Boston Police report that Paula Jacobs, 23, of Randolph, died yesterday from injuries she suffered being shot on Oct. 3 at 39 Dearborn St.

Arroyo speaks at Occupy Boston.

Local unions came out swinging in favor of Occupy Boston today. At an afternoon rally, the final speaker wasCity Councilor Felix Arroyo, himself a former organizer for the SEIU. Afterwards, Arroyo was asked about Council President Steve Murphy's comments this morning that he's worried about an estimated $2-million-a-month cost for police overtime and about the arrival of "professional agitators."

Arroyo said he has not seen any figures from the police department yet on the costs of patrolling the occupation, or Murphy's comments, so he said he could not really comment on either.

But, Arroyo said, "The question is, though, what the cost is to the city if we don't change our economic practices now, what is the cost then and that's the lense I hope we [use to] look at this, to say what is the cost to all of us if we continue on this track, if we continue on the track where 99% of the population is essentially struggling and 1% has all our wealth."

He added: "I believe that the American Dream as it was taught to me is really the ability to care for your family and to be able to provide for your family and to hope that your children will have a better opportunity than you did. I think that's what these people are looking for, an opportunity to fulfill that dream, by working hard. They're not looking for handouts, they're looking for an opportunity to get some work. I believe in that message.

Arroyo said he also couldn't comment directly on Murphy's fears of "professional agitators" moving into Occupy Boston, in part because he said he didn't even know what "a professional agitator" is. But he said he saw nothing sinister at Occupy Boston. "What you see here today is a mix, a mix in age, a mix in terms of levels of education, a mix in professions, a mix in gender, a mix in race, and, this is the America I grew up in, and they're all here today saying, 'we want a shot at the American dream.' "

SEIU 1199 Vice President Enid Eckstein at Occupy Boston.

Saul being led away.

It was a different era - police hired stenographers to record protesters instead of using video cameras - and on the Common instead of Dewey Square, but the events of Feb. 25, 1931 sound familiar: People protesting unemployment gathered in a public space, were told to disperse because they didn't have a permit and when they stood their ground, were dragged away by police.

Benjamin Saul, 23, of 76 Walnut Park, Roxbury, was captured in a series of photographs by news photographer Leslie Jones as he tried to evade police and address a crowd of several thousand from the top of a tree, after another protester was arrested for "speaking without a permit."

Police climbed into the tree after him and got him down.

At the time, the Globe reported that Saul and seven others were arrested. Saul was ordered to pay a $5 fine for "misuse of a tree," but when he refused, a judge jailed him and charged him 50 cents a day until the fine was paid off.

Photos from the Boston Public Library's Events collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

City Council President Steve Murphy talked about Occupy Boston on Channel 25 today. While he said he agrees with some of the points protesters are making - banks got bailouts, Big Oil nearly bankrupted the US auto industry - he said police are now on target to spend $2 million a month on patrolling the area, and that money has to come from somewhere.

Whether it's snow plowing or street cleaning or educational needs or summer jobs for kids, frankly, it's all in the same bucket and we only have so much wheat in that barrel. ... Wall Street isn't picking up the tab on this it's Boston taxpayers. ... I just don't think it's good to try to bankrupt a city as you're trying to make your point. And I think that might be where we're headed.

Murphy also echoed comments by Police Commissioner Ed Davis after the Tuesday-morning arrests, that "professional agitators" have joined the occupation and want to cause trouble.

The Supreme Judicial Court today rejected a plea from two women who pleaded guilty to their role in an auto-repair scheme that they not be forced to testify against the two men allegedly at the center of the case.

Janet Vaccari and Deana Pistone were given probation after pleading guilty in 2008 to motor vehicle insurance fraud, conspiracy, and larceny.. When told they would have to testify against David Forlizzi and Fred Battista, who face similar charges involving fake claims to insurance companies for alleged work at the auto-body shop in Winthrop, the two women refused, citing the Fifth Amendment.

Prosecutors then agreed to grant them immunity against any further charges, and a judge said this meant they had to testify since they would no longer face any possible criminal repercussions.

The two appealed that ruling, in part saying that "they are the daughter and granddaughter, respectively, of 'an alleged, long-time organized crime figure,' " which would put them in particular danger if tossed in jail for refusing to testify. Also, making them testify might put them in jeopardy of perjury charges since, they argued, they would be forced to admit in court that they lied to investigators about Forlizzi's and Battista's roles in the scheme.

But the state's highest court didn't buy any of it:

In Massachusetts, you can't appeal an order to testify until you've not only refused but been cited for contempt of court, which the women have not been.

The immunity declaration applies to any possible perjury charges for past statements - and in courts in other jurisdictions, which was another concern.

And as for being mob women, the court said:

The witnesses offer no reason why their familial relationship with an alleged "organized crime figure" makes it unduly burdensome to risk incurring a finding of contempt. Insofar as the possibility of being incarcerated pending an appeal from a contempt judgment is concerned, we have recognized that potential and have not found it to constitute the type of irreparable harm that justifies pursuit of an interlocutory appeal, particularly given the fact that trial judges can and often do stay contempt judgments pending appeal.

• Complete ruling, Janet Vaccari and another, petitioners

Roads in eastern Massachusetts became parking lots this morning. An 18-wheeler ran off the road on 93 south in Dorchester, a bad crash shut Hyde Park Avenue at Metropolitan Avenue and the Jamaicaway ground to a standstill.

UPDATE: Post has been taken down. Pretend you never saw this.

Way better than even at Ali's Roti in Mattapan, Boston Guru reports. But Underground Roti is only open for lunch just two days a week, in a shed behind somebody's house on a Jamaica Plain side street, so he's not giving out the address, because, well, you know. But he says he'll e-mail it to you.

On my first trip to Roti I found myself a little uncomfortable walking up the driveway; hoping this is the right place. Then I saw the line of people waiting and smelled the curry emanating from the shack... I knew I'd found gold. ... UR is one of those places where you get your hands on the food and devour while moaning and saying "this is sooo gooood!"

Several Boston Proper neighborhood groups are sponsoring an at-large candidate forum on Oct. 24 at the Park Street School, 67 Brimmer St. on Beacon Hill.

Starts at 6:30 p.m., and you'll get to hear from incumbents Steve Murphy, Felix Arroyo, Ayanna Pressley and John Connolly and challenges Michael Flaherty, Will Dorcena and Sean Ryan. You get four votes in the November election.

The Daily Free Press reports on a collision around 6 p.m. Wednesday at Commonwealth Avenue and Buick Street. Both driver and victim are BU students.

The ACLU of Massachusetts says it's looking into how people were arrested and processed following the "heavy handed" Greenway crackdown on Tuesday.

Boston officials have so far given conflicting and inconsistent explanations for the crackdown on Occupy Boston at the Rose Kennedy Greenway on Oct. 11. They cited public safety issues, even though the demonstrators remained peaceful; rules and permitting technicalities, even though these appear not to be enforced for others; and concern for the welfare of the Greenway's lawn and shrubs, even though the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy apparently did not ask for the police to remove demonstrators. In an interview with WBUR, Mayor Menino claimed that "civil disobedience doesn't work for Boston," ignoring the historical relevance of the practice to the City's "Freedom Trail."

In August, the ACLU sued Boston Police over its monitoring of local political groups.

Revere Police arrived at a Proctor Avenue home Monday evening on a report of a stabbing and were met by the resident. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office:

The 65-year-old victim responded to an officer's inquiries as to who was hurt by turning and showing them a large kitchen knife still stuck in his back just above the waistline.

The man told police his girlfriend, Diane Ambroso, 51, had put the knife there, allegedly "because she was drunk." As EMTs pulled up to treat and transport the man - whom police told not to pull the knife out - Ambroso pulled up in her car, and "began screaming at the officer to move his marked cruiser so she could park in the driveway," the DA's office says.

Ambroso was charged with charges of armed assault with intent to murder a person over 60 and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, according to the DA's office, which add she also faces a charge of operating under the influence as a second offense.

The victim was taken to Mass. General, where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries, the DA's office says.

Once at the station, Ambroso voiced a strong dislike for the first officer on sceene, referring to him in derogatory and scatological terms. A Revere Police lieutenant directed another officer to conduct the field sobriety tests. That officer asked if she had ever undergone sobriety testing before.

"Several times," she allegedly replied.

Practice, unfortunately, did not make perfect, and Ambroso allegedly failed every single test. During the final sequence, when instructed to stand on one leg, she complained that her legs were too heavy, then lost her balance.

Prosecutors asked for bail of $5,000. Chelsea District Court Judge D. Dunbar Livingston set bail at $500.

Innocent, etc.

Chicago columnist welcomes Theo Epstein:

Epstein, see, has yet to win a Series without a juiced-up middle of the order. ...

I want Epstein to succeed. I'd love for the Cubs to win a World Series just to see whether that indeed marks the apocalypse.

But it's hard to get past the idea of the most embarrassing franchise in sports empowering the man in charge of the most embarrassing death spiral in baseball history without concluding that, yep, the Cubs are getting exactly what you'd expect.

Meanwhile, back here in Boston, Paul Flannery asks:

So, anyone want to buy a Fenway brick?

Falls off one of the radio towers off Needham Street.

A mobile food festival originally planned for this Saturday has been postponed until at least this spring, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy announced today:

The decision is based on the fact the attendees we're anticipating for the Greenway Mobile Food Fest, when combined with the Occupy Boston encampment on Dewey Square, would simply be too crowded to be considered safe for the public.

The conservancy says it was expecting 12 vendors, many of them in "large trucks." It emphasized Occupy Boston participants had not gotten in the way of the setting up and taking down of a farmers' market at the square, but that "the scale of Saturday's event is much, much bigger."

An East Boston woman living with her ex-boyfriend was arraigned yesterday on charges she set his Coleridge Street apartment on fire, causing $300,000 in damage, displacing three people and sending four firefighters to the hospital.

Judge Roberto Ronquillo, Jr., set Tina Farulla's bail at $5,000, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which had requested bail of $50,000, and which provided this account:

Two neighborhood residents gave statements to the officers and said they'd been speaking with Farulla's ex-boyfriend, a resident of the building, just before the fire broke out. As they stood on the front steps, the witnesses said, they saw Farulla throwing bottles and other items out his window. Seconds later, they saw smoke and flames from the same window.

"Oh my God," the resident said, "shess burning my house down!"

A short time later, the witnesses saw Farulla leaving the building with several bags.

Farulla was arrested while standing across the street from the fire, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.

Cuffs played the Boomerang thrift store in Jamaica Plain the other day.