The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-19
BODY BACK I'M BRIDGFPORT
POLICE Ar WORK ON NKW CLUHs IN
THE MURDER Gaze

in Town with His R~ubber-Tired wagon.
BR1poEpoRT. Conn. Sept. 1S.-Now that the
body Of the unidentified woman. which was
taken down to Middleboro. Mass, by Frank w.
Perkins as that OF his runaway daughter Grace.
IA on It's way back to Bridgeport, 10 be buried
in the town farm. not far from where II was
found in Yellow Mil Pond. and perhaps not far
from where the crime was committed q week
q tonight, tho police arc again at work on
the old clues and theories.
A description Of the bodt has been sent all
over the East with the hope that somewhere
may be found some one who knows OF q miss
ing girl answering to the description. After
the Perkins fasco tho Bridgeport police and
the Coroner will ask for very strong evidence
before they allow any Rrlef-stricken father to
dig up the body end tax & across three States
for burial.
Circumstantial evidence will not send my
body to prison In Connecticut for a long while,
and dentists who with elaborate precision pre-
sent charts OF their patients jaws will not be
looked upon with favor by Yankee jurors.
LonR-distance telephone, Identification. too. IL
Just now In high disfavor.
Several weeks ago. to pick up one Of the
clues dropped when the Middleboro man sworo
that he was willing to pledge his life that the
body was his lost daughters" and when the
Middleboro dentist told how the right filling
OF the left centre upper tooth was larger
than the left filing Of the right centre
upper TOOTH" a girl one night came to
the door OF the building Of the Associated
Charities for Industrial Relief, down In Main
street, around the corner from Gilbert street.
She was not twenty-five years old-a girl who
might once have had a pleasant face, but who
Just then looked tired and careworn. Her nose
was aquiline: across her forehead was o fur
souv a - MACMILLAN that tho poafr0n ~ Aho ho,oo
Mrs. David N. Bibbins, noticed it the moment
the girl raised her head as the door was opened.
This woman is in trouble" explained Po-
liceman Peter Hall, who had met the girl down
on the steamboat landing and had taken her
70 the home. Perhaps you can help her. Mrs.
nsrTS SnlE want nj S q Place ace to Sn sS5eYs e ;"u said the girl.
nsaF WSat Is your AT tro o1S5 sP IS a 1s ssSu the matron.
oI,S s% %.n ri Il y sssT hoEs; I'm fdon T. SUCH trouble. 1
I'm sOiRStoo %ster5Su r. 2 see Father slo-
viii take you 70 ths STRANGERS rCoom." said
r, TA eTeE|t Sgd igoi as the to l %atr0 one timed in 1s ri tbs k the
after she had taken the girl to the strangers
Yes. you don't mind that, do you ~ asked
the door; It's a rule of the institution that 1
must lock this door when any one comes here
Cant you leave 4 open asked the girl
Sh h sHht b stay xyil arr i I the 0 doo JOCK wa shf ioe sGos. 1
You are nervous, poor girl. / win lock the
rood oatk foil family lily near SS~f here eS Wher ref I eaS 10 9es
Perhaps you can fad one. but you are well
The girl went to look for a place to sleep.
Fhe came back after a while and said no one
and "" see YG nue. S0R Il I 70 st any f Ssqef SSu sRss s ssf6 Rdie iS
AYes. / will do that"
So the girl went back to the room with the
-pI wish h I could OF pray as I used tic" she said.
The ,matron did not wake up during the
night; but when in the morning she went to
ing; Not, long after the matron went
back to, the room and the girl had dis
matron forgot to take her name. The girl said
her parents were dead and that she had an
here. The matron's husband called at
S sSss t Sns ! By t Sssb bosy 81 SFi tbs ns sns declared sa Z
ilss%sn H$il, Ba. WE When 7 sh snS M f&%s S1s1 q
Now that the body, Is back again the Bib
the police will do.
,h 4n e i51 ascns II q t soarg o SRops t abou sft SGEnoRd
and missing girls-is that DR.. Alice Guilford's
home Is lust around the corner, from the
here. Or: Guiiford was out. Of the State. q
r. SsofBS ridg slseFEaf e, f i've. ff E . Gs%s os sqe
s stt0rns sgyi jacob E 5. k teG d taS R gkas sSe i Her IN
Montreal and says he will have q letter from
t hsT this N.Y. Eef kId from q SN4Isba sb or some me nearby
Is easily undsrstood When one 1 conside
means; He has advised her to Keep away I'M
~ the Yellow Mill Pond mystery is made clear.
Police sgperintendenat BIZ Birmingha IdrG are am
collision"
Henry Burlison, the young Bridgeport man.
of the body. and who was arrested in MatJea-
wan as a suspicious character" came back to
soTh tnis morning with his red-running-geared
II had a great time he relates. Some
York. set things up In great fashion. and paid
ell my expenses; Haven't had such q good time
Now it appears that Burlison was the mys-
ter1ops stranger" who was around Yellow Mill
POND on last Sunday night with the rubber
cleared 10 the charge OF having pipe dreams.''
}nst %Sat vas u y there res on Leg Legitimate tn business, but
no connection with the crime.
Meanwhile mysterious rubber-tired wagons
Gcand there are plenty of them in this delight;
over. Hugh Keegal,, Q wire drawer, who
nyes away over. on Bishop avenue. O lonely
place after nightfall. heard a rubber
tired wagon go, down the. road under the
on On the other side Of the railroad is 8. great
PIE Oh stone. Ike that which was tied to
fhe Yellow. Mill Pond bundles, and
keega5 thinks the wagon may have
tnere Tor some stone. Turning down
Connectlcut avenue the SeaNlew avenue bridge
IL not lar +; away; and It is not unlikely that the
one OF the neighborhood towns.
SaPt Arnold came back from M~iddleboro to-
nlght. lie went over there when Perkins took
me body home; and hoped to find young Bourne.
ne touhd both Bourne, and Grace Perkins.
tective was asked.
Il looked her over a little. She didn't have
Arnold said.
MONTREAL, Sept. 1s.-Nothing has yet been
alscovered TO warrant the belief that Mrs. Gull
iora; VINO Is wanted in connection with tho
mysteflous Bridgeport case, Is In Montreal. |
One report was that the woman had nnrchasad |