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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
8
A New York clerical committee pledged Mayor Gaynor support to enforce laws and improve the police. Gaynor thanked the ministers and defended the force, noting one lieutenant’s criminal ties but not condemning the entire department. He said he aimed to end police graft and had already achieved two thirds of that goal.
New York report states Joseph J McKenna a US Army deserter was found guilty of strangling six year old Sigrid Eckstrom and sentenced to die in the electric chair during the week of December 9. The same week previously set for Charles Becker's execution.
Funeral services for Willard Y. Gross, longtime Brookline resident and town official, were held at the Presbyterian Church. Gross died Tuesday and had served as constable for nearly forty years and as superintendent of the Town Hall. He was a deacon at the former First Baptist Church of Brookline. The service was led by Rev. O P Gifford with Rev. William Wallace Iliffe assisting.
The slayer of Patrolman Albert R. Peterson remains at large as police work continues. Peterson will be buried at Mt Hope cemetery this afternoon with services at his home. A 16‑man detail from Joy street station led by Sergeant Mulligan will bear the casket. Peterson’s widow receives 1000 from the Police Relief Association and a pension of 325 is expected from the City Council as a survivor benefit.
Mamie Provenzano an 18 year old Italian girl from New York City shot and killed Mariana Marinelli who she claimed had ruined her and tried to force her back into white slave trade on a highway near Auburn New York October 31 authorities reported Provenzano gave a statement after the shooting alleging the abuse and coercion ending in the homicide.
A woman shot a man as he fled, fatally wounding him with a kidney shot. The victim died on the operating table at Auburn City Hospital. She told District Attorney Clark that the man had abducted children in Buffalo two years earlier.
Ameliea Leonard, a former Boston nurse who escaped Worcester Insane Hospital on September 28, is fighting extradition to Massachusetts from New York where she was captured two weeks ago. She asks to be deported to England instead of Massachusetts. Officials in New York and at the hospital are unsure how to proceed.
Catholic diocesan churches mark All Saints Day with multiple masses at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Immaculate Conception in Harrison Avenue including a children's mass and solemn high Mass. Evening vespers and the office of the dead are noted plus All Souls Day solemn high Mass at 9 and 10 o'clock.
Charles S. Baxter leader of the Taft progressives appealed to Republicans and Progressives to back the Republican ticket last night. He warned that a vote for Progressives equaled a vote for the Democrats.
Joseph Walker Republican candidate for Governor was warmly received in Boston wards. He denounced Foss's claim that he is funded by the New Haven and attacked the Governor over merger policies.
The speech tour opened at Odd Fellows Hall Milton Lower Mills and moved to Bloomfield Hall Dorchester Dudley Street Opera House Longfellow School Jamaica Plain Town Hall Brookline. Walker attacked Governor Foss for misrepresentation and ties to railroad interests and warned voters of unfair attack tactics and past support.
Federal grand jury indicts Consolidated Rendering Company and officials over a mock auction to secure raw materials at low price with no competition. Allegations trace 1908 activities when the firm held 40 percent of the business, now 9 percent, under antitrust law. Proceedings set with $5000 bail per case. defendants to plead or seek time next week.
Judge Irwin of the Superior Court Ordered the Boston Elevated Railway to pay the city of Boston 30348 90 as rent for the Washington street tunnel during construction. The decision confirms the city's entitlement to the amount.
Major Charles A. Stott former chairman of the Republican State committee and mayor of Lowell in 1876 and 1877 died today at age 77. A prominent figure at Grand Army State encampments.
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