Winthrop Mystery: Body Found Near Yacht Club
A girl about 5 feet 4 inches tall and 135 pounds with blonde hair was found dismembered off Winthrop Yacht Club last Thursday at 6 80 o clock. Autopsy says criminal malpractice. Police pursue clues from the Old Pier Point Shirley sighting and the West End doctor couple disappearance. A Beachmont man identified a suitcase seen on a ferryboat Thursday morning aiding the investigation.
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Winthrop
Winthrop Yacht Club
West End
Watts
Winthrop and
Revere
Martha Halverston
Man with Large Dress Suitcase Seen at East Boston Station
State street official recounts sighting at Boston Revere Beach Lynn line station in East Boston of a tall man with a very large dark dress suitcase and a lighter companion. Fernald described the luggage as bulging with weight and noted the pair’s likely movement toward the Winthrop train. The man reportedly had a dark mustache and a taller companion possibly with a blond beard.
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Belcher
Point Shirley
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
East Boston
Barclay Fernald
Fernald
Post
Dr Greene Free Advice Helps Thousands Seek Health
The renowned blood and nerve specialist Dr Greene offers free patient advice by mail or in person. He operates consultation rooms at 84 Temple Place Boston Mass with an eminent staff and claims vast success curing chronic blood and nerve diseases for rich and poor alike. He urges all in need of health guidance to write or call without cost.
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Dr. Greene
Greene
Temple Place
Boston
Mass
Pieces of Flesh Found Near Winthrop Yacht Club
Travelling salesman Duffield found two fleshlike fragments about 500 yards from the Winthrop Yacht Club house. Doctors differed on whether the parts came from a human body or an animal. The pieces were taken to Beachmont for examination and left at Nickerson's drug store.
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B. Duffield
Winthrop Yacht Club
Duffield
Nickerson
Beachmont
Edward F. Cummings
J. H. Meigs
Harness makers sought in inquiry into bag repairs in Winthrop case
Police canvass harness and shoe makers in the city to locate the repairer of the suitcase found with the Winthrop victim. Interviews found no matches, but many tradespeople remain to be questioned as officials weigh rivet details and whether a trunk maker or repairer could be involved.
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Winthrop
Boston
Boston Woman’s Suit Case Repaired. Woman Vanishes
Camden Maine dispatch reports harness maker John Mason repaired a dark colored suit case for a Boston woman three weeks ago. Dr. W H Armstrong saw the woman, who appeared from Boston, call for the repairs and depart after taking the case, then she disappeared. Police note similarities to the Winthrop mystery.
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Camden
John Mason
Boston
W. H. Armstrong
Mason
Harness maker tied to strap buckle questioned
Report notes the strap around the bag appears crafted by a harness maker. Investigators suggest the buckle was specially ordered for a heavy duty use, not common on ordinary straps.
All of That Name Sifts Through Mysterious Identity
The body found at Winthrop is questioned as Martha Halverston of East Boston, but J Halverson doorplate leads the Post to the East Boston family at 11 Liverpool Street. Helen Halverson says the Norwegian surname is rare, American born sisters Elizabeth and Helen have never heard of anyone with a similar name locally or in Norway.
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Winthrop
Martha Halverston
East Boston
New Hpngland
Liverpool Street
Post
Halverson
Helen Halverson
Norway
North End
East
Boston
Watts
Carriage Detour on Hanover Street Supports Police Clues
Timothy Moriarty reported a noon sighting of a carriage and men matching Conductor Frank Belcher's description turning from Tremont Row into Hanover Street. This corroborates a key clue the Post and authorities regard as the most significant in their case.
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National Studio
Timothy Moriarty
Frank Belcher
Hanover Street
Tremont Row
Post
East Boston house searched by officers posing as fire inspectors
Four Boston officers and a Winthrop inspector visited a Bennington Street building near six pm claiming fire department inspection. They searched the first floor and rear yard for naphtha or inflammables and peered into a basement cellar, leaving after about thirty minutes amid speculation the site once served as a private hospital.
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Fire Department
Bennington Street
Suitcase Could Be Thrown From Train At Winthrop Bridge
Trainmen surveyed the Winthrop crossing between Winthrop Beach and Thornton stations and concluded a dress suitcase could be tossed into the water from the platform as a body disposal, with the bridge edge and platform heights cited. Surgeons suggest the bridge area as a plausible disposal site, noting the difficulty of dissolving remains in acid.
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Winthrop
Thornton Bridge
Winthrop Beach
Thornton Station
West End
Winthrop Yacht Clubhouse
Boston
Winthrop Considers Reward in Dismembered-Body Case
The Winthrop authorities may offer a reward to private detectives to solve the case linked to Winthrop and to locate the crime scene. Selectmen chair Magee notes uncertainty about where the crime occurred while the body’s torso is suspected to be near the cove by the Winthrop Yacht Club pier.
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Winthrop
Winthrop Magee
Winthrop Selectmen
Board of Selectmen
Remainder of Body Pieces Hunted for Clues
The article discusses the fate of the remaining body parts after a torso was found in a suitcase. It notes the difficulty of disposing of and concealing the remains and anticipates further discoveries, suggesting legs or arms may reveal the victim’s identity rather than the head.
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Charles
Fishermen sighted by two witnesses at Point Shirley
Mr Belcher reports seeing two mysterious men at Old Wharf Point Shirley Alphonso Rooke corroborates and identifies them as East Boston fishermen, placing both witnesses at the same time and location in the offshore incident.
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Old Wharf
Point Shirley
Belcher
Alphonso Rooke
East Boston
Dragging the Water for Clues at Point Shirley
Winthrop officers dragged the waters along Point Shirley hoping for dismembered body parts or clothing linked to the victim. Chief McNeil Patrolman Douglas and State Detective Grady used a rowboat grappling irons and a pier vicinity search but found nothing.
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Winthrop
Point Shirley
McNeil
Douglas
Grady
Mystery satchel linked to Winthrop case of mutilated remains
A leather satchel possibly containing surgical instruments was found on a Winthrop circuit train of the Revere Beach Lynn railroad and sent to the claim department. Police are tracing ownership as part of the investigation into the mutilated remains found near Winthrop. John Quigley found the satchel around 6 30 p m Thursday evening and handed it to a brakeman who passed it to the claim department before a fashionable woman retrieved it.
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Winthrop
Revere Beach & Lynn
States
John Quigley
Claim Department
Two Men Seen With Heavy Suit Case Near Point Shirley
Fireman McCarthy of Hose 1 Winthrop told a Post reporter he saw two men on Thursday afternoon toward Point Shirley. One carried a large bulging dark case, the other a smaller bag. One was white and the other colored. the heavier bag carrier appeared foreign. They passed about 3 pm and returned unseen. Cholera Infantum quickly succumbs to Arnold's Balsam and costa but a quarter.
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Winthrop Train
McCarthy
Hose 1
Winthrop
Post
Point Shirley
Lynn Police Raid Game
Three of 15 Greeks were arrested in a gambling raid at 379 Washington Street in Lynn at 10 p m. Sergeant O'Brien and four officers conducted the raid. The rest escaped through a secret rear door. Officers found 13 35 in small bills along with chips and cards on the tables. The three detainees refused to name players or provide addresses.
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Lynn
Washington Street
O’brien
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