Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-30
ACTRESS THE VICTIM.
Mystery of Boston Suit Case
 Murder Revealed.
BODY THAT OF MISS SUSAN CEARY
Mother of Girl at Cambridge, Mass, Identifies Rings Found on Remains. Had Been With 'sbepherd
 KinS' Company.

King'' Company.
 BOSTON, Oct. 3O.--That the dis membered Dody found in a dress suit case at Winthrop on Sept 21 is that of Susan Geary of Cambridge is the belief of the girls family and friends and of the Boston police department.
 Following the Identification of the dismembered body of Miss Geary Nor ris Nathan, secretary of the manager of "The Shepherd King theatrical company and fance of Miss Geary, was arrested at Pittsburg at midnight last night x
 Members of the company say Nathan has been almost continually in tears for the last two or three days.
 Miss Geary, who was the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. J. D. Geary, was chorus girl of "The Shepherd King" company and was known on the stage as Ethel Durrell She was twenty years of age. Mrs. Geary identified three rings taken from the right hand found in the second dress suit case picked up near the new Charlestown bridge on Friday last as those worn by her daughter when she absented herself from the theatrical company on Sept. 10. Confirmation of Miss Geary's dis appearance from the company came from Morris Nathan, secretary to the manager of the company and to whom Miss Geary was engaged.
 According to Nathan, Miss Geary parted from him on the best of terms the day after the company closed it's last engagement in this city, and he supposed, he said, that he should see her at the next performance in Lowell on the following day. Instead. how ever, message was received by the company's manager from 'P. A. Smith, NJ. D., Boston, which stated that Miss Durrell' was suffering from stomach trouble and would be unable to report for several days.
 Miss Geary dropped out of sight aft CT that, and so far as the police are concerned they have been unable to find any one who either saw or com municated with the girl. Ten days later, on Sept. 2f, dress suit case in which was the torso of young wo- man was found floating in the har- bor near the Winthrop Yacht club, about three miles below the city, and on Friday last another suit case con taining the arms and legs of the vic tim was taken from the water off the city docks, near the new Charlestown bridge over the Charles river.
 Mrs. Catherine Geary. wife of J. D. Geary of Cambridge, Mass, said last night that she was satisfied that the dress suit case victim was her daugh- ter Susan. She had been strongly sus- picious, she said, ever since the first dress suit case was found at Winthrop that the dismembered body was that of her daughter, but she had hesitated to announce her suspicious to the po- lice, fearing that after all they might prove unfounded.
 When she read of the description as outlined by the physicians she recog- nlzed that the description agreed al- most in every detail with that of her daughter. The discovery of the second dress suit case. containing the limbs and three rings which were on one hand, convinced her that she had not been mistaken. But even when she saw the pictures of the rings and a description of them she did not go to the police.
 ''I know the victim is my Susie. She complained of pains in her side just before she went away. and think she might have been operated upon for ap- pendicitis and the doctor having made an unsuccessful operation cut her up. When Susie came home at the end of last season, at the end of last May, she looked the picture of health. She had always been delicate and troubled with bronchitis, and physician at one time recommended that she abandon the ex- citement of stage life.
 During the summer she appeared at some of the pleasure resorts out side of Boston. She did not get this work until after some delay, and she worried much over 1t. In July she be- gan to get nervous, and I feared that she might have nervous prostration.
 Seven weeks ago she left me. The company had closed its Boston engage ment and went first to Lowell. When she left she sent me letter which was shorter than usual and clearly showed that she was downhearted. It made me feel frightened, and so I went to Lynn, where the company was then playing. She had written that she was sick with stomach trouble. I found that she had sent in a doctors certif- cate to the stage manager saying that she was sick. Morris Nathan, a mem Der of The Shepherd King company and to whom she was engaged, thinks the doctors name was a forgery, be- cause no doctor of the name on the pa- Der could be found in Lynn or Bos.