New-York tribune., 1905-11-03
HID MISS GEARY'S BODY.
.c4PTIVE HERE CONFESSES
Says Companion also in Cell Helped
Dispose of Suitcases.

In the arrest of two men, who locked up
at Police Headquarters charged with homicide.
the police declare that the solution OF the dress
suit case murder mystery of Boston will be MADE
fs-aay, ara that 4lae murderer OF pretty
Susan A Geary, the chorus girl of the Shep-
herd King company, will be in the tolls.
One of the prisoners has made complete con-
fession telling how he and the man under ar
rest with him carried the body from a lyfng-in
hospital in Tremont-st. Boston. and threw IL
into Boston Harbor and th>n, when the mysteri-
Gus find of the dismembered body In dress
suit case startled the entire city and caused
hundreds of detectives to be put on the case
they quietly left Boston and came here
William Howard alias Hunt. thirty-six years
old who says he is engineer by occupation,
and has lived, SINCE he came here, at NO. zoo
East 14th-st., where he has Furnished rooiii'
is the prisoner who has made the confession
duplicating his companion, Albert H Emory
alias Louis Crawford A theatrical agent.
Howard as soon as he was placed under ar
rest freely told the complete story of the dls-
position of the body but absolutely denies that
he knows who performed the criminal operation
iron the chorus girl which brought ABOUT hei
death or who dismembered the body he WIS
hired to help Crawford, he swears, dispose OF
the BODY and that is all he has had TO 90 Win
,he case although he admits that he knew the
girl had died unOef suspicious
and that her body had been cut UP.
Howard and Crawford were arrested last
night through the work of Acting Captain NC
Caulev of the Detective Bureau. and several
detective sergeants. AS soon as the men were
taken to Police Headquarters Howard proke
down and made the confession
According to the prisoners sworn statement
he has known Crawford for more tnan three
wears Crawford has been employed at various
times by patent medicine concerns throughout
,ba Irnited States but for some time past has
been engaged in managing what the ponce say
is q living in hospital conducted by his mother
in-Iav DR. Jane Bishop. at No. 170A fremont
ST. Boston. -
On the morning of September 19. two days
b.fore the dsnernb bered body of Susan A
Gearv was found. Howard called al Dr. Bisnops s
Mace to see Crawford. Howard was pretty hard
ND at the time and when Crawford suggested
that he was in a position TO get him s1o he
quickly Jumped at the chance
Crawford is alleged TO have said to Howard
.One of our patients is dead and we nave got 10
get rid of the body without delay
Then he went on to tell Howard, according 10
,ho oonroosInn that girl had died from the eI-
e+s os a criminal operation and that the BODY
bnd IN hn disposed of He explained IN dstal
what was required. and they MADE an appoint
ment 10 meet at the lying-tn nospllal ol tie ioi
Ioune morning Crawford kept Howard there
al, that day. and when night came the two maze
ready TO start
Crawford handed Howard ii small mana
satcheI while he himself carried dress suil
,asa Howard was told what Was in the Dag
ar 4 the satcheI but waS assured that no SUS
p1nta0 would he diverted upon them
Then they started for the East Boston fe7Fs'
o+ the foot of State-st. and on the way Cfa"
ford explained that they would throw the podS
in,o BOSTON Harbor at the first oppor lullii'-
crawford told Howard not 10 lose his nerve anu
tha, thev would accomplish the object W1thoul
trouble
When they boarded the ferryboat. however
rnern Unrp mora people gong 10 hAal hoA'i
thar, they had expected. and no fafofaele of
norrunttv presented itself for them 10 throw tho
satobaI and the suit case overheard When theF
reachrd Fast Boston they went ashore ana 10
divert suspicion boa reed a trolley car ana 1oue
as Far ms Orient Heights and returned.
Irpon reaching the ferryhcuse there were fe"
reonIs Il, ,be vicinity and. when the craft was
well out in the stream. Crawford said. Let her
po- ana Howard dropped the satchei "hieh
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