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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1900
Page
10
Harriet Callis, described as graceful and nearly 26, travels to Philadelphia with a $500 bundle of clothes and a plan to pose as a warm baby in the crowd. She is shadowed since allegedly stealing from pause and is questioned by Agent Gugenheimer as she prepares to buy a south-bound express ticket.
Harriet Calais once Harriet Ragsdale, a widow, was arrested after a long chase ending at South station with a bundle of dresses and a hat believed stolen from Mrs Niebuhr. Fire marshal and police noted the elaborate wardrobe as motive for social ascent. She faces a Roxbury hearing today.
Juda A Fleeze a famed New York beauty and artist model dies from morphine poisoning. Her 18-year-old husband Charles Freeze, a Newark jeweler's apprentice, was inconsolable as police and a coroner credit self poison. Juda, once hailed for posing at Chase Art School and for sculptor Daniel French, left no note. Her burial is planned with artists attending.
Witnesses in two scenes report confessions and disputed motives in Goebel murder case. Bowman Gaines and James Stubblefield identify James Howard as the shooter and recount Howard’s alleged boasts of killing Goebel. The trial resumes with further testimony as prosecutors seek a verdict.
Captain Dunn expresses belief the girl may be innocent yet will be jailed as a prisoner while awaiting coroner disposition. She recovers in hospital after a self-inflicted pistol wound in a tragedy involving Barbour and Miss Southgate, amid family tensions and a police inquiry. investigators see possible attempted murder and self destruction as the path of the case.
Thomas E. Barnaby of Somerville was held for the Charlestown grand jury in $9000 bail after a Sunday-forenoon assault that left T. O'Brien of Arlington with a fractured skull. Medical Examiner Harris says death likely resulted from an accident.
Prince Albert of Saxony was killed yesterday in a carriage crash at Wolkau near Dresden. He was born February 2, 18, the youngest of six children of Prince George, Duke of Saxony, and Infanta Maria Anna daughter of King Ferdinand of Portugal, brother of King Albert.
Fort Myer Florida reports a sun dance melee killed four Seminole aspirants for the chief’s daughter. The distraught girl then drowned herself. Separately in Shamokin Pennsylvania two burglars broke into Mrs Leona Kress home demanding money, killing her and gravely injuring her daughter Mary Marcinak.
Lynn Sept 17 An aeronaut named John Sawyer aged 24 died at Lynn Hospital from heart failure after a parachute descent at the Point of Pines. A strong wind swept his parachute against railroad ties near the ground causing severe injuries though no bones were broken. Sawyer and his wife toured the country making ascensions and parachute leaps.
Miss Viola Allen presented her new play In the Palace of the King at the opening of the Richmond Theatre in North Adams on Sept. 17. The drama, adapted by Lorimer Stoddard from F. Marion Crawford, features strong scenes for Allen and a star first cast including Robert T. Haines Edgar L. Davenport Charles Kent William Norris Clarence Handyside Marcia Van Dresser and C Tessie Allen.
Paul W. Perry, 39, former Waterville police officer, died by morphine at his Plains home after threatening to kill three people. He leaves a wife and three children.
Lexington hosts the annual reunion of the Thirty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Town Hall. General Nat Wales of Albany was elected president, Thomas F E Cutter of Newburyport secretary treasurer, and Rev. David B Murray of Medford chaplain. A banquet followed the elections.
A wife frets over her husband's cough and future, fearing loss and debt. She reveals the visitor is not a doctor but a life insurance agent, prompting the husband to react with mock calm. The scene blends domestic tension with a twist of social commentary.
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