The Portland daily press., 1898-09-17
A PARTIAL SOLUTION.
The Victim of the Yellow Pond Murder
Discovered.

oIllS0pOru, SOuus, DopuoiupoI ~. = ne
Yellow Mill Pond murder mystery in
vestigation today reached point where
the clouds may be said to have begun a
partial vanishing. AS result OF the de-
velopments of the forenoon there seems to
be no doubt that the woman whose dis
membered body was found early in the
week was Grace Marian Perkins OF
Middleboro, Mass. In fact SO positive
have the local authorities become that
Medical Examiner Downs this noon filled
out death certificate covering the case
of the woman, and the name of the VIC
tim he wrote as stGrace Marion Perkins. -
The identity of the mysterious middle
aged stranger who was in Bridgeport last
night and throughswhom the tirst men,
tion of Miss Perkins was made, was estab-
lished this morning after he had left on
an early morning train for his Massachu.
setts home. The stranger is none other
han Joshua W. Perkins of Middleboro
and he is the father of the dead won an.
His identification of the body at the
morgue last night was positive in that be-
fore viewing the body he described hither-
to unnoticed pock marks and scalp
wound.
Early in the day the authorities were
hot on this particular phase of the case,
and to undertaken Cullinan came most
convincing proof Mr.. CullinaE had tele-
phonio communication with the Middle
boro, Mass, dentist who did the work for
Miss Perkins This dentist, whose name
the Bridgeport officials refuse to disclose.
not only described accurately the filings
which have been found in the dead wom-
ans teeth, but he designated and de.
scribed faultlessly one of the upper mo-
lars, which had been filled with peculiar
soft filling.
With this additional information
hand the authorities formally decided
that the dead body was that of Miss Per-
kins; the medical examiner made out his
certificate of death with Miss Perkins as
the victim, and Undertaken Cullinan has
notified the members Of the Perkins fami-
" at Middleboro that the remains are at
his morgue awaiting their pleasure
Additional information has also come
from Massachusetts to the effect that Miss
Perkins left that place three weeks ago,
presumably with one Charles Bourne,
young man Of che town, and that since
that time all track Of her has been lost.
The police here when pressed for infor-
nation refused to give it but it is known
that they are making extraordinary
efforts to locate Bourne.
Furthermore, evidence is not wanting
Uldb Uu6 pOllCc, Al SpltO vi AOPChuCO
denials, are exceedingly eager to ascertain
the whereabouts of DR.. Nancy" Guilford
Again today the New Haven field was
entered by the detectives and it is learned
that at the New Haven county Jail i'm.
portant information was CLEANED. Not
long ago DR.. Gill, then of New Haven
and now serving a state prison sentence
upon conviction of malpractice, was a
prisoner in the New Haven Jail, awaiting
trial in the superior court. The jailer has
been looking over the discarded effects
of erstwhile prisoners at his Jail and has
come across three articles of clothing
formerly owned by DR.. Gill On each of
these pieces of clothing, it is stated, ap-
pears the fateful characters, Sc /. -
Meanwhile the efforts of the police and
detectives engaged upon the case have
been redoubled and startling develop
ments, possibly an arrest, are expected
soon.
IDENTIFICATION COMPLETE.
Middleboro, Mass. September 16.-The
members of the Perkins family held a
conference today and decided that the
Identification of the girl was complete
Frank Perkins, the father of the girl
stated that he had ordered Bridgeport
undertaken to ship the remains of Grace
to Middleboro tonight by the Shore Line
express. Arrangements have been made
for the funeral which will be held Sun
day at the Perkins home.
1t is understood that Charles Bourne Is
ohort dfc%onco from this town