The Portland daily press., 1900-10-20
GIenmere Pond in Lynn Gives Up
hOre Secrets.
Best Who is Held Will
Be Arr aligned Today.
Brothers of Bailey Have Left
Portland to Identify Body.

Lynn, October 19-The police have
been busiIy engaged today in an at
tempt to trace the movements o
John c. Best, held on suspicion
OF numbering George E. Bailey, the
BraakAear5 Hill farmer, who was last
ssen alive on the night of October 8, as
ne left milk at the house OF customer
at Pleasant Hills. They want to learn
what Best did Tuesday, and what on
Wednesday; in fact, they want to know
what occupied his days and nights from
the time he says he parted from Bailey
Until he was arrested Wednesday evening
Of 5his week in the room IN thu second
story Of the farm house that be Jointly
occupied with the man whose murdered
and butchered body has been recovered,
p1ecemeal, tied up in sacks, from the dark
waters Of Glenmere at Floating bridge.
Then too, they are hunting for some
trace Of blood on leaf OF stone in the
woods OF about the farm house that may
lead to the discovery Of the spot where
the dead body was beheaded and denuded
Of limbs
Tuesday, Best was in Lynn in the
evening At J. E.sKeHher's bar room on
Summer street, near Butman mill, on
the road that leaas to North Saugus,
Best called while the rain was falling.
He was driving in a democrat farm
wagon and had on an oil suit He had a
drink and had evidently been drinking.
In the bar room he met Arthur Jordan, a
harness salesman, and together they ate
at the lunch counter. Then he wanted
more liquor, but Best was SO drunk that
the bar tender refused to serve him.
The people in the saloon wers afraid
that Best could not manags his wagon
and horse alone, but Jordan said that he
would look after him and drive with him
a little way, until be was alright. linen
they went out and took the horse from
the shed and drove off. That night Win
field Rowe who had been outside in the
wagon waiting for Best and who had
been in Lynn and returned with h5m,
says that a butcher, named McCril1s,
was Best's companion. Best declares that
the man was one named Shaw whom he
never saw and whom he did not know.
He says that he drove him to the farm
house to stay over night with him, but
that Shaw refused to stop, so he drove
him part way home Yhis5man was Jor-
dan, who is now missing.
HtapIT1 IN tho ,crnipor ~
tober g, George Wringley. an ice man who
lives on Western avenue, on the way to
Floating Bridge, heard the sound Of
wagon passing. He noticed 1t particular
ly, because it was a light wagon and the
front wheels ratified as if loose. The
sound of the rear wheels was heavy, as If
there was a load on the back part. The
wagon passed his house and in the direo-
tion OF floating bridge Then half an
hour later 1t returned. This has been
told to the police The farm wagon
found in the Breakheart Hill farm shed
upon which the police thought traces OF
Nood were visible, was one with loose
front wheels One of the rear wheels
is new, that on the right side. This new
wheel, Best says, he got in Lynn Tues
day, because he broke the other one.
That Best was very nervous during the
nights at the farm after the disappearance,
comes out from statement Of young Win
field Rowe who did occasional chores
about the farm, During the evening he
called at the farm house and saw Officer
Bannon, the man who gave the first
clue to the Identity of Bailey. Bannon
was to stay at the farm house all night,
and seeing Rowe, asked II he intended to
keep him company. 81 would not stay
here for a good deal, Rowe replied.
"WhyY" asked Bannon. "Oh. I don
know" replied Rowe, "only Best was
awful nervous nights and hated to be
alone. He acted like crazy man and
seemed to be afraid Of something
Additional suspicion is fastened upon
Best by an Incident of October 10. the Gay
after Bailey disappeared. Young Rowe
had hurt hand at the farm house.
The wound bled and Best said: "Don't
let that blood drip about hsre or they
viii have Us all arrested for killing
Bailey"
The medical examiner today made
further examination OF the body ana dis
covered the second bullet. It was found
in the flesh and muscles at the back near
where the first was found and had taken
a similar direction, Indicating that the
two shots either of which was necessarily
fatal, were fired in rapid succession, the
second striking before the victim moved.
The most positive Identification fur
nished was on the shoes. There Is a small
hole on the sole near the heel OF one OF
them, and Rowe knew it because Bailey.
some time ago got his feet wet and said
there must be trouble with his shoes. He
took them OF and found the hole AMI
showed 1t to Rowe These things confirm
the officers work on the case that the
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