The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-09-29
TANNED INTO A BOX.
The Murdered Body of Man
Found at SomerviIle.
Colorsd Hostler In n Boston Stable
Charged with Crime which He Prob
ably Committed Two Wears Ago.

ably Committed Two Years Ago.
BosToN. Sept. % Last Friday evening
Dennis Haggerty of Dane Street place,
Somerville, while excavating the cellar of
his house for the purpose Of improving it,
hncarthed the decomposed body of man,
enclosed in "A small fiat box. The head
and arms were missing. Covering the
body was mass of quicklime. evidently
put there for the purpose Of assisting de-
composition The box and body were
taken in charge by the police, who, feeling
that they were the evidence of a murder
committed some years ago, lost no time in
investigating
While they professed to know nothing
definite about the case, in reality they had
hit upon a cew. and within three hours
from the time the CHASTITY discovery was
reported Sergeant Kelly and Captain Perry
of the Somerville police were on their way
to Boston close on the track of the
Suspected Perpetrator of the Deed.
They had learned that the present owner
and occupant OF the house where the body
was fosnd. Dennis Haggerty, had recently
purchased the house and had only moved
into il on June 10 last.
From neighbors they also found that
several families had lived in the house in
previous yeas and that among them was
Il colored family, who moved i'll about
three years ago and lived there about a
year when they moved out.
The colored family was looked up, and
after spending the entire night in scour-
ing the city, the officers located their man
in Turner's livery stable on Dedham
street.
They arrested Richard Powell on suspi-
cion of having been
Concerned in the Mystery.
Powell is colored and was employed as II
hostler. He denied that he knew anything
about the case. Powell is about IS years
of age.
Edna Wallace was arrested at her home
on Bradford street as witness, as she
formerly lived in the house on Dane Street
place, where the body was found.
Martha Miller, also colored, was reported
to have been arrested as witness and
afterward released.
Powell is held rs the suspected principal
in the affair and is locked up i'll the Somer-
willie police station.
The Fact That Led to His Arrest
is that the dead man is supposed to he
George w Brown, a colored man who re-
sided with Powell and the rest of the fam
lily in the house where the body was I'M
earthed. and that no trace of him could be
found in looking up the members of the
family
He disappeared, it seems, about two
years or more ago, and not one Of the
other members of the family could tell
where he went 1t is reported, however,
that Edna Wallace, when questioned,
stated that he went south.
When the body was discovered, an axe
covered with what appeared to be blood
stains and pillow We're found. This fact
the police carefully guarded from the
newspaper men, as they did all the prn-
cipal points in the case.
The house in which the body was found
is . IL story wooden dwelling, situated
on Dane Street place,a small court leading
off Dane street Somervile 1t is occupied
by Dennis Haggerty and his family. Hag-
gerty is employed on the Somervlle city
department as a laborer. He had been
making improvements about the place,
and had to do the work nights Friday
night he was engaged in excavating his
cellar when he made the CHASTITY discovery.
The decomposed state of the body shows
that it must have been
Buried at Least Two Years.
Those who have seen it believe it to be
that of a colored man The jaw, the only
portion of the head found, is large and
heavy, and contains Il fine set of teeth i'll
perfect condition, showing that the man
was apparently not over 40 years of age.
On the left foot of the body is a black