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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1896
Page
8
Pearl Spitz testifies that Henry M. Spitz abandoned her and did not provide support from October 1 to October 19. Spitz, facing divorce, pleads for acquittal as the judge notes the obligation of a husband to support his wife. The defendant is fined twenty dollars, with a $1000 bond for the Superior Court appeal.
Dorothea Edgarita Crouse, daughter of Syracuse magnate Daniel Crouse, faces a court ruling on child support. Surrogate Fitzgerald and referee George C. Austin approve a $7500 yearly maintenance, plus reimbursement of $32,450 spent by the mother on care and education. Dorothea’s future income from the estate is projected to reach about $25,000 annually, with guardianship assigned to the New York Security and Trust Company.
A Cambridge Mass. girl Minnie Gorman, 11, attempted suicide in Troy by taking laudanum after leaving home seeking work in the laundries. She stayed with two sisters, wrote letters promising employment, and resisted return to Cambridge when her mother was urged to bring her back. Her motive was a wish to avoid returning to Cambridge to live.
In a fragmentary account Minnie resists being brought from her home by Mrs. Gorman who had planned to take her back to Cambridge. After medical treatment Minnie recovers, repents, and agrees to go home, though she was congenial to stay where she had more freedom.
Minnie Gorman of Cambridge, known in the city, attempted death by her own action in Troy, N Y, Thursday. Friends describe her as kind-hearted but wilful, longingly talking of leaving Cambridge to seek work, influenced perhaps by reading novels. She is noted as quite pretty.
The Thomas Bram indictment for killing the captain his wife and the first mate of the Herbert Fuller was continued to next Thursday. Counsel Mr Cotter asks time to prepare a motion to quash the indictment on jurisdiction grounds. Under federal law all questions on indictment soundness must be raised before pleas. Bram has not yet pleaded.
The steamer Comal reports Thomas Murphy aged 19 of Boston died of consumption on November 3 and was buried at sea after arriving in New York from Galveston.
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