New Britain herald., 1926-07-15
DOCTOR AND WIFE
 BOTH BEING HELD
Murder Charged Following Death From Illegal Operation
GIRLS LOVER GIVES TIP
James Ford, Sweetheart Of Young Girl Whose nismcmbcrcd Body Was Found, Admits Taking Her to Dr. Walsh.


 Boston, July 15 P-warrants ! charging murder were issued this morning for Dr. Thomas E Walsh and his wife, who were alleged to 1 have performed an illegal operation on Miss Edith l., Greene. state ward | whose dismembercd body was found on Tuesday.
 i The police last night raided the office Of the physician in the south End, but bo,h he and his wife had ! disappeared. James Y. Ford. a young sweetheart Of the dead girl who had admitted responsibility for her condition, told the police that he took her 10 q Dr. Walsh last Fri day and that the physician told him on sunday she died after an oper- ation
 Ford Denies Knowledge.
 Ford declared that he refused to have anything 10 do with the dis posal Of the body and that the first he knew of the finding of the dis membered parts in three packages lying between two cemeteries in the Mattapan section was when he rec ognizcd the pictures Of Miss Greene which all local papers published to aid in identification.
 Ford was taken into custody last night and held on technical charges for arraignmant today The police said they would prefer charges as ! accessory against him
 Walsh An Old Offender.
 Dr. Walsh has had frequent trouble with the police before He has been convicted of practice with out q. license and has been arrested on other charges Tn May, 1912. h. was held for q time as a suspicious person in connection with an abor- ton case. In 1920. after he had been indicted for an abortiye operation on a Cambridge girl, his case Was dropped. A little later he was found not guilty Of violation Of the federal narcotic law
 In September. 1923. following a complaint hy the state board of reg istra'ion in medicine that Walsh was holding himself out < p.ac. lticinE physician vithoutS license he was convicted and fined S2Q0.
 Will Provide Funeral
 Ford was arraigned in municipal court this morning, charged with having knowledge before and after criminal abortion which resulted in the death of Edith Green. The case vas continued and he was held in $2.o00 bail.
 | When taken to police headquar- ters for finger printing and oth'r technicalitics, Ford expressed his dc sire to pay for inc girls funeral and provide a decent burial to save her from a pauper's grave.
 Expresses Regret
 Ford expressed great remorse, in his statement to the police and de- clared that he had lived a thou sand years" since the girls death. and lost 20 pounds. He said he Was ! fond of the girl, and had planned 10 1 marry her until he became frighten- cd by something she told him, when he decided on the illegal opor- alton. He said he arranged for the operation. and paid Dr, Walsh Si56 ! to do it.
 The young man said he last saw l the girl Saturday night, when she was lying on cot in the doctors S i house. At that time, he said, the doctor told him that "eyerything would he all right and the girl told him that she was feeling well. The next day the doctor told him she was dead, he said, and he fainted for the first time in his life. Wishes He'd Married Her
 T wish now, of course, that 1 had married her" he said. T did wrong. know 1t. I didn't think anything like this would happen. l will try to make what amends l 1 can by telling the whole truth about 1 if. It does not matter how much l have to suffer now"
 Police today discovered the only vital organ missing from the girls body when 1t was found Tuesday in a garbage pail at the rear Of Dr. , Walsh's apartment
 Second Doctor Sought i It also was learned that a second discredited Boston physician. known to have visited the Walsh apart ment last Saturday, was being l snupht by fhe pO1ire
 The Greene girl previously had filed marriage intentions to wed Ford. but the youth said he had changed his mind at the last min ute.
 Ford, a 21-year-old South Boston shipping clerk. told Crowley he had taken the girl 10 the doctor when she had revealed she was about to become a mother. That was on Fri day morning. Saturday, Ford said, the operation was performed and on sunday he received an urgent call from the physician and upon reach ing his office found the girl had died.
 He refused to assist in the dispo- sition of the body which was supse- ouently discovered near a cemetery wall in the Mattapan district by q laborer on his way to work early Tuesday morning,
 Mystery Cleared Up
 Ford's statement cleared up what promised to become one Of the most banling mysteries which have confronted police in years.
 The first step in the solution oi the case came late yesterday wher Elizabeth Landry, a fellow employe with Miss Greene at the Boston Psychopathic hospital, identified tho body. Miss Greene had been a state ward since the death in childhood oi
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