Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-10
BAD FOR MASON.
Negro Who Sold the Morton and
McPhee Watches
Says They Were Given to Him by
Suspect Alan G. Mason.
Makes Positive Identification Of Mason
at the Jail.

Boston, Nov. 9.-After having
given out, last night. the confession
| made by the young negro, George L.
q. Perry, with reference to selling the
watches taken from the murdered wo-
men, Miss Clara A. Morton and Miss
Agnes McPhee, the police admitted
today, that Perry declares Alan G.
Mason is the man from whom he re-
| ceived these articles.
| This admission of the police was
made just before young Perry was
taken to the Jail in East Cambridge.
| where Mason, who is the prominent
| Boston man under arrest on the
charge of killing Miss Morton, is con-
fined pending a hearing i'm the Cam
| bridge court o the morrow. Here in
one of the Jail corridors Perry posi-
lively identified Mason as the man
who had given him the two watches.
Mason. by look or word, betrayed no
| knowledge of having seen Perry be-
fore. When questioned by Sheriff
Fairbairne, Mason merely said Il do
not know this man: l never saw him
before
Boston. Nov. 9.-George l.. o. Perry,
a 19-year-old colored boy who lives at
26k Grigg street, Cambridgeport, con-
fessed. last night, that he is the youth
who pawned the two watches stolen
from Clara A. Morton and Agnes Nc
Phee. after they had been murderous-
lily assaulted.
Perry is now under arrest at police
station 2. Cambridge. and will probably
be a witness at the hearing of Alan
q. Mason. next Tuesday.
Nemser. the secondhand dealer who
bought the watches, was not sure, when
confronted with the boy, that he was
the one from whom he bought the
watches, but the boy identified Mem
ser as soon as he entered the room at
the State House.
The boy made a full confession to
Charles w. Birtwell and Samuel c.
Lawrence. officers of the Children's Aid
Society. but in this statement the name
of the person from whom he obtained
the watches is not given. 1t is not
denied that the boy knew Mason. how
ever. and, while the state police will
not admit that Mason was the person
from whom the boy received the
watches. they do not deny this assump-
ton.
Young Perry has a bad record. He
has been in the Lyman school for boys
and other Institutions. Because of this
record he has been, to certain extent,
under the care of the Children's Aid
Society at different times.
Something i'm the descriptions printed
| in the newspapers, coupled with other
facts in their possession, led Mr.. Brit
well and Mr.. Lawrence to suspect
young Perry. They called on Chief
Wade of the state police and inspected
| the Signatures which had been LETT with
| the secondhand dealer when the
watches were sold.
Comparing these samples of hand
writing with a recent sample they had
| obtained from the lad. they came to the
| conclusion that the addresses were
written by him. They charged him
with selling the watches in question
At first he denied the charge, but he
subsequently admitted it.
After the officers of the Childrens
| Aid Society had obtained verbatim
statement of young Perry's connection
with the case they brought him to the
state House and turned him over to
state Officers Proctor and Letteney
He says he sold the first watch about
| a north ago. but with reference to the
second uatcn he says he did not receive
| il until last Sunday and that he did not
| sell il or offer il for sale until Monday
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