New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-09
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Boston, Nov. Slate last night George L. q.
Perry. a mulatto. of No. 261a Griggs-st. Cam
bridge. was arrested and is said to have admit
ted that he sold the watches figuring in the
Mason case. to Nesmer. the pawnbroker. Perry
is twenty-four years old.
Boston Nov. S-Both the State and city police
have been working with great diligence on the
Jack the Slugger' case to-day They have three
things under consideration one is comparison Of
the handwriting entries in Nemser's books of the
sales of the McPhee and Morton watches with
Mason's handwriting. and search for any other
entries in the books in this handwriting: another
is a further investigation of the story OF the Win
chester nurse. who saw a negro go TO Waverley on
Saturday under peculiar circumstances. Still an
other investigation is that Of the statement Of J.
Hampden Cranbrook. solicitor for the Carney Hos
pital. who says he Mason on the corner of
Broadway and Cross-st.. Somerville. between lOl5
and 1870 o clock on Saturday night.
This statement which corroborates the statement
OF the prisoner himself that last Saturday night
he took q car TO Somerville in a direction utterly
different from Waverly. where the murder Of
Clara Morton vas committed. was made yesterday.
He did not know Mr.. Mason. and had seen him
only that one time. but observed him particularly
because Of his agitated and peculiar manner. Mr.
Cranbrook was taken 10 the East Cambridge Jail
late yesterday afternoon and asked 10 wait in a
room with FIVE six other men until Sheriff Fair
BARN could call the prisoner from MS cell
You need not go for him." cried Mr.. Cranhrook
lust as the Sheriff was at the door: the is
here" With that he clspped his hand on Mason's
shoulder and the Sheriff came back. He was right.
These statements furnish a strong link TO the
chain Of evidence by which the family expects 70
clear the prisoner from ali suspicion OF guilt. T. P.
Mason and Henry {. Tyler have already declared
that he with them until $3.50 o'clock, and Mrs
Mason his mother that he came 10 bid her good
night before going out a. go. This statement
utterly conflicts with the testimony of g f. Brown,
che conductor. who says Mason was his only pas
thai place l0:2s Brown. however. is positive OF
his statement.
This mass Of contradictory evidence is compli-
cated still further in another aspect Of the case
IN the statement of Nemser. who Is said TO have
picked out Mason yesterday in the Jail a man
who had done some business IN his shop within a
months time. He positive. stated yester-
5ay that Mason did not sell him either 'he McPhee
on the Morton watch. but he is equally positive,
according 20 later information. which is. however.
not wholly trustworthy that he had been In his
shop sell something. What that something is
does not remember.
An examination OF Nemser's books by the police
tonight has convinced them that Mason old not
make any entry that place. Though NemseT
states with great positiVeness that the man who
SOLD the McPhee watch white and the one
who sold the Morton watch mulatto the
hsndWritings of John Miller and John Johnson.
they signed themselves. bear strong points OF
similarity and are not the work Of iiterate