The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-03

| what was in the bag ana Sdtcnei, put was assured that no suspicion would be at tracted to them. They then started for the East Boston ferry, and on the way ! Crawford explained that they would | throw the body in the harbor at the first | opportunity Crawford told Howard not | to lose his nerve, and that they would 1 accomplish their object without any | trouble.
 When they boarded the ferry boat, how | ever there were more people going to | East Boston than they had expected, | Howard says, and no favorable opportunl- l ty presented itself. At East Boston they | went ashore and rode on trolley car i to Orient Heights and returned. When | reaching the ferry house there were few | people in the vicinity and when the craft was well out in the stream Howard said | Crawford said: Let her go," and How l ard dropped the satchel which contained | the head of the dead girl, while Crawford dropped over the stern the suitcase con | taining the limbs. Howard said he thought | the job was done, but Crawford told him | that there was another portion of the
 body to be disposed of, and straightway | they went to the Fremont street hospital | and got another suitcase. Howard says | he took the case and with Crawford drove | to the Chelsea ferry. where they boarded | a boat and when nobody was looking | threw the suit case into the river. Before
 
 | The next day he got s3O, Crawford holding | out $lo and saying they had not taken 1 in much at the hospital.
 Howard Was Startled.
 | Two days later Howard was startled when he heard newsboys calling out about the gruesome find of dismembered | body in q suit case and immediately he went to the hospital and told Crawford
 he was scared and wanted to leave town. | Crawford gave him some more money, he says and told him that he intended l to get out with him and that he would accompany him to New York. On Sep tember 22 they came to New York. Short | ly afterward the police of this city re- | ceived a message from the Boston au- I thorities asking them to look out for Crawford, who it was believed could throw some light on the mystery. It was l by constantly watching the New York l theatrical agencies that the two men now l in custody were located
 | Three Men Under Arrest. l Boston November 2.-With three men under arrest, one of whom is said to have made a confession and four impor- | tant witnesses on their way to New York | to confront two of the men who are in custody. the local authorities believe they | are within a measurable distance of | final solution of the dress suit case I tragedy of which Susan Geary, Cam bridge chorus girl, was the victim l The men in custody besides Morris Ma | than. the girls lover. who was brought l back from Pittsburg yesterday in a state | of collapse, are Lewis W. Crawford of | this city, son-in-law of Mrs. Dr. Bishop, who formerly conducted an office on | Fremont street. and man calling him 1 self William Howard.
 Start for New York.
 l The four witnesses started for New l York tonight in charge of Chief Police Inspector William B. Watts and Super | intendent of Police William II. Pierce. | The men are Joseph Berkman and his 1 partner. Louis Vilensky. proprietors of 1 loan company; Meyer Rubin, another pawnbroker. and Timothy Howard, | hack driver. Berkman and Rubin claimed 1 to have sold the suit cases in which I the dismembered parts of the body were l placed and thrown into the harbor, while l Howard. the hackman, drove two men who carried two heavy dress suit cases.
 to the Chelsea ferry. The police have