The evening times., 1898-09-17
HUNTING THE CRIMINAL
Latest Question Perplexing
the Bridgeport officials.
NANCY GUILFORD ASUSPECT
Accusations of. BungIiBE in Their
Inquiries Into the Grace Perkins
Tragedy Brought Against the Po-
Ece-The Girps Lover Still Miss
inS-Her Funeral ON sunday.

Bridgeport. Conn, Sept. 17.-No new
developments in the case of Grace
Perkins are looked for here today. The
question: "Who was she?'' having been
answered the police are settling back into
the same old condition of waiting for
something to turn up which will answer
the next question:: "Who did it?''
Now that it is known that Nancy Gull
ford has escaped to Canada every one
wonders why she was not arrested before.
Ugly things are said on all sides and
the condition of public feeling is not
pleasant. An incident connected with the
finding of the laundry mark &c. 81, "
which became known today only serves
to emphasize the dilatory conduct of the
police. The garment which was wrapped
around the head OF the dead woman was
examined for marks early Tuesday morn
ing in the morgue in the presence of Po-
lice Capt Arnold.
When c.. 81 was discovered Dave Heap
py, morgue assistant, said to Arnold:
why there can be only one family in
this town that the mark belongs todd
Nance. If | We're you, captain, I'd go
That mark stands for 81 Gilbert Street,
where she lives
"All nonsense" was Arnolds reply, and
all this time old Nance was little more
than half a block away from the morgue
preparing To leave town that afternoon.
Yet from the first suspicion attached to
her, both because of her past and be
cause OF the circumstantial evidence just
! mentioned together with her known in
tention to 81 away.
Citizens here say: IF the police did not
| feel that the suspicion was strong
enough to hold her, why did they not ar
rest her on the old indictment hanging
over her head since last February and
on which she had jumped bail?"
This would have given time to see l.
| the clews leading apparently to ner
amounted TO anything.
So far as is known they have no trace
OF Charles Bourne, who disappeared with
Grace Perkins.
He will have questions to answer. The
police are waiting for him To turn up.
too.
They are watching old Nances house.
probably looking for her unsophistocated
return TO il, and supporting Coroner Do
len in his determination To make the
father of the unfortunate woman, by no
means a rich man, undergo the expense
of another trip from Middleboro TO
Bridgeport. to make an affidavit that the
body is that of his daughter before the
body will be permitted TO leave this town.
AS if any man or woman would be will
ing to accept the body of a woman whose
death was SO shocking and clouded as
that of their child except under the
strongest conviction.
The father is expected here early this
n1 1a1NfS
behests Morguekeeper Cullinan received
message from Mr.. Perkins this morn
ing stating that he was on the way and
would reach Bridgeport about noon.
Mr. Cullinan said that Mr.. Perkins
would not remain here longer than was
absolutely necessary to accomplish his
errand and that he would return TO Mid
dleboro within an hour or two of mis- ar
rival. In all likelihood he will take the
body of his daughter back with him, ar
rangements having been made for fun
eral in MiddIeboro Sunday
The coroners inquest, which was set
for this morning. will probably not be
held, as it has been adjourned from day
to day pending an Identification and fur
ther police data. To most people ii looks
now as though a coroner's jury would
have a plain case to deal with. All the
Yesterday goes to show that the girl was
in trouble and that at least her mother
and father. as well as her aunt in Onset.
were aware of land all the Circum-
stances noted combine to further the be-
lief that she left Middleboro to seek
treatment There is little doubt that she
died as the result of malpractice, and
that the secondary cause of death, named
as septicaemia in the examiners certifi-
cate, may be safely attributed to that as
a primary cause.
This so smplfies the case as to free it
from good deal more of its mystery for
all but the police.
Death was the result of a criminal op-
Grafton. not procured with the intention of
committing murder of course; someone
with money sought to pay for the opera
ton, for the girl had none, befriended her,
as she probably thought. and. further
than that, the supposed friend may be
guiltess.
YELLOW MILL POND MURDER.