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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1894
Page
5
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The House debated fire marshal numbers with two contrasting proposals. Supporters of one marshal argued politics should not influence law, while others favored two appointees. The substitute failed 37 to 9 and the original bill progressed to a third reading. The Senate discussed horse docking penalties and stock and bond regulation for railroads, with votes and debates continuing into adjournment.
Ferdinand Co. Ryder was arrested in New Bedford for forgery after admitting stolen funds from a store safe. He confessed to taking between 43 and 4 dollars from H. H. Tilson’s gentlemen’s furnishings shop and will be tried in the District Court tomorrow.
A. W. Giles, book-keeper for the Gloucester Fish Company, confesses to pilfering and losing 7500 in policy bets over two years. Directors in Gloucester consider action. Watts questions accounts and Giles admits the crime but claims no property to seize. The Atlantic Halibut Company is not connected to the offense.
Gloucester stockholders met and, while declining to reveal meeting details, it is understood no action was taken to prosecute the defaulting clerk.
Despatch notes the Indianapolis bound for Bluefields Nicaragua via Newport News in lat 16N 7W with a broken propeller shaft. Yucatan dispatched from Jamaica to assist. Enterprise ashore on Boishubert reef with rudder and keel damage and Meyer repairs planned. Maggie Sullivan ashore on Handkerchief Shoal. captain refused wreckers but attempted to drive off shoal. Tug requested and Boston Tow Boat Co. sent one. The Landsman.
The Evangelistic Association of New England will hold its seventh annual meeting and conference in Boston May 15 16 and 17 with sessions at Bromfield Street Church Park Street Church and Clarendon Street Baptist Church. Nearly all regional evangelists are expected and leading gospel soloists will provide music for the event.
A group of five shoplifters and a fence were brought to police HQ after a Wednesday bust by Station 32. Inspector Barry identified Rose Cohen and connected her to Annie Waterman, arrested in Cincinnati in 1893 for shoplifting. Items valued at $1,043 were claimed, with the room at Captain Watts’s office resembling a pawn shop as people sought their property.
A Cambridge council meeting stretched six hours as aldermen rejected fifteen of sixteen license petitions. Only John McAvoy’s request for a Sunday ice cream and candy venue was approved amid claims several sites were misrepresented as restaurant ventures. Armstrong vows libel action. next Tuesday may bring hearings and further clashes.
Right Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, secretary of state for home affairs, wed Miss Margot Tennant at St George's Church Hanover Square. The ceremony drew a distinguished crowd, with 460 presents reported, and the couple to honeymoon at Mellor Park Frome.
Henry B. Stutt a Boston commercial traveler shot himself in a Buffalo saloon on Sunday night and died from the wound police report the incident as a self inflicted act.
The Sunday Post features a startling color cartoon titled The Man in Red. The image promises vivid visuals and eye catching detail with a bold, theatrical tone.
Boston actor Mr. Joseph Haworth makes his Boston debut as Hamlet at the Grand Opera House with the stock company. Alfred Hudson, Frank J. Keenan, Helen Dayne, S. E. Springer and others receive praise. Hamlet will repeat later in the week. Mounet Sully stars in Le Cid at the Tremont with Mme. Legend Weber. Hernani tonight and other bills follow. Columbia Theatre offers free matinees for Boston children as Hagenbeck’s animals draw crowds. other varied entertainments are noted around the city.
An 18 year old girl Fannie M Nyman died after a criminal operation tied to abortion. She refused to name her betrayer and claimed self performed the procedure but doctors doubt this. An autopsy confirmed death from the operation.
Worcester May 10 two men arrested for horse and wagon larceny were bound over to the May term. Inspector Barry identified the elder man as Frank Aylesbury a longtime criminal with prior sentences in 1879 1882 1885 and 1891 making him eligible for a twenty five year term under habitual criminal law. The other man is identified as a new partner in the crime. John Munroe alias William Aylesbury 27 and Orrin Munroe alias Orrin Aylesbury 19 are tied to horse theft and held on $1500 bond. Chief Drury of Chelsea has warrants for William Aylesbury.
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