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Show ' ' FACTS OF THE CRIME. The murderer knew the home and the family thoroughly. There was no robbery, no aisault 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. Stabbed In tho back with a great two-cdcod knlfu that pierced her lungs, and slashed In tho throat until or Jugulnr vein was severed, to give the doed an appearance of sul-uc(do, sul-uc(do, and with cloven other terrible utiiba and slashes. Miss Mabol Pago, daughter of Edward Pago, former millionaire mil-lionaire of Boston, was most foully murdorcd In her father's homo in Woston, Mass., March 31: When her father returned to tho homo at 2.80 In tho nftcrnoon, after a trip to Boston, ho found tho house unlocked and this note on a tablo 'ln tho Bitting room on the first floor: "Brother Harold has been Injured . Jaid I havo gono to tho Massachusetts - 9Genorul Hospital to seo hlm. I " " Mabol." Tho aged father mado a hurrlod I .search of tho houso, realizing his .daughter would not havo left tho ,j houso unlocked. In her room ho .found her, lying full length upon tho 'floor bcslilo her bed, with nrms outstretched, out-stretched, fully dressed for tho street, -oven to hat and Jacket, and ho saw n torrlblo gash across her throat from ear to car. Mr. Pago thought his daughter had killed herself or attempted at-tempted to do so, and ho ran to tho nearest house, half a mile away, to tolophono for medical assistance. Thoro Is riot on record In tho Commonwealth Com-monwealth an Instancu of such n cruel, brutal, unprovoked and terribly mysterious crlmo as this and tho keenest wlt3 of the State police and others arc at work In vain for somo clue, somo 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 back that penetrated tho left lung. This would havo proved fatal, and It shows tho murderer first struck the woman from bohlnd. Then there was a stab In tho centre of her breast, Just below her neck, that would havo proved fatal, and shows tho man struck a second blow as tho woman fell. Thoro nro four wounds upon her right hand, showing whore sho put her hand to ward off tho weapon. In tho throat were three slashes, ono of which severed tho Jugular voln and half severed .the head. Tho others woro vicious deep slashes, apparently mado to glvo an appearance of suicide, which only ono In a murderous frenzy would bo unwlso enough to make. In tho left side was a deep stab and In the right sldo of the abdomen were threo stab wounds, all deop and all of which would havo singly proved fatal. In all, tho brutal fiend who killed tho defenseless woman, loft alono In her father's homo, delivered thirteen thir-teen tolling blows, and at loast seven of thorn wero wild, maniacal Blashoa of mutilation delivered after tho woman wns dead. Anil yet, with all these wounds, tho dead woman lay with hor clothes on. In such a fashion that tho father and two physicians failed to reallzo sho had been murdered, as tho throat slashes wero all thoy could see. Ro-mnrkablo Ro-mnrkablo In tho oxtromo Is tho fact that thero was not n cupful of blood upon tho floor where the dead worann lay. ' .. Sho bled Internally, tho physicians declared, which explains tho extra- i -------------- ---- ... . - ordinary absenco of blood stains. The murderer so slashed and mutilated tho body that Internal bleeding was mado possible and tho blood flowed Internally caslor than It dame from tho thirteen wounds. Tho 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 her death. A noto written by her explaining that sho was going to her brother's aid was found on a table. Tho brother, howovor, was found to be in good health. |
