Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-03-30
HER THROAT CUT.
Annie Mullins Found mur-
dered at Cambridge, Mass
Left Home Friday Night With
Strange Found Saturday.
No Clue TO Murderer...Police Hard
at Work on Case.


Boston young woman, but employed as
a domestic in a Cambridge family, was
found in a vacant lot off Teel street in
this town Saturday with the head
nearly severed from the body by two
deep gashes. and while the medical
examiner was unable after the au-
topsy to establish the motive of the
crime. the local police in the absence
of any weapon, believe that the Wo-
man was murdered The medical eX-
aminer in his statement after the au-
topsy admitted that the wounds might
have been self-inflicted.
Miss Mullen left the house of her
employer early Friday evening to visit
a friend. So far as the police were
able to ascertain Saturday, no one saw
her after that. Saturday forenoon two
boys crossing the field found her body
lying on the edge of gravel pit and
within half an hour the police were
on the scene and the work of gathering
up clues was begun.
There was evidence of a struggle in
the vicinity, for the ground was some
what torn and the hands We're clutched
as if graspng at something. Not far
off on a plowed field We're found tracks
of a mans boots leading away from
the scene These tracks We're careful
ly measured. a description of the
body and the clothing was furnished
to the press and from the name on the
womans shoe a Cambridge shoe deal
er was able to make a partial identifi-
cation, and later Captain Murray of
the. Cambridge police cleared up this
part of the mystery by definitely stat
ing that the victim was Miss Mullen.
Meantime the body was removed to
a local undertaker's rooms where
Medical Examiner Swan with his as
sistant, DR.. Durrell, performed an au-
topsy.
At its conclusion DR.. Swan said that
there was nothing in the nature or loea-
ton of the two wounds on the neck that
would show whether the case was one of
suicide or of murder There We're nc
other wounds on the body, which was
free from any signs of disease or assault
The two gashes on the neck were very
deep, all the veins in front being sew
cred. The two gasheS had evidently been
made from the front. They extended
from under each ear nearly to point
under the chin, where they did not yuite
meet.
The clotHng had not been disarranged,
but the hands showed that some effort
had been made to grasp some object.
The Identification of the body by Cap
tain John Murray Of the Cambridge po-
diee resulted lin the information that the
@oman's hoh,e was at 239 street, South
Boston, and that she was employed as Z
domestic in the household of Professor
II. G.. C. Won Tagemann of the depart
ment of Germanic phlology, Harvard
University. Professor Won Tagem&nn
lives at l13 Walker street, Cambridge.
According to the Arlington police she
left the house where she was employ ed
at 730 Friday night. Medical Examiner
Swan expressed the opinion, based on the
condition of the body. that death oc-
Cured between 10 oclocll and midnight.
From the appearance of the gashes in
the throat it is thought that they were
made with n razor. The medical exam
iner said that it would be quite possible
for a person with suicidal purpose to in
fiict such wounds and that but for the
absence of any weapon near the body
1t might be supposed to be case or sui
eide. The police went over the ground
carefully Saturday afternoon near where
the body was found but they failed to
find anything which might have served
as a weapon.
Medical Examiner Swan gave cut par
tial report of his autopsy and declared
that there We're no evidences of a GRIM
inal assault having been committed upon
the woman.
Early in the day Saturday the police
had one person under suspicion but the
matter was dismissed as improbable.
Late Saturday night Mrs. Jagemann gave
the police the information that a heavily
built man, perhaps six feet tall, was lott
ering about the house early Friday even
ing when Miss Mullen went out to post a
letter.