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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
8
The whaling bark Greyhound, sighted at dawn and towed to a wharf, ends a five year voyage marked by beri beri outbreaks that killed three and sickened five. Captain Enos’s wife cared for ill crew as the ship loaded sperm oil, whale oil, bone, and ambergris after a long voyage from St Helena.
Miss Alice Brown aged 26 was found dead in her room at 15 Corning Street. Police fear foul play and hold three residents as witnesses. Autopsy ordered after detectives note strange bed scene and throat marks. Remains taken to City Hospital morgue for examination.
Robert Shaw of Somerville was found guilty on two charges of assault with intent to murder his wife Elizabeth Shaw and his stepdaughter Annie Cotter. Judge Wardwell sentenced him to a state prison term of 12 to 15 years, with the first day in solitary confinement.
The governor has designated Thursday November 25 as Thanksgiving Day with formal proclamation and local observances to follow.
Last evening the Common Council met briefly and postponed a printing order for a single chamber bill as a city document. It was noted there is no youth playground for Back Bay, Ruggles Street, and Roxbury Crossing, with park commissioners urging purchase near Huntington Avenue and Parker Street. the proposal moved to the Board of Aldermen.
A six story fire at Causeway and Portland streets damaged Badger & Co furniture and Wakefield Rattan Company stock. The blaze began in a basement of the building, spread to the street floor, and required three alarms before under control at 10:30. Losses: Badger up to 5000, Wakefield and Heywood about 18000, Tuttle cutlery 5000, building insured. rescue by elevator boy Tommy Quinn noted.
In the early hours around 2 30, individuals traveling to No 6 Ohio Street heard a sound prompting a description of events. Details are fragmentary and no further facts are provided.
Reports say morphine may have caused Miss Brown’s death though no poison found in the room. Empty whiskey bottles were found, and throat markings plus bandaging suggest a struggle. A lodger recalls a gentleman caller, and a blind pianist recounts a late night upstairs conversation between a man and a woman.
Two small coasting schooners bound for Maine from Boston are believed capsized with all hands lost. The Annie L. Green, 17 year old captain Albert Webster, and the Willie, captained by 37 year old Martin Paschal, sailed 19 days ago from Boston carrying granite to Fort Point Channel and Charles River.
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