Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-10
Evidence AccumuIating
As to Three Foul
Murders.
WATCH SELLER FOUND
Says He Got Them From
Accused, Whom He
Picks From Seven.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 10.-George
L. 0. Perry, negro who admits that
he pawned watches taken from Clara
Morton and Agnes McPhee. who were
murdered in Waverly and Somerville
last month, was today ordered held
as a witness against Mason.
Boston, Nov 1O.-After having given
out saturday night the confession made
by Il young negro. George L. o. Per-
ry, with reference to selling the
watches taken from the murdered
women = Miss Clara \. Morton and
Miss Agnes McPhee-the police admit
ted yesterday that Perry declares that
Alan q. Mason is the man from whom
he received these articles. This adj
mission of the police was made just
before young Perry was taken to the
Jail in East Cambridge, where Mason,
the prominent Boston man under ar
rest on the charge of killing Miss Nor
ton, is confined pending Il hearing in
the Cambridge court. In one of the jail
corridors Perry positively identified
Mason as the man who had given him
the two watches. Mason, by neither
look nor word. betrayed any knowl-
edge of having seen Perry before.
How He Came Into the Case.
Perry is aged about 10 and of light
complexion. The detention of Perry
l.. o. Perry. The detention of Perry
came through the Boston Childrens
Aid society. and Immediately through
two of its ollicials-Charles W. Brit
well and Samuel c. Lawrence. These
I.,l fO hat q hand
writing of a young negro whom they
knew through the work of the So
ciety was similar to that contained Oh
the cards filed out by the man who
sold the stolen watches The state po
lice We're called in; the young man,
who proved TO be Perry, was found,
and later he confessed to have taken
the watches from a man in Cambridge,
one a month ago. just after the muh
der of Miss AIcPhee, and the second
last Sunday, the day following that
upon which Miss Morton was MUIR
dered in Waverley.
Met a Man Who Gave Him Watches.
The boy III his statement says that
he met the man who gave him the
watches in Central square. Cambridge,
about four weeks ago. After some con
NeESdIlOH tueH utSau ~ tSilk
watches. and the man gave the boy a
small watch. Perry pawned it with
Nemser, and meeting the man again
gave him - cents of the proceeds.
Saturday Il week ago Perry met him
again, as he says. accidentally, and
again the man showed Il watch. Per-
~ says the man seemed anxious to get
rid of it, so he took it and pawned
it with Nemser, getting 81.
Walked Straight Up to Mason.
When questioned by Sheriff Fair
bairn, Mason merely said: Il do not
know this man; 1 never saw him be-
FORE State Officers New, Dunham,
Dexter and others took Perry to the
Jail. The callers were 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"
The MoIineux Defense.
New York, Nov. 10.-Former Gov.
Black, during his summing up in the
MolineuX case today, said: "All the
evidence in this case points away
from MolineuX and to another man.
There was crime and motive, and
that motive points to Harry S. Cor
nish."