The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-10
POLICE ADMIT MASON
MAN NAMED BY NEGRO.
Original Suspect the One Perry
Charges With Having Given Him
the Watches to Pawn.

Boston. Nov. lo.-After having given
out Saturday night the confession made
by the young negro. George l.. o. Perry,
with reference to selling the watches
taken from the murdered women, Miss
Clara A. Morton and Miss Agnes McPhee.
the police admitted yesterday that Perry
declares that Alan @. Mason is the man
from whom he received these articles.
This admission Of the police was made
just before young Perry was taken 20 the
jail In East Cambridge. where Mason who
Is the prominent Boston man Under ar
rest on the charge OF killing Miss Morton.
Is confined pending a hearing In the Cam
bridge court today.
Here in one of the jail corridors Perry
positively Identified Mason as the man
who had given him the two watches Ma
SON by look or word. betrayed no knowl-
edge Of having seen Perry before When
questioned by Sheriff FAEbairn, Mason
merely said.
II do not know this man. never saw
HIM before"
During the day Chief Ryan and Officer
Argy OF Belmont went to the station
where Perry was locked up and had a
conversation with him. The subject OF
the conversation could not be ascertained.
Later, when state officers Neal. Dun
ham, Dexter and others took Perry 10 the
jail. the callers were shown into the room
where Mason and six others were in line.
Perry walked straight up to Mason.
who was second in line, and, pointing his
finger at him. said: This Is the man
who gave me the watches 10 pawn" He
was about to leave the'room when Sheriff
Fairbeirn asked him II ne would not like
to talk with Mason In order that he
might make himself sure that Mason was
the man.
Perry replied there was no need of
had known him for a long time. He said
he did not want to talk with Mason any
way.
PERRY PLEASED.
While sitting in the Jail for an oppo--
tunity TO see Mason, one of the jail at
tcndants gave Perry one OF the Sunday
papers to look at He seemed highly
pleased with the big headlines In which his
name figures prominently.
After the officers had returned to the
city and were in conference with Perry
at police headquarters. Clement G. Nor
gan a Cambridge lawyer, demanded admit
tance to the conference.
He said that he had been retained by
the boys mother TO represent her son.
The lawyer was finally allowed to enter
the room and there he very forcibly oh
jected to the method OF procedure OF the
officers.
Another visitor at the police station
during the day was Mr.. Wade Masons
attorney. He was accompanied by a
middle-aged woman. This woman did
not see young Perry. but II was under
stood that abe had been produced by the
defence in the hope of proving that Perry
himself. or some other negro, was the real
'Slugger." The visitor is known TO be
ona oft Nv In,
Cambridge several weeks ago.
The fact that the negro accused Mason
OF giving him the watches did not give
the police any false confidence that the
mystery OF the serieS OF brutal crimes
had been solved. They recognized that
the Perry confession does not establish
Ma son az the criminal.
The defence was proceeding yesterday
on the theory that II was q negro who
murdered Miss Morton and Miss McPhee,
as we'll as committed the other MURDER
Gus assaults. Mr.. Ware places no faith d
Mason who gave the boy the watches.
He regards the stand Perry has taken as
being the most natural under the circum-
stances
COULD IDENTIFY HIM.
Perry had to account for his possession
OF the watches. and the most reasonable
way was to say that they were given him
by man already under arrest and by a
man whom he had seen on the streets OF
Cambridge and could easily idertify.
The police continued their work on the
case yesterday. and every clue which
might offer any assistance I'm solving the
before them were followed
no. The most important consideration In
the light OF the charge that Alan q. Ma
son murdered Miss Morton was the ap-
pearance OF a negro IN several instances
where women were Gas saultcd. for the
police arc assuming I'm this case that the
man who beat one of the women IN the
head was the man who killed Miss Nc
rhee and Miss Morton
All OF the assaults have the same char
acteristcs. In each case the criminal
used a wcapon which was probably made
Of iron. Moreover. the man who has
q attacked the women In Cambridge and |