The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-09
C0LORED YOUTH
UNDER ARREST
Acknowledges Having Pawned
the Two Watches.
TELLS WHERE He GOT THEM
POLICE WOULD NOT GIVE TIE
MANS NAME.

d oSTON, Nov. S.-The STRANGE cs-.
ID involving the murder Of two
young women, Agnes AIcPhee aud
cara a. Morton, and the marderous
assaults upon many others, was a stem
nearer solution today, for late tonieht
the police We're given the custody OF
the young man who sold. or. as he
thought, pawned the watches which
were taken by the so-called Jack. the
Slugger," from the bodies OF his vic
Tins The person in custody is a light
complexiOned negro, Is years old. HIS
name Is George L o. Perry He has
confessed that he secured the watches
Mhlch ne sold from n man in the Cen
ITaI square, Cambridge. He has given
the name of this man to the uoifce
but the latter tonight refused to state
WheIner or not he gave the name Of
Alan u. Mason the prominent business
man who IS under detention ar the
Al1ddlesex county jail in Cambridge on
me charge or having murdered Miss
Clara a Morton.
While the statement of the boy clears
Mason OF having been the man who
personally paWned the watches. still
there was nothing in the boys state
ment issued tonight which either dis
proved or confirmed the theory that
Mason was the one who gave him the
watches to pawn.
Police Are Reticent.
The police were very reticent as 70
what further statements were made by
Perry, but there were rumOrs tonight
that ne had said that the man was a
white man.
The detention Of Perry came through
the Boston Children's Aid society. ard
Immediately through its officials,
Charles Bertwell and Samuel Lawrence.
These men were led to believe that
the handwriting of a young negro
whom they knew through the work or
the society was similar to that con
tanned on the records filled out by the
man with the stolen watches. The
state police were called in the young
man, who proved TO be Perry, was
found, and later he confessed to having
taken the watches from a man in Cam
bride, one a month ago, just after the
murder Of Miss McPhee, and the sec
ond last Sunday, the day following that
on which Miss Morton was murdered
in Waverly. At first the young man
denied that he had ever sold q watch,
but later made a statement which was
taken down by a stenOgrapher- The
boy was ehcn turned over to CHEZ
Wade of the state police and late to-
night the officers removed him to cam
bridge.
Name Not Disclosed.
The boy in his statement says that
he met the man, whose name is not
disclosed, in Central square, Cam
bridge, about four weeks ago. After
some conversation they began to talk
about watches, and the man gave the
boy a small watch. Perry pawned it
with Nemser and. meeting the man
again, gave him 20 cents of the pro-
ceeds- Last Sunday Ferry met him
again, as ne says. accidentally, and
again the man showed a watch. Perry
says the man seemed anxious to get
rid of il, so he took il and paWned it
with Nemser, getting 81 He says he
has not seen the man since The boy
is evidently a most valuable witness,
and the police are using every endeayor
to shield him from outside parties.
The detention Of Perry was the main
feature of the day, although during
the forenoon a SOmerville car conductor
stated that Mason was on his car last
Saturday night about 10 o'clock, or
shortly after the time Miss Morton was
murdered.
Mason viii have a hearing IN the
Cambridge district court on Tuesday.