The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-20

fallen from the jaw into the place where
they were dug UP.
Deputy Sheriff Bartlett's testimony
covered the whole range of the story.
He was present at the first autopsy,
Sunday morning after the body was
found. He was present at the second
autopsy in Sterling, June %.
He described with particularly the
place where the body lay. 1t was a
sheltered spot between four trees which
formed a canopy over it. The ground
was very wet. There was running
water 10 feet away,
On Wednesday following the discoV-
cry of the body, he visited the scene
with Detective Murray and found two
men who showed him a handful of
teeth which they told him they had
just dug out of the earth. They were
poking around in the mud when he saw
them.
Sheriff Bartlett dealt in detail with
the cart path which leads from the
shanty of Gatetender Charles Osgood to
woodlot within few rods of the ia
tai spot. This cart path would oppose
many obstacles to teams, but would be
a most convenient route to persons on
foot This was in direct line with the
theory advanced in The Spy, that if the
body was brought to the spot, the cart
path presented the most natural and
feasible means of reaching it.
Sheriff Bartlett had made careful in
qCiry to learn if any persons had been
in the neighborhood since last winter.
In the winter Of 1897 George Herbert
had cut birch in the wood lot.
The witness had found persons who
faI1 hui
they were far from knowing that they
had approached the place where the
body lay.
Mr.. Bartlett was strongly of the opir--
ion that the woman was an Italian wo-
man. The clothing she wore was ex-
amined by Mrs. Tobey, wife of the med
ical examiner and Mrs. Bartlett his
own Wife. They thought it the cloth
ing an Italian woman might wear.
He was driving on the north dixie
with Mrs. Bartlett, after the tragedy,
when they saw an italian woman who
wore skirt of the same material as
that in the dead woman's skirt, al
though a different pattern.
II was an important circumstance
that the dead woman wore no corsets
and no underclothing except the white
underskirt. This was in accordance
with the custom of the poor Italian wo-
men. He had searched the camps
carefully and without result.
Judge Stone-The first time you went
to the place did you make a careful eX-
animation of the grounds?
Sheriff Bartlett did.
did you see anything of any instru-
ment, or any metal of any kind?"
Witness replied that he did not. Mel
Their on that accession did he see any of
the eleven teeth, that were afterward
found an unknown distance beneath
the surface of the earth.
r. M. Pratt said he was one of two
who found the teeth. He went to the
spot on Sunday and saw the medical
examiner scrape up the remains Mon
day he returned with a companion and
searched the vicinity. Tuesday they
came back and peered into the brook.
Wednesday they returned and harvest
ed crop of teeth that nobody saw
planted.
Mr.. Pratt said he could not tell now
far under ground the teeth originally
were, The ground had been dug over
by other persons.
They We're an inch below all, when
he found them. He used an iron polk
err and was surprised when a tooth
struck the end of the poker.
State Detective Murray said that his
day, after the body was found. He ar
rived in time to see the teeth dug up.
Il think / dug up one myself" he
said. He thought the teeth were found
near the neck or shoulders of the body.
Mr. Murray made frequent references
to the district attorney during the pro-
gress of his address to the court. They
were all to the general effect that he
had held one, nay, several, conferences
a II. t.,tk al
case, and that the district attorney was
very much pleased with what had been
done, and thought, in fact that nobody
could possibly do any more or do it any
better
Detective Murray said the clothing
had been on fire because Chemist Kin
nicutt said so.
The case he said really had come to
this, that nothing can be ascertained.
Detective Murray had followed UP
many clues and had worked hard. The
district attorney said he had done all
that could be done and was pleased.
But the clues all ended the same way.
He had investigated the cases of sew
eral missing women. They were all
accounted for. The shoe had also
PANIED out failure. Detective Dun
ham had discovered that the shoes were
manufactured at a factory in Auburn,
Me, The factory had sold such shoes
to retailers in Boston, Cambridge.
Providence, New Haven, Hartford, Fall
River and Salem. He had himself vis-
tied some of these stores, most of them
in fact. In each instance the result
was TIE same. The answer was made.
I'VE might have sold the shoe but we
can't say"
Detective Murray was convinced the
woman was not only an Italian woman.
but a hurdy-gurdy woman He gave
his reasons. Since the tragedy" he
said, II have seen an Italian woman
with hurdy-gurdy. ! saw her in Wor-
cester. She wore an apron that was a
fac smile Of that worn by the dead
woman even to the stitches. / lifted 1t
up and looked at It. 1t was the same
even to the stitches The overskirt
Was precisely the same and the hat WIS