The times., 1898-09-24
TWO MORE ARRESTS MADE
Result of Tracing an Express
Package of Money.
THE BRIDGEPORT MYSTERY
Evidence Procured by Two Sewspa-
per Men Brings DIR. Nancy GuiIford
still More Prominently Into the
Case-Harry OxIey Charged With
Having Ordered the Fatal Opera
tion Performed.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 23.-Harry Ok
ley, the son of a store keeper in the VIII
lage of Southington. Hartford County.
was arrested this afternoon by Capt. Ar
mold Of the Bridgeport police and brought
here tonight. with Howard Guernsey. the
son of Sherman F. Guernsey, a deason in
the First Congregational Church of South
ington-
Oxiey is charged with having ha2 an
abortion performed on Emma Gill, the
girl whose body, cut into seven pieces and
tied up in bundles, was found in Yellow
AiIipond early last week Guernsey, an
intimate friend of Oxiey. is held as wit
ness. Walter c. Foster. the Hartford
salesman. who had an intimate acquain-
tance with the young woman, and who
was arrested on suspicion, will probably
be released.
Oxley's arrest Bas made as the result
Of the tracing from Plantsville, a .-illage
adjoining Seuthington on the south, Of an
express package containing a sum of mon
ey, between sl0O and S2OO. sent by Oxley to
DR.. Nancy Alice Guilford. the Bridgeport
midwife. who suddenly dieappeared when
the girl body was found.
Rose Drayton a coloTed laundress for
the midwife, and her young daughter
CiaribeI. a servant in the GuiIford house,
were arrested tonight Claribel was en-
gagged DR.. Guilford a short time as
servant She is an ignorant girl She
and her mother have been closely ques-
toned by the police before, but no evil
dence could be found that either knew
anything about the killing of the South
ington girl.
Some days ago-to tell how it was that
O,1ley was arrested-two newspaper men
found In a rubbish heap behind the Gull
ford house, in Gilbert Street, two en-
velopes, In one was a letter written by
Dr.. Gill from the Weathersiield prison. to
his daughter Eudora. The other contain
ed nothing. 1t was torn Adams Ex-
press money envelope. sent TO DR. N A
Guilford 81 Gilbert Street. Bridgeport.
Conn The sealing on the back was
stamped ''PlantsTille, Conn" This was
Just after the Middleboro engineer had
rcme to claim Emma Gilrs body as that
of his daughter Marian Grace Perkins,
and as neither the Perkins girl nor her
suitor. Charles Bourne, had been in CEN
tral Connecticut. the money envelote
could not be connected with the crime. 1t
was forgotten for the time.
PlantsviIie is only a mile from South
ington. When the victim OF the Yellow
Adill Pond murder was found TO be a
Southington girl the express envelope
from Plantsville, addressed TO DR.. Gull
ford was recalled.
Ear.y this morning two newspaper men
left for SouthingtOn to INC who II was
who sent the money from P-ants.l-le
Later in the day another newspaper man
left On the same errand. The Plantsville
agent of the Adams Express told the first
man who met him that the rules OF the
company were plain; he could not give
the sender's name without authority from
the company's officer. They could give
the informa ton only TO officers OF the
law So one of the two newspaper men
took a train for New Haven to find Capt
Cowles, of the New Haven police.
Great Scott, mani exclaimed the cap
tain when he heard of the express en-
yeIope. This is the best thing we've run
across I'll send man TO Plantsville
and I'll get that name if / have 10 take
the whole Plantsvflle Office
But Capt. Arnold of the Bridgeport
police, was ahead of him. he had gotten
a trace of the envelope independently,
and morning, after hasty conference with
Chief Birmingham. started for Piantsville
behind the newspaper men. He went first
to Hartford TO get Detective Sergeant
Smith. and the two reached the little
Eartford-County village early in the aft
ernOOn.
Detective Cronan, Of Bridgeport. had
gone TO Southington on an earlier train.
not knowing that Capt. Arnold was work
ing on the express envelope clew. Arnold
found that Oxley had sent amount
ever sl0o to DIR. Guilford by express.
Oxley. he found. had known Emma Gill
and had been seen with her. Just before
the GIL girl left for Bridgeport she was
seen with LeIlan KatZell a servant in the
Oxley household Arnold saw OXley and
asked him why he had sent money to the
Bridgeport midwife. Oxley could not an
sBer. and ne was placed under arrest
Guernsey, who was found to know aboul
Oxley's relations with the servant in the
Pratt household, was also arrested.