Watch of Agnes McPhee Found Tidbits From a Boston Case
Police tie Agnes McPhee watch to the Morton case as Nemser recalls a mulatto pawnman and an older darker man near Bowdoin Square. State police press for Nemser to identify Mason as the purchaser while surveillance continues on a Back Bay suspect.
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Pete
Bowdoin Square
Agnes McPhee
Morton
Nemser
Mason
McPhee
Back Bay
State House
Brown
Boston
Waverley Witnesses Deny Negro Murder Claim
Two witnesses Horace Smith and Lizette Fowler from McLean Asylum strongly deny Chief Watts’s theory that Clara Morton was killed by a negro. They assert the killer was white, describing close encounters with the suspect as he fled, and they stand by their identification under careful questioning.
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Waverley
Clara Morton
William Bragg Watts
Horace Smith
McLean Asylum
Lizette Fowler
McLean
Miss Morton
Miss Fowler
Smith
Chief Watts
Watts
Mr. Smith
Post
Aldead
Elder
Mason
Tyler
Crowds surround jail over suspect Mason in Boston case
Deputations of volunteer detectives besieged the East Cambridge House of Correction seeking to identify prisoner Mason as the culprit in assaults near Boston. Sheriff Fairbairn referred seekers to the State detective bureau and warned the public to await court identification next Tuesday at Harvard Square.
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Franklin Park
Watertown
Mason
George D. Ford
Jack the Slugger
Ware
Waverley
Cambridge search for colored man in Mor ton watch case
Authorities comb Cambridge for a colored man alleged to have pawned Miss Morton’s watch. Last night officials swept all main streets and colored districts with aid from state detectives.
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Cambridge
Cambridge Slugger Case Sparks Citywide Headline Hunt
A broad dragnet searched Cambridge for the so-called slugger after a colored man named John D. Carroll claimed to chase him for blocks and yielded a loaded rubber hose. Carroll, found with a detective badge and billy, was dismissed as a fake, while police note Carroll may have acted for notoriety. residents fear the Morton murder ties to a Cambridge colored suspect as authorities pursue leads and await court today.
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Cloyes
Murray
Detective Force
John D. Carroll
Carroll
Billy
West Street
Lee
West
Lee Streets
Lee Street
Broadway
Hancock Street
Chatham Street
Fitzpatrick
Teehan
Batchelder
John Murray
James Murray
McBride
Milwaukee Detective Agency
E. L. White
Somerville
White
White Barn
Cambridge
Morton
Columbia Street
Post
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South End
Cambridge Street
Menser
Robert Elder
Conductor Brown
Brookline
Beaver Brook Pond
Miss Houlahan
Toung Stevens
Lands O'Clock
Fowler
Ses Septs
Beaver Brook
Mason-Morton
Waverley Station
A. Richardson
Jeremiah Cronan
Richardson
YT. E. Brassell
Bowes
McKinnon
Mihern
A. Mullen
Toohey
James F. Flannery
Dresser
George H. Parker
Alan G. Mason
George W. Robertson
Harvard Square
Boylston Street
Young Men's Christian Association
Berkeley Street
Hereford Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Edward C. Tyler
A. G. Mason
H-O
Slugger
Sunday Post Magazine
Marion Harland
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