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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1905
Page
4
Night watchman Michael Carroll fired his revolver at a prowler on a veranda of the Coun try Club of Brookline around 3 am. The intruder fled toward Clyde street after a warning halt. The shot missed and nothing appeared stolen. police were notified.
Washington discussion questioned the propriety of Cabinet officers aiding individual candidates in campaigns. The President indicated he would oppose broad involvement, likely limiting Cabinet campaign speaking to their own states, with Shaw possibly exempted.
Joseph Black, once a department store buyer, sues the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad for 10000 damages. He alleges the company, aware of his intoxicated condition, let him be carried to Ashmont and left him on a flight of stone steps, causing head and body injuries. Hearing resumes this morning.
Alice M. Edmonds, plaintiff in the $100,000 suit against the Elevated railroad, could not attend yesterday in the fourth session of the Superior Court. The court ordered her deposition to be taken after hours if she could testify. Miss Mabel Gilbert, who accompanied Edmonds, testified while herself an invalid. The trial resumes this morning.
Judge Braley in the Supreme Court yesterday allowed the will of the late Christopher Blake of Boston. The estate is shown by the inventory to be worth $80,000. Mrs. Caroline Young and granddaughters Annie Helen Mollie and Bessie Young opposed probate.
Emma Houston, victim of the July 18 1902 Egleston square gas explosion, testified before Judge Hardy in the Jamaica Plain Gas Company damages case. She displayed severely shrivelled hands and arms with contracted muscles and scars on her head and face.
In Probate Court Judge Grant denied Henry Bertram and Augusta Guenter request for a guardian for their Roxbury mother Dorothy Bertram aged 78. The judge noted the elderly woman's competency and her right to manage her own property.
The case of Bay State Gas Company versus Thomas W. Lawson went before the Supreme Court yesterday and was ordered to be referred to a master. The hearing date will be set once a master is appointed.
William Cotter was awarded $3500 against the Boston Elevated Railway Company after being thrown from a moving car while boarding at Adams Square. The ruling cites injuries from the incident and assigns fault to the transit operator.
Pittsburg report says $100000 in currency vanished from Adams Express after a substitute clerk Edward Cunliffe failed to report for duty. The bank package never arrived at Union Station and about $1000 of untrusted funds were found missing. Cunliffe, 35, had worked since 1904 and disappeared after leaving home.
Relatives of Mrs. Charlotte Abbott dismiss a Hoboken letter claiming her body in a dress suitcase as a hoax and say Lottie Abbott may be playing a joke. They cite penmanship similarity and her burlesque ties while noting no police action yet. Her sister Carrie Berube and other family members are named.
A reader from Cambridge argues that biblical angels are masculine, citing Greek grammar and urging ministers to study original texts. He notes letters and pronouns in the Greek Testament and references previous Post discussions on female angels.
The Y M C A Congress elected officers last night with J B Roberts as Speaker and D H Winslow as Vice Speaker. Other appointments include Robert Lloyd Briggs Clerk and Henry B Wagner Assistant Clerk, E P Rawson Sergeant at Arms, and an executive committee of Hyer Winslow and Paine. The congress begins the season in flourishing condition.
Miss Mary H Sharpstein of Boston a writer known as George Germond secretly wed Erroll Dunbar in New York this past Sunday. The ceremony at the Little Church Around the Corner followed pressure from her mother. born in Paris, she had lived in New York until her father's death.
City Clerk Donovan stated the office will furnish certified copies of all Aldermen orders on request, as in the past. Mr Burroughs asserts Dock Trust lacks proper certified copies of the orders up to now.
The Brookline runaway romance involving Miss Cornelia Hatch Dearborn and Henry Gill the coachman drew attention as love and infidelity shake the match. The story hints at possible mistaken identity in the marriage.
Mrs Flora Blackburn Gill of Franklin asserts she is lawfully married to Henry Gill, supported by her husband, while a Boston union triggers Massachusetts scrutiny. Henry Gill alias Harry Walker reappears in Hopkinton as Miss Dearborn, now Mrs Walker, heads to Montclair New Jersey. Concord lawyer says divorce grounds were weak. Brookline may pursue license fraud charges. The pair, claiming diverse backgrounds, say they will stay together despite intrigue and legal peril.
Kenry H. Sheldon former manufacturing jeweler and prominent real estate dealer died at his Pawtucket home after a lingering illness. He was 71 years old.
Patrolman Nelson of Station 5 arrested John Holmes alias Frank Parker on Harrison avenue on a larceny charge. It is alleged he stole a horse and buggy from Alvin Boynton at Billerica on Monday.
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