Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-04-11
MABEL PAGES DEATH
Charles L. Tucker Arrested az
Suspect at Auburndale.
SATISFIED We HAVE Right MAN
CHIEF OF Police shaw Confident h
His Action viii Lead to Ending
of the Mystery Surrounding
Weston Girls Death.

WEST NEWTON, Mass, April H.
Charles L. Tucker, the alleged murder
er of Miss Mabel Page, who was stab
bed to death in her fathers house IL
Weston on March 81, has been arrested
at Auburndale, Mass. Tucker is a for
mer' railroad employee, who had ap
pnrently established an alibi as to his
whereabout on the day of the tragedy
Chief Shaw of the state police said
after the arrest:
1--WE are satisfied that we have the
right man."
Tucker was arrested at the home OF
his parents in Auburndale, about two
miles from the Page house in Weston
and locked up in the police station
| here.
Young Tucker, not yet twenty-four,
with a 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, numbering her in q
fiendish 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 unsolved Boz.
den mystery.
The weapon which figures in the
case is a large, heavy Swedish pocket
knife. This was found in fuckers
house when the place was searched by
the police. The sheath, which, 1t is
alleged, usually held the knife, is also
in the hands of the police, to whom ii
vas turned over by Arthur Woodward,
the driver of a fish wagon, on which
Tucker rode on the afternoon of the
day of the murder.
When Tucker was first brought to
the police, station here on 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. 1t was said at the
time that he was not in custody, but
that the police desired to examine him
In the regular course of their investiga.
ton of all persons who had been near
the scene Of the tragedy. Neverthe-
less he has been under constant sur
veillance.
-Four days were then occupied In
running down worthless clews until the
case became so ~puzzling 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 IS Bourne street, Au-
burndale, where Tucker resided with
his parents, was visited, and nearly
all the clothing belonging to the young
man was removed to police headquar-
tiers. Two of the detectives made an
other tour of the Page premises in
Weston for the purpose of taking
measurements, while others examined
Henry Bourne, a neighbor of the Tuck
er 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
OF his trousers, but he accounted for
their presence.
An important errand of the detec-
tives was to find some person who saw
Tucker in the immediate vicinity of
the Page house, but up to last night
no such person had been discovered.
Plaster impressions of fuckers teeth
made at police headquarters have been
turned over to a local dentist.
At police headquarters here the state
detectives fastened in and out all day,
reticent as usual but all appearing con-
hdent that the man under arrest is
the murderer. During the day Albert
Tucker, father OF the prisoner, visit
ed the celIroom of the station and had
a fifteen minute conversation with his
son. Mr. Tucker seemed much agi-
tated when lie emerged from the cell
room, but declared that he was pre-
pared to prove that his son was at
dinner at II .45-in the forenoon of the
day on which Miss, Page was muir
dered. The crime is believed to have
been committed between noon and 1
o'clock.
Panther Got 10000 Seals.