The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-07

tion were so shocking as TO be almost un-
believable.
BODY POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED
At the Harvard medical school yester-
day afternoon Mrs. Catherine +. Geary
and her two daughters, Mrs. Bertha Corn
well and Miss Evelyn Geary, Identified
the assembled body of the suit case vic
tim as that OF Susanna Agnes Geary.
The features were so well preserved that
the three women instantly recognized the
head. The mother and daughters were
familiar with the gold crown and the fill
ing of the teeth. and an examination OF
them made the recognition doubly sure
II there ever was a technical doubt,
that the two suit cases and the satchel.
one found at Winthrop and two i'm Bos-
ton harbor contained the body OF Susanna
Geary, the little dancer Of the 'Shep-
herd King company. II was dspeled
yesterday when the little girls ns*her
and two sisters saw the familiar face.
ACTIONS WERE ELOQUENT.
Not by words was the identification
first made. but by the frantic outcries Of
the women and 10y hysterical attempts 10
press their lips to those of the dear dead
daughter and sister. Taken into the pres
once Of the dismemcered body and the
severed head which had lain so long on
the bottom OF the harbor, the three wom-
en- khNf no one tne TASK OF ASKING II
they recognized the remains.
il was pftTfuT, IT was sad that IL was
necessary. but the law demands that
some one shall make an adequate identi-
fication OF the body In case OF homi-
eide.
So those three women had to endure
an ordeal which was almost as distress
ing 20 the medical and police witnesses
as TO the women taken TO the Harvard
medical
positive evidence upon which To base the
accusations made against DR. Percy ID.
Mcleod. Louis w Crawford, William f..
Howard and Mary S. Dean.
TO DRAW THE VEIL.
A description OF the scene al-lAe- -H,aa4-
cal school yesterday afternoon would not
be a dainty story. Indeed. from the day
the first suit case was found until yester-
day. the succession Of Incidents which
form the narrative Of the misfortune, the
death. the mutilation and the conceal
ment OF the body OF little Susie Geary
were far too revolving to be dealt with
with cold pen.
II over the veil should be drawn 10
shut private grief from the curious eye Or
the public. yesterday was the time For
weeks this Geary family has suffered. and
yesterday came the climax OF their grief.
capt Joseph Dugan than whom there
lS no more taCllul ana TeSouTCFiul Ilflll-
Der OF the Boston police department, call
ed az the Geary home at 6S Main street
Cambridge. shortly after noon yesterday
TO ask the mother and sisters TO accom-
pany him TO the Harvard medical school.
THE PARTS ASSEMBLED.
Before that, Medical Examiner Harris,
with the associate examiner. DIR. Sted-
man, had viewed the head Of the victim
at Briggs undertaking rooms and were
satisfied that IL had been severed from
the torso which was found i'm Winthrop
harbor Sept. n.
Photographs were made for the pur-
poses OF the trial OF the alleged perpetra-
tors OF tho crime. and then the exhibit
with the young woman's catchel I'm which
IL was found. were taken TO the medical
school
The Geary family has been annoyed by
so many visitors that when Capt DHgan
called yesterday Il took him some little
time To assure them OF his errand. Mrs
Geary and her younger daughter. Evelyn,
were taken into the carriage. and the eld-
er daughter, Mrs Bertha Cornwell. was
found at her home on Windsor street
BY the time the three women reached
the medical school Prof william r. Whit
ney had assembled the parts Of the body
I'm the basement OF the building. and with
Prof whitney were Medical Examiner
Harris and his office associate. DR..
Brown
IT WAS SUSIE.
Before taking the mother and the two
daughters 20 the little room the physicians
cautioned them TO be brave and prepared
them FOR the distressing sight Then
they were led I'm and the covering re-
moved from the face OF the dead girl.
All three burst into tears and lamcnta-
tions, crying out the name OF their lost
one and telling each other that IL was
Susie"
That mother and those two sisters al