Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-11-11
BOSTON DOCTOR HELD
Prisoner Charged With Cut
ting Up Miss Geary's Body.
HER HEAD WAS SUNK IN HARBOR.
Arrest of Crawford and Howard at
New York Led TO wedicO's Cap
snre-Search Being Made For
the Girls Head.

the Girls Head.
BOSTON, Nov. DIR. Percy u. Me
Leod OF 1877 Huntington avenue, this
city, was arrested on the charge of
criminal malpractice in connection
with the suit case mystery Tie arrest
was made on information furnished by
Chief Walsh from New York DR. Me
Leod is held on the charge that he was
the person who dismembered the body
Of Susanna Geary.
1t is alleged that Or. Mcleod was
called into the case after the first oper
stion was performed and that he per
formed a second operation of a desper-
ate nature in vain attempt TO save
The life of the young woman. Miss
Geary failing to recover, il is alleged
that Dr. Mcleod in an effort TO conceal
The crime dsmcmbered the body These
dismcmbered parts were placed In two
dress suit cases and q small bag and,
according to the confessions of Craw-
ford and Howard, dropped by them
into The harbor
So far the head, which was placed in
a small bag weighted with shot, has
not been found, but inasmuch as the
police have been told approximately
where it was dropped overheard it is
believed that II will soon be recovered.
DIR. Mcleod is about thirty-lye years
of age and is married
Chief Watts informed the officials
here that the confession of Crawford
in New York included the specific ac-
cusaiion that DR.. Mcleod was the per-
son who dismembered the body of the
chorus Ngirl. Immediately upon re-
eeipt of this message an inspector call
ed up the doctors office ON the tele-
phone and made an appointment. The
physician kept the appointment and
was at once arrested.
From Captain Dugan it was learned
that last Monday night two headquar
ter inspectors had visited DR.. Mcleod
mt his home. They drove him to the
office of Pawnbroker Bcrkman, who
sold the suit cases. The pawnbroker
had stated that DR. Mcleod Cooked
like the man who purchased the cases :"
DIR. Mcleod was detained by inspect
ors at the instigation of Captain Du-
gan. He was at once taken to police
headquarters, where he was questioned
by Captain Dugan, and afterward TO the
Office of District Attorney H. j. Sugh
rue, who has assumed personally the
direction of the commemorative case
against the arrested men.
DIR. Percy u. Mcleod is registered as
a member of the Massachusetts Med
ical society. According to Captain Du-
gan, DR. Mcleod has practically adj
mitted that he dismembered the body
of Susanna Geary
Confronted by witnesses from Bos-
ton who positively identified them,
William Howard and Louis Crawford
threw up their hands in police head
quarters at New York and admitted
that they bought the suit cases in
which the body of Susanna Geary was
packed after ACKNOWLEDGMENT and thar
they dropped the cases into Boston bay.
They have been remanded back to the
custody Of the police until Monday.
Inspector Watt and Superintendent
Pierce of the BOSTON police department
went 10 New York with Timothy How
ard, cabman; Meyer Rubin and Jo-
seph Berkman, pawnbrokers, aud Mey-
ct kaufman Berllman's clerk. limo
thy Howard is The cabman who drove
Crawford and William Howard to the
East Boston ferry, from which they
threw their grewsome burdens. The
pawnbrokers and the clerk are the
men who sold the suit cases
The Boston party went direct to
headquarters. and the witnesses were
kept in an anteroom while Crawford
and Howard were called up from the
cells Then Howard the cabmau. was
escorted into the room where the two
prisoners were standing alongside IN
spectOr O'Brien's desk
ITS all Off exclaimed Crawford as
soon as ne saw the cabman. You've
got us right"
The other witnesses made the identi
fication complete.