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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1919
Page
4
A Boston area lifer broke from jail by using a guardroom key to access a trap between walls. He then fled by car to Randolph and Mattapan before being identified and arrested in Taunton.
Edward Ray Snow of Yarmouth, once a foundling on Holyoke doorsteps, was convicted of killing James T. Whittemore in South Yarmouth in 1899. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, marking a notorious Cape Cod perversion of justice. The case connects Holyoke origins, state charity care, and a sensational fatal crime on the road to South Yarmouth.
James J Phelan plans a turkey dinner for 150 boys at the Working Boys Home in Newton Highlands today marking his twentieth donation. His son James J Phelan Jr will present a moving picture outfit to the Home, and Mr. Phelan will fund weekly movie shows at Immaculate Conception Church rectory through winter.
Salem November 26 reports the marriage of Miss Catherine M Shay of Salem to Daniel J O Rourke of Danvers. Details of the ceremony and other nuptial arrangements are anticipated in forthcoming notices.
Henry Wallman was robbed of $800 on Thatcher Street Milton shortly after 1 am by two young men who covered him with a revolver. They fled in a car toward Boston after threatening to shoot if he cried out and Wallman notified police.
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