The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-30
IDENTITY OF SUIT CASE
 VICTIM IS ESTABLISHED
ETHEL DURRELL, 4 CHORUS GIRL, IN 1.-THE SHEPHERD
 KING"

Mother Identifies Rings Taken from the
 Right Hand Found in the Second
 Dress Suit Case-TeII-TaIe Message
 from "'P A. Smith, M. D., Boston,
 Received by Manager Nathan of the
 Company Who Has Been Summoned
 to Boston-Arrest Expected Shortly.
 Boston, Oct. 29.-That the dismem- bered body found in a dress-suit case at Winthrop on September 21 is that of Susan Geary. of Cambridge. is the be- lief of the girls family and friends and of the Boston police department. Miss Geary, who was the daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. D. Geary, was chorus girl of "The Shepherd King" company and was known on the stage as Ethel Durrell. She was twenty-one years old. Mrs. Geary to-day identified three. rings taken from the right hand found in the second dress-suit case, picked up near the new Charlestown bridge on Friday last, as these worn by her daughter when she absented herself from the theatrical company on September 10. Confirmation of Miss Geary's disap- pearance from the company came from Morris Nathan, secretary to the man ager of the company, and to whom Miss Geary was engaged. MT. Nathan is now in Pittsburg. According to Ma than, Miss Geary parted from him on the best of terms the day after the company closed it's last engagement in this city, and he supposed, he said, that he should see her at the performance in Lowell on the following day. In- stead, however, message was receiV- ed by the. company's manager from ''P. A. Smith, M. D., Boston," who stated that Miss Durrell'' was suffering from stomach trouble and would be unable to report for several days.
 Miss Geary dropped out of sight after that, and, so far as the police are con cerned, they have been unable to find any one who either saw or communi- cated with the girl. Ten days later, on September 21, a dress-suit case, in which was the torso of a young wonl- an, was found floating in the harbor near the Winthrop Yacht club, about three miles below the city, and on Fri day last another suit case, containing the arms and legs of the victim, was taken from the water off the city docks near the new Charlestown bridge over the Charles river On the fingers of the right hand were three rings, which gave the police the first tangible clew in the case. It remained, however, for a newspaper man to outstrip the police and find in Mrs. Geary a person who had a missing daughter whose descrip- tion was that of the suitcase victim. Mrs. Geary described the rings, com munication with Nathan was establish ed, and one of the most baifiing cases with which the Massachusetts authori- ties have had to deal for many years was partly solved to-day when Mrs. Geary and two daughters described the rings to the police and afterwards pos itively recognized them as belonging to Susan Geary.
 Having established to their own sat isfaction the identity of the victim, the police then turned their attention to the search for the person responsible for the dismemberment of the body, but up to this evening very little prog ress in that direction had been made.
 Mrs. Geary declared to-day that when she last saw her daughter the latter complained of pains in the side. and Mrs. Geary suggested to-day tlA she might have been operated upon for appendicitis and that the doctor, being unsuccessful in the operation, cut her up. Mrs. Geary expressed the opinion that the case had not been an illegal one.
 As soon as Mrs. Geary's suspicious were confirmed by the description of the rings a message was sent to Na- than at Pittsburg asking him to come to Boston and bring the note signed "P. A. Smith, M. D., Boston," Nathan states that when Miss Durrell did not join the company in Lowell an investi- gation was started in order to locate Smith, but that no trace of him could be found. Since then Nathan has been in frequent communication with Mrs. Geary, and, it is said, urged her to r1o- tify the police of the disappearance of the daughter. Mrs. Geary objected, however, on account of the notoriety. MT. Nathan said his suspicious were confirmed when he read description of the rings.