The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-04-15
A STRANGE MURDER
AROUSES BOSTON
Seemingly Hopeless Mystery
Surrounds the Killing Of
Miss Mabel Page.
MAY BE WOMAN INVOLVED
Strange Story That Insane Person Es
capped and Took Miss Pages Life.
Imagining That She Was
Getting Revenge.

Boston. April 9.-On the fourth day
sincc the murder OF Miss Mabel Page.
daughter Of Edward Page, u former
wealthy resident OF the Back Bay dis
trIct, the police authorities of The state
and the township OF Weston are aOso-
lutely ut sea.
By statements they have been en-
abled to narrow the period within
which the murder was committed down
To two hours.
Aside from this they arc at Il stand
still. They have evolved theories, but
are forced to acknowledge that they
have only a vague suspicion as to the
author OF the crime.
Tomorrow they will publish the no
tice OF u reward Of $2,5Oo.
Petty. .jealousies are interfering seri-
ously with the detection OF the Grim
inaI.
Massachusetts has a state constabu-
larry, with Il state policeman. usually Il
civil war veteran without detective
ability, in every township.
In addition, there is the township
co~nstabulaly. Each of these forces is
trying to earn tie credit for catching
the murderer, ana jealousy relraiutng
from soliciting or accepting outside aid.
Although Weston is but sixteen
miles from police headquarters in Eos-
ton, and Captain Joseph DuGan, chief
OF the bureau of crimiua investigation,
stands ready to send ms trained men
to run down the assassin. the state and
township officials decline to call upon
him.
Captain bugan, Who Tor a quarter OF
a century has been a noted detective,
and for a greater part OF the Time at
4 tl,I bead of ftt... ilaY..tiNra | tIN.,ll. - hns
advanced the only plduSlpie theory so
faF.
Family heePS silent.
From the very i"SL strange reticcnce
has CHARACTERIZED ti1e attitude OF The
l'tt!'li%' 80 y" - 80" t'' 'me -
CoN1ig "a w ',.ng' LII ','1 ,ui Nilgt2
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iaSP Vas 'to"A'l w nav '"hS'l MOI
OMh ne
'il.,,s.'" 10y "i-Gt " u't"a' t"I[ .
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We po"y' patN an" ilT",' 'ic mus
| became her''itlGail% "I3l,u anu an III"
inmates were SlIlSNen Gul.lp'
heIe "te ru'i1o'S 'Uli,SIlt I'LL q ina.-
rieu WoElail' Who had pGei ~OohHneu 70
, ai lhSaile aNylIIl' 'lSuc ileF tSSape i"~t
week, ana, un"et IN Ha'uSlHIlion t'at
she must nave revenge on MISS rage;
killed the woman.
} There is an Intangible romance on
recleu WIN lnc case WHlHh sun 4uFtiSr
complexities the Investigations. Whlle
Mabel Page, ut Al, was supposed 10
: have renowned all expectation of
changing single for the married state,
1t is whispered that she had q violent
, love quarrel some years ago and that
she parted from her sweetheart.
, From that day She retired into the
i secluSion of her fathers home and
: never more accepted the attentions OF
\ any man. me man ives III u he'tiHS
! town, ana IS SAID TO nave married an
othef woman ipH spite
+ Destroyed the Letters.
! Miss Pages correspondence was cX-
amincd by General Whitney yesterday.
but not a letter from this man could be
found. She mad destroyed them all and
, returned his presents.
. II is NOW asccrtainel that Mr.. Pare
dla not rush to mo house of a neigh
Dor upon discovering the crime.
He saws he returned home about half-
mast and found HIS daughter lvinE
, On the tlnor Win her tbroat rIt
t No dil nor r,,en +o no n~ninhbor,s
house = rnw rods away. ANA telenhone
fnr n n ysician, ne stood ont on his
r,,n,t ,nTrh md waited nearly two
e ,o,,r. min , nam nasee1 when he no
t'taoi him th5t his daughter had been
f -. ,|1,na ,na ,skad MIN 70 ,,an,,nct tho
/ ne,ehhor TO telenhone,
When Medical Examiner Julian
Maod who corrnsnonds 10 n New York
rornnor arrived he found the murdered
woman wing unon her back. with the
awful cut upon the throat and the
hands covered with blood from cuts
across the back of the fingers.
Z The woman was fully dressed fey the
, street. save that her outside skirt was
over n chair. Her hat was pinned up
t on her head.
Called , Suicide.
! : ana fonn 81 tho wounas imam +no
,nas S,adir,I rynn,iner NTe,G 1iI NOT
n"t"s' oxo,,inntion nf ne odv mi
: ! ., n,nn ,Iair,issio1 :, h,,Ty ne
~ pte orti - tha na,,sa Or Ga.tb IN
~ cida "a vas tbe rornner Of TIC
az rnn
: r. w,s only whom John A Rr,,ce an
r,SortaEar' onnlove 1iscovared thr
unntno wounds in The vyon,on,s hack
a"d Tie Two knifa wounds in the stom-
+, onh tho+ the huriol VAS stoned and
/, thha ,nndicoi ayau1iner was forced tc
: racou his previous verdict.
= Tn s,ita IF the offering of So.5OO re-
i, ward no announcement whatever is
extended TO investigators. They are