Mystifying East Coast Murder Echoes Suffolk Case
Boston police recount a perplexing case of Maybel Matheson found dead in West Roxbury, mirroring the 1924 Alexander Buchanan slaying near McLean Hospital. Both scenes were near hospitals, both had obscure motives, and both yielded no clear clues as investigators pursued elusive leads and unclaimed rewards.
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Wartime grievance not proven in inquiry
The record shows the grievance was forwarded but not proven. It established only that he visited his sister who is a nurse at the hospital, left before 7 PM to visit a cousin's home twenty minutes away, and never arrived.
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Hogpital
Gonsin
Newspap er Foils Telephone Offices Talks Long Distance
Chicago and London connected by a 4500 mile telephone call described as the longest on record. The Chicago Tribune and London correspondent spoke via New York switchboard, with an official halting further conversation. Cost about 2.25 to 4.25 for New York leg and 25 for each minute to London. The stunt drew astonishment and puzzled London listeners.
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Cooperation Seen For Near Future At International League Meet
William A Weld of Columbia University told the Connecticut meeting that individualism in industry will yield to cooperative efforts among nations and mass production will expand. He forecast tariff rate reductions as key future events. Officers named include Potter Harmon Potter Hartford Farnam New Haven Trumbull Hartford Welles Hartford Withems Glastonbury Hooker Hartford Day Stratford. Business sessions led by Mrs Mary Thompson Boston and Miss Mary Anderson Washington DC.
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International Economics
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Nockwell Harmon Potter
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Professor Flenry
WL Farnam
New Haven
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Mary C. Welles
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HT Withems
Glastonbury
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Different Court Charters Upheld
Hartford February 1 AP The commission to study municipal courts says uniform court charters are inexpedient and inadvisable. A single charter cannot fit the many varied municipal courts, and classifying them was deemed impractical as a reform measure.
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George S. Sturgess
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State Wins Point To Prohibit Signs In Adirondack Park
Albany Feb 1 The state won the first round in defending the 1924 law regulating advertising signs and billboards in the Adirondack park without a license from the conservation commission Supreme Court Justice Edward M Angell denied a motion to dismiss the complaint filed under the statute. Property owner Joseph M Sterling of Lake Placid and others contend signs advertising silver fox farms and other enterprises were unlawfully erected within park limits.
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Adirondack Park
Conservation Commission
Supreme Court
Edward M. Angell
Joseph M Sterling
Lake Placid
Slevin
Slds
Park
Limets
Silver Fox Farms
Black man confesses to killing couple in lonely road death
Horace D. Devaughn, a Black man, confessed to fatally wounding Mrs. Ruby Thornton and A. J. Moore on a dark road on January 1. He was guarded in Jefferson County Jail after admitting the crime, saying Moore provoked him and Thornton tried to intervene. Moore, cited as Southern Railway safety supervisor, was reportedly attacked when Moore advanced and the assailant fired.
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Horace D. Devaughn
Ruby Thornton
A. J. Moore
Neac
Jefferson County
Moore
Southern Railway
Tevaughn
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Devaughn
Penns Nee
Chapman Name Omitted From Connecticut Prison Report
Hartford February reports omit the name of famed inmate Gerald Chapman from a biennial Connecticut State Prison directors and warden summary submitted to the legislature. The only reference to Chapman lies in chaplain Michael Barry’s report, noting one execution during the period and detailing spiritual ceremony at the execution chamber.
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Hartford
Gerald Chapman
Wiebroth
Connecticut
Weatherfield
Atlanta
Chapman
Kiev
Michael Oo Barry
Jsars
Trade statistics measure urged by Nye in Senate
Washington Feb 1 The Secretaries of Commerce and State would be asked to inform the Senate on steps to boost exports of finished manufactured goods and imports of raw materials under a Nye resolution. It cites rising value of finished goods and falling crude material exports, warning of harm to agricultural interests.
Nurses Registered in State Reach 4768 Mark
The annual report of the state board of registration and examination shows 4768 nurses registered as of January 1 in Hartford. During the year 406 candidates sat full exams, 403 earned certificates, Forty failed subjects were re-examined and two were admitted from other states by reciprocity.
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Fey
State Board of Registration
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