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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1911
Page
3
Edward E. Melvin a former Marine Corps member serving a life sentence for murder at Charlestown State Prison took his life in his cell around 9 30 yesterday. He had been imprisoned one month and had shown remorse, keeping to himself and making no friends.
A prisoner discovered Melvin's death by self inflicted wound in his cell. Blood streamed from his throat as he collapsed. Rushed to the prison hospital after alerting an officer, Melvin was en route to the 10:30 service when death occurred.
The inmate Melvin, from Chelmsford near Lowell, shot John Carey on December 10 1910 at 39 Wapping Street Charlestown during a dispute over 50 cents. Five shots were fired. Carey died December 12. Melvin, a skilled marksman with medals, was sentenced to life imprisonment after a trial.
Mrs. Edward A. Hooper reported a valuable cameo brooch missing after riding the Newton Brighton line home from New York. The piece, set in a heavy Roman gold frame and a gift from her husband, slipped from its fastening near South Station on arrival at Auburndale.
The Holy Ghost and Us yacht Coronet, sinking near Portland after months at sea, carried 50 souls and a water-starved crew while leader Rev Frank Sanford ate two square meals daily with a private cook. Witness Roland Whittom, former sailing master, recounts orders to fast, deaths from convulsions, arrests in Haiti and San Salvador, and a voyage that defied landfall warnings as Sanford steered toward the West Indies.
Whittom says Sandford and several followers were arrested in Hayti as revolutionists and threatened with arrest in San Salvador for disobeying port regulations. He notes Sandford refused to land or replenish the food supply due to revelations from God.
The New England Industrial and Educational Exposition enters its final week at Mechanics Building with record attendance. Visitors may view both the exposition and the New England fruit show at Horticultural Hall on one ticket, with free lectures by W J Montgomery and A H Brady. Fitchburg Day brings thousands from that city on Wednesday.
Boston police storm two East Dedham Street and 504 Shawmut Avenue gambling dens arresting 27 men. In a Shawmut raid 12 were charged with Sunday gaming. at Lucas Street 16 were taken in a daylight sweep. Officers overpowered guards and forced entry as suspects fled through upstairs rooms and windows.
The ad promotes the J. B. L. Cascade as a natural internal bathing method for constipation and biliousness. It claims the system rids the body of waste more effectively than drugs and keeps one regular, with physicians prescribing it and many users praising it. It invites readers in New England to see the Cascade and learn its principles with no obligation.
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