Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-26
JAMMEO INTO A BOX.
Body Of a Man Found at
SOmerviIIe.
KILLED TWO YEARS AGO.
Colored Hostler in a Roston Stable
Colored Hostler in a Boston Stable
Thought to Be the Slayer.

Boston Sept ~. Last Friday evening
Somervlllc, while excayating the cellar OF
his house for the purpose of improving is,
unearthed the decomposcd body Of man,
enclosed in "a small flat box. The head
and arms were missing Covering the
body was a 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 u murder
committed some years ago, lost no time I'm
investigating.
While they professed TO know nothing
definite about the case. IA reality they had
hit upon a clew. 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
10 Boston close on the track OF the
Suspected Perpetrator ot the Deed.
They had learned that the present owner
and occupant Of the house where the body
was found, Dennis Haggerty. had recently
purchase sed the house, and had only moved
into IL on June Is last.
From neighbors they also found that
several families had lived I'm the house In
previous yeas, and that among them was
colored family, who moved In 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.
eion Of having been
Concerned In the Mystery.
Powell IL colored and was employed as a
hostler. He denied that he knew anything
about the case Powell IS about 85 years
Of age.
Edna Wallace was arrested at her home
on Bradford street IA witness. rs she
formerly lived I'm the house on Dane Street
place, where the body was found
Martha Miller, also colored, was reported
TO have been arrested ~ a witness and
Afterward released.
Powell IL held as the suspected principal
In the affair, and Is locked up In the Somer-
Vile police station.
Tho Fact That Led to His Arross
| y that the dead man Is supposed 10 be
| George w. Brown, colored man who re-
sided with Powell and the rest OF the fam
| fly in the house where the b,ly was un-
earthed, and that no trace OF him could be
found In looking up the members Of the
family.
He disappeared, IL seems about two
years or more ago, and not one Of the
| other members OF the family could tell
| whore he wont. II 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 were found This fact
the police carefully guarded from the
newspaper meQ. - they did all the prin-
cipal points in the case
The house IN which the body was found
| y a o l-e story wooden dwelling, situated
on Dane Street place,a small court leading
| off Dane street, Somerville. IL IA occupied
by Dennis Haggerty and his family. Hag-
gerty is employed on the Somervllle city
department as a laborer lie had been
making improvements about the place,
and had 10 do the work nights. Friday
night he was engaged in eXcavating his
cellar when he made the CHASTITY discovery.
The dccomposed state Of the body shows
that IL must have boen
Buried at Least Two Years.
Those who have seen 10 believe IL TO be
that Of "A colored man. The jaw, the only
portion Of the head found, Is large and
heavy, and contains fine set Of teeth in
perfect condition, showing that the man
was apparently not over 20 years OF age.
On the left foot Of the body Is a black
stocking.
The box in which the body was buried
was about three aud one-half feet long
aud about two feet wide. 10 was but
about sig inches deep, and resembled a
small bed In which cement IL mixed. On
the sides were leather straps, through
which were huge wrought iron nails about
two and half inches long. The body
when placed In the box must have been
doubled up and iammed into H.