Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-02

alone would not be sufficient proof, but
the size Of the woman, her complexion
and all the corroborative evidence that
could be brought forward leaves not a
shadow of a doubt i'm the minds of the
police. 1t is.the height of improbability
that the rings found upon the hand and
positively identified by Mrs. Geary
and put upon another wOmans finger.
Why should this be done"
Last Christmas the Geary family was
visited with an accident or crime which
las remained a mystery both to the po-
lice and family to this day and the
identifying Of the trunk ana limbs of
the dress suit case victim as those Of
Susan Goary once more recalls to the
MINDS of the residents of that section of
Cambridge the peculiar circumstances
which surround the case at the time.
james Mcmahon was brother of
Mrs. Geary. and with his wife 3nd nine
| children lived in Holly street. near
where the Gearys now live. He worked
for the Cambridge Gas Light Co.
On the night before Christmas he
went to work as usual and left the fac
tory at . O'clock sharp. From that time
until he was found unconscious in tue
hallway leading to his fiat with his
lead and neck cut, nothing is known of
his movements
| His wife was awakened on the morn
ing of Christmas by hearing grOans in
the hallway. Hurrying to the door she
found her husband lying in Il pool Of
| blood.
She carried him to a bed and sum-
| moned IA physician, but from that time
| until he died, three days later, he neV-
er regained consciousness.
He was an even Going man and was
not known to have had any enemies
| and not q man who drank heavily.
His wife was left alone in the world
with her nine children, one of whom
died several months after the husband
and father.
Two of the children, Henry, aged 1G,
and Catherine, Is. are at work iii a fac
| tory in Green street. Boston, where
| they receive q small salary which helps
| the mother with her hard burden.
Mrs. Geary, today, state! that Law
yer SisEinds suggestion that Susan
Geary might be alive, had shaken her
belief somewhat that her daughter was
the victim of the suit case tragedy. She
said. today:
Il thought | knew the rings my
daughter wore. but now | am not Ger
tain that the ones / have identified are
the ones belonging to her"
Nathan and State officer Smith ar
rived in Boston at 40. Chief Inspector
Watts and Superintendent Pierce Of the
Boston police, met them at Providence.
A crowd of several hundred persons
were at the South Union station await
ing the arrival of the train. The party
at once entered a carriage and the trip
to Pemberton square was made with
the horse at Il gallop. Nathan was taxi
eli at once into the private Office of Su-
perintenGent Pierce ana had hardly
reached the room when messenger
came out TO call II physician.
Di. Dunn, the police physician, who
reSpundcd, informed the police officials
that it would be imprudent to question
the prisoner, tonight. and acting upon
this advice, the examination of Ma
than was postponed until tomorrow.
Nathans already weakened condition
was aggravated by meeting his broth
CT at the Back Bay station and the
sight of the two Young men weeping
on each others shoulders was so touch
ing that even the police officials We're
affected.
Nathan has been charged with abor-
ton and it is on this charge that he will
be brought into court tomorrow, when
it is expected his counsel will ask for
continuance of the case.
Captain Dugan. after Il conference
with Superintendent Pierce and Chief
Watts stated that further arrests, to-
day, were Improbable.
Nathan was held at the police head
quarters for about two hours. while
un Ter treatment by the physician. At G
o'clock he had recovered sufficiently TO
eat a light supper after which he WIS
taken to the tombS and locked up for
TIE night. None of the Geary family
called at police headquarters before
Nathan WAS taken to the tombs.