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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1922
Page
4
Police searched for owner or driver after a large auto truck crashed into a sidewalk post at the Dorchester avenue telephone exchange. The impact snapped a gas pipe, causing fumes to enter the building and force the girls on duty to close windows. Sergeant Howard Kempton managed the scene until Fire Department repair crews arrived.
John F. Connolly of Tremont Street South End was ordered held to await Grand Jury on robbery charges Judge Murray set bonds at ten thousand. Police say Connolly with two accomplices lured George Corliss a recent Somersworth arrival to a Shawmut Avenue lodging house and assaulted him on West Canton Street then beat and robbed him of $65 before the quartet divided the money.
George Fifield aged 68 and single of 46 Edison Green Dorchester collapsed in a Chauncy street shop yesterday afternoon. He was conveyed to Relief Hospital by car and pronounced dead by Dr Levine. Death was given as due to natural causes.
The 75 member Fifth Infantry Band conducts a 7 30 p m concert on Boston Common at Parkman Bandstand under Warrant Officer George Kazamek. The program features Sambre et Meuse Planquette overture Returning From Foreign Land Mendelssohn cornet solo Weber’s Last Thought Fuchs Southern Rhapsody Hosmer and Remembrance of Dover.
Norfolk dated story reports James Parker sitting on a keg of grain alcohol in a Portsmouth drugstore reading a newspaper when the keg exploded hitting the ceiling and killing him instantly.
Mayor Curley appoints Christina D. Page and Carrie F. Sheehan as assistant election commissioners at $2700 a year each. The move fills two of three positions created by an 18 percent statute. Civil Service may review the nominations.
A mob of 400 in Durango Mexico seized Bibles from missionary Miss Elizabeth Streeter and her party during May 4 night activities and burned them for fuel. Rev Emigdio G Santos, a victim, swore to the report cited by Mrs J P Lancaster of El Paso. Streeter is seriously injured but expected to recover. She has worked in Mexico since before the revolution and hails from Meridian Mississippi.
Otto Haubersreiser, a Providence retiree, reports locating one swindler, Watkins, in Daytona oil stock fraud after four months of searching. Watkins was arraigned in Wichita Kansas and held on bond for June 1 trial. Haubersreiser seeks the other con man as he mulls recovery of his $10,000 loss.
White Plains N Y May 16 Supreme Court Justice Morschauser denied Mrs Anne Stillmans request to compel James A Stillman to pay 6960 to cover costs of the Canadian hearings in the Stillman divorce case. The hearing aimed to obtain testimony about alleged relations with Fred Beauvais and to show bribes offered to witnesses.
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