The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-14
Positive Identification Leads to Clues That Promise Arrests Within
 Few Hours
MASSIVE TRUNK NOW KNOWN TO HAVE
 CONTAINED VICTIMS MUTlLATED BODY
Identity of Little Girl Is Projected Into Mystery She panied Men Who Brought Body to Georgetown
 Is Preserved; Body Is Inferred

Startling facts of the Georgetown
 trunk murder mystery came to light,
 today. Following the Identification of
 yesterday, the arrests of the murder CTS has been monentarily expected.
 The Farmer is in a position to state
 that the trail of the s1ayers is be- ing pressed closely by scores of de- tectfves of New York and Connecticut.
 The Identification which was made
 in the vault of the Branchvil1e ceme-
 Even without@ the Identification made
 by the mysterious woman visitor who
 was chaperoned by the New York and
 Connecticut detectives, the s1euths
 the right theory. But to leave no fact improved, their suspicious were corro-
 borated by. the Woman's Identification
 The murdered woman was a middle aged widow, of eminent responsibility.
 The mutilated body, kept for days in New York city, was .finRHy packed in tectives have paid so much attention.
 Shipped from New York city On Thursday. the trunk was taken from the Georgetown station, Friday morn ing. by two unknown men.
 These men appeared at the yellow house on the Branchvills iaills durins the rear of the house.
 Friday evening they departed, car rying the heavy trunk out with them a young girl left Georgefo wn sta ton, presumably to return to New York city. not been discovered. Neither have the detectives been able to find the mys- teriol1s trunk.
 : As hours pass without discovery of the trunk, the detectives become more convinced that it has sunk to the bot tom of the lake.
 Positive 4refutation of the expert opinions advanced by doctors, before Coroner. Phelan and elsewhere, has been made by the discoveries of the de- tectiveG.
 but few hours before it was dis covered. The process of decomposi- ton. and the formation of gases incl dent thereto, had advanced so far that the body floated a stone with which the slayers had planned: to sink it and thus hide the ghastly evidence of their pounds in actual weight. Enmeshed in rope and wire fastenings, the stone held to the body as it sought the sur face.
 The Connecticut state police are practically through with the case, save cooperation with the New York police l nave eanynee aasy eo Tork detee tives that the crime was committed l in New York, and that the, trunk. 1 shipped from the Adams Express of fee at Lexineton avenue and 50th St. l last Thursday contained the body.
 It is up to the police of New York to solve the further stages of the mys- tery, and today Second Deputy Com missioner Dougherty has many of his best trained detectives on the scent.
 Acting on the theory that publicity would defeat the ends of justice, the authorities are jealously guarding thel secret.
 Having thoroughly established the fact of the presence of the body in { the trunk, the story Of it's arrival in | Georgetown is about as follows: 1
 The trunk reaehed Branchvi11e. Fri i day morning. It was consigned, G. Ma poll. Two men, one considerably older | than the other, claimed the shipment. | The younger man said he was G. Ma was given the trunk. = =
 The trunk weighed 331 pounds. It was so heavy that when the two men, both stalwart, tried to manage it, they felt the task would be more than they wanted to undertake. So they borrow ed a small hand truck from the Sta-f ton agent at Georgetown, started off the. state road toward Branchville, a mile north of Georgetown. mer whom they offered s1 for a lift with the heavy load. He refused to ac- cept the trunk They contfntIed taking turns with the truck until they reach ed a point a little to the south of the railroad station, alongside of which runs the state road Then LnGy LOOK a S10o road WniCn IuIlS up a hill on the crest of which stands a one and one-haIf story yellowt house. The house is occupied mostly by Italian 1aborers.
 It was about midday when they reached the house. None was at home. They trundlkd the trunk to the back yard. and finding it too large to carry through the doors of the house left it in a, little recess between the house and woodshed. Then they took back the truck and later return ed to the yellow house where it is said that one of them was known. f
 They represented that they had come to pay a short visit, business Some ething was said of their belong ngs. The younger man said they had 3 trunk in the back yard. Later he said he had changed his mind a.al was going away, back to New York, tEe next morning, and would take the trunk away at night.
 At 7:30 the two men went. to the rear of the house and grasped the trunk between them One Of the 1oalrtiers offered to show them their way with light. They said they wanted no light and they disappeared Town stairway nlOOnleSss q