Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-16
HEMILLPONDMUR
bridgeport Police as Much In the
Dark as Ever,
TELLTALE LAUNDRY MARK.
'"entihed as Being That Used on
clothes of DIR. Nancy Guilford-Her
Son Admits This-The Bur-
lisOn Incident.

bridgeport, Conn.,, Sept. 16.-The local
ponce seem to be about as far away
from satisfactory solution Of the mys-
terry surrounding the murder Of the
young woman whose dismembered body
was found in Yellow mill pond as they
were immediately after the pieces were
discovered on Monday and Tuesday.
some few clews have been found, but
they seem to amount to little in the es-
tlmation of the chief Of police.
Two men have been found who think
they saw the murdered girl on Saturday
night when she was still alive. The
men are Richard Ayres, who keeps
cigar store at Goldfill avenue and Main
street, in this place, and his clerk.
Ayres was about to close up his store
on Saturday night shortly before II
O'Clock when he noticed on the other
side OF the street a young woman who
was standing in front of Lees furnl-
ture store and who appeared to be look
ing for some one
She answered the description Of the
dead girl. She Wore light shirt waist,
dark skirt and lawn trimmed black
straw hat. Ayres walked past her on
his way home and had a good look at
her. When he got on a car, about ten
minutes later, a little distance away,
she was still in the shadow Of the store.
On the other side of the street he mo-
ticed man lettering. He did not look
at him closely enough to be able to give
any description of him. Ayres and his
clerk called at the morgue and said
they We're almost positive that the dead
girl was the one they had seen on Sat-
urday night.
The Police Criticized.
The police are criticised for ordering
the release of Henry Burison, a your, e
local butcher arrested at Matteawan,
N. Y. When arrested, Bur ison was in
red wheeled, rubber tired buggy SINH
lar to one seen near the Seaview av.
enue bridge the night the body was ds-
posed of. There were in Burlisons
buggy some Instruments which were
thought to be surgical.
Since Burlison's disappearance Chief
Birmingham has discovered that the
young butcher hired the rig Sunday
night and that he was seen driving
about Bridgeport by a policeman who
knew him well. The policeman now re-
calls that Burlison. although he must
have recognized him, appeared not to
do So He drove rapidly by, merely
glancing at the policeman.
This same road wagon. recognized
easily because Of it's red running gear,
was seen in the vicinity of Seaview
bridge, which crosses the Yellow mill
pond, Sunday night by William Kelly
of 1914 Seaview avenue. Burlison tried
to trade his horse for a racer, but the
livery stable keeper at Matteawan re-
fused, and he drove away. saying that
he would go to Ncwhurg and take the
boat for New York He did not do so.
however, and it is stated he is in New
burg vet.
A young man ramed Hurrett. who
knows Burlison inti'1ot ", sa'': 81 raw
Burlison DRIVING nenr Pcard~iev pork
about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. He
had girl with him, but could not II
what kind of girl she was. rad
never seen her before. He WIS driving
buggy with oneum"t'c tires and red
underbody." From othor eo'r""c l. was
learned that Of late Purl'ro" h"s heen
studying ana tony with q view tn DO
coming horse doctor. IT is s"'d that
he has a brother living in Matteawan
who keeps livery stable.
One Remarkable Feature.
A most remar'5ah'a feature about the
case has been the mart Waved in II nv
the mysterious women. DR.. Nancy Gull
ford. whose name has been mon Toned
from the very start. with no other rea-
son. it is said. than because she has had
a rather dark past Her husband is In
prison. The WOMAN wns indicted with
him and iumned her bail. THIS i,mo ing
of bail in this state Is peculiar. for this
woman goes freely about her business.
and nobody has ever attempted to ar
rest her again.
The detectives at work on the murder
mystery went to New Haven and pro-
fess to have discovered at the Troy
laundry there that &c 81" is the laundry
mark on DR.. Nancy Guilford's clothes.
This mark was found on TIE band Of TIN:
niece of mans underclothing found
wranned about the head of the dead
girl
The woman has left town. that Is GER
tain and she has apparently gone away
with the intention OF remaining away
for some time, for she has sent her
rVantS TO their HpIi'eS ANU Nh''>A ~
her house. 1t was learned that she han
rome to Elmira, N. Y. She told a Local
druggist two weeks ago that her daugh-
ter,s health was very bad and that she
intended to take her into the countr!
for month or so. The ponce say 'ia'
che simplv happened to leave on the
day that the murdered girls body was
found This is another coincidence.
Arnold, a detective at work on the case,
said that this woman was NOT "a"te"
-, +hn nolice. "If we wanted her, We
could Law our hands on her at any mo-
ment," he said.
wns GuilfOrd's Laundry Mark.
New York, Sept 16.-The Worid prints
the following dispatch from New Ha-
ven: ,,. ~. Tho
captain Henry Cowles' ch'ef OF tne
Now Haven detective department, SAID
in answer to an interNN W with "orio
representa- tive: ,.
- -. ,ocitiva1y identified the