The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-10

Somerville has almost always shown the
SAINT craiuhess or approach the same
capacity Tor stealing on his victim unde-
In delivering blow after blow eve, after
ne mas rendered his victim unconscious.
These characteristics alone have all
along indicated TO tho police that n the
slugger' was possessed mainly with the
idea To rob. he had also a mania for
striking and killing women
With all these considerations before
them the police are trying 10 reconcile
the alleged entrance OF both a white man
and negro into the case. Two or three
OF the women who have been assaulted
have said positively that they were struck
by a negro
sTRUCKyBY A NEGRO
One of these is Miss Ellen Murphy. who
was wounded month or more ago by a
man on Craigie street, Cambridge She is
certain her assailant was s negro On
Oct 40 Miss Susan O'Nell was assaulted
on Washington street, Someryille Miss
O'Neil Is unabie'to give any accurate de-
scriptior of he Gssailant but two young
men who went 10 her rescue say they re-
member the man very well.
III - said The description they give Is
not unlike Perry even 10 the kind Of cap
that was found In his house later.
In connection with the quest ton OF the
type OF weapon which has been, employed
In the assaults. ii has been brought to
the attention OF the police that Mason
has had charge OF selling the old iron
which accumulates at the pianoforte
manufacturing establishment OF the
Mason & Hamlin company In Cambridge
port. This iron consists Of iron bolts and
other broken pieces left over from the
making OF the pianofortes.
1t was limited by some OF the officers
who have been at work on various as
poets Of the mystery. that before long
the case will take on something OF the
characteristics of the Jane Toppan case,
which developed so many revolving de-
tails that II was impossible TO bring the
matter before the public in its true light
one OF the visitors at the East Cam
bridge jail yesterday was a man who
remembered having seen a suspicious
looking person following a woman in
Cambridge. -.-ason was again placed In
line with jail inmates. The visitor said
that none OF the men was the man he had
in mind.
WATCH IDENTIFIED.
Lieut. Eugene A. Carter OF the Somer-
vile police force, who returned yesterday
from Elizabeth. N. j.. stated that the
New Jersey jeweler who sold watch TO
Miss Agnes McPhee two years ago. posi-
lively identified the watch taken from
Jeweler Nemser.
II is said that the police also succeeded
In finding evidence that a negro was seen
In Waverly just before Miss Morton was
murdered. Then they spent a great deal
Of time in looking up the record OF young
Perry, and they say IL is n bad one.
He has been I'm the Lyman school. hav-
ing been convicted OF assault and robbery
upon Miss Maxwell. In the South End.
Also Ii has come TO light that on Sun
day. July q. Perry. who was then en-
ployed as the driver OF a mail wagon
from Cambridge to Boston, was missing
from his work. 1t was on this date that
one OF the various assaults upon women
was committed.
Joseph Nemser, the West End jeweler.
In whose store were found the watches
which Perry says he sold, made another
statement yesterday. In which he declar-
ed vigorously that Perry never sold him
the Morton or McPhee watches. Yester-
day Perry Identified Nemser as the man
through whom he had disposed of the
watches.
A pawnbroker identified Perry as tho
person who pawned bicycle some time
ago and gave his residence as "a Green
wich street. the same street and number
used by the person who pawned Miss
Mortons watch.