Milestones, Sep. 23, 1935

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Died. Mrs. George H. Shurtleff, mother of Mrs. Edith Crater Beach, wife of Author Rex Beach, and Mrs. Allene Crater Stone, wife of Actor Fred Stone; in Sebring, Fla.

Died. William Goodrich Thompson, 70, indefatigable defense counsel for executed Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti, whose cause he adopted in 1924 (three years after their conviction) and carried valiantly until final defeat in 1927; in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Died. Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, 75, retired banker, eldest son of Banker Giovanni Morosini. aide to Garibaldi, art collector and onetime partner of Jay Gould; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. The elder Morosini left a museum-like Victorian mansion and an estate once estimated at $25,000,000 to his children, of whom Victoria married a coachman, Giulia a policeman. Amalia, an invalid since birth, survives.

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