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The Boston Globei
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The Boston Globe Friday, November 19, 1371 BOSTON HOMICIDES 1958-1970 1971 BOSTON HOMICIDES I I1A Sr Slayings spur request for black police TOTAL 100 SOLVED ss WARRANT ISSUED 6 UNDER INVESTIGATION 44 itw I 114 110 90 9 89- 60 53 50 5 55i 45 30 3 24ri NUMBER EACH MONTH; CAUSE OF DEATH JANUARY HANDGUN 43 FEBRUARY 9 SHOTGUN MARCH 8 RIFLE 1 APRIL 10 KNIFE 31 MAY 8 STRANGULATION 5 JUNE 3 BLUNT INSTRUMENT 5 JULY 11 SHARP INSTRUMENT 1 AUGUST 11 A 4 HANDS 3 SEPTEMBER 11 ARSON 2 OCTOBER 11 BATTERED CHILD 2 NOVEMBER 10 SHOD FOOT 1 TOTAL 100 MURDER WEAPON John Sullivan of police crime lab examines block of wood used on Hub's 100th homicide victim. (Globe photo by Sam Hammat) BY DISTRICT SLAYINGS Continued from Page 1 house Wednesday night at 102 Cal-' lender st owned by Edmund J. White, who lives on "the second floor. White was arrested at his home at 8 last night and formally charged with murder. He will be arraigned in Dorchester District Court today.

White was taken into custody following questioning by Det. Sgt. John Daley of the homicide squad and Sgt. Frank.Sullivan of the Mat-tapan district. Police said the weapon was a 40-pound wooden meat-cutting block, which White kept in his house.

The 99th victim was Robert Weeks, 43, of 63 Annunciation Roxbury, who was found Wednesday stabbed to death in an apartment at 20 McGreevey way, Roxbury. Weeks's wife Mary, 42, was charged with the murder and arraigned yesterday in Roxbury Court. The 98th victim was Harvey L. Horsley, 48, of Kirwin Street, Dorchester, a father of 14. He was shot to death about 6:15 a.m.

Wednesday while walking from his home to i 38 18 21 VICTIMS WHITE BLACK P.R. 36 69 ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN ELEVEN THIRTEEN FOURTEEN FIFTEEN patrol duties on Nov. 3 in Division 3, where three of the four homicides later occurred, bringing to 17 the total number of homicides in the area this year. At a department hearing before Commr. McNamara, Capt.

Richard Crouse of the field operations bureau testified that at 5:30 a.m. on-Nov. 3 he drove into the Mount Hope Cemetery in Dorchester and found the patrolmen in three cruisers and the sergeant in a fourth. Crouse said that all the cars were parked with their lights off. The patrolmen and the sergeanl all pleaded innocent Comn McNamara has 48 hours in which to make a ruling.

Talbot avenue for a bus that would have taken him to his job as foreman at a meat-packing plant. Police said it did not appear that robbery was a motive since he had $46 in his possession when found. About a mile from where Horsley was gunned down, Mrs. Beatrice Heard, 50, was shot to death Monday night outside her home at 127 Washington Dorchester, while apparently fighting off a handbag snatcher. Police are continuing to investigate the Horsley and Heard murders.

Meanwhile, a police sergeant and six patrolmen were charged yesterday with failing to perform qi-h uuuuuuuhuuuu 58 59 .60 61 62 63 64 .65 66 67 68.69 70: J. BurtAir Boston's homicides this year Task forces formed Listed In order in which they appear on Boston police recorda. Chamber eyes Mass. reforms VICTIM Jan. 1 Wallace Tyler 25, Roxbury.

Jan. 3 Joseph Watson, 30, Boston. Jan. 17 James A. Richmond, 29, Dorchester.

Jan. 16 Regoberto Vega, 22, Dorchester. Jan. 19 Eugene Chubb, 50, Dorchester. Jan.

16 Dorothy Wallace, 16, South Boston. Jan. 20 Thomas Connors, 28, Hyde Park. Jan. 23 Frank Thomas, 25, Roxbury.

Feb. 1 Johnny Williams, 26, Roxbury. Feb. 7 Barbara D. Reid, 22, Mattapan.

Feb. 12 Margarete Walters, 45, Boston. Feb. 15 Johnny Sanchez, 19, Mattapan. Feb.

17 Joseph R. Brazil, 40, Charlestown. Feb. 20 William C. Gurley, 37, Roxbury.

Feb. 23 Kenneth Hunter, 32, Dorchester. Feb. 26 Robert G. Foster, 36, Dorchester.

Feb. 28 Pedro J. Vazquez, 24, Dorchester. March 1 Theresa M. French, 36, Jamaica Plain March 1 Donna Daley, 27, Jamaica Plain.

Feb. 27 Grover Tensley, 34, Boston. CAUSE OF DEATH Shot in head as result of argument; suspect arrested. Stabbed as result of argument; suspect arrested. Knifed as result of argument; suspect arrested.

Shot in head; suspect arrested. Stabbed in stomach; suspect arrested. Shot in head; suspect committed. Shot in throat; suspect arrested. Stabbed in chest after argument; suspect arrested Beaten with a hammer; suspect arrested.

Shot in head; suspect arrested. Strangled; suspect arrested. Shot in head; suspect arrested. Shot in face. Stabbed as result of argument; suspect arrested.

Shot in chest. Shot in head; suspect arrested. Shot in chest and abdomen. Sstrangled in her apartment. Strangled in her apartment.

Shot in chest; suspect arrested. Stabbed in taxes to pay for services and provides jobs for the unemployed. Collins, a professor at MIT, said that the Chamber will ask representatives from the 1 major elements within the stale to serve on the task forces. Out of this effort should come an agreement as to how to approach these problems, he said. "I don't feel the Chamber should be the only organization to do this," Collins added, "but there has to be first organization to do it." crease corporate profit margins.

Herbert W. Jarvis, current president of the Chamber, acknowledged that business community actions are frequently viewed as attempts to increase corporate profit margins. "We are now trying to close a "broad credibility gap. The way to correct that is to communicate better By Christopher Wallace Globe Staff The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce declared its intention yesterday to serve as a catalyst for eco nomic development and government reform in Massachusetts. The announcement indicated that Boston's business community has decided to assume a more active and wider role than has been the case in recent years.

The business Community, appears to be looking to former mayor John F. Collins for leadership in its new endeavor. Collins is the Chamber's first vice president and will become president next May. The Chamber announced yesterday at its downtown office that it is focusing on four major areas: Regarding economic development the Boston Area Business Development Council has already been formed to devise an effective program to recruit industry to the state. In relation to fiscal policy and state government a task force will be established to come up with reforsm in the state's taxation and spending practices.

A Chamber statement said that this is the government problem "of paramount importance" in. Massachusetts today. In order to improve Boston governmental services a task force will be set up to investigate ways to improve the efficiency of government in the metropolitan area. The panel will consider everything from public 6chool curriculum to the feasibility of limited metropolitan government. To deal with urban affairs a task force will examine means to alleviate inner-city social problems.

Collins said that the business community's most valuable contribu- tion in this area may be in promoting a sound economic base that yields March 20 --Charles Ogelsby, 28, address unknown, and to come up with joint recommen with other groups," said dations Jarvis. Mayor overrules Hub politicians as critics of City Hall art and morals By William Fripp Globe Staff Artistic expression clashed with Boston City Hall morality yesterday over the display of two "erotic" exhibits in the exhibition gallery, with the issue decided in favor of art by Mayor White. White's decision that the Visual Arts Union of Boston show would open tonight overrode a threat by City Councilman Albert O'Neil to close it on the ground that two of the displays were "obscene." Betty Cook, director of programs for the city, said the mayor overruled Anthony Forgione, assistant real property commissioner, and ordered that the show go on with all paintings, nudes included. She said the mayor approved of the exhibit although he said it was "poor art" White's statement followed an afternoon that saw an irate O'Neil demand the removal of the objected-to displays or close the whole show, and artists' refusal to obey. The brouhaha began inconspicuously when Forgione objected to two of the 100 displays.

He specifically scored a $375 untitled polychrome woman's buttocks and a $300 oil of a nude man, apparently in levitation, called "A Figure Ascending." He said the five-day show could open only if the offending displays were removed. "This is not a private art gallery, and I must exercise some judgment what the public sees," he said, adding that he previews all City Hall art exhibits. Mrs. Melvin Hoffman of Cambridge, a spokesman for the Artists Union curator of the Brockton Art Center, said: "If anything is to be censored, then the whole show is closed." Forgione said Mrs. Hoffman was "a guest here arid should conform to our ideas." She quickly countered: "There is nothing obscene' in this hall." Initially she threatened to merely move the entire exhibit to the Cyclorama building or Weeden Gallery, but later insisted it would remain at City Hall.

Then entered grim-faced Councilman O'Neil. He strode quickly to the buddocks display. "What's the significance of this?" he demanded. "Are we trying to make a mockery of this city?" Moving on to the nude male, a large crowd now in tow, O'Neil said: "If I can't get this show out myself, I'll file an order Monday to get it out or bring the mayor himself down here." Daniel Klubock, counsel for the Arts Union, called the rating "government censorship of the worst ort Hi Stabbed about body. Knifed; suspect arrested.

Shot in head and chest. Stabbed in neck. Shot. Beaten to death. Shot in chest after argument.

Strangled with stocking. Shot in abdomen after argument; suspect arrested. Stabbed in back; suspect arrested. Stabbed in neck; suspect arrested. Shot.

Shot. Stabbed; suspect arrested. Stabbed. Stabbed after argument; suspect arrested. Strangled.

Shot in head after argument; suspect arrested. Shot in head. Stabbed in abdomen. Shot in head. Multiple stab wounds; suspect arrested.

Stabbed; suspect, arrested. Shot in abdomen; suspect arrested. Stabbed in groin; suspect arrested. Stabbed in chest after fight; suspect arrested. Stabbed.

Shot. Stabbed; suspect arrested. Beaten and kicked to death; suspect arrested. Shot through heart. Shot in chest after argument; suspect arrested.

Shot in chest; suspect arrested. Stabbed after argument; suspect arrested. Shot in stomach; suspect arrested. Shot in chest. Shot in argument; suspect arrested.

Shot resisting holdup; suspects arrested. Shot resisting holdup; suspects arrested. Beaten with baseball bat; suspect arrested. Shotgun wound in abdomen. Stabbed; suspect arrested.

Shot in face after argument; suspect arrested. Shot in chest. Shot three times in head. Shot in head and chest. Shotgun wound in chest; suspect arrested.

Beaten to death. Shot in stomach; suspect arrested. Stabbed to death. Burned to death; suspect arrested. Burned to death; suspect arested.

Shot in head. Stabbed to death. Beaten to death. 1 Hit on head with blunt instrument (Aug. 13).

Shot in back of head (Sept. 16). Shot in back of head. Stabbed in chest. Stabbed in chest Head wounds.

Shot in head. Stabbed in abdomen. Stabbed (Oct 23). Shot in head. Shot; suspect arrested.

Beaten and kicked to death; suspect arrested. Shot in argument. Beaten (Nov. 1); suspect arrested. Shot in head; suspect arrested.

Stabbed (Oct. 5). Stabbed; suspect arrested. March 22 Karen Knapp, 22, Boston. March 25 William Mitchell, 45, March 28 William O'Sullivan, 43, Dorchester.

April 10 Marvin A. Alford, 24, Mattapan. April 10 George H. Matthews, 23, Roxbury. April 12 Teresa Guarino, 67, Boston.

April 15 Daniel Tlaherty, 38, Charlestown. April 17 Katherine L. Robinson, 27, Boston. April 17 George Kearse, 30, Roxbury. April 23 Ronald Bushfan, 32, Boston.

April 23 Walter Holmes, 28, Roxbury. April 27 Conrado Rodriguez, 45, Boston. April 28 Horace Woody, 24, Boston. May 8 Barbara Mitchell, 32, Dorchester. May 11 Benjamin Talbert, 15, Dorchester.

May 11 Robert Jones, 23, Roxbury. May 12 Pearl Green, 30, address unknown. May 18 John Poole, 27, Boston. May 19 William Jaques, 24, Boston. May 16 Woodrow Harvey, 55, Boston.

May 26 Richard Cole, Bridgewater. June 15 Connie Allen, 39, Roxbury. June 12 Jessie Tatum, 31, Boston. June 19 Anderson Walker, 27, Boston. June 20 Charles 42, Boston.

July 5 Clydis Freeman, 20, Boston. July 9 Leslie Maves, 36, Boston. July 9 Dorothy Jefferson, 35, Boston. July 11 David Meyers, 25, Roxbury. July 16 James Hayes, 67, Boston.

March 17 John J. Rooney, Dorchester. July 24 Janet M. Dean, 30, Boston. July 21 James Pryor, 35, Boston.

July 31 James Lowe, 43, Boston. July 31 Nancy Lannon, 38, Dorchester. July 31 Luke Biggins, 38, Charlestown. Aug. 1 John Lanes, 45, Dorchester.

Aug. 14 Harry T. Jeffreys, 26, Boston. Aug. 14 Calvin Thorn, 47, Boston.

Aug. 14 Noel Mollina, 30, Boston. Aug. 18 Robert LaFleur, 21, Quincy. Aug.

24 William A. Poindexter, 38, Dorchester. Aug. 27 Melvin Jackson, 17, Boston. 27 Joseph Jones, Boston.

Aug. 29 David S. Majors, 33, Dorchester. Aug. 29 Richard Stoutley, 37, Boston.

Sept. 6 Dorothy Whitaker, 38, Dorchester. Sept. 2 Thomas E. Chafe, 33, East Weymouth.

Sept. 3 John W. McCain, 20, No. Miami. Sept.

4 Vickie Harbin, 50, Baltimore. Sept. 7 William Evans, 21, Boston. Sept. 7 Louis Fobbs, 28, Boston.

Sept. 13 Robert Brunaccini, 48, Medford. Sept. 20 Roger Summers, 20, Jamaica Plain. Sept.

15 Kerrin Jackson, 20 months, Dorchester. Sept. 29--Harry Bendrell, 65, Boston. Sept. 29 Herbert Wade, 30 address unknown.

Oct. 3 Jesse So well, 25, Boston. Oct. 9 William Henry 35, Jamaica Plain. Oct.

15 Joseph Sims, 21, Boston. Oct 16 Paul M. Desmond, 23, Oct 22 Celest Jones, 51, Boston. Oct. 20 John Labanara, 26, Brighton.

Oct. 23 C. Donald Rhoads, 45, Boston. Oct. 26 Fred Gear, 41, Washington.

Oct. 28 James F. Noonan, 28, South Boston. Oct. 30 Edward Frazier, 28, Boston.

Oct. 31 Catherine Ross, 19, Rochester, NY. Nov. 1 Robert L. Veal, 18, Dorchester.

Nov. 3 Anthony Spinale, 64, Boston. Nov. Carl McKinley, 17, Jamaica Plain. Nov.

8 Joseph Iandoli, 76, Boston. Nov. 8 Maureen Loughman, 25, Dorchester. Nov. 8 Jo An Loughman, 17, Dorchester.

1 if Wi- i L-jK- Li Stabbed; suspect arrested. Nov. 11 Martha Phillips, 18 months, South Boston Beaten tboui head and body; complaint sought Nov. 15 Beatrice Heard, 50, Dorchester. Nov.

17 Harvey L. Horsley, 47, Dorchester. Shot in head during purse snatch. Shot. Stabbed in argument; suspect arrested.

Hit on head with carving block. Nov. 17 Robert Weeks, 43, Boston END OF EXHIBIT Councilmen Gabriel Piemonte controversial entry (painting in center) in City Hall (left) and Albert L. O'Neil converse after examining art exhibit. (Globe photo by Ted Dully) Not.

18 Robert B. Patterson, 23, Dorchester..

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