Death of Back Bay girl stalks Knox County rumor mill
The Atlantic passage tells of Pauline Waterman a Camden Appleton woman born September 2 1898 whose rise from a farm home to Boston galleries ended in suicide charges and heartbreak. Grandparents Wilbur and Mrs Waterman mourn as stories of divorce and abuse swirl through the community with the grandfather vowing revenge against alleged predatory advances.
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Back Bay
Knox County
Wilbur Waterman
Boston
Paulie
Camden
Appleton
Watermans
A. Carlyle Clark
Norfolk
Herrick
Faviline Clark
Appleton School
Norwegian Student Poet Under Cloud After Tragic Death
A Norwegian chemistry student Otto Haldor Larsen 23 of Christiania Nor way who died by his own hand after allegedly supplying poison that killed Pauline Virginia Clark is described as not married but engaged. The case touches his fiancée in Norway and Boston newspapers report consular cables and reactions from medical officials and local university figures. The incident involves Back Bay society and a possible link to a planned double suicide with Clark while Norwegian students defend Boston’s image.
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Pauline
Wilbur Waterman
New York
Otto Haldor Larsen
Tech
Pauline Virginia Clark
Christiania
Norway
Larsen
Back Bay
Miss Clark
George Burgess Magrath
Ona M. Cosskie
Bayard Wharton
Magrath
Thomas C. O'Brien
Boston
Berlin
Paris
Harvard Dental School
Conservatory of Music
Martha Perkins
Everett W. Lord
College of Business Administration
University
Slatten
College of Business
Otto Halder Larsen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
American- Scandinavian Foundation
Norwegian Students Question Consul Threat Claims in Boston
Norwegian students in Boston doubt a report that Consul Sletten threatened to remove them from local institutions. They say the government has no authority, note few Norway financed scholars in Boston, and explain one Larsen student paid his own way with family support.
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Hub
Boston
Sletten
Norway
Norwegian Students at MIT Stand by Education Motive
Boston officials declined to comment on a statement about Norwegian students at MIT. The students, mostly enrolled at MIT, say they came for the institution’s educational reputation and plan to remain for the same reason.
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Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Find Body Beside Railroad Tracks Near Mount Hope Station
The body of an unidentified man about three years old was found beside the New Haven railroad tracks near Mount Hope station West Roxbury shortly before midnight. Police believe he was walking the tracks when struck by an outbound train.
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New Haven
Mount Hope
West Roxbury
Divorce Maker Arrested In New York Syndicate
Jack Berkowitz was arrested in New York on charges he led a syndicate that falsely furnished divorce evidence for ground of infidelity. Bail set at 10000 dollars. Prosecutors allege he used professional actors posed as victims in staged scenarios at a lawyer’s office.
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New York
Jack Berkowitz
New York State
Sanuel L. Chess
Chess accuses Berkowits of arranging co-respondents
The statement alleges Berkowits boasted of supplying co-respondents in a compromising situation. Details remain limited, with emphasis on the asserted boast and its relation to the ongoing dispute.
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Chess
Berkowits
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