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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
3
Edith Connors a 15 year old orphan living with an aunt at Lyman near Biddeford Maine is dying in the Trull Hospital from a self inflicted bullet wound. She shot herself yesterday after noon while brooding over threats said to have been made. The town is stirred and alleged attackers barricaded their house fearing neighbor violence.
Yesterday morning a child was left alone in the house and stayed indoors. In the afternoon a neighbor heard of the incident and reported an eighth of the neighborhood involvement.
A girl was found unconscious on a doorstep with a blood trail to Arthur Gireen’s house. A doctor revived her, averting a mob as it emerged she attempted suicide. She was taken to Trull Hospital where Dr. N W Emerson removed a bullet from her lower right lung area.
The indictment against Wilson W. Lockhart charged with aiding George W. Coleman in misusing National City Bank funds was not pressed. Lockhart posted bail of 15 000 provided by his father.
A 47 member jury pool was completed in St Louis on May 24 to pick 12 jurors who will decide if Mrs Doral Doxey poisoned her alleged bigamous husband William J Erder, in the case brought before the court.
Mrs. Julia Smith of Belleville files for divorce from P Smith claiming marriage of three years and naming a 17 year old girl as corespondent. The filing appeared in Newark on May 24.
The Boston milk inquiry heard from Lockhart and others on Coleman and Kelcher as District Attorney French clashed with Coakley over evidence. Experts urged reform, favoring pasteurization and better labeling while officials debated graft among inspectors and contractors.
Mrs Huntington Smith wife of a top defendant in a Curley graft case defends the Animal Rescue League. She says political graft motives aim to discredit the league and cites 6242 stray dogs cared for last year. She asserts the league supervises dog catchers and ambulance crews and pledges openness and scrutiny.
Robert E. Peary was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Edinburgh on May 4 as part of the university’s degree ceremony.
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