The times., 1898-09-17

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 16.-Frank w.
Perkins, father of Marian Grace Perkins
the missing Middleboro girl, went home
this morning convinced that the cut-up
body at the morgue was that Of his lost
daughter and this afternoon asked Under
taker Cullinan over the long distance tel
ephone to send the body home for burial.
Coroner Doten refuses to allow the ship
ment of the body until he has a sworn
relatives that the body is her own. So
the body still lies at the morgue.
On the head are several marks. Partly
covered by the hair. and near the end
Of the parting line. is a scar an inch
long. Mr.. Perkins recognized this as a
burn his daughter had received while
using a curling iron.
Then just above the middle of the right
eyebrow and near the inner end of the
left eyebrow were marks left by chicken
pox- Grace Perkins had these marks so
the father said And then he recognized
a mole on the right cheek.
More convincing was the statement of
Or. Woodward, the young woman's Mid
dleboro' dentist, who talked with the
undertaken this noon by telephone, and
described the filling in the teeth of The
Perkins girl which closely corresponded
to those in the severed head.
Charles Bourne, the young clerk in a
Middleboro grocery store, who disap-
peared from fremont, Mass, with Grace
Perkins on Thursday afternoon two
weeks ago, will have TO answer some puz-
zling questions when he returns home if
he ever does. He and Grace We're seen
that afternoon boarding a train at Tre-
mont and since then neither of them
has been heard from, although their
families have searched the whole country
round, from Provincetown TO Providence.
Grace left home three weeks ago yester-
day to visit her mothers cousin at On
set Bourne, who has an uncle at Onset,
left on a two weeks vacation 10 visit mis-
uncle. Bourne came home the Wednesday
following, two weeks ago. He slept all
the afternoon. and the next morning pack
ed q grip and left town, saying that he
was going back to Onset. Grace was to
have come home the next day, but she
did not. Her mother wrote her cousin on
Saturday, asking waen her daughter was
coming, and the next day had letter
from Mrs. Snow telling her that Grace
had gone home two days ago.
Day after day went by without any
NOIu LIOEu llb ElFl ana IDen NlliIdm
Nickerson, relative of the family. told
the parents that he had seen Bourne and
Grace at the fremont station, the day
that one left Middleboro and the other
left Onset.
For year Bourne had courted the girl,
with her parents consent, and in the
village 1t was believed that they would
marry. There was no objection to the
young people marrying, but the girl. il
n ant
she left home she told her mother she
thought she might marry Bourne Her
father said, in Bridgeport that marriage
was necessity. When the young people
cid not come home he thought they had
married and would soon come back He
read the Boston papers, thinking they
might have gone there, and when he
read that the body of an unknown wo-
man, victim of malpractice was lying
in the Bridgeport morgue, he thought ii
might be that of his daughter. Seeing
her alive only viii convince him that
his child was not murdered by malprac-
titioner.
admitted this afternoon that he was not
convinced of the innocence of DR.. Nancy
Guilford. the Bridgeport midwife, who
went TO Wellsburg, \. Y, on Tuesday
morning, from there TO disappear when
she heard that her name was already as
sociated with the ozime. Her home on
Gilbert Street has been searched and her
servants have been examined by the po-
lice, but not one bit of evidence has been
found in Bridgeport against this woman.
The anxiety of the police increased per-
ceptibly this afternoon, when along with
the telephone request of the AIiddIeboro
man for the body at the morgue. came
this message to Birmingham:
''Dr. Nancy Guilford has been practic-
ing in Onset late this Summer"
Another strange coincidence in this re-
markable case this may be- but it is
another link in the long chain of evil
dence against the woman.