Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-11-08

He Rode from WaverIey at 1923 p.
m. on the Night of Miss Morton's
Murder Comes Forward and ldenti.
fies Prisoner as His Lone Passenger
-Evidence Came When State OH.
GERS Thought It Impossible to Hold
Mason--New Evidence which Com.
bats Alibi Set Up by Prisoners Rel.
atives-WiIi Have Hearing Tuesday.
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. G.-Alan G.
Mason was arraigned before Judge
Almy yesterday and held Oh the charge
of murder until next Tuesday. He EN-
tered plea OF not guilty. AS Is sual
with so serious Il charge, he was held
without bail, and was committed to the
East Cambridge Jail.
The action was complete surprise,
for everybody not intimately connected
with the case expected that the prisoner
would be discharged. The definite
statement was made in all the rorn-
ing papers that Officer Dunham Of the
state police would ask for his releuse,
on the ground that the suspicious
against him had not been substan-
tiated. The presence of Dunha III in the
court room at the time of the case
was called strengthened this feeling.
But shortly after court opened Durham
had conference with Judge Almy, at
which the prisoners counsel was pres
ent, and after 1t was finished Durham
swore to the complaint, as follows:
George Dunham of the petition on
Nov. 5, 1902, on oath complains that
A. G. Mason did assault and beat Clara
II. Morton with intent to murder her
by striking her on the head with a
weapon unknown, and by such assault
and beating did kill and murder said
Morton"
This unexpected turn of affairs is the
result Of new evidence, which, accord
ing to the state police, greatly strength
ems their case. Though they will not
tell as yet the definite nature Of the
evidence Dunham told reporter tlat
1t relates to the prisoners presence in
Waverley at the time the crime was
committed. or this evidence the Off
GERS have had IAN inkling," as Mr..
Durham expressed it, for some time.
but they We're not able to run It down
until late Tuesday night.
Though the officer would not state
definitely what the evidence was. it Is
understood from other reliable sources
that it is the testimony of Il cOuduc,Or,
Charles II. Brown, who runs On the
electric cars between Boston and
Waverley. He says that n man boarded
his car just before it left Waverley at
1928 O'Clock, who attracted his Lttcn-
tion by his nervousness and his great
desire to talk. When the conductor
was given glimpse of Mason in the
court room yesterday he Is said to b,!ve
identified him at once.
His story, If true, contradicts the
statement of the prisoner that after
leaving his house at 0:3O lie took a
train in the Boston subway for Sullivan
square, rode out on the cars. as was
his almost nightly habit, to Hlyniard
square, Somerville, and returned home
about midnight.
! The states other two witnesses, said
by the morning papers to have gone
back ON their original statements, were
declared by Durham to hold to their
testimony. This testimony that they
saw Mason in Waverley about 8 o'clock,
Just after the murder--conhicts with
statements of the prisoners brother,
Edward p. Mason, president of the
Mason & Hamlin Organ company. He
has declared to the police that he was
playing chess with Henry G. Tyler at
his mothers house in Newbury street,
and that his brother was with him, an
interested spectator of the game, until
$50 o'clock Of the evening in questi ~
In this Tyler and MasOn's mother have
| borne him out.