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Show FACT8 OF THE CRIME. ' The 'murderer knew the home and 'the family thoroughly. There was no robbery, no assault and no apparent object In the murder. mur-der. Tho story of injury to the brother shows careful premeditation. The mutilating slashes made after death shows that It was not the work of a hardened criminal. No tracks, stains or clues of any sort have been found In the house. Stabbod In the back with a great two-odgod knlfo that pierced her lungs, and slashed In tho throat until or jugular vein was sovered, to glvo tho ilccd an appearanco of sill-oldo, sill-oldo, and with cloven other tcrrlblo stabs and slashes. Miss Mabol Pago, danghtor of Kdwnrd Pago, former mil-II mil-II on ill ro of lioston, was most fottlly murdered In her father's home lc Weston, Mass., March 31. Whon her father returned to tho homo at 2.30 In the afternoon, after a trip to Boston, ho found tho house i unlocked and this note on a tablo In tho flitting room on tho first floor: " Ilrotlior Harold has been Injured and I lmvo gone to the Massachusetts General Ilnspllal to see him. " Mabel." Tho aged father mnrio a hurried suurch of tho house, realizing his daughter would not have left tho houso unlocked. In her room ho found her, lying full length upon tho floor hosldo her bed, with arms out-stretchod, out-stretchod, fully dressed for tho strcot, nvon to hat and Jacket, and ho saw a terrible gash across her throat from oar to car. Mr. Pago thought his daughter had killed herself or at-tomptod at-tomptod to do so, and ho ran to tho nearest house, half a mllo away, to telephone for medical assistance Thoro Is not on record In tho Commonwealth Com-monwealth an lnstnnco of such a cruol, brutal, unprovoked and terribly mysterious crlmo as this and tho koencst wits of the Stnto police and others are at work In vain for some cluo, some slight thing upon which thoy may build a theory that will stand, but all to no purpose Theso are tho wounds the undertaker under-taker found: A stab In tho hack that penetrated tho left lung. This would liavo provod fatal, and It shows the murderer first Btruck tho woman from behind. Then there was a stab in tho centre of her breast, Just below her nock, that would Jiavo proved fatal, and shows tho man struck a second blow as the woman fell. There aro four wounds upon her right hand, showing where she put her hand to ward off the weapon. In tho throat were three slanhcs, ono of which severed the Jugular vein and half severed tho head. The others woro vicious deep slashes, apparently made to glvo an appearance of suicide, which only ono In a murderous frenzy would bo unwise enough to make. In tho left side was a deep stab and In the right side Of tho abdomen wcro threo stab wounds, all deep and all of which would have singly proved fatal. In all, tho brutal fiend who killed the defenseless woman, left alono lu her father's homo, delivered thirteen thir-teen telling blowB, and at least soven of them woro wild, maniacal slashes of mutilation delivered after the woman was dead. And yet, with all theso wounds, tho dead woman lay with her clothes on, In such a fashion that tho father and two physicians failed to realize sho had been murdered, as tho throat slushes wero all they could see. Ho-markablo Ho-markablo In tho extrcmo Is the fact that therd wns not a cupful of blood upon tho floor where the dead woman lay. Sho bled Internally, tho physicians doclared, which explains tho extra-i ordinary absenco of blood Btalns. Th murderer so slashed and mutilated tho body that Internal bleeding was made posslblo and tho blood flowed Intornally easier than It camo from tho thirteen woundB. The woman apparently had been Informed that her brother, who worked In Boston, had been Injured in an accident, and taken to a hospital. Sho was preparing to leave at once, for Boston when she met 'bar death. A noto written by her explaining that sho was going to nor brother's aid was found on a tablo. Tho brother, however, was found to bo In good health. |