Charles Stephen Bolster (1894–1993) was a judge at the Middlesex Superior Court in East Cambridge, Massachusetts and a long-time resident of Southport Island, Maine who is best known for his involvement in the case of the Boston Strangler.
[citation needed] Judge Bolster oversaw one of the Boston Strangler cases (as it was later concluded that the murders were likely committed by multiple individuals) beginning November 7, 1963.
Early this afternoon one or more assassins in Texas, apparently from high up in a building, fired shots at some of our officials.
Well, what I believe happened is that Judge Bolster collapsed the entire case by his remarks to -- his prejudicial remarks to the jury after the close of the -- closing argument where Dick Kelley -- the judge inappropriately informed the jury that the president had been shot, that the vice president had been shot, and that the case was going to continue.
In 1970 Judge Bolster became a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Surgeon's Mate Timothy Hall of the 5th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.