Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-08
MASON MYSTERY INCREASES
Identified in New Case, While Old
Case Halts.
sHADowED JACK THE SLUGGtR ALWAYS
suspect aud criminal same
Places and Police suppose with
out PROOF thRt one Must
Have Becn Other.

BOSTON, Nov. while no direct evil
deuce has been found duplicating Adam
j. Mason with the murder Of Miss Clara
Morton, numerous facts have come to light
connecting him. Indirectly, with various
Jack the slugger crimes.
At the same time the police are again
beginning to doubt his connection with the
charge on which be has been arrested,
because the pawnbroker to whom the MUIR
dered woman's watch was sold fails TO
Identify him.
same one urder both.
The signatures OF the checks kept on file
by this pawnbroker to identify the per-
sons who pledged him the articles we're
written by the same person, thus sup
porting the theory that Miss McPhee and
Miss Morton we're murdered by the same
man.
Another late incident was the arrest on
suspicion tonight at Watertown Of n young
mulatto. He was brought here. but the
pawnbroker. Nemser. failed to identify him
and he was released.
An apparent coincidence was noted in con-
nection With the pawnlng OF the watches In
that the address given in the McPhee case
was 90 Grove street and in the Morton case
the same number, 23, In Greenwich street,
was given.
In probing the case at waverly the state
police have found evidence that Mason had
made at least two attempts to have women
meet him at night at THE Oaks a section
! OF the Metropolitan park reservation not
far from the Mclean Insane asylum, where
Mason was a patient, and on the grounds OF
| which Miss Morton was killed.
Nemser visited the Jail during The day,
-. at \ a--Aaa H-MA- AhA AoHl
Mason was placed among six other men
and Nemser carefully s~crutinized each one.
He picked out one man as the person who
pAwned the watch, but 1t was not Mason.
The negro who has charge Of the house
where the Masons live was about his work
as usual today, although the police claimed
he had gone away. He said that he was
at his post yesterday and could have been
found there IL the police had looked for
him.
Identified in other Case.
During the afternoon a Mrs. Sayers called
ut the Jail and identified Mason as the man
who annoyed her last summer in a city
library, This is chiefly important because
the Jack the Slugger case in which Miss
r.. A.. Soderquist was assaulted took place
in the same library. Miss Soderquist was
| attacked III the Sumb mduueI do MISE
Burton and Miss McPhee
The attention OF the chief Of police was
called to an interview with Nemser in the
local papers. In, 1t Nemser said he was
paid to stick 10 his story, but a mulattc
had sold the watch
THAT is perfectly outrageous" said the
chief. The story is all bosh. Nemser was
told he would be paid for closing his shop
and going about with the ofhcers. He will
be reimbursed 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 he did
not know what he was saying or what he
had said" ras 81.
'Nemser's hysterical condition is alst
shown by The fact that 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 s
colored men, in fact he rather though he
was. A similar change Of opinion was
noted with regard to, the man he claims
tried to pawn the watch. on Saturday night
At first he was positive it was a negro
Then he said he was of light complexion
and might have been a mulatto. Later he
admitted he might have been a Spaniard OF
an Italian.
The story that a strange negro was in
Waverly on Saturday evening was made
known by a woman who saw a negro pur-
chase a ticket for Waverly.
Two detectives tonight interviewed this
woman, who is a nurse, She says she was
at the Cambridge station from 1880 until
s on Saturday night!
During this time she had excellent oppor.
tunity Of observing the actions of two white
80 - ~ .A~tgo.
The two white. men were looking at a pho.
tograph, when one Of them said: well
we might as we'll buy a ticket"
They purchased a single ticket to Wa.
verify and handed it to the negro, although
previously. they had shown no sign OF rec
ignition. -
This places the negro in WaverIy at 81;
or about three quarters OF an hour before
the assault on Miss Morton
The descriptions Of the three men are
considered important. That of the colorec