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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1879
Page
7
After four days of intensive work Officers Wood Howard Clark and Leavitt arrested three Italians and one Greek for the Frye murder. Two are named as assassins and two as accessories. A full confession was obtained and the stolen property recovered from the house. One accomplice remains at large.
The article outlines a Boston murder plot with four arrested suspects Nicollo Infantino called Nicholas Antonio Anditto the Greek Vincenzo Bandiera and Giuseppe Donay. They conspired to rob and kill Mr Frye at 13 Joy Street after luring him from Causeway Street. The report details the staged alibi and the brutal crime, including the motive of securing wealth from Frye’s safe. It also notes one fugitive Sara Chiavaro alias Nino Antonio Larry ONeal remains at large.
In a nocturnal burglary two men open a door and seize jewelry silver and a gold lined salt-cellar. They hide goods in a chimney and walls while splitting the loot among associates including Vincenzo Bandiera and an English alias, with one piece later recovered from a shop wall.
The account describes Nicollo's interview with an Italian friend and officers as he agrees to tell all, naming the Greek as the shooter while Nicollo claims he stood on the stairs. The Greek disputes, insisting Nicollo would be shot instead. Both versions align on Nicollo’s role but diverge on who fired the fatal shot.
Boston detectives report after arrest interviews with Nicollo Infantino Antonio Anditto Vincenzo Bandiera and Giuseppe Donato reveal a planned robbery turned homicide at Mr Frye's house on Causeway Street. The trio and an accomplice known as the Greek mapped the crime and divided spoils including watches silverware and a coral set.
An early report outlines an interview at 33 Causeway street with Mr Frye and two youths, including Nicholas or Nicollo Iorantino. Frye funded education for the boy and planned to travel to New Hampshire with his family, while authorities probe a possible motive and connections.
A Grorn reporter views the prison cells courtesy of Captain Ford. Nicollo sits in the upper left cell, slender at five feet four inches, dark complexioned and intelligent in black attire. Antonio the Greek, twenty, five feet three, 166 pounds, muscular and silent, signs for communication with a greenish-brown coat and rope-tied pants. The other two Italians appear unremarkable, showing little concern for confinement.
In Little Rock County a respected preacher Josiah Hanuman faced a deranged obsession to hang higher than Hamas. After preaching wild claims he vanished into the woods. Ministers later found his body suspended from a hickory tree with a note pleading for a sacrifice.
Lonpox August 26. Representatives of an American shipbuilding syndicate have secured a Russian contract to build several ocean corvette clippers at about 25,000,000 roubles or 17 million dollars. American bidders prevailed over Birkenhead and Clyde proposals as Admiral Lesse ows Tay chose ships expected to be swift with limited armament for blockades or merchant capture.
Report from Atlanta states Mormon congregations in North Georgia plan an immediate exodus to Utah. Many native Mormons will depart, causing excitement as the field is abandoned for a time.
Casanave of the Louisiana returning board accuses Hayes Sherman and officials of blocking relief from a $5,000 judgment tied to the 1876 presidential election. He details threats of sheriff sale, alleged fraud by associates, and promises of aid from administration figures while detailing broader nepotism at the New Orleans customs office.
Dell Nestor, sixteen, is accused in Geneva N Y of stealing 1024 from his father by forging a check on a local bank. He travelled with a well connected girl, spent time in several cities, and was later found in New York with 900 recovered from his possession. He is described as a precocious criminal in police custody.
A middle aged woman told police her daughter Mary Ann Hanson, fifteen, was abducted last Sunday by William Cole Man, a news agent. She claimed the girl was forced to marry Coleman on Bond Street and taken to West Forty sixth Street. a Gatling gun was seen on the mansion floor to deter intereference. Authorities said the mother has limited legal recourse.
A Sun letter claims Justice Miller, part of the eight to seven electoral commission, voted with Republicans on key Florida and Louisiana cases restoring Hayes. It alleges Miller discussed Tilden’s cipher deceits, ties to Tammany Hall, and potential buyoffs to influence the electoral count.
General Bouten and partner J C Collins were ambushed on a San Jacinto road. They fought back, freeing Collins and Bouten, pursued by three assailants. A pursuit recovered jewelry and found Jobo Wakefeld dead. Covington wounded, the attackers fled, and a demand for a hostage sum emerged.
Mrs. J F Porter of East Somerville suffered a breast cancer for years. After unsuccessful medical care, she sought treatment from Mrs Andrews of Boston who claimed to remove cancers with plasters. In five weeks Porter’s wife says the cancer weighing over a pound and a quarter disappeared. Details available from Mr Porter at 1 State Street Boston.
The Atlanta dispatch confirms a large North Georgia mountain called Ingola is sinking. It has split from its base and fallen into a chasm, with sections two thirds buried underground and continuing to sink.
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