Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — BOSTON'S MYSTERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOSTON'S MYSTERY.

Mnnse Complications in the Shocking “Jack the Slugger” Cases. The most complicated and confusing case that ever engaged the attention of the Boston police authorities is the "Jack

the Slugger" mystery, developments in which have interested people in all parts of the country since the arrest of Alan Gregory Mason oil suspicion of having perpetrated u scries of thirteen murderous assaults on women in the suburbs of Boston during the past several months. Ths

ALAN O. MASON.

family of which Mason is a member is one of the most aristocratic in Boston and he is a man of culture nnd has been reared in refinement. Ilis arrest created a great sensation. Soon after the police brought him into public notice in connection with tjie case, it was decided to release him beeuuse of an alibi furnished by relatives. Several persons came forward, however, and testified that they had seen him at Waverly in the vicinity of where tlie latest assault was perpetrated on Alias Clara Morton Nov. 1, and he was held for her murder. Suspicion was again turned from him when it was learned that Miss Morton’s watch, which had been stolen, had been pawned by a negro and the subsequent arrest of the one who had disposed.of the watch. But the negro, a youth named George L. O. Perry, claimed he had received the timepiece and also one belonging to Miss Agnes MePliee, who was murdered Oct. 3, from Mason, and he identified ldm as he stood in line with several others. But the pawnbroker who received the watches declares that Perry did not pawn rliem, asserting that it was another negro. Mason was afterward discharged from custody, tlie evidence being insufficient to hold him. The police arc greatly perplexed by the tangle of contradictory evidence, but they confidently expect to bring the guilty party to justice ns a result of information that will develop from the arrest of other persons suspected of know ledge of cases.