The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-22
GILL THE VICTIM.
HEh HEAD IDENTIFIED IN THE
BRIDGEPORT MORGUE

A0AE0V eILNIn AnMNA Ea NoN NNthNlUA I'D NAAN
lIyutery-Ths Woman Came from South
ingtoh, Conn, and IL Believed TO Have
Been Murdered Mt stratfprd-one Arrest.
BR1DGEPoRT. Conn. Sept 21,-Walter c. Fos-
Ger, q salesman for the FlelsehmAnn Yeast Com
pany. was arrested at Hartford this morning,
charged with completely In the bridgeport
murder. and was brought hero tonight by
Capt. Arnold OF tho Bridgeport police. Fred
erick Gill OF S~outhington. a small town In
Hartford county. forty miles northeast Of
Bridgeport. came here to-day and identified
the woman's head at the rnorEue aS that Of HE
sister, Emma Gill. who was frequently with
Foster when he was In SouthIngton this sum-
mer.
Foster tells q straight story. and the police
have ret to find any evidence against him..
The young man. who is short and well built.
with q decidedly English face. was at Pittsfeld.
Mass, during the last week tho gift was alive.
and he has a letter from her dated on Monday,
Sept. 8. She was killed either on the Saturday
or Sunday following.
That the crime was committed In the town Of
gtratford. adjoining Bridgeport on the east, is
the belief OF the police. The girl spent her va
cation In the town and was seen In the streets
there several days before she was killed.
Alter Foster had been put into q cell tonight.
Police Superintendent Birmingham. Capt. Ar
hOlu uuu hClbENlN AOlh wv ~
6tratiord and got Deputy Sheriff G. F.. Stage
out OF bed. The officers were after Charles
Plumb. a young man who keeps a fish market
near the village Post 0flce. Plumb know the
girl and was looked for this afternoon
by tho police. He took a train for Hart
ford and returned tonight, Seymour. Wells.
q market gardener, and Robert Judson. a driver
for the Adams Express Company. who are said
to have known the girl. were examined by the
detectives this afternoon! Neither was arrested.
At midnight the officers returned from STRAIT
ford with a prisoner whose name they refused
TO disclose. "
Emma Gill was the daughter OF Harry Gill. q
cutler in the employ OF the SouthiRgton Cut
lery Company's works. The ellis came here
from England. Emma was a domestic servant
for James H. Pratt. Foster. while In South
ington for the yeast company. met the girl
and frequently called upon her. A month
vacation. and she told her, ppFepfs She was
going TO Lighthouse Point. Now Haven. After
E ST Wses se sns iol a week for Snd tive TetS Sagsi S She S toIa
ePoash to o TO work snd asked II
Her request was Granted. She told her parents
that she would visit a sister Of Foster i in s strat-
9ressed care q J. Jones. general delivery.
Three letters we're written By Mrs; Gin to her
one from Emma IN which the RirI said that she
IVES on not feeling ThaSg well well n u {st s9Tld dot not % SSgs nSms
handwriting. unlike the girls. A part OF 1t
DEAR MOTHER: l can't come to-day because
I have been very sick will. stomach trouble
and sick headache. ! am going to. New Haven
to see DR.. Cheney about my catarrh."
Mrs. Gill answered this letter at once. but the
1ssssr was Un, never tSs c hriSg for az tho 6st stFHtfSrd 1 Post
toned, the Postmaster this morning. As day
after day went BY and no word came from the
%rittYn 81 'SSIrS. Gill on Sept. fcamo into the
. When the ReaV Glllls heard Of the Yellow Mill
Sond TRAGEDY. ths thought at at once came to
SSs AZ ans exact Ga SSeSg,fSp.tioa q Ml E%Ss; When
assrh lssGt ssss te &c that ePd heir e %as sRsf q r ais
Gthfrd letter to stratferd, giving directions on
the envelope to the Postmaster TO return it II
4 az wf i.t Rct called ans rs for in three &c Ssayslh Last nsfGI might
dorsed by the stratford Postmaster "Un-
The New Haven police were asked several
ssEs Gso r re- ssaFsh TO Tor a Ma 5isI; aeS t SSeh Bf ffsse
re- SSs' 6 BSli'' c6 SfEpn b e ses iGSnd Tor Il sA' s sila tgG5Fdii
S Ss;.f Gs $sal SoI " iS ~ soI SsBs; os sSS; ~ 4 Ss q;
lt the BRIDGEPORT morgue was that Of the miss
Emma dill. and he sent his men out after |
Foster. Early this morning came q telephone
message from the Hartford police to superin-
Birmingham,
I'VE have got Walter 9. Foster here. We
believe he Is the man you're looking for"
not prepared to arrest him" answered
piFn We have no evidence against
him
"%e!l, he's arrested already. and we've got
enough evidence to hold him." cane the an
"Ali right. I'll send Capt. Arnold after him. u
Not lonG. after Fosters arrest In Hartford.
Gill'a brother came down from South-
lngtol with Ralph T. Ives, the Southington ,
Superintendent OF tho New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company.
They went to the MoTRue and examined tho
head found in Yellow Mil Pond. Gin described
his sister as best no could, and the description |
was that of the unknown. TIT marks on the
face, he said. were those OF his sister.
"Do you remember about the mole ?" asked
Ives. N
"Oh. yes: my sister had nDoie about the size
Of o three-cent piece on her neck on the left
side"
"There is no mole like that here" said the
Assistant undertaken.