The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-15
CHARGE CHAUFFEUR
AND DOCTOR WITH
SUITCASE MURDER
Friends of Amelia St. Jean Ar
raigned in Court and Plead
Not Guilty.

FALL RIVER. Mass, Oct. 15.-Wil-
fred Thibeault and Professor Frank
Hill, a skin doctor. who were examined
here yesterday in connection with the
Tiverton, r. L.. tragedy, were formally
charged with the murder of Amelia
lice court here today. Both pleaded not
guilty. The case was continued for ten
days.
The men were committed to the Fall
River Jail without bail. Thibault for
the last eighteen months has worked
as chauffeur for a local attorney.
Previous to hat time he worked for
about two years in the Office of a
physician here.
Hill Is A years old and has a wife
and one child. He has maintained Of
fees as a herb doctor" here for some
time.
The main evidence on which the men
are held, according to the police, is
comprised in admissions said to have
been made by both that they were
| acquainted with the St. Jean girl and
that she had taken them into her con-
fidence.
The authorities declare that all the
| circumstances of the killing will soon
be barred.
Out of a maze of clues, partial identi-
fcations, reports of missing girls and
discoveries of clothing, has been fitted
| together a set of circumstances that
seemingly confirm the identity of the
Young woman whose d~ismeinbered body
was found along the Bulgermarsh road
in sections was Miss Amelia st. jean.
She was a Woonsocket girl, who had
until last Friday been visiting and
working here in Fall River. Several
articles of clothing which her aunt,
Mrs. Eva Lamoureaux, of Fall River,
says positively were worn by her on
Friday were found in the tangle of un-
dergrowth at Sandy Beach, a little
hamlet just on the State line between
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Policeman st. Laurent, proving
about the trees, came across a woman's
shoe, high, laced and black. This was
on the grounds in a case of empty beer
and whiskey bottles and other rubbish.
A little further on he found it's mate,
in the branch OF a tree. Then he dis
covered a black Isle stocking. which
also had been tossed aloft, some lace
edged underwear stuffed into the thick
est bush close by and then two white
underskirts.
Searching further. the policeman
found a grayish mouse-colored felt hat,
with the lining torn out and the band
partly torn away
Thiebault is 26 years old, married,
and has three little children. He lives
in a small cottage near the Fuller
homestead. He is ~dark-haired. dark
eyed, by no means alluring from a
feminine viewpoint, and of rather weak
physique.
"I don't know where Amelia went,
I've been looking for her myself" he
protested when the inspector questioned
him. When told hat her clothing a
beer found, and that 1t was believed she
was dead, he became badly scared.
Let me say good-by to my wife and
the children he pleaded. He was led
to the cottage, where Thiebault
kissed the frightened woman inc the
basies and was then conducted to head
quarters. He is known to have been on
Joy rides with the st. Jean girl. The
police say they are not at all satisfied
with what he told them about : his
whereabouts Sunday night.
HE has told u.s." Inspector Perron
said. that he spent Saturday night at
his fathers house. while his wife re-
NAMED in his own home, and hat he
spent Sunday night at his own home,
while his wife went to her fathers, OF
course his father will back him up in
this. but we think this visiting back and
forth sounds rather queer"
ON the suitcase in which the part of
the body were first found was inscribed,
Frank Hill, Pleasant avenue, Fall
River" The police say that though he
denies all knowledge of the suitcase.
Hill knew T%hiebault, the chauffeur, and
also Amelia st. Jean.
Professor" Hill, according to the po-
lice, admitted having been consulted by
the st. Jean girl about an operation to
which she had submitted and stated
that he had owned several bags such
as that in which portions of the body
were found.
Miss Amelia st. Jean, the missing
girl, was 10 years old. She formerly
was with the Human Fish" Company,
which exhibited at fairs in Maine and
elsewhere during the summer. having
returned about six weeks ago,