The evening world., 1902-11-08
Jewellers Receipts for Girls
Watches May Establish His
Connection with Boston's
"SIugger" Crimes.
POLICE HAVE SPECIMENS.
Nemser Isn't Sure Now Whether a
Negro, an Italian or a swarthy
American Pledged Gruesome Sou
Venirs.

BOSTON. Nov. S.-Two tickets upon
which there Is II remarkable similarity
OF handwriting may. the police hope,
lead to the complete identification OF
Alan C. Mason as "Jack the slugger,"
The tickets. which are now in the hands
Of the police. bear the names OF the
mer or man who pawned the watches
OF Miss Morton and Miss McPhee. two
OF the ~"Slugger's" victims. Those who
have seen the cards declare that the
handwriting on the cards bear 50 close
a resemblance TO each other that It
will be necessary for experts to decide.
Then they will be compared with the
signature OF Mason and an effort VIII
be made to find a resemblance.
II this is established the police be-
lleve they will have n good case
Identification Fails.
Joseph Nemser. the pawnbroker who
loaned money upon the watches or the
two unfortunate ome has failed TO
identify Mason as the man from whom
no got them, but he has made so many
conflicting statements that little con-
idence is now placed in his testimony.
At first he Insisted that the watches
had been pawned by a light-compleN
Toned negro, and then he changed ms
mind. 1t might nave been. he u
an italian or a Spaniard, and then IL
might have been an American.
one po,nt which the police regard as
,mnortant is thai Mason's complexion
is swarthy. os
Another point brought out to-day was
the Identification OF Mason by m
Savers, of WATERFOWL, who says ne 10
the man who annoyed her som time
ago in the natural history room. fne
identification was complete.
This and the handwriting on the
tickets, added to the facts that he had
been in an asylum. that he was identi-
fed by two men who saw him on the
night of the Morton murder near where
the body was found. that he vas In
the habit of taking lonely walks and
that iron bars. such as were used In the
various attacks on defenseless women
could have been obtained from the
Mason s. Hamlin factory, completes the
case as II now stands.
An effort to connect a negro with
the crime has failed thus far. The
police arrested n colored man last NIGH
and locked him up on suspicion OF a
ing been the man who pawned Miss
Morton's watch. Joseph Nemser, the
paynbroker, was ent for and declared
that he was not the man. Then the
negro was put on the rack and ques-
toned by the police. They failed to
shake him.
Looked Like ConsDirators.
Another clue upon which the State
police are working Is the story told to-
day by a nurse. She says that on
Saturday she started for Weston. stop
ping at Cambridge between 7.3O and 8
o'clock to wait for a train. While there
she saw two white men n a negro.
The two white men were looking al
a photograph, and one OF them said:
We'll. we might as we'll buy a ticket"
This they did. and the nurse saw one
o: the men hard it to the negro as they
passed out of the station. There had
been no previous sign OF recognition.
She watched the negro till he got OF the
train at Wsverly at ala. This was
three-auarters of an hour before the
murder Of Miss Morton.
Lieutenant Carter, of the Somerville
police, is in Newark. N. j., to-day.
He left on the midnight train for New
York. taking with him the watch re-
covered from Newser's shop and sup
posed to have been owned by Miss
McPhee,
As the dead girls relatives were UNI
able to swear as TO the number OF the
time-piece owned by her. It was neces-
sary to establish positively the identity,
through the jeweTler from whom IT was
purchased in Newark, by her father.