Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-17
LIKE MY DAUGHTER"
So Declares Frank Perkins at Sight OF
Mill Pond Victim.
GIRL
Police Believe His Identification 10
the Right Onc-He Pointed Out
Some Marks ON ace Not
Noticed Before.

lieve that the identity Of the dismem'
bered body lie a secret no longer. An
elderly man entered the mOrgue and
after asking questions of Morgue Keep
er Cullinan, scrutinized the features OF
the head, compared them with a pho
tograph which he carried, and f'dine
certain marks on the face and heao
said that he was reasonably sure that
the dead woman was Grace Marian
Perkins of Middleboro, Mass.
He went back to Middleboro after go
ing out with Mr.. Cullinan to visit the
place where the dismembered body wal
found. 1t was then learned that the
man was Frank w. Perkins, the father
of the missing girl, and that his name
had been withheld at his request.
He called Morgue Keeper Cullinan by
telephone from Middleboro after his re-
turn there, and while Mr.. Cullinan talk
ed with him and Captain Arnold stood
by, one OF the morgue assistants looked
for filings in the teeth which Mr.. Per-
kins from a chart furnished by the dem
fist who had filled his daughters teeth
located.
Identih cation Hindered.
The identification was much indered
by rightly Of the dead woman's jaws.
making 1t almost impossible to see the
condition of the back teeth. But the
filings Of the front were strikingly SIM
liar to those described by Mr.. Perkins,
the upper central front tooth being fill
ed on both sides with gold and those
adjoining it having gold filings on the
sides next the central tooth. The talk
with Mr.. Perkins vas suspended, to be
~nc,~nI 1ofor 1yhor mora ~Q rko md
peculiarities will be looked for.
MI. Perkins said before he went home
that he would see his daughters dem
fist, get her mother to make a list Of all
her daughters peculiarities which she
could remember and also find what the
laundryman knew about the marks en-
ployed in the town. 1t Is Judged from
this Mr.. Perkins was more impressed
with what he saw in the morgue than
he cared to say.
When he called and asked to see the
body, MI. Cullinan asked what interest
he had in the case. The head had not
been publicly exhibited for a day in or
der to keep away curiosity seekers.
Then. in confidence, he told Mr.. Guilt
nan his name, said that his daughter
had been missing for over two weeks,
and that he thought from what he had
| read of the Ease that the dead woman
might have been she. Mr.. Cullinan then
drew a photograph of the woman's head
from his pocket and asked:
do o recognize this?"
CLOCKS Like My Daughter"
Mr.. Perkins, who was much excited,
said, II cannot tell surely, but 1t looks
like my daughter"
Then Mr.. Cullinan took Mr.. Perkins
into the room where the head lies. Mr..
Perkins, with the aid of a magnifyine
glass, pointed out a mark over the right
eyebrow, such a mark as he said his
daughter bore from IN attack Of chick
enpox in childhood, and a mark which
had not been noticed by the police when
they made up their description. The
scar under the hair, which has been de-
scribed, Mr.. Perkins was not sure about,
but he said that the hair, eyes, height
and physical proportions tailed exactly
with those Of his daughter. More than
that, he accounted for the callouses in
the palms of the hands and reaching
across the base Of the fingers by saying
that his daughters hands were callous-
ed there from work In a shoe factory.
He then told a few of the facts con-
nected with his daughter and her dis
appearance. He said that over three
weeks ago she had gone from home to
visit in Onset, Mass, and that less than
a week after she had left Onset and had
not been see or heard from since that
day. On the day Of her departure from
Onset she was seen boarding a train at
fremont, accompanied by a young man
of the name OF Charles Bourne, q clerk
in M~iddleboro.
Bourne is said to have been paying
attention to the girl for some time.
Pending further communication from
Middleboro. Morgue Keeper Cullinan,
Captain Arnold-in fact, every one con-
nected with the case-refused to talk
about his last identification Of the
body, but it was apparent that they at
tached to It q high degree OF probable
ity.
Talk of Death Certificate.
A report was circulated that Medical
Examiner Downs had even made out q
death certificate in the name of Marian
Grace Perkins. but it could not be con-
armed. According to Connecticut law,
the body could not be shipped to Mid
dleboro unless a certificate of death had
been filed, and the certificate may have
been made out II the father is certain
of the body's identity and intends to
come to Bridgeport for it.
In the meantime the coroner's inouest
has been postponed. When 1t comes, II
the police do not throw light on the
death before. there may be an argument
as to whether the woman died as the re-
suit of al operation or was murdered
outright. AS 1t is now Mr.. Cullinan
contends more stoutly than ever that It
Is a plain case of murder, while Exam |
liner Downs refuses to assert one thing |
or the other, but inclines toward the
theory of an operation apparently. The |
Guilfords, man. wife and son., who have
been mentioned in the case, have ceased
for h time being at least to figure in
the affair. The police seem to have stop-
ped camping on their trail altogether.
AS for Henry Bu!l!son, his name has
hardly been mentioned during the day.