The sun., 1893-06-01
FALL RIVERS NEW MYSTERY
NO CLUE TO 7HE ArURDERER OF
BER7Hh MANCHESTER.
The Police are at Work without Results |
Thus Fnr-Forfner Farm Hands OF the |
Girf's Father tsusprcted - No Arrests |

| The Police are nt Work without Results
| Thu. Fnr-Forfner Farm Hands OF the
Girls Father Suspected - No Arrest.
FALL RIVER. May 31.-The one question that
the citizens OF this place are asking is whether
! the same man that struck down Andrew Bor-
! don and his wife ten months ago murdered
Bertha Manchester in her home yesterday
There 10 a surface motive which the police
| have accepted as the only one which could
have prompted the crime. 1t is robbery. Tho
girls watch is missing. and so 10 her rurse.
with n small sum OF money. Tho contents
OF the bureau drawers In her room were
thrown upon the floor of her room. There
was q glass case with jowelry in 1t standing
on the bureau.
It's contents were plainly visible. and It
seems to be tho assum ption Of the police that
a robber. interrupted In his search for plum
der killed the girl.
There was no assault upon the girl, and q
careful inspection OF tho kitchen cannot dis
close any evidence OF struggle. The break
fast dishes had been wished and put away.
The table In the dining room was spread for
dinner. On the stove and In the sink were
kitchen utensils used In the preparation OF
that meal. which was cooking on the stove.
Nothing was broken: nothing had been dis
placed.
Twenty-three deep indentations in the girls
skull almost any one OF which would have
murderer. He had crept up behind her whio
she was stirring s0ms , batter over the rs
struggle The hands and arms arc free from
bruises. She evidently did not even have the
Sana. arc @ ielded ns snSor her e head ,nsa
she had reached up to her head before she fell
There was danger Of discoyery at any min
The end Of g log q wood: The weapon
tISet TOOK sarse p'''o o. TIC hsn premisss The only
thipe lacking was the murderer himself.
s osns rs He
of without washing his hands, for there is no
evidence in the kitchen or barnyard that he
A fierce dog was in the yard. chained to
dog kennel and IN position to see the back
found. 1t is argued By the police that the
murderer must have been former employee
dog. and who was thus enabled to enter the
house without q challenge and leave it with
out protest. Farmer Manchester shares the
Farmer Read lives within 1oo, yards Of the
Manchester boass but t. IS her BACK was turpei
that no one entered or departed by way of the
foaq Mrs. Read did hear the dog bark about 10 |
o'ciock That might have been the dogs
TarninG Of the approaeh or the nldrdeTsr but |
MIS- Rcad says that the dog parEs at all hours |
wal ked into the yard to-day tho dog didn't
bark.
Farmer Manchester has the reputation Of
being %issT His farm hands iInh SsneInS
Or another There are rumors OF wealth
Any Of Mr.. Manchesters former employees
must have known OF the rumors about his
boarded weal ltb. but such man would nat
uraly have chosen a time when there was no
nj no r
hired man whose sole purpose was robbery
would have looked elsewhere than In Miss
Manchester's room for money supposed to tie
The police have sought for information OF
recent employees. One Of them. a Portuguese.
s wanted for = robbery committed at Charles
I c!othpC 3! store in April and warrant
His associate is now serving sentence. He
was Mt Manchester's for two days about two
weeks ago. and has been there for ono night
n the city yesterday on the Crab Pond bridge
Another man who will probably be looked
known to the police. and worked for Manches-
when. Two others are Frenchme en-: the last
he was a mason. but said he could not get
work because he did not belong to a union.
They were pleasant men. but knew nothing
sh. He paid them. and there was no trouble
when they were there or when they left.
Medical, Examiner. Dolan says that. in his
opinion. the girl had been dead six or seven
half past 3 o'clock.
The strenuous opposition made BY Mr.. Man
chester and HIS sister to the removal OF the
al Examiner Dolan. was ba ed upon the fear
he cases of Mr.. and Mrs. Borden.