The Portland daily press., 1900-10-25
Last Person to See Vic
tim Alive.
BaiIey's Brother Will Not Be
Administrators.

police today received a letter that may
be of impo rtance. 1t came from Tholnp
sonville, Conn.,, from Mrs. G.. Irene Best,
who says she has reason to believe tn Vi
the prisoner, John g. Best, held pending
suspicion of having murdered George
e. Bailey Of Breakheart Hill farm, North
Saugus, is her husband. She sends a
description which taIlies with that of
Best, and writes that they were married
December 8, 1889, at Troy, N. Y, and
that March 10, 1895, he left her to go to
Springfield, and she has not heard from
him before until she saw his name in the
papers in connection with the case. She
writes that she has valuable information
concerning him and she police will
have her seen and secure a statement.
This morning searching at the Break
heart Hill farm was resumed. Late
Tuesday evening State Officer Neal had
a heart to heart talk with Miss Susan
l.. Young, and impressed upon her the
Importance OF full and complete answers
to all questions concerning her relations
with both Best and the dead Bailey. She
declared that she had never encouraged
any attentions from Best and had never
appeared aneotionate with him, and
IlAl huc nG0 nCNcL bhU Ou Ills AuCc us
young Winfield Rowe declared be saw
4 her doing one time when he went to the
farm house, while Bailey was at work
in the fields.
More fires. or rather traces of fires,
were the sole development OF the inves-
tigation at the farm house this afternoon.
William Perkins, who helped Simon
o Brien take the intoxicated Best home
on Tuesday afternoon, October 8, has told
the police that he saw the blaokened
spot where a tire had but short time
before died out. That FIRE was beside
the walk leading to the barn near an
iron Kettle. Nothing was found In pok-
ing over the cinders. Nothing was
found In the cinders left from tire seen
by Byron Hone, behind the barn on Oc-
tober II, and nothing was found where
fire had been In the under brush about
hundred yards from the. barn near
where a stump was found early in the
search for evidence, which bore the
marks Of an axe head. Today State
4 Officer Proctor took the bullets extract
ed from BaiIey's body, the unused bullets
in the house and the Winchester rifle to
New Havens, Conn. where the gun was
made, TO get expert testimony on bullets,
their action, and the carrying power OF
the weapon.
The final search at the Breakheart
Hill farm. was made this afternoon by
state Officers Neal and Hammond, but
positively nothing new was ascertained
except that they learned that previous
to September 27th, the date on which 5 J.
sic Young went away. Best had no key
to the back kitchen, Bailey always keep
date on which Bailey disappeared, Best
has had a key. On Friday report OF
the analysis OF the supposed blood spots
found on different pieces OF clothing at
the farm, will be made by Pror. Wood
Of Harvard and the case practically rests
fAn TQcnlf of his finninUs IF hp
decides that the spots are not of human
blood the officers realize that they have
a hard proposition to face, While on the
other hand, If they are declared to be
blood, their evidence against Best win
be wonderfully strengthened.
Charles Il. Bailey, Jr., Of Providence,
q brother of the murdered man, was to
have been appointed ad dministrator of his
brothers. estate and had got the personal
effects all ready to be shipped to Wiscas-
set and turned over to Susie Young.
The officers, however, concluded that his
act was a little premature, inasmuch as
Bailey left bona fide widow In Bath,
with two children, who was legally en-
titled to his property, and that she. and
not Susie Young, should be the person
to benefit by any property her husband
had left. Consequently steps have been
taken to prevent the property being sent
to Wiscasset, Mr.. Charles X. Bailey Will
not be appointed administrator, and
meantime the new tenant OF Breakheart
Hill farm, Mr.. Cole OF Wakefield, is
unable TO take possession of the. place.
State Officer Neal made a discovery to-
night which he believes to be of special
Importance. Early this evening he went
to the Pleasant Hill neighborhood and
had talk with Charles Deery, to whom
Bailey delivered milk daily, BY the con-
versation, Officer Neal is confident that
Deery was the last man to see Batly alive,
October 6th, with the exception of the
person or persons who caused his death.
After supper on that evening Bailey
took his usual drive to the house OF
Mr.. Deery with the milk, and after re-
manning in the stable for nearly half an
hour, he returned home, which would
make him absent from his farm about
an hour, If he went directly home, Mr..
Deery recalled that on that night, Bailey
wore an overcoat over his shooting jacket
because 1t was raining quite hard. He
Is positive that he wore the Overooat as
they talked together for quite awhile.
The coat that Bailey wore that night has
been found In his room at the Break
heart Hill farm. 1t was behind the door
where he usually kept it. No blood
stains have been found upon the gar
ment and Officer Neal reaches the con.
clusion with great certainty that Bailey
was killed about the place. Advancing
the supposit1on that Bailey put up his
horse after returning home, he then went
into the house and hung up the coat in
it's usual place. Neal believes the killing
was subsequent to the routine work Of
Bailey during the evening.