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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
3
A few weeks old baby boy was left in St Marys Church of the Assumption Brookline by a well dressed woman about 30 who entered with the infant then walked out passing the janitor who had seen her enter.
The janitor John Conway observed a lone woman in the rear of the church during cleaning. He noted her affectionate handling of a baby as she knelt and sat, repeatedly lifting the infant into her arms.
Police in Brookline recovered a crying infant left unattended in a church pew. Anthony Ford and Conway, a head janitor and another churchgoer, failed to notice the baby for about thirty minutes before it was reported and taken to St Mary's Infant Asylum in Dorchester.
William S. Alkon, jailed in East Cambridge for 25 months, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in U S District Court to escape a $500 fine and two year sentence after conviction for conspiracy in a mail fraud scheme. He asks to take the poor debtor's oath. permission has been deferred.
Ju Suey Kee, one of eight Chinese alleged to be smuggled into the port on the Cunard liner Saxon ia, was sentenced to six months imprisonment in East Cambridge jail yesterday by Judge Dodge in the United States District Court.
Two New York brokerage houses, Charles Minzesheimer & Co and Latham Alexander & Co run by Thomas G. Gaylor, failed with liabilities around $2,000,000. Minzesheimer & Co filed for involuntary bankruptcy. Bainbridge Colby named assignee and Edward G. Benedict receiver. Liabilities reportedly near $1.75 million with assets about $1.25 million, blamed in part on the death of Clarence Minzesheimer and market pressures.
Charles A. Mendum the former theatrical manager and uncle of Ethel and Jack Barrymore went on trial in federal court charged with using the mails to defraud. He operated a Massachusetts mail order list business and sold lists to banks in the West and South, omitting dead names. Postoffice Inspector Clarahan testified that a list cost $5 and included investors claimed to have $100,000 to invest.
In Symphony Hall the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave the second public rehearsal of Rachmaninoff's second symphony with exceptional enthusiasm. Francis Macmillen opened with the Goldmark concerto and Weber's Oberon overture closed the program. Fiedler drew an effective reading, recalls followed, and Macmillen was twice recalled for his boresome concerto.
Edwin M. Lewis of Williamstown, a Williams College professor and former pitcher for the Boston National and American leagues, was nominated by the Democrats of Massachusetts first district by acclamation at a Pittsfield convention. Born December 25, 1872 in Machynlleth Wales, he came to the U S at age eight and starred at Williams College, helping win or contend for tri collegiate titles before stints with Boston NL and AL clubs. He later taught oratory in Utica and returned to Williams College.
Elections by the three upper classes at Radcliffe last night chose senior class president Marian Hill a popular student who also served as class president in sophomore year. freshmen officers will be elected later when students can decide.
Miss Frances Terry elected vice president of the senior class and previously president in her junior year and manager of the varsity baseball team. Miss Sally Phillips named secretary and Miss Ethel Smith treasurer. In the junior class Alma Gray president with Mary Smith vice president, Alice Carlson secretary, Esther Sidelinger treasurer. Erica Thorpe president of the sophomore class, Gertrude Nichols treasurer.
Paris troops charged a crowd after a striker meeting as government measures tightened. With only the Western road still tied up, overall traffic improved though rioting fears led to 10 000 troops in narrow streets near the hall. After the meeting 600 strikers sang revolutionary songs and were dispersed by mounted troops.
A judge sentenced Patrick J. O'Hare and Daniel Fitzpatrick, both of Charlestown, to seven to ten years each for assaulting a nine year old Charlestown girl.
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