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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1916
Page
2
In the Superior Criminal Court yesterday Ada Brooks was freed after Assistant District Attorney McIsaac urged a not guilty verdict. The Watch and Ward Society prosecuted the case with witnesses Henry Grossman and John M. Bryan testifying.
Lean der IE Whipple, founder of The Metaphysical Magazine and a prominent metaphysician, died at his Greenwich home today after a brief illness. He was 67.
One hundred twenty longshoremen who walked out while loading the British steamer Meissoniere at East Boston won a wage increase from 40 to 50 cents an hour for regular hours with higher overtime. Separately, Lexington High School boys were chosen for the junior division of the Plattsburg military training camp in July, funded by the Lexington Special Aid Society for American preparedness.
William Lyon, class of 1917, Frank Ready, 1917, and Wallace Wright, 1916, are the three named for the Plattsburg team roster in the latest marina ball club update.
Abbie Steele Hawes of Boston had a will filed for probate in Suffolk County Probate Court yesterday. The will states that when her real estate is sold it should go only to an American born citizen or citizens.
Councilman Isaac H. Greenburg proposed a $50 loan to Everett G A R post and Spanish War Veterans to cover Memorial Day expenses. The loan mirrors an expected city appropriation, part of a budget that remains stalled in the Everett City Council.
Pawtucket police face a baffling case after the murder of 70 year old Henry S. Briggs in his Lonsdale workshop. The victim, a village cobbler, was found dead early this afternoon likely struck by a tool used in his trade.
Police say motive likely robbery after Briggs was found dying beside his shoe bench in Lonsdale. $592.30 secreted on Briggs. property in Pawtucket and Lonsdale valued near $15,000 built from 50 years cobbling. 12 year old John Shaw found the victim at 1:30 PM, bloodied and unconscious, as alarm was raised.
Le Baron Co. Colt son of United States Senator Colt and vice president of the National India Rubber Company died from injuries after an auto crash on May 18. Albert S. Chesebrough, yacht designer, was killed instantly in the same accident. Colt, 41, had been recovering at his country home before transfer to Bristol.
Saratoga May 25 The general conference voted to keep in place for four more years the expulsion penalty in paragraph 271 of the church discipline for members who play cards dance attend theatre or engage in other amusements A bid by Chancellor James R Day of Syracuse University to lift the prohibition failed by 434 to 60 numbers nearly repeating four year old results
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