The times., 1898-09-25
HE PAID THE GIRLS BILLS
0xley's Admission Regarding
Murdered Emma Gill.
NANCY GUILFORD'S GUILT
The Police Believe That the Mid
wife and Her Son. Harry. Cut Up
low Mill Pond - Significant Find
Made i'm the Gilbert Street House.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 2.-Not long
after the finding of Emma Gill's body in
Yellow Mill Pond. Capt. Arnold, of the
Bridgeport police, searched the house of
Dr. Nancy A Guilford, the midwife in
Gilbert Street and found on a table
slip of paper on which was written "Har-
~ oxley." Nowhere in Bridgeport could
be found a man by that name
When Grace Perkins's father came
down from Middieboro and took away the
body as that of mis- daughter who had
disappeared with Charles Bourne. Capt
Arnold searched Plymouth County for
Harry OxIey without finding one. But
when it was found that the victim was
Southington girl, Capt. Arnold found a
Harry Oxley in Southington, a young
man who bore a good reputation in the
village and who had known the Gill girl
Oxley, Arnold also found, had sent $50
in an express envelope from Plantsvilie
to Dr. Guilford. When Oxley learned to
day how much the police knew he con-
fessed that he sent the money to the
Bridgeport midwife to pay her for at
tending the sick girl
All the Guilford household but the mid
wife herself are under arrest, and the
woman may be found by the detectives
at any hour. Eudora Guilford, the mid
wife's young daughter, was arrested this
morning in Wells5urg. n. Y, al the home
Of her uncle Stephen Brown. She prob
ably had no hand in the cutting up of
Emma Gill's body.
Some of the letters found in the Gilbert
Street house are letters written by Eu-
dora to her mother last Summer when the
midwife was fugitive from justice
Eudora in several of these letters, said
that she would leave her mother if she
ever again took up the work which had
sent DR.. Gill to Weathersheld. In one
letter she wrote that she would rather
go TO work in a factory any time than be
called upon to witness again anything OF
ahe kind
Harry Guilford, the police believe, as
sisted his mother in cutting up the
Southington girls body. and, the work
was done in the bathroom OF the Glipert
Street house.
chief Birmingham has evidence that
Guilford was in Bridgeport two weeks
ago tomorrow night and that he went
with his mother TO Yellow Mill Pond TO
throw away the bundles containing the
parts of Emma Gill's body.
Guilford looks like an Indian. If he
knew of the cutting up of the Southing-
ton girls body in his mothers house he
has the nerve of an Indian of the colo
rial period. When some newspaper men
met him in New Haven last week and
asked him if it was true that ms
mothers foundry mark was &c. 81 he
unbuttoned the collar he was wearing and
he showed the mark and then went down
TO his boat, the Ceres, TO get some more
collars 10 show they were all marked
&C 81" Not only this, but he came
down to Bridgeport TO show his collars
TO all who wanted to see them. That day
he did not go near his mothers house.
Down in the cellar OF the Guilford house
IS a furnace in which the police state the
Southington girls clothing and the parts
of her body removed to conceal the cause
of death were burned. In this furnace
Capt. Arnold found the heel of one of the
girls shoes. the metal skeleton of a
pocket-book and the steeIs Of her corsets.
IL the bath room evidence was found that
body had been cut up there. All this
was found the day after the body was
pulled out of Yellow Mil Pond, and il
made the police certain that Dr. Guilforc
was the guilty midwife.
Harry GuiIford and his mother cut VI
the body and took ii to Yellow Millpond
Chief Birmingham says. a phaeton was
hired from Banks Bros stables, in Broad
Street, on Sunday night two weeks ago
The head and legs were tied up in two
bundles and placed in the carriage. DR.
Guilford drove the phaeton and HARRY
went on ahead on his wheel. They drove
past the pond 10 the Bishop Avenue stone
pile There Harry got the stones anC
tied them to the bundles. They came
back over Connecticut Avenue to tbs
pond to throw the bundles into the water
The next night another trip to the ponC
was made TO dispose of the rest of tn
body Oxley did not come 10 Bridgepor
with the girl. He confided in his frien'
Guernsey and gave him some letters from
the girl, written from Bridgeport. Guern
sey burned these.
All the prisoners were arraigned before
Judge Carroll in the Circuit Court today
Walter c. Foster, Of Hartford, the young
man whose sister the Gill girl said she
was going TO visit. was released. Gull
ford, Oxley. and the coloTed servant:
We're held on the charge of procuring al
abortion, and bail was fixed at S1,5e0
Guernsey was released on $500 bail bond
The hearing was set down for October J.