The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-08
Mystery Around Boston Case
 Deepens EV0Iy Day
GOVERNOR IS INTERESTED
Latest Feature Is Arrest On Suspicion Last Night at Watertown of Young Mulatto-Jeweier Could
 Not Identify Mason.

velopments 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 Satur- l day, there are several striking details No further evidence. however, has been addueed which tends to ineriminate in the case of Alan G. Mason, the member of a prominent family. who Is under ar rest on the. charge of murder. In fact, the police were inclined tonight to the belief that Mason stood out clearer in the ] light of sn innocent man, because of the failure of Joseph Nemser, the jeweler, to identify Mason as the man who had of fered for sale Miss Morton.s watch last Saturday night.
 l An important detail connection with the disposal of the watches was the es- tablishment tonight that the signatures on the checks kept on file by the jeweler l for Identification of persons who offered him articles were written by one and the same person. This confirms the story l that the two women were murder by the 1 same man.
 Another late incident was the arrest on suspicion tonight at Watertown of a l young mulatto. He was brought here, 1 but Jeweler Nemser failed to identify him. The man was released. ] So serious has the case become that Governor Crane has interested himself and looked over the scene of the mur- der while on visit today to Waverly.
 During the day the attention of Chief Wade was called to a published interview between Nemser and reporters in which l Nemser said that he was paid to stick 1 to his story and that a mulatto sold the watch. The chief said:
 Story Is All 5osh.
 That is perfectly outrageous. The story is all bosh. Nemser was told that he would be paid for closing up his shop, and for going about with the officers to | help them on the case. He will be reim- l bursed 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 had said"
 Chief Wades statement that Nemser ! hardly knew what he was saying, seems to have been borne out by the fact that i he told the police positively today that the man who pawned the McPhee watch was a white man, and later admitted that he might have been a colored man, ] in fact, he rather thought he was. l similar change of opinion was noted | in connection with the man with whom Nemser claims tried to pawn the Morton watch on Saturday night. At first the pawnbroker was very positive that it was a negro. Then he said he was of light complexion and might have been mu- latto. Later he admitted he might have been a Sapiard or an Italian. The story that a strange negro was in Wavely Saturday evening was made known by a woman who lives in Winches- ter and who, at Porter's station, in Cam bridge, on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine railroad, saw a negro purchase a ticket for Wave1y
 Woman's Name Withheld.
 State Detectives Hammond and Dexter went to Winchester tonight. and togeth- CT with Chief of Police Mcintosh inter- viewed the woman. who is a nurse Her name at present is withheld. She says that Saturday evening she started for Weston and waited in the Cambridge station for her train from 7:30 until D. 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 positive she could identify the three men wherever she might see them.
 She said the white men were looking at photographs and one of them said: Well, we might as well buy ticket"
 They purchased a single ticket to Wa verly and this ticket the nurse says, she saw handed to the negro by one of the white men, as they passed out of the de- pot, although the white men and the negro had previously manifested no sign of recognition.
 The negro took the same train that she did and she saw him alight at Waverly. This places the negro in Waverly at SIS or about three-quarters of an hour be- fore the assault upon Miss Morton was committed.
 The description of the three men, as given by the nurse, is considered i'm portant. That of tha colored man agrees with the description of the negro accom- paning the man who pawned Miss Nor toms watch on Monday morning.
 Iron Bar Found.
 An iron bar was found today at the edge of Handyside pond, in Waverly, to which, 1t is claimed by some the mur- derer of Saturday went to wash his hands. The bar Is two feet long ana a little rusty. It was on the edge of the pond, and the drawing off of water brought it to light.
 During the afternoon a Mrs. Savers of Watertown called at the Cambridge | wanted to see Allan G. Mason, because she believed that from the pictures which had appeared in the newspapers that lie was the man who had annoyed her last summer in a library room in this city. Mason again was placed in a line with other inmates of the jail and with them subjected to a rigid scrutiny. As in the case of Nemser's attempt of identifica- ton, Mrs. Savers was allowed to give no sign or utter no word in the pres ence 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. The alleged Identification by Mrs. Savers adds an- other feature to the case. as it recalls another Jack the slugger' case in which John Soderquest was convicted of as- sault with intent to kill on Miss Roc- quett on August 30 in the same library building-referred to by Mrs. Savers. MT. 1 Soderquest was the janitor at the build | ing, and for the crime fha man Ia nom