Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-17
TRACKS COVERED.
Not the Slightest Trace Of
Blondin Is Found.
Every Clue Run Down and the Man
Is Still at Liberty.
Officers Will Start Over. Trunks Found Where
Blondin Sold Them.

Boston. June 16.-The police at work
on the Margaret Blondin murder case
have followed out about every clue de-
veloping without finding J. w. Biondin.
the husband and supposed murderer.
State Officer Rhodes reached home
from Montreal, this afternoon, hav-
ing also visited st. Polycrape. the home
of Blondin's parents. Blondin has not
been seen there for year. Neither
have any of his relatives in Montreal
seen him since the murder.
On his way to Boston, Officer Rhodes
stopped at Springfield AMI notified
State officers Durham and Hammond
and Police Inspector Abbott and Chap
man. The officers spent several hours
in trying to locate Il trunk and bicycle
said to have been sent there, Wedncs-
day morning last. the day Blondin dis
appeared They could find no trace
whatever of such Il trunk or bicycle,
and the officers are now satisfied they
were not sent there.
During the afternoon, Inspectors
Abbott and Chapman took the train to
Hartford, where it was said that
Blondin had relatives. A report re-
ceived from there. tonight. indicated
that they did not succeed in finding
anything.
Officers Rhodes and Hammond. this
afternoon, decided to start at the be
ginning of the case again. The object
is to gain some clue as to where the
trunk which Blondin had moved from
his room at n Howard street, Wednes-
day morning, was checked to. John f.
Romeo was the cxpressman who took
the trunk from the house. He told the
police that he took ii to the South sta
ton about o'clock on Wednesday
morning. He did not see it checked, he
said.
This is the very last seen of this
trunk. so far as the police have been
able to discover. At the South station
the police have obtained the numbers
of the trunks checked that day. A
great many of them have been traced
to their destination. All trunks with
which a bicycle was checked have been
very carefully followed. 1t was fol-
| lowing clues like these that led the po-
lice to Springfield.
1t is now recognized by the officers
at work on the case that the chance of
tracing Blordin through following the
trunk is very slim.
With the publication of the picture
of Blondin obtained at Montreal, the
police hope to get some trace of the
man. He is not believed to have gone
far away. In fact he could not have
had a large amount of money. 1t is
stated by the police that he obtained
SIS for the tools and trunks with his
wifc's clothing which he sold at Davis
Pearlstcin's second hand store at 15S
Merrimac street. a day or two after
his wife was last seen at the Green
street house. So far as known this is
the only money he had.
He is quite bicyclist and the police
think that he is travelling on his ma
chine He could easily find employ
ment for he can turn his hands to
several kinds of work.
The police look with some doubt on
the AK found in the brook at Chelms-
ford near where the head of the muir
dercd Mrs. BlOndin was recovered.
Medical Examiner Meigs now thinks
than an AK was not used but that the
head was severed with large knife.
The vcrtebrac where the head was sew
cred shows no splinterinE. would
undoubtedly be the case if it had been
been severed by blows from an ak. 1t
rather looks as if n knife was used, the
blade being carefully introduced be-
tween the joints of the vertcbrae.