The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-01
CLUES STILL SCARCE
Fire Eaten Fabric to
Be Examined
Carefully.
SHEDDEN'S MIND is SADDENED.
Moves Into a New House
Out Of Sight Of the
Old Home.

Clinton, June 30-There is another
lull in the drama of detection that has
followed the swamp mystery. The cur
tain is down, while the detectives wait
to get the shoe cleaned The Clinton
police, who have done some work upon
the case in the way of looking through
the italian camps to see if a woman is
missing from them, have been wonder
ing for ten days why the shoe taken
fpom the dead woman, and the rest of
ner clothing was not cleaned long ago
and put into shape to be used.
Deputy Sheriff Bartlett hopes that
Tie state police may be fortunate
enough to learn where the shoe was
made, who sold it, and to what GUS
TONER, but he is not sanguine. There is
out one shoe to work with. That is
much like dozens of other cheap shoes
which are turned out by the thousands
by shoe factories in this and other
states.
Chief Of Police Bates says that he has
learned from his men who patrol beats
in the territory where most of the Ital-
ian and Hungarian population is locat-
ed. that the body found in the swamp
is being as much discussed by these
people as it is by those who read news
ngpers.
The fact of the tragedy is we'll known
TO most of them now, and it Is some
additional evidence that the woman was
not from the camps. No stories of such
a missing woman are in circulation in
any of them.
The assertion that If the italians had
knowledge that a crime had been COM
mitted by one of them they would unite
IN concealing the tragedy, was dis
proved as theory, yesterday, by the
conduct of the Italians who tried to ar
rest the boy who shot Antonio Sacco.
They were more anxious to have the
bog punished than the officials who car
rled the warrant for his arrest.
Neither Medical Examiner Tobey nor
Deputy Sheriff Bartlett accept out Of
hand the theory advanced, it is said,
by one of the state detectives, that the
skirt is made of material not woven in
this country. If it were made of such
material, there would be no clue be-
yond that furnished by the fabric it.
self. Much cloth is sold in this coun-
try that is woven abroad 1t is
bought and used precisely as if it We're
OF domestic manufacture.
The clothing that was in the possess
sion of the medical examiner has been
taken by Detective Murray He will
have it washed. When the fire-eaten
fabric is Clean he will look it over more
carefully, if possible, than it has yet
been scrutinlzed He is hoping that
the silent threads may contain some
thing tangible for him to work on.
AS yet no detectives have talked
with the people who live along the
roads leading to the swamp. The
murdered woman must have come over
some of them, and she may have been
seen by somebody who will be able to
furnish just the tip that is needed.
William Shedden announced to rep
that he has abandoned the search for
his divorced wife. His last visit to
Boston was fruitless. He is convinced
that she is dead. He would have heard
of her, he thinks, if she was alive.
The flood of recollections aroused in
SEedden's mind by the train of circum-
stances that seemed to connect his wife
with the swamp mystery, has made the
mouse in which he lived and which was
her home before she disappeared, intol-
cradle to him. Yesterday he moved
into new house, further up the road
snd out of sight of his old home. He
mas arranged room in the new house
as nearly as possible like the room in
the old house where her belongings
were. The bed and the bureau have
been set in the same relative position
The clothes she left behind with a
hundred little nickknacks she had
treasured. together with the baby
clothes that were never used, are ar
ranged in the bureau drawers just as
they were.
There was no work in the mill, and
Snedden was putting in the time paint
ing the new house, this afternoon. He
was assisted by little boy, one of the
missing woman's children, bright little
Iellow,. with brown hair that is much
the color OF the hair found with the
skeleton in the swamp.
Snedden does not believe the woman
has married again He says she has
no right to marry under the law of the
state.