Thieves looking for jewelry broke into the home of Prof. George M. Duncan today while the prof and his family lay asleep in nearby bedrooms. Three hundred dollars worth of silverware and jewelry was heisted, but no one hurt or even roused awake.
Thank goodness the day in question was one hundred years ago, Oct. 12, 1915 when a home invasion — that phrase was not yet in the vocabulary of crime — occurred at 299 Edwards Street.
That, along with aggressive Bulgarian army maneuvers over in the rampaging European war, a woman shooting herself after a family quarrel, and one of New Haven’s august citizens being caught up in a landslide as they visited the new Panama Canal, comprised the round-up of front page news that we offered on a disconcerting edition of WNHH radio’s “This Day In New Haven History.”
To kick off your weekend with a rather bad day in history — at least the Boston Americans were whooping the Phillies in the World Series — just click on the audio below or find it in iTunes or any podcast app under “WNHH Community Radio.”
Our time travel to the front pages of 100 years ago took place in the Local History Room of the New Haven Free Public Library, where you can also hear an article in which President Woodrow Wilson expresses his belief in his new slogan of neutrality regarding the war in Europe: America First.
