Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-04-11
MABEL PAGES DEATH
Charles l.. Tucker Arrested ss
 Suspect at Auburndale.
SATISFIED WE HAVE RIGHT MAN:
Chief of Police Shaw Confident That His Action WiIl Lead to Ending of tho Mystery Surrounding
 Weston CWrIs Death.

Weston CUrIs Death.
 WEST NEWTON, Mass, April It, Charles l.. Tucker the alleged murder CT of Miss Mabel Page, who was stab bed to death in her fathers house in Weston on March 31, has been arrested at Auburndale, Mass. Tucker is for mer railroad employee, who had ap parently established an alibi as to his whereabout on the day of the tragedy. Chief Shaw of the state police said after the arrest:
 eve are satisfied that we have the right man"
 Tucker was arrested at the hone of his parents in Auburndale, about two miles from the Page house in Weston, and locked up in the police station here. S
 Young Tucker, not yet twenty four, with good looking countenance, well shaped head, bright, intelligent eyes, regular features, clear skinned, an ath- lete and suburban dandy" charged with the death of Mabel Page, caught alone in her home, murdering her in a fendish manned, has proved that he also has the strongest of nerves.
 He assures the police that they have made a cruel mistake in putting him under arrest and charging him with being the perpetrator of the crime whose complete mystery and the gen tie woman character that figured as the victim of it has made the case one of the most celebrated of New England tragedies since the still unsolyed Bor- den mystery.
 The weapon which, figures in the case is large. heavy Swedish pocket knife. This was found in Fuckers house when the place was searched by the police. The sheath, which, it is. alleged, usually held the knife, is also in the hands of the police, to whom it was turned over bysArthur Woodward, the driver of a fish wagon. on which Tucker rode on the afternoon of the day of the murder. safs a
 When Tucker was first brought to. the police station here fpn the evening of April 4, he admitted to the officers that he was in Weston on the day of. the tragedy and that he passed the Page house.. His statements, however, concerning his actions that day were so well corroborated by a friend, who claimed to have been his companion, that the police were convinced of his innocence, and he was allowed to re turn to his home It was. said. at the time that he was not iii custody, but that the police desired. to examine him in the regular course of their fnvestiga- ton of ali persons who had been near the scene of the tragedy. Neverthe- less he has been under constant sur yeillance.
 Four days were then occupied in running down worthless clews until the case became so puzzlfig that Governor Bates requested Attorney General Par ker and Chief shaw of the state police to personally take a hand in attempt ing to solve the mystery.
 The attention of the police was again turned to Tucker through the discovery that several of his statements by which he had proved an alibi were false. The investigation of Tucker was resumed, with the result that three officers went to his house and placed him, under ar rest.
 The house at 5S Bourne street, Au- burndale, where Tucker resided with his parents, was visited, and nearly all the clothing belonging to the young man was removed topolice headquar- ters. Two of the detectives made an other tour of the Page premises Tn ! Weston for the purpose of taking measurements while others examined. Henry Bourne a neighbor of the Tuck CT family, and Arthur Woodward, the driver of a fish wagon.
 Portions of Fuckers clothing were later sent to Boston for the examina- ton of possible blood stains, by Pro lessor Wood of the Harvard Medical school When examined by the de tectives last Monday. Tucker admitted frankly that there were, blood stains their presence.
 An important errand of the detec- l tives was to find some person who saw 1 Tucker in the iInmeAiate vicinity of the Page house, but up to last night no such person had been discovered. l Plaster impressions of Fuckers teeth made atspolice headquarters have been turned over to local dentist.
 At police headquarters here the state detectives hastened in and out all day, reticent as usual, but all appearing con- tident that the man under arrest is the murderer. During the day Albert l Tucker, father of the prisoner, visit ed the cellroom of the station and had 8 fifteen minute conversation with his son. Mir Tucker seemed much agi- l tated when he emerged from the cell l room, but declared that he was pre- pared to prove that his son was at l dinner at Il AS in the forenoon of the day on which Miss Page was mur. dered. The crime is believed to have been committed between noon and 1 o'clock.
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