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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
17
Inquest into the Stratford avenue Pembroke street accident heard conflicting testimony on Beale’s speed. Coroner Phrelan Reale, driving witness, and William Burnes Jr. offered differing accounts as investigators plan a scene visit Tuesday morning at 8:20.
New York 36 year old Mrs Mary Casewell Blackburn proprietor of a fashionable pawn shop near Wirth avenue died of poisoning last night. The medical examiner asked police to investigate the death as possibly self-inflicted with a will drawn up after a Christmas eve consultation at her hotel with her lawyer and female staff. A letter in her purse named Mrs Victor W. Rydstrom as beneficiary. Blackburn had shown melancholia since her father’s death on December 5.
Washington December reports Fres hlént Wilson delays action on the McNary sugar bill until the sugar equalization board files a memorandum. The White House says the board requested the delay and there is no clear indication of the board's stance.
Christmas night at 11:45 a.m. in Meriden the Christie family welcomed a son named James Graham Christie, weighing nine pounds. His father is Hualle M. Christie of 1493 Park Avenue. mother is Laurattan Hall. The child is a nephew of Captain James V. Fitzpatrick, a college football veteran.
Appointments to police, health, electricity and other city boards await Mayor Wilson's return to Bridgeport on January 1. He travels in the south with Mrs Wilson visiting Atlanta Havana and other points on his first vacation in five years. A successor for the Mes Mrs M A Word charity may be named as new board members are appointed.
Five thousand barrels of whiskey were loaded in Pittsburgh with hopes to reach the seaboard before prohibition becomes effective. Authorities doubt much of it will reach abroad, with over ten million gallons still stored in nearby warehouses.
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