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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1909
Page
3
Thieves entered Mrs. Mary A. Kilduffs Dorchester home at 398 Bowdoin Street and tied her, gagged her, then ransacked the house, taking 15 dollars. She was later found bound by her husband and released unharmed two hours after the attack. The assailants begged for 25 cents at the door before the assault.
Stuart J. Templeton of Chicago was elected president of the Williams College senior class, leading the student body for the coming year.
Six year old Joan G. Sinclair living at 135 Walnut Street Neponset was killed when a heavy iron lumber roller on A. T. Stearns wagon at the corner of Neponset Avenue and Walnut Street struck him as he jumped onto the wagon. The death occurred shortly after 6 PM witnessed by many, with driver George P. Wallace carrying the boy to Dr Pallou who pronounced him dead. Sinclair was the son of William F. Sinclair, an employee of Stearns Company.
At Tufts College Medford the annual sophomore freshman rush began at midnight and drew 900 students. The chaotic scene left a student with a broken arm and others injured before it ended at 1 am with the sophomores prevailing.
Frank J. Philpot of New York City, 4 junior, breaks his right arm in the fray. Maurice Sullivan, a Arlington sophomore, noses broken, Michael J. Sullivan of Boston bruised. Sophomores win a bloody victory as juniors and freshmen clash, many participants left with scars.
Fire captain James F. Ryan of Ladder 8 fell from a wharf while inspecting a cellar fire at 146 Atlantic Avenue, a fish store run by Robert O’Brien. A nearby float eight feet below prevented him from entering the water yesterday at 3:30 PM.
Lewis Cross fifteen and Frank Lamore eighteen of Gloucester and North Adams escaped from the Shirley School for Boys Saturday night. They were captured in Lancaster by Chief Sampson at noon after a three days search in the woods.
A three story wooden Buel and Roberts iron foundry on Buel place in Woburn sustained 7000 dollars in damage after a fire at 7 pm. The loss is shared by the Buel and Roberts Company the Bay State Map Company and the C A Nichols Manufacturing Company.
The Board of Aldermen in Salem votes three to two to oust City Marshal Joseph W. Dane for neglect of duty. The resolution declares the office vacant. Dane, appointed by Mayor Hurley, is reported not to have the mayor's approval for removal.
Edward H. Forbush, a state ornithologist, says he did not advocate licensing cats. He states the law does not regulate cat numbers and urges mitigating the cat nuisance by limiting households to one adult cat, proper feeding, confinement May to September, humane euthanasia of surplus cats, and not letting cats roam for subsistence.
New York Sept 21 W K Vanderbilt Jr and Virginia Fair formerly of San Francisco have signed a formal separation agreement approved by counsel detailing financial arrangements and child custody for Muriel and William K Vanderbilt 3d. Mrs Vanderbilt sails home from Europe aboard the Lucitania.
Mrs. Mary McKeon, 40, living with her husband at 340 West Second street, South Boston, leaped from a third story window about 5 PM, injuring herself. She died at City Hospital last night.
Harvard Sept 21 The Clinton district court will hear the murder case of Dr Henry N Stone of Newburyport. Rupert Green of Aver says at 9 pm last Monday he saw a horse and buggy approach near the railroad bridge in Ayer with Raymond Plouffe and a large man. the man’s identity is unknown. Plouffe maintains he drove Stone to the station and Stone vanished after the horse was attended. Investigators doubt Green’s claim and seek how Stone ended up near his body.
The funeral of John Edward Bourgeois, a boy killed Saturday night on Shrewsbury street by an auto driven by Rep Norman White of Brookline, was held at Notre Dame Church. The White family provided numerous floral tributes and the white hearse carried the casket as children accompanied the procession from home to church.
A five story brick tenement under construction at the northwest corner of Southern Boulevard and One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street in the Bronx collapsed today. Twenty-five men were at work inside but none suffered a serious injury.
Wakefield Sept 21. Charles H Doucette 14 of Emerson street was arrested at his home by Patrolman Tainter for breaking and entering the fruit store of Angelo De Ceca on Albion street. At the station Doucette implicated four other boys in police statements.
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