The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-11-04
Leading ClH6and SocieHMaH
Charged Mn Murder Of
Tao Girls and ASSaHltfNg
Mary Others.
POAne Claim to Haze q Clear
Case Agafnsf Him-Sociak
Circles Arv D1fUsf0unaedaI
Developments.

BOSTON. Nov. Alan Gregory Ma
son. Harvard SO. one of the best known
men in his circles in this city. was ar
rested this morninv shortly after
O'Clock at his residence. SO Newbury
Street, in the Back Bay. charged with
the murder Of Clara A. Morton at
Waverley on Saturday.
The arrest is one Of the greatest sen
sations in social circles ever known in
Boston from the prominence CT the ae-
eused and the aendish crimes with
which he is charged.
Mason 20 a brotAe- es H. N. Mason,
vice president OF the Mason & HamlIn
Company. the great organ manufactur-
ers- It was known yesterday that Ma
son was under suspicion Of the State DO
lice and that mis- arrest was only a
question OF few hours. when a few
more circumstances connected with rha
murder were investigated. The arrest
came as shock TO the community and
( the great number OF friends Of the fam
lily. which is very prominent in Boston.
His Mind Affected.
For several years Mason has been
suffering from mental disease which
resulted in his becoming an inmate OF
the Mclean Hospital al waverIey. on
tho grounds Of which Clara A. Morton.
one Of the laundresses AT the institu-
tion. received blows over the head Sat
urday night which caused her death at
the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Many times since his release from the
hospital his family has been notified that
ne was dangerous man 10 be at large.
The State pOliee have found three OF
four people who say positively that they
saw Mason in Wayerley about dusk Sat
urday aight. or about three hours before
Miss Morton received her death blows.
and there are two employees OF the hos
2ital whose description of1a man ebay
saw running from the hos tai GROUNDS
after the assault on Miss Morton con-
vince tSs State officers thar Mason /.
the murderer Superintendent Elder. OF
the Meadow Brook reservation saw a
man coming from the direction OF the
pond on the reservation half an hour
after the assault on Miss Morton. whom
be describes as man similar in appear
ance 10 Mason. Tno State police believe
they can prove that ne was not az bis
home between the hours CT and 1920
o'clock Saturday night
Police Confident.
They believe. TOO. thai they VIII he
able 10 show where he got the weaosn
which killed Miss Morton. and from the
same source they think they viii IND
evidence that will aid them in provins
that their suspect gave Agnes McPhee
the blows on the head. in Cambridge. on
October ;. which caused her death At
the Cambridge Hospital. three DAYS
later.
They are satisfied also that they will
connect him with the assault on Katie
o'ConneH. Seigfried Gustafson. In Cam
bridge; jeanette Marshall. Brookline
and with several other less serious as
saults which have been made on Cam
bridge and SomerviIIe women within the
last few weeks.
f-AGANC NO4CAUS1NS.
The police suspicious against him
were aroused a few hours after The
death OF Miss Morton on Sunday. From
an express driver. named Page. who
passed considerable OF his time about
the railroad station at WaverIey. they
earned that Mason was IN waverIey
Saturday night at dusk. Then came the
statement OF the two hospital employees.
Horace Smith anu Samuel p. Brown
that the man they saw running from the
hospital grounds after the assault On
Miss Morton looked like Mason. and last
night the police could see no reason for
10 accept the statements OF
these men. after they had talked with
other persons who know Mason well. ana
Who said positively they saw him about
"averley about the time he was seen
by Mr. Page.
Not long ago he went into a pIaea
0f business on Waverley's main street
and asked one OF the young wNnen en-
oloyes 20 meet Fim at The Oaks. a short
distance from Eayerley's center. Shs
vent there. and, fortunately for herself
she thinks now. failed to meet him.
little later he called at the place in
which she is employed and verbally
abused her for not keeping the engage
nent
In number OF other places in which
girls are employed they say ne has been
4 frequent visitor lately and has been
very liberal with his money.