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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1912
Page
9
Posses led by bloodhounds search for the murderer of Miss Mary Burnham 17 whose mutilated body was found near her Pleasant Ridge home in Little Rock Arkansas.
Miss Burnham, daughter of a wealthy farmer, rode to the post office yesterday and did not return. A search recovered her body this afternoon, with head and legs severed and the torso missing. Police have no lead on the killer.
The White Star liner Cretic sails for Italy this morning with over 2000 travelers including 1800 Italians in steerage returning home for Christmas. Two other ships depart for Glasgow and Liverpool. Many Italians from New England went to New York to board steamers to Italy. About $200000 will be sent out by returning Italians on the Cretic. The Canopic heads next December 12, and the Leyland liner Bostonian will depart tomorrow, possibly never to be seen again after sale in Liverpool.
Salem November 22. Delays in the Ettor Giovannitti and Caruso Lopizzo murder trial continued as District Attorney Attwill’s closing argument remained unfinished when court adjourned. Jury deliberation likely not before tomorrow night and Judge Quinn may not charge the jury until Monday.
The defendant Ettor seeks permission to speak to the jury after the court charge. Extra police guarded the courthouse as crowds pressed for admission and sympathizers loitered outside. The district attorney focused on Caruso’s involvement, branding witnesses as perjurers if alibis fail, and arguing illegal assembly justifies police action.
The Boston central post office uses an eight inch tube for first class mail while Cambridge demonstrated a 30 inch tube enabling a man and mail sacks to pass through in about one minute. Officials from the American Pneumatic Tube Service inspected the larger system as a potential upgrade for parcels post.
Charleston report says a signed agreement between the union miners and the National Bituminous Coal and Coke Company outlines a 21 percent wage increase, reduced tonnage, union rights, a 98 hour work day, and worker preferences for returning to work, signaling an end to the Kana coal fields strike.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Sherwood Durfee sail as saloon passengers on the White Star steamer Cretic destined for Italy. Durfee, a Harvard senior, plans to study at universities in Germany and Italy, following their West Hartford wedding with his bride Miss Dorothy Day.
An underground pneumatic tube system was demonstrated to Postmaster Mansfield and postal officials in Cambridge yesterday. It carries two men shot at 20 miles an hour and could be adopted for the postal service in New York, Boston and other major cities.
Supposed bronchitis case in Pittsfield led to X ray imaging, revealing a collar button embedded in William Tremblay's lung after standard treatments failed. Doctors treated the foreign body and continued observation.
The Melrose police captain Osborn M. Dreewn funeral was at Melrose Methodist Church. Procession down Main Street to Wyoming Cemetery halted traffic as police fire department and civic delegations attended. Municipal buildings flew half mast in mourning.
Elizabeth Duffee aged 11, daughter of Joseph Duffee of 72 Winchester Street, Medford, was attacked at a grammar school football game on Harvard street playgrounds. A man in dark clothes and a white felt hat snipped two long braids from her head while she stood with friends. Her hair ribbon was found, but the braids were gone and she was left grief stricken.
The Harvard Yale game at New Haven will be broadcast at Jordan Hall on the Irwin field scoreboard this afternoon with every play flashed to the hall. Seats are on sale at Wright and Ditson offices in Boston and Cambridge.
In Goshen New York Burton W Gibson faces trial for the murder of his client Mrs Rose Menschik Szabo at Greenwood Lake last July The jury has heard all evidence except one witness and was sent home by Supreme Court Justice Tompkins until Monday for closing arguments by both sides
The fate of Gibson rests with the jury late Monday afternoon as five defense witnesses and seven State witnesses testify. State witnesses challenged the fisherman Garrison who recovered Mrs Szabo’s body, while John Creighton testified Laux could not have left Jersey City at 11am July 16.
Mrs. Petronella Menschik, dead two years, was named legatee in Mrs. Szabo's will drafted by Gibson who served as executor. Menschik recalled telling Gibson she didn't want the money despite being named in the will.
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