The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-10

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statement emanated from the police
department
Superintendent Bull was then seen.
Did the police issue this statement
| he was asked.
"Thc statement was issued by the
| District Attorney" replied General
| Bull.
And you did not issue the state
ment?'
mo, sir" replied Superintendent Bull,
/ in an emphatic tone.
But the District Attorney says the
police gave out the statement"
THAT does not make any difference
the District Attorney wrote the state
ment and gave it out. 1t did not come
from me-
Superintendent Bull then issued the
following statement:
Miss Hutchinson was brought to
police headquarters as a result of an
Identification by hackman whose name
| cannot recall who said that the wo-
man was orc whom he took to Summer
street and Ashland avenue on the
| Thursday night of the murder. That
| Identification was positive. The further
reasons were that a woman answering
| tho description of this woman was seen
| by Patrolman Meyer at about 40
O'Clock Friday morning at Bryant and
Ashland avenue also near the Burdick
home. A further statement made to
| the authorities was that young woman
answering Miss Hutchinsons description
was seen in the upper part of the city
by a well-known citizen who says that
the woman told him she had lost her
way and that she wanted to get to Main
and Upper streets. Miss Hutchinson
lives on Upper street, near Main
"And why was the woman released"
Superintendent Bull was asked
II was not present when the woman
made statements to the District At
torney have been informed, however,
that the woman convinced her interro-
gators that she could prove an alibi b.
her mother, her sister and Mrs. Cough
lin, who runs the boarding house where
she lives, also by a woman friend who
was associated with them in musical
matters. The woman was released be-
cause she convinced the authorities that
she was not the one they wanted"
After the release OF Miss Hutchinson
District Attorney Coatsworth was asked
why she had been taken to police head
quarters apparently under arrest and
then released.
III do not understand that she was
arrested" replied Mr.. Coatsworth. She
was taken to headquarters in order that
ii might bclearned what If. any, infor-
nation she could furnish that would
throw anv light on this case We have
nothing against her and when we heard
her story she was permitted to go.
Miss Hutchinson was seen at her home
soon after her return from court. Her
mother and sister and two young wo-
men were present. Miss Hutchinson
said:
make n general contradiction, an en-
phatie contradiction. 1t is a gross in
Justice that has been done me. | was
taken from my homes without WarnlnG
and without reason. The only possible
shadow OF a reason the police had TOT
their action was the fact that / had ac-
cepted temporary employment in MT
Burdicks establishment, where | was
employed for but few weeks"
AS attorney for Mrs. Seth T. Paine
Philip V. Feunelly today issued state
ment 1t begins with sarcastic ar
raignment of the police Very inciden-
tally. and by implication only. the state
ment brings to light a few details here
tofore unpublished as to what the police
have found These include the finding OF
stove or furnace shaker in some rub
bish in the cellar of Mrs. Paine's house
where it has been for months, and the
fact that one or more gray hairs COM
prised the tuft that was found on the
murdered mans body, and that Mrs.
Paine has only few gray hairs among
her dark brown hair.
Also indirectly the statement contains
a denial that Mrs. Paine is the person
who was meant by the Jane Doe men
toned as correspondent by Mrs. Burdick
| in her counter claim for divorce.
ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS WOMAN.
Exploded theories and vanishing clues
| 60 not discourage the authorieies They
| have turned with determination to estab-
| lish the identity of the lone woman met
on Ashland Avenue by Patrolman Myer
and to establish if possible some connec-
| ton between her and the woman taker
| to the vicinity of the Burdick home by
| 0dDHdn Joey, on Che night OF the mufuel
and the one who lost her way there. i
they can prove that they are one and the
same person they believe they will have
| the woman who killed Burdick. If it turns
! out they were different persons, they be
| lieve one of them to be the right person
| The police arc said to be- working or
| another clue furnished by Charles Mer-
| rill. a private Waterman, who covered
| several blocks on Summer street. Mer
rill claims to have seen a man and a wo
man on Summer street near Elmwoo'
about Has o'clock on the night of tn
| murder He stopped into an alley ant
the couple stopped under light. HI
] heard the man say:
| "Wen you can so as far as the stool
| with me any way" The woman hesitate'
| and thon they started towards ElmwooC
| Avenue in the direction of Ashland Ave
| nue. About ? o'clock he met the maj
again on Summer Street. Merrill did no
see the woman. He says he can recognize
the man, who spoke with German &C
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