The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-29
1T LOOKS HOPELESS.
Officers Begin to De-
SPAR of Clearing Up
Murder Mystery.
WADE IS SORRY He SPOKE.
Little Probability That the
Woman Was Killed
at a Camp.
WADE IS SORRY He SPOKE.

Clinton, June 2S.-Tonight the murder
mystery of the Sterling swamp looks
hopeless to the authorities.
Alexander Wade, the section hand
employed by the New York. New Hav-
en- & Hartford railroad, who saw car
talked with the representative of The
Spy this Afternoon about his discovery
of the carriage. He said:
II don't see why it is printed as com
else, that I saw the carriage May %.
1 don't know what the date was when 1
saw it. 1t may have been any time be-
tween the first week in May and the
second or third week. have never
been able to fix the date approximately
in my own mind"
Mr.. Wade thinks that he may have
seen the carriage about the time the
gipsies were in camp on the Clinton
road, but whether they were in camp
then, or whether it was before they
were there, he cannot say. The date
probably was earlier than May % and
later than May l.
The photograph wagon which Wade
saw on the same night, was backed out
of the road under a pine tree, 500 feet
or more nearer Clinton than the place
where he saw the carriage in the brush.
This, he says, was a white covered
wagon, with the word Photograph"
on the side. He thinks the letters were
black but does not remember.
Wade is of the opinion that if he
sees any more carriages he will keep
the news to himself. He says the Of
ficials have characterized him as a wes-
tern cowboy, whose word is no better
than it ought to be Apparently Wade
is telling the truth. There is abundant
confirmation of his tale of a carriage
in the brush.
Medical Examiner Sobey's report was
read with interest here, as 1t was
printed in The Spy this morning. 1t
deals entirely with facts long before
printed in The Spy, except that 1t
states that the medical examiner be-
lieves the blue polka dot affair is an
apron, instead of skirt, as he at first
supposed.
one of the earliest theories extant
here was that the woman may have
come from one of the Italian or Hun
garian camps that dot the country.
Deputy Sheriff Bartlett visited all the
camps in the neighborhood including
the camp near the sewer beds, which
has been abandoned since their COM
oletion.
This camp is much nearer the place
where the body was found than any of
the others. But there is woodland in
the neighborhOod almost as convenient
for the concealment of human bodies
as the Sterling swamp itself.
At any rate, the pursuit of this
theory proved barren early in the day,
and Sheriff Bartlett believes is likely
to continue so.
Moreover, connected with the Clinton
police are men who have spent two
thirds of their waking life since the
camps were located here among those
who people them. No set of men in
Massachusetts perhaps are more care
fully watched by police than the peo-
ple of these camps, both because they
have no steady place of residence and
can easily disappear, and because they
are given to the quick use of a knife.
Ordinary stabbing ARRAYS among them,
which are far from infrequent, are
known to the police almost as soon as
they happen.
chief Bates thinks that the disap-
nearance Of a woman who was known
TO them at all well, would be comment
cd upon and soon reach the ears of the
officers. Women are not many in the
camps. One who lives in camp, or
who makes her appearance in one. is
conspicuous above most women, be-
cause she is a woman where women are
NOT often found if for no other reason.
Medical Examiner Tobey has made
the customary report of the finding of
the hodv to Judge c. c. Stone Of the
district court. Judge Stone will hold an
inouest. without witnesses, in a few
DAYS. adiourning the hearing probably
n a future time, IN the hope that more
NAV be known about the case before IL
Gate Tender Charles T. Osgood, who
is monarch of the crossing near the
Sterling swamp. hardly knows repose
these DAYS. Crowds Of visitors beset him
with questions, and beseige him with
requests to be directed to where the
body was found.
So many people have visited the awe
some SPOT among the four blazed trees,
that paths are beaten to it through the
hrush in all directions. One looking FOR
clues can find many that did not exist
before the sightseers began TO come.
pieces of paper, fragments OF lunch, ana
even pocket handkerchlets streW the
ground. 49,. .o+t,
that leads from the bars at the cross
ing. This path leads almost directly 20
the spot. and is so plain II cannot De
r,istaLen Persons who travel it do so
=, the reasonable belief that it was the
ro,1te taken bv the murdered woman,
-. +ba narson who conveyed her body.
ond II IS along the line of least resist