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SUIT CASE MYSTERY IGArrest of William H. Haynesat Boston.nFRIES!) TOLD OF BODY BEiSC CUT UP !‘1 tiPrlnoncr on of Sum- \ ,\uf I 4. Wlojrli«*lff, Wlio I* Held aai1HIn U Um'iikmI Ih iiim | |t III* i I* i Hit*. 5V.Ii tV 11UBOSTON. Ot i j Mm tit*-1 an t mconnection with tin* finding in the* bar ! lior near Wlnthrop - •* « - suit castrontaining tin* torso of a woman onwhom the medlcai examiner states anIllegal operation had lieen performed occurred in thi city when tin* policetook into custody oil suspicion of being an accomplice in the ease William11 Haynes of o2 (hambers street.West End, this lt;ity,I In* arrest is stated to have beenmade on statements by Samuel A. Wingfield, who told the police that lie had a friend who had cut tip a body.Wingfield and Haynes were examined by Sergeant Moulton. The examination lasted about three hours, dtir- I mg which Wingfield is said to have told in a rambling and very nervousmariner that Haynes had informed him that In* (Haynest bad cut up a body or a portion of one at I wharf, near , where he is employed. Wingfield could not say whether the body was that of a man or a woman.Haynes was examined at length bythe police, and while he denied the accusation and claimed that bis friend j bad confused it \n ith bis being on a ! coroners jury la* was locked up.Wingfield was aNo hold as a witness, jA woman named Kat* Conway, who claims to be engaged to Wingfield, issaid to have corroborated some of his statements regarding Haynes. Haynes deuied that he bad ever made such statements and asserted that bis friend had confused tin* fact that hi* (Haynes)bad been on a coroner’s jury and also bad helped once to drag a body from the water near the wharf.Haynes is said to !♦* a southern man. He is thirty-eight years of age and ismarried. His wife is at present in raja* Breton. Haynes is employed as a clerk at Lewis* wharf by tin* Ocean Steamship company, in Home respects his description resembles that of the man who purchased a dress suit caseat Pawnbroker Berk man’s store on Pleasant street.Chief Inspector W illiam B. Watts declined to disc uss tin* developments inthe ease..
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Middletown Daily Argus
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Oct 02, 1905
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