The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-10
MASON ACCUSED BY NEGRO
LATTER RECEIVED MURDERED
WOMEN'S WATCHES FROM HIM.
Positively Identities Beston Merchant
as the Man but There Is Good Reason
to Doubt His word-Accused Msr-
chant Says He Never saw the Boy
Latter Has Bad Rcputation-some

chant Says He Never saw the Boy
Latter Has BAD Rcputation-some
Suspicious Developments. II, ..t-..-s ~.
Boston. Nov. 9.--After having given
out last night the confession made by
the young negro, George T.. 0. Perry
with reference to selling the watches
taken from the murdered women, Miss
Clara A. Morton and Miss Agnes Nc
Phee, the police admitted to-day that
Perry declares that Alan G. Mason is
the man from whom he received these
articles, This admission Of the police
was made just before young Perry was
taken to the jail in East Cambridge,
where Mason, the prominent Boston
man under arrest on the charge Of Kill
ing Miss Morton, is confined pending a
hearing in the Cambridge court to-n,or-
row. Here in one Of the Jail corridors
Perry positively identified Mason as
the man who had given him the two
watches. Mason, by look or word, be-
trayed no knowledge Of having seen
Perry before. When questioned by
Sheriff Fairbairn, Mason merely said:
IT do not know this man; I never saw
him before" ....
During the day Chief Ryan and Of
ficer Argy of Belmont talked with Per-
ry and later State Officers Neal, Dun
ham, Dexter and others took Perry to
the Jail. The callers We're shown into
the room where Mason and six others
were in line. Perry walked straight up
to Mason, who was second in position,
and pointing his finger at him said:
This Is the man who gave me the
watches to pawn"
He was about to leave the room when
Sheriff Fairhairn asked him if he would
not like to talk with Mason in order
that he might make himself sure that
Mason was the man. .
Perry replied there was no need of
that as he knew who the man was and
had known him for a long time.
While sitting in the jail for an OPP
portunity to see Mason, Perry was
given a. Sunday paper to look at. He
seemed highly pleased with the big
headlines in which his name figured
promptly.
On being returned to his cell in the
police station. Perry was confronted by
three newsboys and they identified him
as another newsboy.
Wishing to have the negro photo
graphed the police made arrangements
for picture but Perry protested. He
declared he was held only as a witness
and that they had no right because he
was in their power to photograph him.
He moved his head continuously. The
plan was given up
1t was during an interview between
the negro and the officers that Clement
G. Morgan, a Cambridge lawyer, called
at police headquarters and demanded
admittance to the conference. He said
that he had been retained by the boys
mother as counsel. The lawyer was
finally allowed to enter the room and
there he gave expression very foreibly
to the method Of procedure of the Of
ficers.
Another visitor at the police station
later on in the day was Mr.. Ware, Ma
by middle aged woman. This woman
did not see Perry, but it was under
stood that she had been produced by
the defense in the hope Of showing Per-
ry Himself or some other negro was the
real Jack the Slugger.' She is one
of the women who was followed by a
negro in Cambridge several weeks ago.
The defense was proceeding to-day on
the theory that it was a negro who
murdered Miss Morton and Miss Nc
Phee, as well as having committed the
other murderous assaults.
Mr. Ware places no faith in the accu-
sation of Perry that it was Mason who
gave the boy the watches. He believes
that Perry had to account for his pos
session of the watches and the most
reasonable way was to say that they
Were given him by man already under
} arrest and by a man whom he had seen