlier. He stated that the second batch of Rousseau letters seemed to be created after the claimant appeared on the stand.
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Walker
California Man Claims He Is Missing Heir to Russell Estate
H Johnson, claiming to be Daniel Blake Russell, sworn in Fresno as son of Melrose Mass financier Daniel Russell, seeks half the estate. He says he learned wealth only after reading about the heir search and cites Melrose memories, but others doubt his story as the estate fight continues in Cambridge with executor Ferdinand B. Almy and co-executor William C. Russell.
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California
Fresno
Cal
Daniel Russell
Melrose
Mass
H. Johnson
Daniel Blake Russell
Johnson
Trenton Street
Russell
William C. Russell
Ferdinand B. Almy
East Cambridge
Leslie A. Simpson
Daniel Blake Russells
Six Great Liners Reach Port With Multi-Million Cargo
Six liners from Europe, South America, and Cuba arrived with cargoes totaling over 3 million dollars. Longshoremen gained weeks of work as Numidian, Lancastrian, Iberian, Galileo, Higdaspes, and Normannia tied up at the harbor. Most ships reported good weather, Galileo facing only strong winds.
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Europe
South America
Cuba
Glasgow
London
Galileo
Strauss Sembrich and Strube Share Honors at Series Rehearsal
At the 19th season rehearsal in Symphony Hall Gustav Strube’s Puck had its first performance as a dedication to Fiedler. Strube’s overture and Strauss’s Domestic Symphony drew praise, with Sembrich delivering Mozart and Schumann numbers plus Fiedler and Strauss songs. the review notes the piece’s pleasing ideas, occasional heaviness, and the artists’ refined musicianship.
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Symphony Orchestra
Gustav Strube
Puck
Fiedler
Strauss
Mme. Sembrich
Mozart
Graun
Jesus
Brahms
Schumann
Strube
Mendelssohn
Staun
Fiedlers
Woman, 85, Dies After Fall Down Stairs
An unidentified elderly woman, about 85, fell down stairs at 18 Eliot Street at 11:45 last night. She was taken to Relief Hospital with a skull fracture and died minutes after arrival.
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Eliot Street
Relief Hospital
Bankmen Oppose Plan to Legalize Holding Company Bonds
Opposition grew to Governor Draper’s proposal to legalize Boston Railroad Holding Company bonds as bank investments for Massachusetts savings banks. Testimony before banks and railroads committees continued to next Tuesday morning with Francis A. Shore and Daniel J. Riley voicing concerns. Clergy and political figures urged caution and further hearings.
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Massachusetts Savings Banks
Francis A. Shore
Malden Savings Bank
Savings
Draper
Boston Railroad
Daniel J. Riley
New Haven
A. A. Berle
William RB. Lawrence
Frederick J. Macleod
Democratic State Committee
Representative Mellen
Worcester
Lodge Delivers Visit to Boston Before Brockton Rally
Senator Lodge and Senator Fleury Cabot Lodge arrived in Boston yesterday afternoon and went to Dr Bigelow's Newbury Street home. He will stay until this afternoon then depart for Brockton to attend a Buchanan rally this evening.
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Fleury Cabot Lodge
Boston
Dr. Bigellow
Newbury Street
Brockton
Buchanan
Mayor Fires Bath Department Officials In Stormy Meeting
Mayor Fitzgerald declared war on two top bath department officials, Joseph P. O'Brien and Mary L. McCool, directing trustees to remove them. He warned that noncooperation would end their terms, while trustees debated resignations and Mayor backed his policy stance.
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Fitzgerald
James Donovan
Democratic City Committee
Bath
Donovanites
Bath Department
Joseph P. O’brien
Mary L. McCool
Joseph Maccabe
City Hall
Maccabe
O’brien
Lowell Ode Sold For $490 at Merwin Clayton's
In New York on March 18 the privately printed Commemoration Ode of James Russell Lowell from 1865 sold for 490 dollars. No. 39 of fifty copies, a presentation copy to E. E. Hale with Lowell's autograph inscription dated September 3, 1865, remained in original boards with minor wear. The buyer was Champlain.
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New York
Edward Everett Hale
Merwin-Clayton
James Russell Lowell
Cambridge
E. E. Hale
J. R. Lowell
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Sleuth
Sembrich
BY Olin Downes
Senator Lodge
New England
Hart, Schaffner and
Marx
Mart
Schaffner & Marx
America
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Dept
Boylston
Essex
Continental Clothing House
Washington St
Boylston Street
Bamber’s
Scollay Sq
Col
Cornhill
Il Ilo LL
Sudbury Sts
Odriscoll
Lowell
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