The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-08

nOSTON, Nov. I'm the develop
ments of the day in the Mason
case, which has puzzled the police
OF Boston since Miss clara A Morton
was struck down and killed in Waverly
last Saturday, there are several strik-
ing details. No further evidence. how
ever, has been adduced which tends to
incriminate in the case Alan c. Mason,
the member of prominent family who
is under arrest. on the charge of murder.
In fact the police are inclined to the
belief that Mason stood out clearer in
the light of an innocent man because of
the failure of Joseph Nemser, the west
end jeweler, TO identify Mason as the
man who had offered for sale Miss Nor
tons watch last Saturday night
An important detail in connection
I with the disposal of the watches was
= the establishment tonight that the sig
natures on the checks kept on file by
the jeweler for the identification Of
the person who offered him the watches
were written by one and the same per-
son. This confirms the story that the
two women were murdered by the same
man. Another late incident was the
arrest on suspicion tonight at Water
town of young mulatto. He was
brought here. but Jeweler Nemser
failed to identify him. The man was
released.
Intense Interest.
So serious has the case become that
Governor Crane has interested himself,
and he looked over the scene OF the
murder while on a visit today to
Waverly.
Prompted by the finding in
pawnshop here of the watches of
Agnes McPhee and Clara Morton,
the two women who have been
murdered in this city, the police are
pressing with all their energy TO place,
sT.fgf for no
crimes. It has been learned that
negro employed by the Mason family
has gone away from the city and the
police cannot ascertain where he is. 1t
was a negro who pawned the Morton
watch The pawnbroker. Joseph Mem
ser. in whose store both the McPhee
and Morton watches were found, was
at police headquarters today and re-
peated his stories about the watches,
after which he started for the East
Cambridge jail to see Mason for the
purpose of identifying him.
Captain Dugan of the bureau of
criminal investigation said that Mem
ser had insisted that it was rnulatto
who pawned Miss Morton,s watch Sat
urday night and that il was the same
Individual who brought the watch in
the store on Monday and sold it for 81.
He further stated that another negro,
older heavier and darker than the mu-
latto. Joined the latter just as he was
receiving the money.
A Coincidence.
= An apparent coincidence was noted
today in connection with the pawning
of both the McPhee and Morton
watches in that the address given in
the McPhee case was % Grove street,
and in the Morton case the same num-
Der, %, in Greenwich street, was given.
In probing the case at Waverly, the
state police have found evidence that
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to have women meet him at night at
THE Oaks section of the Metropol-
- 1tan park reservation not far from the
Mclean insane asylum, where Mason
was a patient. and on the grounds
where Miss Morton was killed.
Nemser failed to identify Mason. At
the jail Mason was placed among six
other men and Nemser carefully scru-
tinized each one. He picked out one
man as the person who Dawned the
watch, but it was not Mason.
The negro who has charge of the
house where Mason lives was about
his work as usual today. although the
police claimed he had gone away. He
said today that he was at his post yes
terday and could have been found
there by the police if they had looked
for him
Pawnbroker Excited.
During the day the attention of Chief
Ware was called to a published inter
view between Nemser ana reporters, in
which Nemser said that he was paid
TO stick to his story that a mulaJto sold
the watch. The chief said:
THAT is perfectly outrageous. The
story is all bosh. Nenser was told that
he would be paid for closing up his
shop and for going about with the Of
ncers TO help them on the case. He
viii be reimbursed also for what he
gave for the two watches He is a
poor Jew and very much excited, and
he told me that he was besieged by so
many reporters that he did not know
what he was saying or what he had
said
Chief Wares statement that Nemser
hardly knew what he was saying seems
TO have been borne out by the fact that
he told the police positively today that
the man who pawned the McEhee
watch was a white man, and later adj
mitted that he might have been coll
ored man-in fact, he rather thought
he was.
A similar change of opinion was
noted in connection with the man who
Nemser says tried to pawn the Nor
ton watch on Saturday night At first
the pawnbroker was very positive that
1T was a negro. Then he said that he
was of light complexion and might
have been mulattO. Later he admit
ted that he might have been a Span
lard or an Italian.
A Strange Negro.
The story that a strange negro was
in Waverly Saturday was made
known by a woman who lives in Win
chester. and who, at Porter's station
Cambridge, on the Fitchburg division
of the Boston g. Maine railroad, saw a
negro purchase a ticket for Waverly.
WADSWORTH MAY BI