The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-25
Better Known as Dr. Gill, He Was Husband of Nancy Guilford Whose Malpractice Led to Death 7 of Emma Gill and Sensa- tional Mystery That Stir red tho Country.
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 New Bedford, Mass. Aug. 25-Dr. Henry II Guil4ord of Hartford. where he is known as pr. Henry F. \ CHI, vas married yesterday in this ! city, tho bride being Miss Bertha 4 ;C3eax1ne, who has been his house. keeper. She is 40 years old. while her husband is 70. Dr. Gui1fcrd was the husband of ' the notorious Nancy Guilford, who luas ssntsnced to 10 years in state's prlsna .for caunlne tho death by crim- tnal operation here in September. \. 1884 of Ennmaf Glu. of Southington- pr. Gpfl6ord w1s arrested for conn pairiky in the crime but escaped pun 1nhmenf, although members of the local ds1ecf1ve department who work a on tho cass haSo always believed thai he was tho rea1 culprit.
 The k111inx Of Emma Gill was one < Of tho must sansafional crimes ever 'recorded heea The disclosure of Ithose responhble and the fixing of the ident1ty of the dead girl in which Uetecttvo Le0na<d Edward O. Cronan H'Hnd t1ze cl1ie1 part, was one of the cleverest bfts o6 detective work ever pexformed by o1dcers of the local de- paxfmeut- .Anof7ber arrange icircum- stance connactod with the case was that . man nansd Harvey of Middle bury, MansL, vhuoe daughter was lmiannz, cana here, identified the body and wzs about to have the body z buried when the unizsdng girl returned sh0ma
 - The dlzu,emblred body of Emma Gin was found in Yellow NH pond The tcGso wrapped in mans under clothing was found near Seaview ave me and tho Ambs In other parts of the pond The head was picked up near Yellow Min bridge. The finding of this di&memlSersd corpse created a senntdon all ovur the state. The head w1s preserved in . pail of alco- hol at tho murguo and dozens of per sons frOm m parts of the state who reported misstng girls. viewed the head in an e1prt to identify the body.
 Al length Mr. Harvey appeared from Middlebury. He at once identi- { lied the head as that of his daughter and ciinched the dissatisfaction by not ing certatn marks on 1t. His daugh- ! ter had left home ostensibly for a vacation to be spent with an uncle. i The girl was highly respected, a mem ber Of the chOdr of the Presbyterian church in her home town and book ]. keeper in the principal store there. No breath of suspicion had ever at Z tached to her character and news of what appeared to be her sensational death from foul play, created nine dayS sennaf1on in Middlebury county, MaaachusettA
 Her father, overcome with grief. carried the body home for burial The funeral service was arranged for Sunday afternocn and the entire townspeople had turned out to attend tho service. Every incoming train and hundreds of vehicles along the country roads was bringing hundreds of morbidly curious people from all over Middlebury county, when from an incoming train the Harvey girl alishted smiling happily and utterly unaware of what had transpired in ,her absence It developed she de- sired to make a trip by herself and fearing she could not get parental 1ccnsent had said she was going on . vacation visit to her uncle-
 In the meantime Lieut.. CrQnan was mot satisfied with the Identification of the body made by MT. Harvey. The Guflfords occupied a house in Gilbert lstreet opposite Court street. Capt. Arnold, now retired, and Lieut.. Cro- nan, found laundry marks on the un- derclothinE in which the Gill girls torso was wrapped which pointed to- ward the Guilfords. They dug up in the yard a money order receipt dated from Plantsvi11e and working on their suspicious on this slender clue they learned that Harry Oxley of that town had taken the Gill girl to the Guil- lords for the criminal operation.
 A dentist now practicing here but then in Southington, gave the detec- tives diagram of the dental work he had performed in Miss Gilps mouth and although relatives of the girl were reticent at first, by this means the girl was finally Identified
 While the detectives were working put their case Mrs. Guilford took fright and left Bridgeport secretly. The detectives learned she had sailed Tor England and they caused her ar rest after she had reached London. Tn the meantime her husband and her scrippled son were arrested here