Police arrest woman housebreaker Julia Patterson alias Church
Detective Michael Shields heads a Boston case that nets Julia Patterson alias Church a 36 year old Black woman with six breaking and entering charges. She is tied to recent Back Bay Cambridge and Brookline breakins and identified in Esmond and Johnson cases. She will be arraigned in Municipal Court as police follow up in Cambridge.
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Michael Shields
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Julia Patterson
Alias Church
Roxbury Crossing Line Extends to East Boston North Ferry
Beginning Saturday October 22 the Roxbury Crossing Summer Street Rowe's Wharf line will be extended to serve the East Boston North ferry, expanding commuter access between Roxbury and East Boston.
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Boston North Ferry
Roxbury Crossing
Summer Street
Rowe's Wharf
Mrs Cleveland Cousin Held on Larceny Charge
A Yonkers city prisoner identifies as Mrs Margaret Folsom Westhall, claiming kinship to Mrs Grover Cleveland, and faces grand larceny charges after a fur cape valued at 50 dollars vanished from a private Yonkers hotel. She pleaded not guilty and is held on 250 dollars bail awaiting further proceedings.
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New York
Margaret Folsom Westhall
Grover Cleveland
Yonkers
J. E. Cole
Miss Sloane Engaged to John H Hammond
Engagement announced for Miss Emily Vanderbil t Sloane second daughter of Mr and Mrs William Douglas Sloane and granddaughter of the late William H Vanderbil t to John H Hammond son of the late General Hammond. No marriage date set likely next spring at 642 Fifth Avenue. Hammond a Yale graduate 1892 and Columbia Law student. his father led Sherman’s staff and commanded a brigade under General Thomas, founder of West Superior City.
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Emily Vanderbilt Sloane
William Douglas Sloane
William H. Vanderbilt
John H. Hammond
General Hammond
Fifth Avenue
Miss Sloane
Lenox
Mass
New York
Hammond
Yale University
Phillips Academy
Exeter
Columbia University Law School
Sherman
Thomas
West Superior City
Miss Waldron Sentenced for Theft After Attempted Suicide
Frances H Waldron a Providence schoolteacher was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction on a theft charge for stealing a watch from Charles S Kendrick of the house from which dresses were alleged. The dress theft charge was dropped to avoid double jeopardy.
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Frances H. Waldron
Providence
Boston
House of Correction
Charles S. Kendrick
Watch possession case leaves charge unheld
In a court proceeding a charge of receiving watches failed as jurisdiction was disputed. Kendrick testified he received his watch Monday from an unknown man, seen with Miss Waldron in court Tuesday. Patrolman Cunningham said she claimed to know the watch’s location. No evidence was offered in defense, and Waldron appealed the decision after defaulting bail.
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Kendrick
Miss Waldron
Patrolman
Cunningham
Bolster
Malden Doctor Sought in Mrs Bradbury's Death
In Malden on October 20 police acted on a tip about a doctor tied to the death of 22 year old Mrs Louise Bradbury. She died at Malden Hospital ten days earlier from peritonitis after a criminal operation. The case involves two physicians and a Boston area suspect as authorities withhold details. Mrs Bradbury, recently arrived from Chelsea, was married to Charles Bradbury who died years ago. their child was taken by the Bradbury family in Winthrop.
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Malden
Louise Bradbury
Boston
Bradbury
Malden Hospital
S. D. Samuel
Spencer Avenue
Chelsea
Charles Bradbury
Winthrop
Old-Time Pickpocket Louise Wilson Arrests in Boston
Louise Wilson a 49 year old veteran pickpocket with four prior city convictions was caught on Washington street by Inspector Knox while attempting to lift a wallet in the shopping district. She admitted familiarity with Knox and was escorted to headquarters for arraignment as police note she came to Boston to work the fair. Her lengthy prison record is reflected by her prominent gallery portrait at headquarters.
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Louise Wilson
Inspector Knox
Washington Street
Louise
Knox
Boston
Wilson
Large Nova Scotia mining deal on as Halifax buyers seal pact
Halifax men control a syndicate that has closed a deal with a large English concern. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are involved. Properties include Pictou and Jubilee mines at Renfrew, Oland Shepard Ferguson and Salisbury mines at Montague, and the Wilson mine at Waverley.
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Halifax
N. S
Nova Scotia
Pictou
Jubilee
Renfrew
Oland, Shepard, Ferguson and
Salisbury
Montague
Wilson
Waveriey
Bomb charge sparks committee call over railroad taxes
Henry L. Goodwin of East Hartford urges a board committee to probe the New York New Haven Hartford railroad financials as he claims taxes totaling hundreds of thousands were dodged. He seeks Governor Cooke action after being ruled out of order. letters he sought to read were ignored.
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New Haven
Henry L. Goodwin
East Hartford
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Cooke
Clark
Harlem River & Port Chester Railroad Company
Squire
Harlem River & Port Chester Road
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Dodd Private Found Shot at Bloomfield Home
Reuben Nathaniel Dodd Jr a private in the Seventy first New York Volunteers was found shot through the heart at his father's Bloomfield New Jersey home. On a thirty days furlough he hoped to attend his brother's marriage. He was last seen in good spirits before a pistol shot ended his life, with suicide or accidental death under investigation.
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New York
Reuben Nathaniel Dodd, Jr
Seventy-first New York Volunteers
Bloomfield
N. J
Dodd
Young Dodd
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Cambridge
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Back Bay
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Patterson
Til Boylston Street
Watts
Shields
Elsie M. Johnson
Huntington Avenue
Johnson
Teambridge
Boylston Street
Berkeley Street
Isabella Street
Piedmont Street
Rogues’ Gallery
Dave
Washington Credit CO
wasiiNorow Free
Bullock
Washington
Arlington Hotel
Georgia
Washington St
Bet
Eliot and
Dover
Cor
Bromfield St
Co-Operative Banks
Washington St. B. B
Lurbang
See's
Tremont Street
Cornelius I. Green
Globe Gas Light Company
Union Street
Green
Frances Waldron
Endwell
America
Regu
Vanderbilt
SiNfasta
Louisville, Ky
Charles G. Henning
Bank of Louisville
Henning
St. Louis
DERBY
Dist. Atty
Hudson, N. Y
Supreme Court
Cady
Duntz
Idwards
Eh, D. Delamater
Medford
Union Station
Hanover and
Portland Sts
Bernard M. Wolf
Sterling
Rueter & Company
Tighland Spring
Mrs. Bradbury
Breckinridge
Lexington, Ky
Joseph
Mary
John Fore Hines
DEAL
H. L. Goodwin
Gov. Wolcott
Hartford
Conn
Wolcott
Council of Massachusetts
American School For the Deaf
Colonial Club
Northampton
Porto Rico
New Jersey
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Erge
San Juan
Ponce
Mayaguez
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Fajardo
Naguabo
Arroyo
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Charleston
S. C
Wraat
Tampa
Fla
Key
Oak Hall
Toe
Tenth
United States Volunteer Infantry
Cuba
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