Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-21
Providence Police Continue
Their Investigation
To Learn II Confessed High
wayman Killed Laura REGISTER.
Positive Evidence That He Murder.
ed Civil War Veteran.

Providence, r. l.. Jan. 20.-The police
department renewed it's efforts today to
determine if Ernest w. Lorenz alleged
murderer of Civil War veteran and
solf-conteSsed highwayman and assail-
ant of women, is connected with the
murder of Laura f. Register near her
home in Cranston last May.
The relatives of the murdered girl
said this morning that they had failed
to identify any of the various rings
found in Lorenzs trunks. A further
search was made by the police of the
mans various boarding places to dis
cover if any of the trinkets taken from
til" girls body have been hidden.
Grenville G. Johnson, motornlan of
the electric car on which the murderer
cell and said the man he observed get
ting into his car on that night in May
res"mblcd Lorenz very much. Johnson
declared that the man he saw, how
ever, had a moustache and wore a
light overcoat. Inquiry at Lorcnz's
lodging place brought out the infOrma-
ton that Lorenz wore a moustache for
a time but that he was never known to
have light Overcoat.
While admitting many of the crimes
charged against him Lorenz has brave
ly denied his connection with the Reg
ester case. He said he was in the vi
entity of the scene of the crime the day
the young woman was strangled to
death but went there purely out of Gu
riosity. He admitted that he sees why
the police are trying to connect him
with that case. because of his confess
ed behavior with other women who
have crossed his path.
As far as the possible connection of
Lorenz with the REGISTER murder case
is concerned the matter was being in
vestiyated by the detective depart
ment of the police today. The work
was directed by Chief Inspector c. S.
Horton, Deputy Inspector A. f. Nick
erson and Detectives John Haran and
George Monohon were under details
securing the city.
The chief of police. Patrick Egan,
after a conference with Capt. M. e.
Stone of the Central precinct station
where the man has been held since his
arrest formally turned Lorenz over to
the police of Johnson this forenoon.
Chief of Police Kimball of that town
subsequently handculfed the baker and
was soon on his way to the eighth
district court with him.
Lorenz has been positively identified
by George Williams to be the man who
on the Hartford pike Jan. 8. Inspector
c -,
this CITY found a book today of Il
matchmaker. who cleaned Mr. Mann's
watch in 1906 The numbers in the
watchmaker's book correspond exactly
with the numbers of watch found in
Lorenz's room. The defendant before
he left this city still stoutly denied his
guilt in the Mann murder. He was
arranged, however. on that charge. He
was also arraigned on the charge of
robbing William A. H. ComstOck. a
crippled Cranston farmer Dec. %
George Williams who was with Mr.
Mann and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A.
Bartlett near Scituate the day before
Christina.
Lorenz the police say. has also con-
fessed to assaulting some dozen women
IN various parts of the state and that
IL Is MS uncomfortable nature that has
caused him to commit the many deeds
of violence.
TO all the charges Lorenz answered
that ms memory failed him and that
he did not know what to plead. The
court entered a plea of not guilty and
held him without bail for trial Jan. rs
at Thornton. The prisoner was SUBJ
sequently taken to the Providence
county Jail.