The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-04
PHYSICIAN ARRESTED
 IN SUIT CASE MURDER
DIR. PERCY D. M'LEOD, 4 RE- PUTABLE PRACTITIONER OF
 BACK BAY DISTRICT.

Alleged That He Was Called Into Case
 After First Operation on Chorus Girl
 Performed q Second of a Desperate
 Nature in Vain Attempt to Save the
 Young WOman's Life-This Resulting
 in Death the Body Was Dismembered
 to Conceal the Crime-Win be Ar-
 raigned To-day.
 Boston, Nov. B. Following a brief conversation by officers over the long distance telephone, the scene of devel- opments in the famous suit case mys- tery, has shifted from New York back to Boston. As result of the brief talk between Chief Inspector William B. Watts, of the Boston bureau of criln- inal investigation, who is now in New York, and Captain Joseph Dugan, at police headquarters here. Dr. Percy D. Mcleod, a reputable physician of the Back Bay district, was arrested to-day on the charge of performing an illegal operation on Susan Geary, the Cam bridge chorus girl whose remains were found in two suit cases in the waters of Boston harbor.
 Since a week ago tonight, when the second suit case, containing the limbs and the three rings which resulted in Identification, was found, developments have come thick and fast. Tonight, while the authorities admit that other arrests may be expected soon, they say that the case is practically completed and that it no longer remains myss cry.
 Through the confessions of Louis Crawford and William Howard, the two men arrested in New York yester- day, the authorities received evidence which in their opinion warranted the arrest of Dr. Mcleod this afternoon. It is alleged that Dr. Mcleod was called into the case after the first operation was performed in Fremont street of flee, and that he performed a second operation of a desperate nature in a vain attempt to save the life of tho young woman. Miss Geary failing to recover, it is alleged that Dr. Mcleod in an effort to conceal the crime, dis membered the body. These dismember- ed parts were placed in two dress suit cases and small bag and, according to the confessions of Crawford and Howard, dropped them into the harbor.
 So far the head, which was placed in a small bag weighted with shot, has not been found, but inasmuch as the police have been told approximately where it was dropped overheard, it is believed that it will soon be discover k1,a br,1a 1alr tn InItp n yond question the identity of the vic- tim. All day long the police boat Watchman dragged shG ,arbor bottom along the path of the North. Ferry to East Boston, but up to dark, when they suspended their work until to- morrow, the search had been fruitless,
 Dr. Mcleod will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning. No sum had been set tonight as the amount of his bail bond, but District Attorney NJ. J, Sughrue stated that owing to the grav- ity of the charge a large bond wourd be necessary.
 Morris Nathan, the lover of Miss Geary, who was arrested in Pittsburg last Sunday night and brought to this city in a state of collapse, is gradually recovering at the city hospital, where he was taken on his arrival here, but is not yet in Condition to be brought into court. Nathan will probably be arraigned on Monday.
 While at first the police were of the opinion that Nathan was not directly connected with the case, they now say that Nathan conducted the negotiations with the proprietors of the Fremont street establishment, the place with which Crawford was connected, ana that he was fully aware of the result of the operation.
 Tonight the police directed their en- CT gies toward locating another man formerly connected with the Fremont street office.
 Following the arrest of Dr. Mcleod, Captain Dugan sent out inspectors in search of woman. This woman, &C., cording to the police, has been employ ed as a nurse at house in Roxbury where Miss Geary was sent to recover after the operation. It is claimed that the nurse was present at the second operation alleged to have been perform ed by Dr. Mcleod, and knows the rela- tions the doctor bore to the office where the dead girl underwent the original operation.
 The police say that this nurse is the only person thought to have been di- rectly involved in the case who has not been apprehended. The nurse disap- peared after the first suit case was found. and efforts made tonight to To- cate her were unavailing.