State officer remarks on incomplete autopsy case
Deputy Chief Neal orders state police to pursue a case with an unidentified woman found in water. The medical examiner’s autopsy is pending as investigators question whether death resulted from malpractice or an experimental surgeon. The body was dumped, limbs possibly severed, and an oilcloth covering suggests deliberate concealment. The womb’s presence implies the decedent was not known to be pregnant.
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Neal
William J. McNeil
Burrell
McDonald
Central
Harris
Grady
Winthrop Centre
South
Boston
Dorchester
Winthrop
Bungled
Mystery of a Floating Valise Uncovers Murder
Rudolph Pollard of Prospect avenue, a Winthrop Yacht Club member, recalls finding a waterlogged case believed to have drifted from a boat. A crowd deemed the contents a foul murder and police were summoned as Pollard urges justice.
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Rudolph Pollard
Prospect Avenue
Winthrop Yacht Club
Allen
Disfigured torso found near Winthrop Yacht Club
Police describe a young woman, about 28 to 30, found near the Winthrop Yacht Club. The body shows deliberate dismemberment with precise cuts and signs of surgical incisions. investigators note the head had been removed and the body severed with careful suturing in places.
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Winthrop Yacht Club
Description of yacht club waterfront and raft
The rear of the yacht club opens on a piazza leading to an 800 foot wooden pier that ends at a square platform twice as wide. From there a run leads to a 380 foot square raft. A narrow 20 foot walk extends from the raft used as a temporary yacht anchorage.
Body Remains Placed in Winthrop Cemetery Tomb
The remains viewed by Medical Examiner Harris were ordered replaced in the receptacle where found and placed in the receiving tomb at Winthrop Cemetery on Madison and Winthrop streets. The remains will be moved to C. E. Bennison’s undertaking establishment for autopsy and further examination.
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Harris
Winthrop Cemetery
Madison and
Winthrop Streets
C. E. Bennison
Mystery Suitcase Trunk Found With Murder Evidence
Two Winthrop Yacht Club youths discovered a large oilcloth wrapped trunk washed ashore. Inside lay a severed, surgically altered female body with drained organs and two major abdominal wounds. Police suspect a botched operation and possible poisoning. Autopsy to confirm.
Growth of search for perpetrator after dismembered trunk found
Winthrop records a gruesome crime as state officers and the medical examiner examine the disemboweled trunk found in a yacht club float. Officials discuss clues behind closed doors while the surgeon’s actions raise suspicions. The girl’s mother identifies the victim and the couple responsible is arrested and jailed.
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Winthrop
Yacht Club
Grady
McNeil
Douglas
Harris
Sure There Was a Great Crime and Concealment
A gynecologist told the Post that all evidence points to a great crime. He argued the body origin from a medical school is unlikely and the viscera are those used for study. He suggested an underage girl sought an unprincipled practitioner to abort consequences of an indiscretion and that death occurred during an improper procedure.
Tragic 1880s Jennie Clarke Case Recalled in Winthrop Finding
The case of Jennie Clarke, a Roxbury woman murdered in the 1880s, resurfaces after her dismembered body was found in a trunk in the Saugus River near Winthrop. The nose was removed to hide identity as investigators pursued the long-simmering mystery.
Winthrop Mystery Probed by State Officers and Local Figure
Of Winthrop, a local figure joins state officers in an effort to unravel the Winthrop mystery. The inquiry brings together municipal authorities and regional investigators to pursue leads and clarify events surrounding the case.
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Defiance
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Duffy
Norumbega
Medford
M. O’kee
Tan
Boston, Mass
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Beacon Street
Tod
Thomas Jefferson King
King
Dr. King
Oxford
King Dental Parlors
Washington ST
AVON
Crosby’s
Alfred J. Allen
G. Raymond Hodgdon
Charles Street
Leroy Everett Talcott
Moore Street
Sanargyros
Fifth Ave
New York
Jennie Clarke
Polich
William J. M’neil
of Winthrop
Old Colony St
Atlantic
Mass
Wm. F. Pousland
State St
Mary J. Torney
City Mills
Jas. Sweeney
Sumner St
East
Chas. Fogarty
Linfield St
Peabody, Mass
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Chemic-Electro Institute
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