The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-02
ARREST IN THE DRESS
 SUIT CASE MYSTERY
MAN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON SUSPICION OF BEING AC-
 COMPLICE.

Another One Held as q Witness
 William A. Haynes Said to Have
 Made Statement That He Had Cut
 Up a BOdy-SamucI \. Wingfeld to
 Whom He Made It Informs Reporter
 Haynes Declares Wingfield is Mis-
 taken in What Was Really Said.
 Boston, Oct. 1.-The first arrest in connection with the finding in the har- bor near Winthrop on September 21 of a dress suit case containing the torso of a woman on whom the medical ex- aminer states an illegal operation had been performed, occurred to-day when the local officers took into cus- tody on suspicion of being an accom- pllce in the cese, William A. Haynes of 5 Chambers street. West End, this city.
 The arrest is stated to have been made on statements by Samuel A. Wingfeld, who told the police that he had friend who had cut up body.
 Haynes was examined at length by the police, and while he denied the ac- cusation and claimed that his friend had confused it with his being on a coroner's jury, he was locked up. Haynes is a clerk in a shipping office. Wingfield was also held as a witness.
 The authorities while declining to make a definite statement regarding the arrest, indicate by their manner that they are far from confident that the right man is being detained. Up to this evening no definite charge had been preferred against Haynes. Wing field was interviewed in a West End saloon by a newspaper man on Friday and the attention of the police was called to alleged statements made by him regarding Haynes on Saturday. Without notifying either the state or the high officers of the local depart ment, two policemen connected with station No. 8, at the West End, early to-day took Wingtield, and Haynes to the station, where they were both ex- amined oy Sergeant MouIton. The ex- animation lasted about three hours, during which Wingfield Is said to have told a rambling story in very nervous manner that Haynes had informed him that he (Haynes) had cut up a body or a portion of one at T wharf, near where he is employed. Wingffeld could not say whether the body was that of d man or a woman.
 A woman named Kate Conway, who claims to be engaged to Wingfield, is said to have corroborated some of his statements regarding Haynes. Haynes denied that he had ever made such statements and asserted that his friend had confused the fact that he (Haynes) had been on a coroner's jury and also had helped once to drag a body from the water near the wharf Wingfield came here year or two ago from Baltimore and opened an ocu- lists office. Business did not prove profitable and he obtained a position as clerk in 8 grocery store. Wingfield is thirty-three years of age. He has been arrested here on several occa- sions on charges of intoxicatfon. Haynes is also said to be southern man. He is thirty-eight years of age, and is married. His wife is at present | in Cape Breton. Haynes is employed tbo SiClh ttE LGWlS WudIl ny IHb Ocean Steamship company. In some | respects his description resembles that of the man who purchased dress suit case at Pawnbroker Berkman's stone on Pleasant street. Berkman and a hack driver who claims to have carried i two men and heavy suit case to the Chelsea ferry the night before the f1nd- l ing of the disuemhared hodv ara IJe brews. To-day was an important Jew ish holiday and neither witness would agree to see the prisoner until to-mor- row.
 Chief Inspector William B. Watts de- clined to discuss the latest develop ments to-day. In police circles, how ever, it appears to be the general feel ing that the case against Haynes is not of the strongest.