The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-05


Police Say They Can Prove He Killed
Miss Morton, and Connect Hin With
Assaults on Others.
Boston. Nov. ALAN Gregory Mason
of 80 Newbury street was arrested
this morning on suspicion of being the
long -lOoked-fOr '.Jack-t he-SlUgger, 4"
who is supposed TO have committed
murderous assaults on women in Cam
bridge and vicinity, during the last
few months, and whose latest victim
died on Sunday from injuries received
from an assault committed in the Nc
Lean asylum grounds at Waverly, Sta
urday. Mr.. Mason was taken to the
headquarters of the state police. where
he is held for further developments. He
claims that he can prove an alibi.
For several years he has been suffer-
ing from a mental diseases which re-
suited in his becoming an inmate of the
Mclean hospital at Waverly, on the
grounds of which Miss Clara A. Nor
ton. one of the laundresses at the in
stitution. received blows over the head.
Saturday night, which caused her
death
Many times since his release from
the hospital, his family has been no
titled that he was a dangerous man
to be at large. The state police have
found three or four people who say
positively that they saw him in Wav-
erly about dusk, Saturday night, or
about three hours before Miss Morton
received her death blows, and there
are two employees of the hospital
whose description of a man they saw
running from the hospital grounds
after the assault on Miss Morton, con-
vince the state officers that the man
they suspect is the murderer.
Superintendent Elder of the Meadow
Brook reservation, about a quarter OF
mile from the Mclean hospital, saw
man coming from the direction Of the
pond on the reservation half an hour
after the assault on Miss Morton, whom
he describes as a man similar in APP
/ pearance to Mason.
The state police believe they car
prove that Mason was not at home be-
tween 5 and 1890 o'clock Saturday
night. They believe, too, that they viii
be able to show where he got the weap-
on which killed Miss Morton. and from
the same source they think they viii
| find evidence that will aid them In
proving that their suspect gave Agnes
| McPhee the blows on the head in Cam
| bridge. October 8, which caused hel
death at the Cambridge hospital three
! days later.
They are satisfied also that they will
connect him with the assault on Miss
Katie OConnell, June II, at Walker
and Cambridge streets, Cambridge
with the assault on Sigrid Gustavson
July II, at Chestnut and Magazine
streets, Cambridge; with the assault
| on jeanette Marshall, August 8, on Cen
ter street, Brookline, and several other
| less serious assaults which have been
made on Cambridge and Somerville wo-
men within the past few weeks.
! Mason was arrested at his residence
where he has lived with his mother
Mrs. Henry Mason. He is about thir-
| ty-eight years old, short of stature and
| thin. with a black mustache. He is a
graduate of Harvard. elias of SO, vel
known both ism Cambridge and in Bos-
ton, and is a member OF several exclu-
sive social clubs.
| He was not alone a member of col
| 1ege societies He was leader and a
recognized moving spirit during the
latter part of his college course. Be
sides mother. Mason has three broth
ers-Edward Palmer Mason, aged for
| ty-five years class Of 81, Harvard;
Henry Lowell Mason, class of 'SS, Har.
ward and Daniel Gregory Mason, class
of '9S, Harvard.
Edward Palmer Masons is the chief
official of the Mason & Hamin COM
pany. and Henry is his foreign repre-.
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