The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-08
INTENSE INTEREST IN
MORTON MURDER CASE
Boston Police Incline to the Belief That Mason Is
Not Guilty of the Crime.
Every Possible Clue Being Worked Out But So Far the Mystery
Remains UnraVeed.

State Detectives Hammond and Dex-
ter went to Winchester tonight and,
together with Chief of Police Mcintosh.
interviewed the woman. who is nurse.
Her name at present is withheld. She
says that Saturday evening she started
for Weston and waited in the Cam
bridge station for her train from 1870
until p. m. During this time she had
an excellent opportunity of observing
the actions of two white men and a
negro who were at the station, and she
told the officers today that she was pos
tive she could identify the three men
wherever she might see them.
The two white men were looking at
a photograph: then one of them said:
well, we might as we'll buy a ticket"
Ticket For Waverly.
They purchased a single ticket for
Waverly and this ticket, the nurse
says, she saw handed to the negro by
one of the white men as they passed
out of the station. although the white
men and the negro had previously man
ifested no sign of recognition. The ne
gro took the same train that she did,
and she saw him alight at WaverIy.
This places the negro in WaVerly at
S:13, or about three-quarters of an
hour before the assault upon Miss Nor
ton was committed.
The descriptions of the three men. as
given by the nurse, are considered i'm
portant. That of the colOred man
agrees with the description of the ne
gro who accompanied the man who
pawned Miss MOrton's watch on Mon
day morning.
An iron bar was found today at the
edge of Handyside pond, in Waverly,
to which, it is claimed by some, the
murderer of Saturday night went to.
wash his hands. The bar is two feet
long and little rusty. 1t was on the
edge of the pond. and the drawing off
OF the water brought it TO light.
Identified Mason.
During the afternoon a Mrs. Sayres
from Watertown called at the Cam
bridge jail and told Sheriff Fairburn
that she wanted to see Alan G. Mason,
because she believed from the pictures
which had appeared in the newspapers
that he was the man who had an
noyed her last summer in a library
room in this city. Mason was again
placed in line with other inmates of
the Jail, and with them was subjected
to rigid scrutiny. As in the case of
Nemser's attempt at identification,
Mrs. SayreS was allowed to give no
sign or utter no word in the presence
of the men before her, but when she
returned to the sheriff's Office from the
jail she declared that the fourth man
in line was the man who had annoyed
her The fourth man was Mason.
This alleged Identification by Mrs
Sayres adds another feature to the
case, as it recalls another Jack the
Slugger" case in which John Sober
quest was convicted of assault with in
tent to kill on Miss r. A. RoQuett on
Aug. 10 in the same library building
referred TO by Mrs. Sayres Sober
quest was the janitor of the building,
and for the crime the man is now serv-
ing sentence of seven years. The be-
lief was expressed at the time that
Soderquest pleaded guilty that he was
responsible for the many mysterious
assaults on young women in Cam
bridge and Brookline, who were beaten
with some iron weapon just as Miss
Morton and Miss McPhee were. State
police are now investigating the story
of Mrs. Sayres in comparison with the
more important details of the Sober
quest affair.