| Show BOSTON MURDER MYSTERY Strango Case Involving tho Killing of Two Young Women IB a Stop Nearer Solution > Boston Nov SThe strange case Involving In-volving the murder of two young women wo-men Agnes McPheo and Clara A Morton Mor-ton and the murderous assaults upon many others waa a step nearer solution solu-tion today for late tonight the police were given the custody of thy young I man who sold or as he thought pawned the watches which were taken by the socalled Jack time Slugger from the bodies of his victims Chic person In custody IB a llglHcomplcx Joiitfd negro IS years old named George L O Perry He has confessed thai he secured the watches which ho saId from a man In the Central square Cambridge He has given the name of this man to the police but the latter tonight refused to atatc whether or not he gave the name of Alan G Mason the prominent business man who Is under un-der detention at the Middlesex county Jail In Cambridge the charge of having murdered Miss Clara A Morton Mor-ton While the statement of the boy clears Slason of having been the man who personally pawned the watches still there was nothing In the boys statement state-ment Issued tonight which cither disproved dis-proved or upnflrmcd the theory that Mason wus the one who gave him the watches to pawn The police were very reticent as to what further statements were made by Perry but there were rumors tonlnht that he had said that the man was a white man Tho detention of Perry came through the Boston Childrens Aid society and Immediately through Its olllclals Charles Bertwell and Samuel Lawrence Law-rence These men were led to bcllovc that the handwriting of a young negro whom they knew through the work of the society was similar to that contained con-tained on the records tilled out by he man with the stolen watches The State police were called In The young man who proved to be Terry was found and Inter he confenaed to having hav-ing taken the watches from a man In Cambridge one a month ago just after the murder of Miss McPhee and the second last Sunday the day following that on which Miss Morton WilD murdered mur-dered In ateriey I At first the young man denied that he had ever sold a watch but later made a statement which was taken down by a stenographer stenogra-pher The boy was then turned over to Chief Wade of the State police and late tonight ofllccrs removed him to i Cambridge |
