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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
7
Mrs Josephine Lawrence sues Russell F Hopkins husband of her granddaughter Vera Siegrist alleging coercion and misrepresentation to obtain a loan. The suit seeks 275000 dollars from Hopkins who eloped with Vera from St Louis.
A plaintiff accuses Hopkins of repeatedly pressing for funds and securing a large sum for a town house with plans for his family to live in New York. He has vanished, papers served on his Irvington-on-Hudson estate caretaker. The Atlanta banker’s son owns a 60 acre riverside estate with a private menagerie and a Fifth Avenue residence with a roof turned into a lion and tiger enclosure for the babies’ amusement.
Francis Kuzonisky a 10 year old boy was chased by a watchman while four boys navigated a shaky raft along the South river near a coal wharf. Kuzonisky jumped and drowned while two companions escaped. His body was found ashore after a search by his father and neighbors. Police investigation is under way.
Tonight is German night at the Pops with a large advance reservations. The program includes Strube Overture Stradella Mendelssohn Hungarian Dances Brahms The Beautiful Blue Danube Strauss Schlaraffen Tannhauser Die Fledermaus Poet and Peasant Handel Violin and organ soloists listed among the performers.
Rome May 22 The Pope appointed Cardinal Falconio the former apostolic delegate to the United States as protector of the Franciscan sisters at Glen Riddle Penn.
In Copenhagen on May 22, tens of thousands, likely over 80,000, lined up outside Christianborg Castle chapel as the public viewing of King Frederick VIII concluded. Foreign princes and officials arrived for the funeral, with Norval Richardson named as special U.S. envoy to represent the United States, accompanied by Lt. Colvin, the U.S. military attaché at Stockholm.
Samuel Strauss formerly publisher of the New York Globe will be associated in the New York Times management, a development to be announced tomorrow in the paper.
A large Home Rule rally is set for July 19 at the Theatre Royal in Dublin with Premier Asquith among the speakers. The event is timed to push support for Home Rule in Ireland.
Moranda R. Martin of Brockton sued Old Colony Street Railway for injuries after a long skirt caught in a sand plunger causing a fall. The jury awarded $1000, with the court ruling the company should have warned riders about the sand apparatus and not blamed the woman for wearing a long skirt.
Five riflemen fired on Julius Sirmay, who chose death by shooting over the gallows, after admitting to killing 14 year old Thomas Carrick during a daylight burglary. The confession followed a previous denial that a fellow burglar killed the boy.
David Rachurus aged 25 from 129 Leverett street has been missing from his West End home for over a month after telling his wife he would seek heart treatment at a hospital. He withdrew 200 from a bank before his disappearance. The couple married two years.
Sherman L. Whipple told the Luncheon Club at the Hotel Brunswick that courts are unfairly opaque and that laws shape injustice. He urged open criticism, noting cases where widows cannot obtain witnesses and lawyers risk malpractice suits for sharing evidence or names.
The Presbyterian general assembly debated Rev Dr Alexander Henry's remarks on board members orthodoxy. Moderator Matthews warned against floor challenges and demanded proper tribunal action for charges. The session also disapproved Secretary of Agriculture Wilson’s Chicago vice presidency in the brewers congress and rescinded his Pan Presbyterian council delegate status.
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