New-York tribune., 1905-11-04
ARREST BOSTON DOCTOR.
MOVE IN GE1RY CASE.
Charge Of Cutting Up Body Made
NeR arrested Here Confess
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Boston. Nov. 3.-Following Information re-
ceived by long distance telephone from New
York, sent by Chief Watts of the Bureau Oh
Criminal Investigation. who saw the two prison
ers captured in that city. Dr.. Percy D. Mcleod OIL
No 1s7 Huntingdon-aVe was arrested on the
charge of having performed the criminal opera
ton which resulted in the death of Susanna
Geary the Cambridge chorus girl. He is also
charged with having dismembered the body OF
the girl which Howard and Crawford dropped
into the harbor.
DR.. Mcleod was taken to Police Headquarters,
in Pemberton Square, by Captain Dugan, ana
later to the Office of District Attorney Henry }.
Sughrue, who has personally taken charge Oh
the Commonwe4lths against all the ar
rested NEIL As his examination began
at Police Headquarters DIR. Mcleod sent for his
lawyer Charles H. Innes. The examination
lasted until O'Clock when DR.. Mcleod was re-
moved to the Charles-st. jail He will probably
be arraigned tomorrow that bail may be fixed.
Dr.. Mcleod is about thirty-five years old and
is married He has been member of the
Massachusetts Medical Society for twelve years,
and has good reputation.
Captain Dugan says that last Monday night
inspectors from Headquarters visited d.
Mcleod at his home and took him to the offices
of Berknan, the pawnbroker who sold the suit
cases. The pawnbroker said that Dr. Mcleod
looked like the man who had bought the suit
cases. When Chief Watts this noon told the
police of CrawfGrd's confession in ew-9ork
the physician was arrested. Captain Dugan
says he has the reputation of being a clever
surgeon" In the course of the ride to Head
quarters Captain Dugan says DR.. Mcleod ex-
pressed the opinion that second operation, such
as was performed upon the victim to save her
life would make necessary the assistance OF
three or four men in addition to the operating
surgeon.
Acting on the statement that the head of the
victim. in her own handbag and weighted with
shot, had been dropped from the East Boston
ferryboat about two minutes after leaving the
East Boston slip, the police Systematically
dragging that portion of the harbor
Following the arrest of DR. Mcleod Captain
Dugan sent out inspectors in search of woman
This woman according TO the police has been
employed a nurse at a house In Roxoury
where Miss Geary was sent to recover after the
operation 1t is said that the nurse was present
at the second operation alleged to have been
performed by DR.. Mcleod, and knows the rela-
tions the doctor bore to the Office where the
dead girl underwent the original operation. The
nurse disappeared after the first suit case was
found and efforts made tonight to find her
were unavailing.
plicity in the Boston suit case mystery were
examined yesterday by Chiee Watts, of the Bos-
ton Bureau of Criminal investigation, VINO
came here early in the morning. aceompanist
by Superintendent Pierce of the Boston Police
Department; Howard, the cabman, who drove
the men to Chelsea Joseph Berkman, the pawn
broker who sold the suit cases; Meyer KauH-
man. his clerk and Morris Reuben, who sold an
other suit case. The prisoners. William How
ard alias William Hunt, hypnotist and fort
une teller, and Louis Crawford, alias Albert IL
Emory, a theatrical agent, have confessed
Chief Watts after seeing the men said:
Il recognize this man Crawford and feel GER
tain that he is the head man in the case he
was the principal at the house of DR.. Bishop
and it through him believe that Hunt or
Howard was got into the case
While Crawford admits disposng OF the oody
he declared, according to Inspector . Brlen that
he had nothing to do with the crime ltsei
Howard makes the same statement Both men
were readily identified by the pawnbrokers ana
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