The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-04

sioered or a murderous" nature, but
which had been taken from them.
ARREST OF MASON.
A number of letters received by the
state police concerning the movements OF
the prominent Back Bay man, who was
to set a watch over Mr.. Mason9s Ma sns ROuse Rouse
and this morning TO place the man under
arrest on suspicion.
his elegant Newbury street home by
State Officers Rhodes and Dunham. He
made no objection when the officers In
FORMED him OF their duty and accom-
the state house. On the way 1. is said
that Mr.. Mason admitted to the officers
that he was In Somerville on the night
on which Miss McPhee was fatally in1ur-
ed. At the State police station Mr. Mason
was subjected TO a searching examina-
ton.
VICTIM OF PARONOIA.
In police circles the opinion is freey
expressed that the man is a victim of a
form OF insanity known as paronoia
caused either by some past experience
over which he has brooded until IL mas
unbalanced his reason or by some de-
lusion as TO conditions surrounding him.
During the past months I'm which the
assault cases have been so frequent one
arrest and one conviction has been made
John L. Soderquist, a Boston janitor was
found guilty OF assault: upon Eva Crock
EFT, in Boston. in September He is now
serving sentence in the state prison. but
his friends are pointing out the fact that
the description OF Mason corresponds wltn
that of Soderquist very closely. and de-
velopments are being watched with deep
interest.
A HARVARD GRADUATE.
Alan Gregory Mason is 80 years of age.
He is the son of the founder of the firm
OF Mason a. Hamlin. organ and piano
manufacturers. He was graduated from
Harvard In 1856 and entered the firm OF
which his father was the head
Mental troubles developed within a few
years of his graduation and he went 10
the Mclean asylum for treatment After
time he showed Improvement and left.
A second time IL became necessary for
him To return, but he soon got better
In 1901, however. symptoms more serious
than any previous ones developed and his
mother and brother found II unsafe tn
be with him at their Newbury street
home
lie had threatened both his mother and
brother and petition was filed in the
probate court before Judge McKim TO
have him sent away on the ground OF
insanity
COMMITTED A THIRD TINE.
DIR. Jelley and his associate. pr Dewey.
put the man unoer observation 80 upon
their testimony Mason was sent 10
Waver.ey for the third time. The man
himself protested against the Injustice
and said That he was what lac called per
factly sane and would conduct himself
as well as possible while he was there
RE stayed SAX months
Since then he has been free and has
been stock tsker at the Mason e. Ham
lin Organ factory at Cambridge.
MaHon mas mother and three brothers.
Eumaru faaner Mason, ~sged 45. class OF
81 Harvard. Henry Lower. Mason. class
of ~. Harvard, and Daniel Gregory
Mason. class of 95. Harvard
Edward Palmer Mason Il the chief offi-
cial OF the Mason n Hamlin company,
and Henry Is 1T foreign representative.
While In college. Mason displayed
pronounced musical taste and wac Presi-
dent OF che Gee club. lie was also an
athlete OF some rotc.
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