The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-09-15

from the chief of police OF Matteawan,
y. Y.
"A young man who says he is Henry
Burlson, Of Bridgeport, drove into town
this morning" said the Matteawan chief
"and left a horse and pneumatic road
wagon al livery stable. His horse was
badly used up and he wanted to trade IT,
He has gone down to Newburg. and / sus-
pect ne is skipping out Do you know
such a man?"
Birmingham soon found that Henry
Burlson was young man who for three
years has been a driver for the Terry
Company, and has in busy times assisted
in meat-cutting. He has a horse and
wagon and has made money in trading
horses. He has led a secluded life. Some
three weeks ago Burlson asked for a
weeks vacation to take a carriage trip
over into York State
For use on this trip he hired a rubber
tired wagon at q local livery stable. Burl-
son went 10 the stable about dusk Monday
evening and said ne would want the wag-
on early in the morning, an hour or two
before the head and arms of the I'M
known woman had been found. Burlson
early the next morning called at the sta
bic for the wagon and drew il away to
the stable where he kept his horse. He
his brother-in-law in exchange for an
other he drove away that morning.
Burlson is all right" Superintendent
Birmingham telephoned to Matteawan af-
ter he had learned these facts The
horse is his own and the wagon is regular
ly hired He left here Tuesday morning
for a weeks trip 10 New York State
"Burlson is respectable young fell
low, he said afterward in his office,
and it's unfortunate that there has
been any attempt. to link his name with
this crime. ! have told the Matteawan
police not to bother the young man. and
for all ] know he is as free as any of
us"
Nancy Guilford's disappearance on
Tuesday morning, linked with the find
ing of the mark &c. 81" on the piece of
Undertaking wrapped about the dead
womans trunk puzzles the police. al
though Supt Birmingham SAYS tonight
that if the Guilford woman was in town
she would not be arrested. From the
moment the finding of the trunk of the
woman's body indicated that death had
resulted from blood poisoning following
talk about the Gulford woman, because
her name mas been connected with cases
Of this kind before.
DR.. Gin has an office in New Haven.
but he is now in prison. The piece of un-
derClothing marked &c. 81 was taken to
New Haven. There at the Troy Laundry
il was found that &c. 81 was the laun-
dry mark Of Dr. Gill. William Church,
his son Fred and his daughter. Mrs. Lena
Robbie, tonight called at the morgue and
declared that the dead woman was for
merry Nellie Hanckery, of Middletown
that she married man named Smith two
years ago and had lived in New Haven.
The theory is gaining ground that the
woman was not the victim of malpractice
after all II is almost generally believed
by those who have worked on the case
that she was poisoned and that the con-
tents Of her stomach were removed in or
der to cover up the cause of death
Coroner Dolen, who has charge of the
case, is Of the opinion that the body was
not scientifically dissected but the work
was that of a butcher.
There was no part of the work he de-
clares, that appeared to him as the work
of a scientific man. DR.. J. NJ johnson. a
local physician and surgeon of standing
come out today after a thorough eXami-
nation of the body with this statement:
Il feel satisfied that the unidentified
woman was not the victim of an operation
for abortion. The condition of the mutt
lated body does not bear out that theory.
1.-The woman was not apparently an
preaching motherhood. Neither had she
ever been mother. Conditions which
usually follow criminal operations do not
exist in her case"