Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-23 | Page 31 | GIRL MURDERED, AUTOPSY SHOWS

mi AUTOPSY y SilO SHOW Wounds Found on Head ad of Dead Woman Discovered in Swamp SwampS 1 S x BOSTON Jan 22 2 Mabel AP-Mabel v l Nova Scotia girl whose i-f. i lody OdY w wis s in a swamp in tho Vest Roxbury district today was authorities Were con con- tonIght as a result of an performed late today S. S The autopsy bY Medical Examiner J. J Leary dIsclosed that a aS S the rIght eye fracturing S had i caused her The examination also revealed S other wounds on the thc back of head indIcating that the gIrl been beaten with a rasp or sImIlar instrument l Te e facts revealed by the thc autopsy rI i led the tle police pollee to discard a theory t. t that the girl had been struck by I 1 S ar al' al automobIle and that her body carried to the swamp by jF i I. I IJ stricken nic-stricken driver Captain Jamesp J Smith of the West Vest Box Hox- rY polIce said there was no doubt t mind that the girl was mur- mur The authorIties began an In- In with no indIcation as iIo y to the motive behInd the crIme l t her than broken a cain found on 1 the wrIst but the watch whIch if the chain had secured was ered some distance from the 1 ij dIscounting the theory of robbery r Ier handbag and vanity case were also near the body I S i Miss Florence Marsella 1 of Ded Ded- 1 S' S ham an acquaintance of the vIctim I f toW the polIce that tI the e Matheson 1 i had asked to bort borrow ow a dress dressI I h to wear to a dance Irid Iri Fr- C d' d dW f night but that she did not o q know wh whether thet she had gone to the dunce The lOlICe also intervIewed Qt f. girls who were acquaInted with Miss l Matheson without obtaIn obtaIn- j. j Sj anY tangIble clue to aId In the r of the mystery ii l 11 Miss s Matheson who was 18 years came to West est Roxbury from the he lIttle hamlet of Whycocomagh J Jn Inverness count county Nova Scotia ki je ar t ago last to live f her aunt and uncle Mr and ad c f. f Irs Angus Macritchie They identified Iden- Iden ff j d her bod body which was on only t a short distance from theIr