SUCCESSFUL LIQUOR RAID AT HOLLISTON
July 24, 1916 – Saturday evening, Deputy Sheriff W.P. Kingsbury with Officers M.T. Hayes and O.P. Whittemore of this town, assisted by Officers McNear and Stone of Ashland visited the residences of Michael Babinsky, Water Street, and Ben Porter, Union Street, and were rewarded by finding a quantity of liquor at both places, which were confiscated by the officers. Several other places were visited by the officers but nothing was found.
PAY FINES OF $50 EACH TODAY
Babinsky and Porter of Holliston Plead Guilty in Court
VIOLATED LIQUOR LAWS
WET GOODS FOUND WHEN THEIR PLACES WERE RAIDED
July 27, 1916 – Michael Babinsky and Benjamin Porter, both of Holliston, pleaded guilty to charges of illegal keeping of liquors with intent to sell and were fined $50 each by Judge Kingsbury at First District Court this morning. They paid.
MRS. LINDA JEFFERS IS KILLED BY B&A TRAIN AT METCALF STATION
December 26, 1916 – Mrs. Linda Jeffers of this town was struck and killed by the engine of the B&A train due in Milford at 10:25 o’clock this morning, the accident occurring just at Metcalf Station, where the tracks cross Summer Street at grade.
Mrs. Jeffers’ neck, back and leg were broken by the impact, the force of which threw her body about 10 feet away from the rails. There she was found, her body huddled in an inanimate heap, but not maimed badly.
Life was not quite extinct when the train crew, assisted by some of the passengers, carried the body to the depot closeby, but she died before medical aid could be secured, and Dr. L. M. Palmer of Framingham was called to view the remains and pronounce the cause of death.
The train does not stop at Metcalf’s on this trip unless flagged, or to leave passengers, and to that fact is due the accident. Mrs. Jeffers was walking along Summer street, and apparently did not hear the clatter of the speeding engine and cars, because she stepped directly in the path of the train and was run down.
