Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-15
SLAIN GIRL IDENTIFIED
Clothing Recognized by the
Father Of Amelia St. Jean.
CHAUFFEUR Is ARRESTED
prof" Frank Hill, Herb Doctor,
Also in Custody.
MISSING SINCE FRIDAY NIGHT
Chum Of Victim Said She Was
Wooed by Man Under
Suspicion.
MISSING SINCE FRIDAY NIGH

FALL RIVER, Mass, October 15.-Wil-
frid Thibault and Prof" Frank Hill.
who were examined here yesterday in
connection with the Tiverton. r. l. trag-
edy, were formally charged with the muir
der of Amelia st. Jean of Woonsocket
R. l.. in the police 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 is twenty-eight years of age
and has a wife and two children. For the
past eighteen months he has worked as
chauffeur for a local attorney. Previous
! to that time he worked for about two
years in the Office Of a physician here.
| Hill is fortyfour years old and has
wife and one child. He has maintained
offices as herb doctor" here for some
time The mali evidence on which the
men are held 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 confidence
In a tramble tbicket near the Seaconnet
| river yesterday afternoon bundle or
clothing was found which appears to
identify the young woman. parts OF whose
dismembered body were found TUESDAY
| scattered along the gloomy Bulgermarsh
road that leads out Of Tiyerton, suburb
of the city.
1t is all but certain that she was Amelia
ST. Jean, the comedy daughter OF Woon-
socket mill operative.
| Thibault was brought to headquarters
handcufed. Prof" Frank Hill was also
arrested last night. On the suit case IN
which the parts of the body were first
found was Inscribed Frank Hill, Pleas
ant avenue Fall River
Girl Missing Since Friday.
Joseph St. JEAN, father of Amelia, had
had been missing since last Friday from
the home of her aunt, Mrs. Eve La
moureaux. at No. North Sth street,
where he himself has been boarding since
he left Woonsocket to take Job in the
Lincoln mills here. .t
Friday afternoon Amelia told her aunt
that she had got a place as a housekeepcr
with respectable family just outside
Fall River. 1t came to her through an
employment agency. she said. and after
the MONDAY dinner she went down town
to report to the agency her success
! When Amelia did not return home that
| night nor the following day the father
and aunt assumed that she had gone TO
work.
Monday was her nineteenth o,rtnday,
and they were somewhat surprised at not
hearing from her on that occasion.
That night came news Of the gruesome
find In the suit case on the Bulgerm marsh
road, and next day came word that the
torso had also been found few feet from
the edge Of the roadway near by.
st. Jean and. his sister became aPpre
hensive then and went on inquiring. They
learned that the girl had not presented
herself at the house where she was sup
posed to have been engaged.
st. Jean hurried to the employment
agency. There he was told that nothing
was known of Amelia except that Thi,
bault, the chauffeur. who was acquainted
asked for her, saying that her father
had sent him to inquire 1t was then
that these facts were placed before In
spector Perron.
Amelia had left the WoonsocKet nome
last March, the father said, to seek work.
and had Travelled during the summer with
a tilird-rate theatrical company. Event
ually she returned home, and five weeks
ago came to her aunt's In Fall River.
Identification Of Body.
FIVE miles from the spot where the
last fragments of the body (the arms
and a legy were found Wednesday. yes
terday afternoons And was made. 1t
comprises shoe. a stocking. two under
skirts, a corset cover and some other ar
ticles of feminine wear.
Mrs I.amoureaux was brought to the
place. She Identified the shoe. one of a
pair she had loaned to her niece last Fri
day morning. little bundle Of torn trim
mings she was positive were torn from
a hat which also she had loaned to
Amelia Later the hat itself was found
Thibault is chauffeur for Lawyer Will
cuffed to be taken to headquarters MS
wife and three young children chung to
him, crying bitterly. He kissed them, but
did not seem at all disturbed.
He is understood and anything but pre-
possessing in appearance.
Half an hour after Thibault reached
headquarters, detective came in with
prof" HILL While the two men were
being put through the third degree, the
father Of the st. Jean girl came In.
st. Jean Sure It Is Daughter.
Being asked if he believed the victim
was his daughter. he said:
'1'm sure it's my daughter-my oldest
daughter
Thibault spoke frankly of his move
ments and whereabouts Friday. Saturday
and Sunday. Friday evening, he said, he
chum, Dilena Leblanc. on the doorstep of
Mrs Lamoureaux's home about . o'clock.
He went straight home.
Saturday. when through with his work.
he went to the home of his father and
slept there. Sunday morning he went to
early mass and then worked until pm.
Sunday night he was alone at his own
home, his wife and children having gone
to his fathers home
The Leblanc girl. when she learned that
the victim was Amelia and that Thibault
was a married man. tainted
Il thought he was single man. she
said. He told me he was, and has been
trying to keep company with me"
She admitted that once she and Amelia
had gone Joy riding" in the Fuller auto
with Thibaut.