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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1896
Page
6
The Maynard community reels after the murder of John Deane as Lorenzo Barnes, alias Hokey, is arrested in the suburbs and arraigned in Concord District Court, denying guilt. Details describe a brutal strike from behind the kitchen door and blood patterns, with investigators and residents flocking to the scene to learn more.
Lorenzo disliked the prior place and returned to Maynard where he has since worked for several employers, most recently for Joel Parmenter.
Lorenzo Barnes, a tall Marlboro man with a deformed foot, is arrested in Maynard after a grisly killing at the Deane mill. Police report he purchased rubber boots, found papers of the murdered man, and had a night of drinking with witnesses pointing to his guilt. The lockup faced threats of lynching as investigators traced his movements from the Stow road to Creighton's shoe store and local saloons.
Early Saturday a crowd gathered at the lockup as the prisoner was taken to Concord for examination with Officers King Sheehan and detectives Whitney Hammond. He slept in a stable the night of the murder and had been a Maynard resident for years. Suspected of stealing 47 dollars from a bureau and a sum from Samuel King’s desk, he faced the case amid no lynching threats. The deceased’s sister Ellen Sullivan of Hudson and a younger brother are noted.
Clif Whitney identified Barnes as the man who jumped on the laundry team driven by Mr. Lord. Detectives and press praise the local police for their tireless, creditable work in the case. Deane, born in County Cork, Ireland, had lived in the U.S. for half a century, much of it in Maynard formerly Assabet.
Barnes appeared in the Concord district court at 9 30 Saturday morning with Constable King presenting the complaint. He pleaded not guilty in a firm voice as the indictment was read. The state sought more time and Judge Keyes set December 29 for trial. Detective Hammond requested Detective Whitney be custodian of the government’s evidence. Barnes is held without bail.
The Contemporary Review extols St Mark's as an unrivaled noble church. It praises its organic harmony of curves, vaults, columns, and marbles shaped by time, and admires how fading gold and mosaics seem alive. A Sunday fugue at St Mark's echoes its enduring voice of life everlasting.
A narrative fragment follows Grace who will lose sight and live with endless time ahead. Her dream of painting and sunrise scenes vanishes into pity from cousins as she confronts a stretched life ahead, pondering aging and perception. The voice references Elizabeth Carter in Lippincott's.
The essay argues misfortune linked to Ju no bird tail feathers entering a home arises from a Crusades era English belief. Crusaders collecting feathers as curiosities could spark later luck superstitions tied to wealth loss or disease. Such beliefs grow quickly and persist over long periods.
The New York Ledger argues that a person who pursues wealth or social life and claims no time for family or household duties is choosing to misallocate time. It asserts that individuals freely decide how to spend time, and excuses about lack of time are vain and false.
A West reported device uses a hidden floor drop at bank windows. When a robber presents a pistol, the cashier feigns delivery and triggers a trap that slides the criminal down a spike-lined chute. Police then move in to apprehend the would‑be robber.
A sleeping car conductor criticizes male travelers for occupying lower berths and refusing to surrender them to women passengers. He notes upper berths are safer and better ventilated, yet men with wives or sisters often claim the lower berths, leaving female travelers with fewer favorable options.
The New York Post notes mothers meetings connected with church work and kindergartens aim to involve all mothers in early education. It highlights one teacher’s winter program with talks for nervous children, preventive measures for throat and nasal troubles, and home reading training.
The Boston Globe notes Charles Dana Gibson seeks a new Gibson Girl style beyond Irene Langhorne. Possible types include the New England college girl the southern girl or the Californian with distinct features and manners. The exchange reflects evolving American beauty ideals and illustration trends.
In Yonker's Statesman a woman with a pug sniffed out the route saying we follow my nose. The traveler learns the destination is up that way as they seek Mr Hill's home.
The New York Sun describes the Niagara operation where carborandum, a hard carbon-silicon compound used as a polishing abrasive, is produced. Quartz sand, coke, sawdust and salt are heated for a day in a furnace with electricity, triggering a chemical reaction to form carborundula ready for market.
A man known as a home keeping figure recounts a brief political bid that went awry. He describes three weeks on the stump costing him about 400 dollars, family misfortunes, and losses including a stolen mare and a son-in-law threat, concluding he will not run again. The remarks emerge from a campaign in Atlanta.
A Philadelphia streetcar conductor laments how electric current breakers strain his eyes and threaten his health after twelve years on the job, noting many regulars already wear glasses. A New York woman’s paid public lectures on Europe, first an experiment, become a lucrative winter business, earning up to 100 per engagement and funding travel for photo studies.
A New York Press account recalls Jay Gould tipping a St. Louis preacher to buy 100 M K T shares and guaranteeing against loss. The preacher lost and Gould paid, while refusing to guarantee his friends profits. The piece notes the preacher swayed others to invest.
The piece argues Russia pursues an open port not for trade alone but as a step in limitless domination. It contends imperial gain drives expansion, noting no surplus population or finite need, and that each conquest feeds a broader empire craving.
The Woman's Homeopathic Medical club of Philadelphia obtained a charter for a hospital named the Woman's Southern Homeopathic hospital of Philadelphia. It grew from a small 1893 dispensary started by Amelia L. Hess, M. D., whose efforts faced discouraging beginnings before the club aided expansion through several moves to larger quarters.
The Moplaho are a Mohammedan tribe forming a fourth of Malabar coast residents. Supposed descendants of Moors and Arabs who settled there and intermarried with locals. Historical estimates put their number around six hundred thousand.
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