The times., 1898-09-23
MURDER OF emma GILL
Police Have the Details of the
Bridgeport Crime.
HUNTING FOR DIR. GUILF0RD
Her Huncbback Son Under Arrest
with Two Other Persons - When
Found the Story VIII BE Made
Pubiic-Strange circumstances.

Bridgeport. Conn, Sept. 22.-Dr. Nancy
GuiIford, the midwife who left for Wells
burg. n. Y. few hours after the ind
ing of the body of Emma Gill in Yellow
Millpond ten days ago. is wanted by The
Bridgeport police
DR.. Guilford's hunchback son. Harry.
sailing master of the yacht Ceres Of New
Haven, the young man who took OF his
collar one day last week 10 show that
&C. ST. was the Guilford family laundry
mark, came down from New Haven this
morning on his wheel and is now under
arrest, with Foster. the young Hartford
salesman, against whom the police have
strong circumstantiaI evidence, and Chas.
A Plumb, jr., a Stradford fish market
man, who acted suspiciously yesterday
and who has not told a clear story.
Guilford was arrested that the police
might find where his mother is hiding
Birmingham had no evidence against the
hunchback's mother two days ago, but
now he has. She is believed to be some
where between Wellsburg and New York
City.
Now, the theory of the police is that
the undergarment locked up in Chief Bir-
mingham's safe was once worn by Emma
GIL, and that while the girl was in DIR.
Guilfords care the police have reason to
believe the undergarment was sent by
Dr. Guilford to the laundry and there
received the &c. 81"
Since Fosters arrest the house in which
Emma Gill lay while she was under a
physicians care. and where her body was
cut up after she died from the operation
has been found by the Bridgeport police
I'm the sparsely settled town of Stratford
Foster came to Bridgeport while the girl
was in this house and saw her there. The
family living there have lived there for
years. None of them is under arrest.
All the police have 10 do before making
public the whole of this story is 10 find
the person who killed the girl. and the
police are confident that this arrest will
be made this week Within a few hours
the police have learned the who.e story
of the girls murder.
Emma Gill was known to be a girl who
might get into trouble and when her
parents failed 10 hear from her after she
had written from Bridgeport that she was
Ill. they became uneasy. They learned
that Foster had no sister in Stratford as
the girl had told. They received a letter
signed by the girl. written in a strange
hand
What gave the New Haven detectives
a strong clew was the receipt by the
mother from Stratford postOffice of a let
ter addressed to her daughter and marked
unknown" 1t was not the letter the
mother had written to her daughter. In
this letter the mother found her daughter
had not written her. Early the next
morning Foster was arrested.
The girls movements We're traced by
41,a i a Fror, Tfa
she first left her home in Southington.
August y, to visit friends at Lighthouse
Point. near New Haven, until she en-
tered the house across the Pequonnock
River to die.
While she was living in a house near
New Haven Foster saw her there and
in town where she went several times to
do shopping. She came then to the STRAIT
ford house and while there Foster saw
her again. She was seen outside the
house with Foster While she was there
Foster wrote number of letters to her,
addressing them to Southington, and
these letters kept coming after the girls
body was thrown off Sea View Avenue
bridge These letters the detectives have.
They also have letters found in Fosters
room in New Haven.
Charlie Plumb, the young Stratford fish
dealer who was pulled out OF bed last
night by Deputy Sheriff Stagg. has not
been released. although it is believed that
he is innocent. Plumb called at the
SIratford postoffice yesterday morning.
rs there q letter here for Miss Emma
CHIP he asked in a matter-of-fact way.
The clerk said there was, but refused TO
give il up.
Plumb went out and stepped into Tut
tle's drug store, next door. He said he
was expecting a telephone call from
Hartford. a few minutes later the tele-
phone bell rang and Plumb was asked
for Plumb held his hand TO the mouth
piece, so that no one could hear him.
They're onto US he was heard TO ex-
claim
This is another fake" Plumb said 10
Judge Charles ". Perrick who was
standing in the doorway, after he was
through talking with the Hartford person.
why, this Gill girl is alive. ! can lay
my hands on her in twenty hours"
Plumb went to his home and came back
in a short time wearing his best clothes.
The next thing people Of quiet little
Stratford heard was that Charlie Plumb
had gone to Hartford and the police were
after him. Charlie came back on a night
train and was arrested after he had gone
10 bed. Charlie said he had been in Hart
ford to see a girl whom he was TO marry;
that he had seen the GIL girl and thought
ehe was alive
"AH the trouble with young Plumb is
that he talks too much says Chief Bir-
ningham.
IF there was ever a strange girl in
town you can just guess that Charlie
Plumb knew her is the opinion of the
Stratford housewives.