Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-11-07
DOUBLE ARREST IN
SUITCASE MYSTERY
MEN WHO DISPOSED OF BODY
OF MURDERED BOSTON GIRL
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.
CABMAN IDENTIFIES
ALLEGED PRINCIPAL
Is Also Recognized by Clerk of Pawn
shop Where Receptacle Was Pur-
chased - Boston Police Dragging
Harbor for Head Of Victim.


under arrest at police headquarters in
this city charged with homicide in con-
nection with the dress suit case mys-
terry in Boston. One of the men, Will
liam Howard, is said to have con-
fessed that he and his fellow prisoner,
Louis Crawford, alias Albert H. Emory,
were the ones who took the body from
q hospital on fremont street, Boston,
and threw the dismembered portions,
which were concealed in dress suit
cases and a hand satchel, into Win
throp (Mass.) )harbor.
Believe Crawford Is Leader.
Superintendent Pierce, of the Bos-
ton police and Chief Watts, of the
Massachusetts, state police, arrived
Friday, accompanied by witnesses in
the suitcase mystery. When the Bos-
ton party arrived at police headquar-
ters Friday the prisoners were brought
out for inspection. Chief Watts rec
ognized Crawford and said:
81 feel sure that Crawford is the
head man in this case. He was the
principal at the house of DR.. Bishop,
and 1T was through him, believe, that
Howard or Hunt, as he calls himself,
was brought into the case. We know
who performed the operation, but we
are not quite sure about who cut up
the body. The person who performed
the operation is not in this city, and
am not sure that we will make any
N Nnuy Vnr1y h11f hnr
are arrests to be made in Boston"
Identified by Cabman.
Crawford was dressed, by order OF
the New York police, in gray clothing
when first seen by the Boston police
officials and their witnesses. He had
on the same clothing he is believed
to have worn in Boston while making
his alleged trip with the suit-cases to
Boston harbor. In his room the police
found gray suit and long slate
colored rain coat both of which re-
sembled the clothing that Cabman
Howard said the man wore when he
drove from Boston to Chelsea. When
the cab driver saw Crawford he imme-
diately identified him as one of the
two men who were in his cab with
suit-cases on the night when the girls
body was thrown into the harbor. He
also identified the prisoner Howard as
Crawford's companion that night.
After this Identification had been
completed the two pawnbrokers and
the pawnbrokers' clerk were admitted
to the prisoners presence and identi-
fed them both. Meyer Kaufman, the
clerk, said that Crawford when he en-.
tered the pawnbrokers' store to get q
dress suitcase said he had 80 pounds OF
shot in the satchel he was carrying.
The prisoners were arraigned in the
Tombs court and were remanded back
to police headquarters until Monday.
There was no examination in court,
The men were held on short affidavit
charging conspiracy, based primarily
on Towards confession.
Police Inspector O'Brien said that
Crawford admits having purchased the
dress suit-cases and to having taken
portions of the girls body to the river,
but he denies having had any hand in
Luc uedLu VI Lue SlTl.
Police Dragging Harbor.
Boston, Nov. 4.-On the strength Of
the alleged statement by Howard, one
Of the New York suspects, that the head
Of the suitcase victim had been thrown
from ferryboat into Boston harbor, in
weighted handbag, the police Friday
began dragging the bottom of the har-
Dor at that part ordinarily travelled by
the East Boston boats from one OF
which the handbag is said to have been
thrown into the water The condition
of Morris Nathan, sutton of Susanna
Geary, the victim of the tragedy, was
better Friday than Thursday and he
seems to be gaining. TWAS decided that
the case of Nathan should be brought to
the grand jury Monday with those of
the others.
DR.. Percy Mcleod. Of this city, was
arrested in the afternoon on the charge
OF abortion in connection with the suit
case mystery. The arrest was on in.
formation furnished by Chief Watts
from New York city. DR.. Mcleod is
Eeld on the charge that he was the
person who dismembered the body Of
susanna Geary. According to Capt
Dugan. DR.. Mcleod has practically ad.
m1tted that he dismembered the body
OF Susanna Geary. He is registered
as a member Of the Massachusetts
Medical society.
HELD IN $4,000 BONDS.