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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1905
Page
10
Sept 24. In the case of Mrs. Jennie P. Chase the police anticipate important developments tomorrow. Authorities have been examining new facts presented by her brothers Leonard and Charles Phillips while the chemist report remains pending. Chief Harris conducted interviews but offered no further details.
In Louisville on September 24 Captain Thomas H. Upperman, longtime Jeffersonville depot clerk now in Delaware City, died of angina. Dr. David C. Peyton alleges Washington officials hounded him from one post to another for political reasons. Peyton and others say Congressmen and Democrats resisted the Delaware City transfer. the community backs Peyton and plans to bring the case to Washington.
A nine year old boy Albert Wyman fell fifty feet from a roof gap on 200 Eliot Street while playing with his younger brother. He struck walls then pavement, died at the Relief Hospital after his mother, a nearby restaurant worker, found him unconscious and pleading for help.
Nervous actor Eben Plympton released on $5000 bail from Plymouth jail after bond secured by George F Monahan. Attorney Max Fischacher credits Monahan with help. Plympton says there was no malice and he regrets the incident.
Wal lace M. Lest a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati liquor firm and known in New England committed suicide in his Claremont hotel room by gas. He arrived the prior evening and showed despondency. he wrote four letters, including to his wife in New York and a brother in town, then turned on the gas in the bathroom. He had two brothers, one in Boston, and was a member of a Portland lodge of Diks.
Captain C. M. C. Godfrey assistant surgeon in the United States Army stationed at Fort McPherson Atlanta died by self inflicted gunshot last night. He was a West Point graduate and son of Colonel B. H. B. Godfrey commander of the Ninth Cavalry. Officials cite temporary mental aberration as the cause.
New York reports that Jacob H. Schiff of Kuhn Loeb & Co will be examined by the insurance investigation committee over a claimed $2,000,000 Union Pacific preferred stock purchase by the Equitable Life. It is alleged the stock is not in the Equitable name but held by Kuhn Loeb clerks whose names appear as owners on Union Pacific books and dividend checks are paid to them then sent to the Equitable Life.
The January 1908 stock purchase is disputed with Mr. Schiff denying sale to Equitable Life. Minutes suggest Schiff voted for payments to Kuhn Loeb for Union Pacific stock, while syndicate managers are named as Stillman Harriman and Schiff. Morton seeks status of Cafe Savarin, and Thomas D. Jordan, pivotal yet vanished, faces questions over a $685,000 yellow dog fund. The Savarin board comprises Equitable employees and Jordan’s fate adds to inquiries by the legislative insurance committee.
George W. Perkins of J. P. Morgan & Co. met at Mt. Washington Bretton Woods with Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou, former chairman of the Republican national committee, in a consultation dated September 24.
The article discusses a $48,000 donation by New York Life Insurance to Republican funds in 1904. Perkins testified about it, causing concern among GOP leaders. Rumors say President Roosevelt ordered return of the contribution and Perkins and Cortelyou were seen in consultation on the matter.
Governor Frank W. Higgins arrives from England aboard the Celtic to a crowd of politicians and reporters. He denies any proposal to remove Francis Hendricks or F D Kilburn from office and rebukes the idea of corporate campaign contributions aiding Roosevelt’s elect ion, insisting no such suggestion occurred.
Peter Reilly, a Derby leader, died of cancer mirroring the deaths of two close allies, Dr. Thomas J. O'Sullivan and Howard J. Condon. The three men, longtime Democratic confidants, all succumbed to the same insidious disease after shared political paths and friendship. They were all born in the same area and treated at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York.
Stephen M. Crocker, from a well known New London family, was shot at the Bindloss home on School street after forcing entry and threatening Mrs Bindloss and her daughter Stella. Crocker was wounded by a revolver shot during a struggle over the weapon and was taken to Memorial Hospital in serious condition.
A long standing dispute among about 300 parishioners and the pastor Rev. M F Kopythiewicz erupted into a riot at the St Stanislaus Polish Church doors in Adams. Stones were thrown and police drew revolvers and clubs to restore order. Six arrests were made as worship continued.
The College Club of this city the first women's college club to buy a home opens a new clubhouse at 40 sq road avenue on Monday Oct 2 with a 4 to 6 housing warming. Members include Miss Alice Brown president and an active roster of officers and directors. The building features a ground floor cafe library and assembly room with colored decor and staff.
Mrs James Farrell of 40 Longwood Avenue Roxbury found the homeless old woman who had sought shelter at her home dead in a chair early yesterday morning. Death was from natural causes. Undertaker Cleary prepared the body.
Mrs. Melissa Needham a 70 year old widow crossed near Cushing Avenue when a bicycle approached. She backed into its path and was knocked down. She was found unconscious with brain concussion and died three hours later.
Fireman Joseph Murphy of Engine 89 is dying at Massachusetts General Hospital from injuries suffered in a fire at the Fitchburg division roundhouse of the Boston & Maine railroad in Somerville last evening.
Murphy of 25 Mystic Street Charlestown was struck by a 26 foot beam and seriously injured as a locomotive fire consumed the roundhouse. Five locomotives damaged, including Nos. 901 and 904 the road's famed passenger engines. Fire fought from distant water supply. two alarms. night watchman evacuated engines. repairs planned.
Watertown reports a missing groom tragedy after a wedding ring found among an unidentified man killed Friday night by a touring car. The ring in a box from John Knight 49 Hanover Street Boston bore initials J O P and black signet stone.
Charles Girks a Pole is in Cambridge Hospital after an assault by two alleged highwaymen who robbed him of his watch and left him in a precarious condition. Arthur Kenney and John McKim of Cambridge are held at Cambridge police station charged with assault and robbery. Police arrested them after learning they rode from Boston on a car with the Pole. they await arraignment in Cambridge District Court.
United States Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York, wheeled in an invalid chair, denied reports on his health and said future developments would show he would remain a factor in New York and national politics.
A small fire from an overheated range at Landers restaurant 695 Washington Street caused diners to flee yesterday afternoon. Smoke sent patrons scrambling for coats on wall hooks and rushing to the door. The incident caused about $10 in damage.
Mrs Emma Ivon formerly of this city, who fled from the State Hospital for the Insane two months ago, was captured in Nashua New Hampshire as she stepped from an electric car. She resisted officers but was soon subdued. She told captors she had been in Lawrence Massachusetts since escaping but refused to reveal with whom she stayed.
In Fairhaven the keynote address at St. Joseph's Chapel laying criticized a rival Unitarian church as a monument to modern materialism. Father J. G. Cassidy urged contemplation of poverty minded construction contrasted with a new edifice built by H. H. Rogers of New York and Fairhaven. The cornerstone was laid by Vicar-General H. J. Smyth before thousands.
Twenty four motorists were held up in Dedham yesterday and today for speeding. All will be arraigned in court this morning. Police secured the numbers of four others who will be summoned into court.
President Roosevelt will travel from Long Island City to Jersey City by boat and then take the Pennsylvania railroad to Washington. He plans to prepare his annual message, but completion is delayed until early November due to Cabinet reports not yet finished.
John M. Hanson of 94 Concord avenue guided a pair of runaway horses toward a telegraph pole at Warren avenue and Bow street to avert disaster. He was thrown ten feet, landed on his hip, and bystanders then carried him to Fenelon’s store for care. The horses and carriage suffered damage but appeared uninjured aside from minor scrapes.
Police led by Sergeant Burke arrested five young men for gaming in a hall shared by the Spanish War Veterans and master painters in the Nonantum block. Names given: Charles Rooney Henry Butler Daniel Cronin John Kelley and Thomas Murphy. The raid ended with the seizure of furnishings and no escapes.
The body of George Bursey a 21 year old man from 2012 Suffolk Street Chelsea who fell overboard while unloading a lumber car at Mystic Wharf on Saturday was recovered by harbor police yesterday.
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