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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
2
The body of Clarence V. T. Richeson was buried in the Richeson family burying ground at Amherst Court House at 5 o'clock this evening. No burial service was held. Only the family and a few friends gathered around the grave as the coffin was lowered.
A carriage line waited at Amherst station as the body arrived at 4 30 this afternoon. Colonel Thomas Varland Richeson and brothers Thomas R Richeson Earl Richeson Edward and Samuel Richeson met the remains with Captain Henry W Loving a brother in law and cousin William H Richeson. The two sisters of the deceased remained.
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Douglass I Richison alone escorted the body from Boston. The six mile funeral trek went through rugged Virginia terrain to the Amherst Court House family graveyard. A grave was prepared and the remains were interred without delay.
Friends and relatives of Miss Lucretia Hayden of Wakefield learned of her death on the eve of her 80th birthday celebration. The octogenarian was found dead in bed at her Fork Avenue home by her niece Miss Mary J L Shepard. Heart disease was listed as the cause. Born in New Bedford in 1832, she long served as a revenue stamp clerk at the Boston post office under Postmaster John G Palfrey. Funeral services will be Saturday afternoon from her Park Avenue home.
Miss Louise Andrews daughter of Walter E. Andrews of Edge Hill Road Brookline married Ira Rich Kent of Boston at St Pauls Episcopal Church Brookline. The Rev Carroll Rector officiated. Attendants included Mrs Ralph W Page formerly Leila Tuckerman. Best man Samuel P Capen. Reception at the Andrews home. Kent family present. Kent a Harvard 99 graduate and member of Union Boat Club Oakley Country Club St Botolph Club Longwood Cricket Club.
The romance of 16 year old Margaret Prenney of Everett and George Chistle, a U S navy deserter, ended with her arrest in Williamsburg New York where she is held awaiting her father. Margaret is the daughter of John B Prenney of Tileston street Everett. On March 7 she told her mother she was going to a moving picture show. Until yesterday her whereabouts were unknown.
Detectives Kavanagh and O Connor chased the girl for blocks through streets then traced her from Boston to New York. Chistle was located, arrested, and turned over to naval authorities after she fled to Williamsburg, then to 22 South Fourth Street where Kavanagh injured a finger in the pursuit. Magistrate McGuire committed the girl to the children's society. she refused to reveal post flight movements and admitted Chistle was her companion. Mr Prenney travels to New York for his daughter.
Doctor Frederic D. Hicks of Brookline passed away yesterday at the New England Sanatorium Stoneham after a lingering illness. He was a well known local dentist with offices in Brookline and was .
Testimony details years of alleged abuse in a Boston household from 1906 to 1911 including kicking, scratching, and repeated nagging. The husband recalls illnesses, relocations to Portland and Dorchester, and a daughter present at the hearing as the case continues. Separately Stevenson recounts his steel career with Sharon, Shenango Valley, and Newcastle plants, selling to major firms and facing fierce wire mill competition led by Gates and the Consolidated Steel & Wire era.
John Steven son Jr., a Scotsman and relative of Robert Louis Stevenson, described in a strong Scotch accent how he sold several steel properties to the Reid Moore Syndicate, John W Gates, and the Steel Corporation, each time making a profit. He was called by the government to support allegations of monopolistic intent in forming subsidiary steel trusts.
The body of a man, possibly Charles Moon a Slater Mills weaver missing for a month, was found floating in Webster River. Police suspect homicide but Medical Examiner Cary Bradford says death likely accidental drowning.
The Rev. Charles G. White, formerly pastor at Oakland Park Methodist Church in St. Joseph, Mo., has been appointed pastor of Pine Street Methodist Church in Portland by Bishop Edward H. Hughes.
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