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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
4
New York, Aug 31 mystery surrounding the death of Mrs. Caroline Tiarks, 73, found dead in her apartment last Friday night, was cleared today by a police statement. A youth named Herman Sauer, who claims to be the son of a Westphalian nobleman, provides the new account.
Police quote Sauer describing his strange tale set against a tense scene. Officials note inconsistencies in his account while pursuing possible motives and connections to a larger dispute. The investigation focuses on rumors and the sequence of events described by Sauer.
Sauer, once employed at Mrs Tiarks's confectionery, visited her Friday night alone. After a friendly chat he saw a German gold watch, claimed she cried robbery, and she collapsed. He attempted to revive her, then fled after realizing she was dead and tied her hands to feign a burglary, taking the watch.
A Briggs & Co. teamster, Robert Perry, collapsed on his wagon while ill yesterday. He sustained a skull fracture and died at City Hospital after the episode on the street.
The United States submarine L-6, the first underwater craft built in Southern California, was launched today at the California Shipbuilding Company yards in Long Beach.
Post reporter discovers a temperate opera star Lydia Lindgren of Chicago Swedish prima donna shows no on stage temper, keeps calm with managers and press. She travels, sings, studies philosophy, speaks seven languages, and avoids marriage while recalling a captain’s death in Vermont.
Lawrence G. Brooks of the Highway Safety League argues that a recent court decision grants damages to a person splashed by a passing car. The ruling held drivers owe a duty to careful pedestrians to avoid clothing spatter, considering muddy streets in vehicle speed judgments.
Miss Isabella C. Leslie daughter of Mrs G Lesslie wed Lieutenant Tobey in a quiet ceremony. The bride wore a light gown and the couple will reside in the city after a brief honeymoon.
Last evening at 26 Everett Street Everett a wedding event united Mrs Tobey to First Lieutenant Carl A Tobey of the M Com pany Highth Massachusetts Regiment U S N G on furlough Lt Tobey will rejoin his company in Texas where they will reside while the National Guard guard duties at the border continue.
Twenty nine crews contested the New England Veteran Firemen’s muster at Dexter Training Ground. Protector No. 8 of Brockton won squirt with 224 feet 2 3/84 inches and earned 200 dollars plus a 100 dollar silver trophy from Governor Beeckman. Washington No. 1 of Wickford placed second with 223 feet 6 1/2 inches and 150 dollars. Red Jackets of Cambridge took third with 220 feet 9 1/2 inches and 100 dollars. Enterprise of Campello won 50 dollars for fourth with 219 feet 6 5/8 inches. Several accidents occurred. Joseph Butterworth was fatally injured, Thomas Walsh fainted from heat, and John L. Greene was struck by a brake engine.
Joseph J. Gillis a 34 year old carpenter of 8 Dyer Avenue Everett died after tumbling 35 feet from the third floor to the basement of a Beach Street West Roxbury building. Fellow workers carried him to City Hospital where he died.
Mrs Alicia Randall fell from a fifth story window at the Riverway and Huntington apartments late Wednesday night. She died yesterday at City Hospital from injuries sustained in the incident.
Mrs. Randall, about 30, clung to a waterspout for 15 minutes before falling to the concrete. Neighbors say janitor and tenants broke down a door to reach her after she appeared scantily clad. Sister Elizabeth McCasey visited before she died. hospital officials said no autopsy.
Marion E. Park, 20, of 53 Wederal Street Reading, recently back from New York, was reported to have a mild case of infantile paralysis and is quarantined at her home.
The Independent Order Sons of Israel a state organization met at 47 Mt Vernon Street last night and adopted resolutions protesting the agreement arranged by the Congress Organizations Committee of the national organizations. It was the first New England group to act on the proposed agreement.
Charles Gibson, 11, an Oakdale Training School inmate, fled along the B and M tracks at Clinton and, in nude state, headed to the Wachusett Reservoir. He jumped in as officers closed in. Police searched the reservoir for hours but found no trace of him.
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