Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-23
POLICE ARR CONFIDENT
Declare They Know Chief Criminal III
Bridgeport Murder.
CHARLES PLUMB ARRESTED,
Held as n Witness. Having Tried ID
Get n Letter Addressed to the
Dead Girl - Blood stained
Clothes Found.

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 23.-The IN
formation comes semioffcialy, but from
an uno,rstionable source, that the po'
lice are now positive that they kno"
whom they want to arrest for commit
ting the operation that caused the
death of Emma Gill, the victim of the
Yellow mill pond mystery and that the
arrest will be made at the earliest OPP
portunity. They are also sure or the
place where the diSmemberment or the
remains took place. Walter Foster, who
was arrested Wednesday. Is being held
for completely in the crime, and Charles
A. Plumb of Stratford is in durance as
a witness in the case.
Plumb, so the Stratford postmaster
says, asked at the general delivery Of
flee Wednesday for a letter addressed
to Miss Emma Gill. There is letter in
the office bearing that name, but the
postmaster refused to let it go out OF
his possession. When possession of the
letter was denied him. Plumb telephon-
ed 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
police were instructed by wire to appre-
bend the man, but the train had just
pulled out of the station there when
they received the message. Detective
Arnold arrested Plumb and brought him
to the police station from his home
shortly before midnight.
Identification Certain.
The identification of the body as that
nf EN,,,p ho "
certain. T. b. Atwater, a delegate to
the state convention here from South
ington, read in the papers of the iden-
tifcation He lives in the same neigh
borhood as the Pratt family, by whom
the Gill woman was employed as do
nestle. Mr.. Atwater viewed the sew
cred head and said there was no doubt
in his mind that it was that Of Emma
Gill.
Fosters reputation is said to be a
good one. His landlady speaks we'll Of
him. and he is highly recommended by
his employers. The police are now
searching for young man of Southing
ton who has been seen in the company
of the Gill woman often.
Several days ago the New Haven po-
lice found crash skirt in that city. 1t
has been learned that Miss Gill left
Southington on the afternoon of Aug
rs, with s,tra ford as her cs ensihle des-
tination. She wore a crash skirt with
a green and black checked shirt waist.
The Bridgeport and New Haven po-
lice officers are having a lively contrO-
versy as to where the credit lies for the
discovery of the Southington clew. The
New Haven police maintain that they
have been working on the clew since
Monday and have information which
the Bridgeport police have not yet OBJ
tanned. The Bridgeport police, on the
other hand. hold that fer several days
and nights the Gill clew has been unde.
a thorough investigation.
Blood Stained Clothes.
On Tuesday a man found bundle Sc
GREETED under one of the wharfs on the
west side of the harbor above the lower
bridge. The bundle had a suspicious
appearance, and the finder took it to
the police station. 1t was examined and
found to contain a woman's green al
pins hat a pair of black corsets and
other female apparel, on which there
We're many blood stains
These articles are now in the possess
sion of the police and may afford some
light in solving the mystery. The po-
lice refuse to say anything about the
clothes, to permit their being seen or
even to admit that they have any such
clothes.
The greatest excitement has been
caused by the report that Mrs. Nancy
Guilford is not on her way to Liverpool,
as every one supposed, but is in hiding
in New York Further than this, it w u
announced that DR.. Cuilford has been
located in house in West Thirty-sec-
ond street where she is living under
the name of RS. Laurence
Ever sinre the dsmembered body was
found in yellow mill pond the ro,cr
have been searching high and low for
DR.. Guilford. She was traced it ives
reported, to Elmira. thence to Montr al
by roundabout route, and then it was
said she took a steamer for Liverpool.
No details of the finding of DR.. Gull
ford in New York have vet been OBJ
tanned, nor can it be learned how she
journeyed hack from Montreal. Excite
ment is keen, as DR.. Guilford is very
well known in this city.