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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
3
The jury in ex Alderman George H. Battis larceny case failed to reach a verdict by midnight. The panel received the case at 4:05 pm after Judge Schofield charged them. Attorneys clashed over alleged intimidation by police as the district attorney noted detectives watched jurors.
Fifteen former members of the G. T. Whitman book and ladder company were served notices to restore furniture and other property taken from the headquarters after their resignations four weeks ago. The men claim the items belong to them, while town officials say otherwise.
Town Solicitor Frederick Tarr prepared the papers served today by Deputy Sheriff Karcher. The furniture was saved through subscriptions and the former firemen vow to contest in court before surrendering the items.
Three of five men captured at the Joseph Varelli farmhouse in Wilton are brought to New Haven for safe keeping. Federal officers report a complete counterfeiting outfit found, plus an alarm system of electric wires around the house and garden. Silver bullion and dies were recovered alongside other machinery.
Farmers in Ware Town report deer herds of 15 to 36 animals raiding orchards and clover plots and say they will shoot and eat the carcasses. Edw in E Moore fired one deer and handed the carcass to Town Clerk Edward E Morse as deer invade local farms.
The Purness liner Almeriana reached St. John’s from Liverpool with a badly damaged bow following a collision with an iceberg near midnight. Reports say large quantities of ice remained off the coast.
In Augusta Maine a May pardon freed Charles O Crocker of OM Town who had been serving two years in state prison for larceny from summer cottages.
Judge Cross sustained the demurrer in the Mundheim Company suit against four United Hatters of America officers. He ruled the defendants lacked power to restrain or remove union cards from workers and dismissed the injunction bid. Mundheim may seek a new trial.
Worcester youths Thomas Curran aged fourteen and accomplices James Reardon sixteen and Frank Bayo fifteen took sixty two dollars from Curran's mother then fled to Boston. They traveled back to Worcester where police arrested them after an extended stay in Massachusetts capital.
Mrs. Rose McArdle of Taunton Street Somerville was awarded a $6500 verdict in the Superior Civil Court East Cambridge against the Boston Elevated road for injuries suffered in an accident.
In Lynn, May 27, Associate Justice Sisk bound Samuel Haber of 460 Union Street over to the grand jury on 2500 bond after police tied a damp umbrella found at Haber’s leather factory to the Saturday night incendiary blaze. Haber admitted the umbrella was his but denied visiting the factory since noon.
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