Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-08
alan MASON CASE.
INTERESTING .avELoPsfE,
WHICH PUZZLE The POLICE.
YOUNG MULATTO SUSPECTED.
Mason Stands ont Clearer Than

Ever In the Light Of All INNOCENT
Man-No Further Evidence Against
Him.
BOSTON. MASS, November I'm the
developments 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 ,,averly. last
Saturday, there are several striking de-
tails. No TURNER evidence, however, has
been adduced, which tends to incriminate
in the case Allan G. Mason, the member
of a prominent family, who Is under ar
rest on the charge of murder IN 1act'
the police are inclined to the belief that
Mason stood out ciearer In the light OF
an innocent man, because OF the failure
Of Joseph Nemser, the West-End JeWelier,
to identify Mason a the man who mad Oh
fereu Tor SAFE MISS MOrton'S watch last
Saturday night.
An important detail in connection with
the disposal OF the watch was the estab-
lishment tonight that the signatures Oh
the checks kept on Tie hy the JeWeilei
for identification OF the persons VINO OF
fered him the articles, were written by
one and the same person This confirms
the story that the two women were muir
dered by the same man.
Another late incluent was the arrest
on suspicion Tonight at WATERFOWL OF q
young mulatto. He was brought mere,
but .eweller Nemser failed identity
him. The man was released.
GOV. CRA4> e INTERESTED.
So serious has the case become, that
n =, i,for
and oohed over the scene or the muroer
while on a visit to \vaverly.
BOSTON,, November prompted by
the linulns in a pawnshop hele of the
watches OF Agnes N1c1 hoe AID lara "A
Morton, The Two women VINO nave Deeu
murdered in assault cases in tbs vicinity,
the ponce are pressing with al their GU
ergies to pace, if possible, the RESPONSE
bility for the crimes.
The pawnbroker, Joseph Nemser, IN
whose store both the McPhee and Morton
watches were found, was at police head
quarters to-day, and repeated his story
about the walcneS after which he started
tor the East Cambridge Jail to see Ma
son for the purpose of Identifying him.
captain Dusan, of the Huredu OF Crlm1-
nal Investigation, said that Nemser fdu
insisted tina it was a mudtto who offered
Miss Morton Natcn for sale saturday
night and that 1t was the same lndl-
vluual VINO brought the watch to the sore
on MONDAY ana SUlI IL Tor 81. he IGr-
ther stated that another negro, oiue1
heavier aid Lalher tan the muldlto'
Joined the iatier j0st as he was .ecelF-
ing the money. An apparent coincidence
was noted to-day in C-nn-Cton W.th the
pa awning of both the .Acrhte anu Morton
Watches in that the address CIV en- IN me
McPhee case was q Grove Street and IN
the Morton ca Sc the same number Is LII
Greenwich street was gwen.
In probing the case at WaVerly the
State police have found evidence that
Mason mad maze at least two attempts
TO nave women meet MN at night a.
The Oaks" a section OF the Metropolis
tan Park reservation not far from the
Mclean insane Asylum,- where Mason
was a patient, and on the grounds OIL
which Miss Morton. was killed.
Nemser failed to identify Mason AL
the Jail Mason was placed among SIX
olher men and Ntmser carefully scrutl
nized eacn one. He picked out one mai
as the person VINO pawned the watch
but it was not Mason.
The negro who mas charge OF the house
where the Masons live was ABOUT his
work as usual to-day, although the ponce
claimed that he had gone away. He salo
I'd -udS, tildl !lS NtlS al ms Po'e =
ana could have been found there py lhe
police if they had looked for him.
PAWNBROKER CONFUSED.
During the Gay The attention OF Chief
Wade was called TO q published interview
between NemSer and reporters, IN when
Nemser said that he was paid TO Suck 10
his story and that a mulatto sold the
watch. The Chief said: That is perfect
~ outrageous. The story is all bosh.
Nemser was told that he would be palo
for closing up his shop and Tor gong
about with the officers 10 help them Wiz
The case. He will be reimbursed also tor
what he gave for the two watches lie is
poor Jew and very much excited, and
! he told me that he was besieged by sc
many reporters that he did not know
what he was saying, or had said.'
Chief Wades statement that Nenlsel
hardly knew what he was saying seems
to have been borne out by the fact that
he told the police positively to-day that
the man who pawned the McPhee watch
was white man, and later admitted that
he might have been a colored man; in
fact he rather thought he was SINH
lar change of opinion was noted in con
nection with the man, whom Nemser
claims. tried to pawn the Morton watch
on Saturday night AT first the pawn
negro Then he said he was Of light. co1n-
plexion and might have peen a mulatto
Later he admitted that he might have
been a Spuniard or an Italian.
STRANGE NEGRO IN W-AVERLEY.
The story that d strange negro was III
Waverley Saturday evening. was made
known by q woman who lives IN Win
chester. and who at Porter's Station,
Cambridge, on the Fitchburg Division OF
the Boston and Main railroad. saw
negro purchase ticket for Waverley
State Detectives Hammond and Dexter
went to Winchester tonight. and Il,
cetfer with Chief-of Police Mcintosh in
1eryiewed the woman, who is nurs..
Her name at present is Withheld. She
saws that Saturday evening she started
for Weston, and waited in the Cambridge
station for her train from 7:50 P. NJ. unti,
S P. NJ. During this time she had an ex-
ce!ent opportunity of observing the ac-
tons OF two white men and negro who
were at the station. and she told the
officers that she was positive she could
identify the three men, wherever she
might see them. The two white men
were looking at photograph, when one
of them said: Well. we might as well
buy ticket" They purchased single
trip ticket to Waverley, ana this ticket,
the nurse saws she saw handed to the