The evening times., 1898-09-22
ANOTHER suspect HELD
Police of Bridgeport Solving
the Murder Mystery.
HUNTING FOR A THIRD MAN
Authorities Satisfied That the Body
Found Dismembered at yellow
Mill Pond lis That of Emma GIL.
Fs[spects of an Early Solution of
the Awful Problem.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept 22.-It is now
have struck the right ciew in the Vel
low Mill Pond mystery, and a speedy So
luton of the problem is anticipated. Wal
ter c. Foster, of Hartford and Charles
A. Plumb, of StratfOrd, are held to await
further developments. Plumb, the Strait
ford postmaster says, asked at the gen.
eral delivery office yesterday for the let
ter addressed TO Miss Emma GIL. This
is the letter awaiting that person, but
the postmaster refused TO let it go out
of his possession.
When refused the letter Plumb tele-
phoned TO Hartford. and then took the
next train from this city for that place.
He was not gone half an hour before
Superintendent Birmingham went to his
house in Stratford. The New Haven po-
lice were wired to apprehend the young
man, but the train had just pulled out
of the station. Detective Arnold brought
Plumb to the police station from his home
shortly before midnight. The identifica-
ton of the body as Emma Gill was made
doubly certain last evening.
l. w. Atwater, a delegate to the State
convention here from Southington, read
in the papers last night of the identifica-
tion. He resides in the same neighbor-
hood the Pratt family, by whom the
girl was employed as domestic. Mr..
Atwater viewed the severed head, and
said there was no doubt in his mind that
il was Emma Gill.
Fosters reputation is said TO be good
one. His boarding mistress speaks well
of his habits. while he is highly recon-
mended by his employers. 1t is improb-
able that the police will try TO fasten the
crime on this man. The police are now
searching for Maurice Beers, a young
SOuthington man, who has been seen in
the company of the GIL woman quite
often recently.
Several days ago the New Haven police
found a bloody crash skirt in that city.
This is considered a good clew to the
victims location when death came. When
found IL was not connected with this
case in any way. Since then II has been
learned that Miss Gill left Southington
on the afternoon of August 26 with STRAIT
ford as her ostensible destination.
She wore a crash skirt with a green
and black checkered shirt waist. Miss
| Gill informed her parents that she in
| tended 10 visit Lighthouse Point before
/ long. Nor il is known publicly whether
she stayed in STAFFORD or this city. The
/ Bridgeport and New Haven police officers
are having a lively controversy as tC
where the credit lies for the discovery
/ of the Southington clew. The New Ha-
ven officials maintain that they have
been working on the clew since Monday
and have information which the Bridge.
port police have not yet learned.
The latter hold that for several day:
and nights the Gill clew has been under &
! thorough investigation. A Hartford den
! list has communicated with the local po
| lice relative 10 the Gill girl. a diagram
! of her teeth was forwarded yesterday
! by one of his professional friends here
/ The information communicated to tn,
police here was that the diagram wa:
| that of Miss Emma GiITs teeth.