Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-04
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 "Shepherd
King" Company.

case at Winthrop on Sept II Is that OF
Susan Geary of Cambridge is the belief
OF the girls family and friends and
of the Boston police department.
Miss Geary, who was the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. Geary, was a chorus
girl Of 1.-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 Gearys dis.
appearance from the company came
from Morris Nathan, secretary to the
manager of the company and TO whom
Miss Geary was engaged. Mr.. Nathan
is now in Pittsburg.
According to Nathan Miss Geary
parted from him on the best of terms
the day after the company closed its
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. Al. 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
er 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
which was the torso of a young wo-
man was found floating in the har.
Dor near the Winthrop Yacht club.
about three miles below the city, and
on Friday last another suit ease con-
tanning the arms and legs OF the vie
tim was taken from the water off the
city docks, near the new Charlestown
bridge over the Charles river
Mrs. Catherine Geary. wife of ]. d.
Geary of Cambridge, Mass. said last
night that she was satisfied that the
dress suit case victim was her daugh.
ter Susan. Sire 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 hesitatcd
to announce her suspicious to the POI
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.
IL had not seen my daughter for sew.
en- weeks" said Mrs. Geary, 'and |
have felt sure for some time that she
was the victim OF the Winthrop dress
suit case. She wore chased gold
i4tE On Htl iliNtt ilhStis anu Filt Udu
also an opal ring and garnet ring
which ! gave her as a birthday present
some five or six years ago. The chased
ring is probably ten years old. When
saw these rings | had no difficulty in
recognizing them as those worn BY
my daughter.
Il 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 APP
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-
element 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 it. In July she be
gan to get nervous. and / 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 a letter which was
shorter than usual and clearly showed
that she was downhearted. 1t made
me feel frightened, and so | went to
Lynn, where the company was then
playing. She had written that she was
sick with stomach trouble. l found
that she had sent In a doctors certifi-
cate to the stage manager saying that
she was sick Morris Nathan, 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
per could be found in Lynn or Bos-
ton"
Suit Case Suspect In Pittsburg.