New Britain herald., 1924-08-02
RELATIVES CONVINCED
 DWELL WAS MURDERED
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 and l teld him to SO hnd his master,
 The deg came hack without Jim"
 She then said that she had called
 his name, as he sometimes stopped for q few moments 10 talk with her
 mother, who lives few houses away,
 Then the telephone rang and the
 company wanted 10 know if Jim had
 como home, as he was not at the plant, 1 went over to my sisters house and said that something had i happened to Jim, hut they said that
 everything would he all right"
 Mrs o'Neill's mother who vas
 present at the time of the interview, appeared calm,
 "oh. why didn't l take our dog down ta the plant Saturday morning" Mrs, o'Neill asked, He would have got the scent and gone on the trail,"
 She told of the finding of his coat and hat and was firmly convinced that he had heen suddenly interrupted In sweepings from the floor of the office, In the middle of tha floor and the broom was standing against the wall She was set in her views that her husband has been murdered.
 ''ile never would have gone away of his own free will" she repeated. "lIe surely would havo let mo know. Everything was all right at the office. but I know hNwns interrupted from his work. because he would never have left the door open and his | nYtg 1.ate h,I Ir scientious."
 Tattoo Marks on Right Arm
 Mrs O'Seill told Of several marks | Of Identification which will prove im- | portant. She said that there Is tattooing on his right arnl one of them a crescent and three owls and | the other dagger with blood drip ping from it. Besides these marks, his back is covered with scars from shrspnel wounds and he has scarI about four inches In length on the right side of his face, near the car, extending in vertical direction toward his neck.
 O'Neill has a commendabie army | and navy record, having served in the navy during the Spanish American war under "Fighting Bob" Evans, and with the Canadian Engineers during the World war. He saw a great deal of fighting during the late war and he was shell shocked, giving rise to the theory that he wandered away.
 Says Woman Heard Screams
 Pershken claims that two East Der in women had reported that they 1ad heard screams and the sound of 1realSng glass, at about the time when O'Neill is reported to have .dis- appeared. However upon being questioned, he said, they disclaimed III knowledge of the affair, probably C 'ecause they did not desire to be z rawn into the case. a
 George H. shattuck. engineer at he plant, who Is in charge of the in- estigation of the disappearance at a he plant, told his version of the a tory yesterday, as he had heard it. T t differs from the story as told to Q fr. Pershken, and reported by him.
 According to Shattuck, limousine [ ontaining four or five negroes ap- I cared at the plant a few nights be- t ore O'Neills disappearance and en- a  aged ONeill in conversation. It eveloped that they were interested I chemicals and asked O'Neil to sell lem quantity of some chemical, a sauest which O'Neill refused, asking lem to come again the next morn ,g and carry on the business through le proper channels. The men are sported to have acted ugly upon his sfusa, but they drove away, accord lg to the story.
 That was all Mir. Shattuck knew of K le story and he was not inclined V, believe that the man had been te lken away by the negroes upon the al lght of his disappearance, although oi le current story in East Berlin is a e leory considered by residents
 s verdi householders ' report that is ley were awakened by the noise of ir l automobile bound toward the to 'mpany's buildings on the night al 'Neill disappeared and the opinion al advanced among residents that this re ad something to do with the dis opcarance. ca
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