Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-29
ADVOCATES PUBLICITY
HAZEN TALKS OF SUIT CASE
MYSTERY.

According to a dispatch from Boston.
William P. Hazen ex-chief of the United
States secret service, said yesterday:
There is only one way in which the au-
thorities can ever expect to arrive at an
early solution of the mystery surrounding
the death of the unidentified woman a por
ton of whose body was found floating in a
dress suit case off the Winthrop Yacht Club
a week ago this evening, and that Is thor
ough publicity. Throw out the dragnet Of
publicity. Let the entire world know all
the facts that have been ascertained. Sc
crecy will not help the cause along. L
have gone over the ground in this most mys-
FERROUS case and have talked to many Off
Gals and to Witnesses whose testimony is
all that has thus far been found upon which
a discovery can be made. The clues
that the police and the reporters have to
work upon are meager Publicity alone
will solve this mystery My experience has
taught me that you cannot expect to arrive
at a final conclusion unless you take the
public into your confidence. And right
here | want to state that | am pleased that
the city police authorities have agreed with
me on this point. AS far as the case itself
is concerned, it is like many other cases of
a similar nature that have been brought to
the attention of the public from time to
time. Deaths from criminal operations
have been only too plentiful. Not always
has the surgeon or the midwife who per-
formed such criminal operation. and
which resulted in the death of the victim,
mutilated the body after death. But L
know of many cases where such mutilatiop
did take place. There was the Charles
river case, which occurred twenty years
ago, where the body was cut in four pieces.
Pearl Bryan Case.
Take the celebrated Pearl Bryan case.
which occurred in Cincinnati, and where
the head had been placed in plaster of paris
and was afterward found floating in the
Ohio river. Then there is the Guldensuppe
case, where Thorn, a barber killed his vic
TIM and where Mrs Mack. the midwife,
actually cut the body up and tried to dis
pose of it. All such cases, l am sorry to
say, became lessons in crime. This case is
of this very character. The person who
killed the unfortunate girl whose body was
cast up by the tide last week no doubt
thought he had profited by the experience
of the other mutilators of bodies But then
always something occurs which upsets the
most carefully prepared plans of the muir
derer- And in that way detection is had.
arrests follow, and convictions are the nat
ural outcome.
Should Be Solved.
There is absolutely no reason why this
mystery should not be solved speedily. In
the first place we have here at least one
suit case. We know where it was bought
and we have a fair description of the man
d
portion of the victims body But this is
the slightest clue upon which we can eX-
pect results. Because. as l am assured,
there were absolutely no marks of identifi-
cation the portion of the body found in
the dress suit case.
THE essential thing In the case is to find
the purchaser of the dress suit case. Then
1t may be necessary to find the remaining
portions of the woman's body. Her head
must be recovered. If you can find the
purchaser of the dress suit cases you can
compel him to tell you how and under what
circumstances he came to make such pur-
chases 1t has been asserted that this body
was carried to point near where the first
dress suit case discovered floating in
the bay. l don't think that this is possible.
On the contrary, from what I have OBJ
served, am of the opinion that the dress
suit cases were dropped overheard some
where in the channel There are many
steamers leaving Boston every day for
points along the New England coast
Plausible Theories.
mo man could have carried this dress
suit case on board of a ferryboat. then
boarded a train with it, then alighted at
point near Winthrop. The current could
easily carry dress suit case from the main
channel to the very spot where the
was found. 1t looks to me to be the most
plausible thing that the murderer got cab
took his two suit cases along. drove to
steamer along the wharf and, after the
steamer had gotten well down the bay,
dropped the cases overheard. This could
have been accomplished with ease. And /
would suggest that thorough search be
made along the water front for evidence
along the line which | have suggested.
THE police authorities seem to me to
have the entire matter well in hand. L
honestly believe that everything that can
possibly be done is being accomplished. I
well know that 1t takes time to develop
such mysteries. Honest and earnest and
intelligent work will surely bring forth re-
suits. But again must insist that all the
publicity possible should be given to the
entire case Publicity alone will help to
solve this mystery Throw out the drag
net of publicity and you viii soon have the
murderer of this unknown girl behind bars.