The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-10
LOOKS DARK FOR ALAN MASON.
NEGRO VINO PANIED WATCHES
~ THE CASE ARRESTED.

VNutT NekTOts NIsO VtN WIN
Mason-Ga,c the suspect ed Man Some
Of the Money Received From the
PawnbrOker Mason's brother Denies.
BosToS, Nov g.--The police have been
weaving strong net about Alan G Mason.
suspected of being Jack the Sluggrr'
and now in Jail on the charge of being
the murderer of Miss Clara A. Morton at
the Mclean Asylum in Wavcrly a week
ago last evening Tonight, because 81
the arrest Of colorod youth. the police are
satisfied that Mason will bc held for the
Grand Jury when his hearing on Tuesday
il ended
The arrest Of the colorcd lad whose name
is George q. l. Perry and whore age is 10.
took place yesterday afternoon ard he
frankly confessed that it was he who
pawred. not only the watch taken from
Mis- Morton, after she had been felled
by blows from some heavy weapon, but
also the watch stolen from Miss Agros
McPhee after her murderer had beaten her
into il ser sibility at Somerville on the night
Of Oct g. Both watches were sold 10
Joseph Nemser at IFS Cambridge street for
small sums
Perry said that both watches had been
given to him by Alan Mason tn be sold.
As the youth said he was well acquainted
with the man now in jail at Cambridge.
he was taken there this morning TO see II
he could identify Mason. Seven men
we're marched into the guard room. Forty
policemen and Perry were waiting The
seven were all prisoners and Mason vas
the second in the line. Without hesitation,
Perry walked up to Mason and said:
This il Mason"
Mason was cool and looked the negro
squarely in the eyes, Then he turned and
said:
Il don't know you. never saw you
before"
Perry is now held on the technical charge
Of stealing Masons bicycle, the wheel
having been found in another pawnshop
this afternoon, but the police say that
warrant will be applied for tomorrow
charging the colored youth with being
an accessory after the fact in the murder
Of Miss Morton, although Perry insists
that he knew nothing Of the murders Of the
two women. The police believe that Perry
was in Waverly the night of the murder,
and the Winchester nurse who saw col
ored youth get of a train at the station IN
that town half an hour before Miss Morton
was struck Is to be asked to look at Perry
to zee IL she can recognize him az the same
negro. 49,.
Perry has lived In Cambridge for two
weeks, within half mile of police head
quarters Previous to hat time he roomed
at several places in Boston. He hears a
bad reputation and last April was released
from the Lyman School for Boys, where
he had been sentenced 10 serve four years
term for larceny His capture IL due
primarily 10 Charles w Birtwell and SAM
uel G.. Lawrence of the Boston Children's
Aid Society, and il was TO these men that
he made his first confession.
As officers of the organization, Messrs
Birtwell and Lawrence have had consid-
cradle to do with Perry, who. they say,
has always been wicked youth. When
they read the description of the colored
lad who sold the Morton watch to Nemscn
and noticed the two addresses lac gave the
pawubroker. they called upon Chief Wade
Of the State police yesterday morning and
asked for further particulars. He per-
mtted them to look al the handwriting
of the person who sold the two watches
and they compared 1t with young Porry's
and Immediately decided that Perry was
the person being sought by the police,
The colored youth was arrested imme-
dia,ely At first he denied vigorously
having sold the watches Then he began
to hedge and finally told his entire story.
The confession was taken stenographi-
cally and places Nemser, the purchaser.
in bad light Ncmser said repeatedly
that a colorcd lad tried TO sell him the
Morton watch late on tie Saturday night
that the woman wac killed, but Perry de-
clares that he did not get the watch from
Mason until Sunday afternoon. Nemser
also insisted that the person who sold him
the MCPhee watch vas a white man. After
making his confession Perry was taken to
Nemser's store and identified the latter as
| the person to W HON he sold both watches.
Nemser was dumiounded and said that
Perry was Or 's>ed so differently the last
| time that he saw him that ne didn't think
| he would have known III
Perry talked freely 10 the police about
| Mason and IL all he said about the sus-
| pected man II true Mason u degenerate
| of the lowest type, Young Perry says he
has known Mason for about year. ana
| that several other Colored youths have
! been on intimate terms with him, saying
| they met frequently in Cambridge and
| Cambridgeport He has not told of his
| first meeting with Mason or of how they
came to meet, but be- SAYS he and Mason
| / never kucW that Mason was man
| with murdcrous ideas" Perry said 10 one
! Of the Stat. officers who arrested him,
! and tell YOU honestly that If had known
! ANYTHING about the murders of ihcs" girls.
| or had SUSPECTED him, | uov would have
| gone near the pawnhrokcrs with the
/ wat Cho-.
| From the time that lao Zee, ived the Nor
| ton watch On last Sundly, Perry says he
| has not seen Mason and ~" insists that unit!
Yesterday ho did not think Tint Mason
| hid been responsible fer tive crime" Perry
| SAYS tina, until this week h" has seen Mason
| several times IN some weeks, and he asserts
that he never thought that Mason made
any secret Of his intimacy with him and
| hi other alcg d associates Mason met
! item often AT night IN cambridge, Perry
| says. and some times they saw him during
| the day about the factory Of the Hamlin and
| Russoll Organ Company, The hoy says he
| believes that Mason must have been familiar
| with pawnpruh"r shops, rs ono" when hey
| had a conversation, Mason said that he had
| pawncd certain article himself.
| State officer Dexter found a negro in
| the West End ld-t night Mho says that
| Mason very frequently N.u"d ia" steamers
| Of thr United Fruit Company TO -ce some
| of the Colurcd membvrs OF the crew. Not
| long ago, this man says, COlCred man.
| " hose name the police will not give out,
| rushed into saloon on Cambridge street
| eXCit cdly and called for drink