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TELLS HOW EMMA GILL’S BODY
WAS CUT UP BY DOCTOR
; NANCY GUILFORD.
THE DOCTOR STILL IN HIDING.
THE DETECTIVES ARE ON HER TRAIL
{AND HER ARREST ISHOURLY _
EXPECTED.
The only mysterious feature of the
Yellow Mill pond crime unsolved, is
the present whereabouts of Mrs. Nancy
Guilford. Detectives are hot on her
trail and her apprehension is hourly
expected.
The confession of Oxley has added to
the already overwhelming. evidence
secured by Superintendent Birming-
ham and his clever workers, Captain
Arnold and Detective Cronan.
Walter C. Foster, the Hartford yeast
salesman who was arrested in that city
Friday night in company with Howard
Guernsey. was arraigned in the Bridge-
port police court Saturday morning on
the charge of attempting to procure an
abortion on Emma Gill. _
Just as soon as his case, was called
Attorney. Bartlett recommended a
nollc which was adopted by ' Judge
Carroll.
Attorney J. B. Klein appeared for
Harry Guilford, who was arraigned on
the same charge as the preceeding
prisoner. Attorney Klein said he was
ready to go on with the case and hoped
the state was also. If the case was to
be continued he pleaded that bonds be
set at an amount proourable as he
claimed his client had no reason to.
' decamp.
Attorney Bartlett asked for a con-
tinuance until next Saturday and that
bonds be set at $2,000. Judge Carroll
granted the continuance asked, when
Attorney Klein argued for a reduction
of bail. He cited sundry cases and
succeeded in having the bail reduced
'to $1,500. This amount could not be
secured and Guilford was taken to jail.
Sherman F. Guernsey, a member of
the last General Assembly,arrived from
Hartford Saturday noon. He was ac-
companied by James Oxley. Both
gentlemen came to plead for their way-'
ward sons. In view of Guernsey’s
slight connection with the crime his
freedom was secured in bonds of $500.
He left directly for Southington.
Oxley’s father did not learn the true
state of affairs until imparted to him
by Superintendent Birmingham. He
broke down and cried when he learned
thataterm of years in state’s prison
stared his son in the face. Bail was
fixed in Oxley’s case , at $1,500, which
could not be secured and the father re—
turned home heart broken with the
sad truth to impart to his wife.
Oxley confessed soon after his ar-
His statements
added greatly to the already over.
whelming evidence in possession of the
police. Unintentionally Oxley made
his friend Guernsey liable to the law
by giving him possession of letters
which he received from Mrs. Nancy
f "Guilford, presumably containing state-
l.ments relative to the G111 girl’s con
,dition and the subsequent operation.
These were destroyed by Guernsey
who furnished the money for the op-
The
disgrace of being connected with such
eration which resulted fatally.
an affair has affected Guernsey great-
1y.
wife and child.
He is a sensitive fellow and has a
From the time the missing portion of
Emma Gill‘s body was found in the
waters of Yellow Mill pond' there was
no doubt in the minds of Superinten-
dent Birmingham or Detectives Arnold
and Cronan. officials
were morally certain but they did not
These clever
. have the evidence then to back their
assertions. Now they have and are all
ready to proceed with the case just as
soon as the doctress is arrested and
brought back to meet her doom.
In the opinion of the police Emma
Gill died from the effects of a criminal
operation performed in the home of
Mrs. Guilford on Gilbert street, oppo-
site Court street, on Saturday evening,
Sept. 10th. That her dead body was
,brought to the bath tub on the follow-
ing day by herself and son Harry, where
it was cut up. ,
When the police made an investiga-
tion of the house after Mrs. Guilford
had departed so suddenly they made
some startling discoveries which have
just been disclosed. Down in the cel-
lar 1n the ashes from a fire built in the
furnace on Sunday were found the half
burned heel of a woman’s shoe corres-
ponding with that size worn by Emma
Gill. '
A few scorched corset steels and the
skeleton of a pocketbook were also
found. That she burned the intestines
seems very probable, but on this point
the police are reticent. Some of the
neighbors state that a dense smoke
was seen to issue from the Guilford
house chimney, Sunday, and that a
strong odor of burning flesh was
noticed. _
Harry Guilford was cook at the New
Haven Yacht club. He was a young
man who always liked the water and.
never lost an opportunity to go on’ a
yachting expedition. In addition to
other things he learned that art of
tying knots peculiar to those used to
seafaring life. ,.
When the dismembered body was
found in the waters of Yellow Mill
pond the'sharp eve of Superintendent
Birmingham noticed that the knots
were tied sailor fashion. This escaped
the eyes of the newspapermen as well
as others who saw the mutilated body
unwrapped. It was a bad mistake and
added a strong link to the chain of
circumstantial evidence. Rubber sheet-
ing was another piece of tell tale ‘ evi-
dence. .- - ‘
0n Sunday’evening at 9 o’clock Mrs'
Guilford visited a local livery stable
and asked for a horse and team. The
liveryman jokingly remarked: “Mrs.
Guilford, your. hair is getting gray.”
“Yes,” she said, “I have had enough
trouble to make a dozen women’s hair
white. I am getting too old and the
chances are too great to continue at
my business. Since that New Haven
scrape I have dropped the whole busi-
ness.”
By this time the carriage was ready
and she drove to her residence. It was
a phaeton With two side lamps and not
rubber tired. There was no opening in
the rear to place any packages. 9 The
dismembered legs were carried out and
placed in the wagon by Harry. - The
latter got out his bicycle, lit the lamp
and rode down Gilbert street to Water
street. He was followed by his mother,
heavily veiled and sitting back in the
carriage.
The couple proceeded to the Fairfield
' avenue railroad crossing continued
over Stratford avenue to Connecticut
avenue and stopped at the Bishop ave-
nue cut.
oughfare and unfrequented. The stones
were tied about the body by Harry
andlthe couple returned by the same
road to the Seaview avenue bridge,
This is a poorly lighted thor-
where the limbs were thrown in the
water by-Harry.
On Monday, the next evening, the
same horse and carriage were secured
by Mrs. Guilford at 7:30 o’clock. The
remainder of the body was placed in
the carriage and driven across Main
to Water street, from where the crowd
standing around the morgue was vis-
ible. _
The same route was gone over and
On each
trip Harry Guilford returned to New
the same tactics resorted to.
Haven on his wheel while Mrs. Guil-
ford drove around in the carriage until
11:30. A peculiar feature of this inci-
dent, Whmh makes It all the more ~' remit cloth’jackets to close, 85.00 each.
Our winter jackets are here: we want
audacious, is the fact that the livery-V
man has not been paid yet.
Mrs. Guilford departed from Bridge-
port on the 12.25 train for New York
city on the morning of Wednesday,
Sept. 14. Later on that day her home
was entered by the police and thorough-
ly searched. The first discovery made
was that of Harry Oxley’s name and
address on paper. Next pieces of
clothes line and curtain cord corre-
sponding with that found tied about
the bundles.
Abed sheet containing blood spots
'came next with a pair of Mrs. Guil-
ford’s Oxfords, bearing blood spots. A
white skirt with a 22 inch waist band,
presumably the property of Emma Gill,
A surgical in-
strument case containing instruments
such as those used in criminal opera-
tion cases was hit upon. These instru-
ments had been carefully cleaned. It
was said that when the police entered
the bath room the stench’ was much
like that from a decomposed body. The
was ‘also discovered.
laundry mark “G 51” was also hit up-
on. There was evidence to show that
the bath room had been carefully
cleaned.
Evidently Mrs. Guilford believed that
the body of Emma Gill would never be
found. What an inward feeling of
delight she must
when she read of the awful /mistake
made by the father of Marian Perkins,
of Middleboro.
Mrs. Guilford was doubtless confi-
dent that she was performing a very
have experienced
clever job and that detection was out
of the question. If she thought other-
wise she would doubtless have destroy-
ed the »facial features of her pretty
victim. By doing this She would have
had a good chance of never being dis-
covered and the crime would have
gone down among the unsolved murder
mysteries committed in this state. She
evidently thought that a very different .
cendition of affairs existed in that por—
tion of Yellow Mill pond where the
body was found. ‘
0.1 good authority it was stated last
evening that Rosa Drayton and her
daughter Clam. had made confessions
of their knowledge of the crime to the
police. Just how much had been con-
fessed to is not knoWn at this time but
it is dafe to Say that their statements
[are most, damaging to. Mrs. Guilford
and her daughter Eudora as well.
Clara Drayton was employed in the
Guilford household up to the time that
Mrs. Guilford decamped. She says
that Eudora was in the habit of visit-
ing the patient frequently and that
Harry was in the house on the night
the crime is thought ,to have been com-
mitted. I
The Gazette Wonders.
Where the street sprinkler was this
morning. ,
If the roof of the new police head-
quarters leaks.
Who will be nominated at the Second
district republican caucus to-night.
If John Kirsch sold Hugh Marron an
empty keg of beer Saturday night.
Why so, many sons of rest are in
town. ‘
If the town report will be given to
the lowest bidder.
Why everybody goes to the Danbury
fair. -
If the sending of a few tramps to jail
would not have a good effect on those
coming to town. '
Congressional Convention.
The Democratic Congressional con-
vention for the nomination of a candi-
date for Congress in the Fourth
District will be held in the town hall
of Danbury, October 11. The number
of delegates attending the State
Convention is the number entitled to
the Congressional. The call is issued
by Isaac N. Bartram, chairman Con-
gressional Committee, and Christian
Swartz, secretary, of South Nor-walk.
EDGAR TOMS MISSING.
Failed to Turn Over G. A. R. Money
Before Leaving.
Edgar A. Toms, a member of Hobbie
Post, G. A. R, is missingr from his
home in Stamford and has been for a
day or two.
The supposition is that Mr. Toms is
in Philadelphia as he left word with
his son in New York that the Quaker
city was his destination. Mr. Toms
has been collecting articles and money
for the past week or two for the an-
nual fair of Hobbie Post. The articles
he had simply been promised and had
not collected but some of the money he
.had. .
rAccording to collectors’ book which
Mr. Toms left behind him about $37
had been received from parties in
Stamford to be turned into the fair
fund. Before going away Mr. Toms
left a note for his wife informing her
that he was bound for another place
and that she would receive word from
him later. He said nothing about the
money he had collected.
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New Milford Caucus.
A. B. Mygatt, president of the Na-
tional bank at New Milford, and who
has been for 16 years examiner of
banks under the Republican adminis-
tration, called‘the Democratic caucus
to order at New Milford Saturday after-
noon.
?us Weather.
Threatening \\'13.1Cll!':i‘ trnight and
Tuesday.
Drowned in Housatonic Canal.
James D. Walsh, of Derby, aged
thirty-nine, a blacksmith and unmar-
ried, was drowued in Housatonic Canal
at an early hour yesterday morning.
Walsh and Patrick Ryan were driving
over Housatonic avenue when the horse '
took fright and ran away. Ryan was
thrown out just before the canal was
reached. The horse, instead of con-
tinuing in theroadway, ran on the
trestle ofthe electric road and then
into the canal. The horse swam abbut
two hundred feet and then‘ climbed up
a. bank. Walsh’s body was recovered
about fifty feet from the trestle.
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' Weddings. '
During the coming month Westport
will be afforded an unusual spectacle
in Memorial church of the Holy Trini-
ty, 3. double marriage, the brides, two
bright and accomplished young ladies,
daughters of Mr. Arthur Sherwood, of
Sherwood’s island, Misses Alice May,
and Harriet Edna Sherwood, the
grooms, Messrs. Louis H. Arnold, of
New York, and Vernon H. Yarnell of
Boston, Mass. Society is on tip toe to
know what the details of the affair are
to be, but it can be said in a general
way, they will be elaborate. .
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Nothing to Eat.
A tramp called at a West street resi-
dence Saturday morning, and upon be-
ing advised by the lady of the house
that she had nothing for him to eat,
remarked, “There are more people in
Nor-walk without anything to eat than
in any town I ever struck.”
~AI] the successful Merchants or:
this City Advertise in THE GAYEITTE.
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Fall Jackets.
$10.00 black diagonal $7.50 and $10.00
room for them; the light weight ones
must go.
Blankets.
An immense stock. Just to make a
run Saturday only, we will sell 2 cases,
one white and one grey, blankets at 410
each, limited two pair to customer.
$1.50 blankets, ' $1.25 '
$2.25 “ $1.75
$3.50 “ $2.75
$4.00 $3.25
$7.50 “ all wool, $5.25
. Domestics.
Pillow cases, fine muslin, 2 for 250.
Large sheets, 390.
1 case of heavy brown sheeting, 5c.
1 case of very fine muslin, the 8 cent
kind, for a run Saturday, 6c.
1 case of dark outing remnants, the
Sc kind for 50.
New Dress Goods.
52-in. fine broadcloths, in all colors,
the correct cloth for tailor gowns,
Drap d’ete, combed backs, makes a
fine hanging suit, three weights, 750,
$1.00 and $1.25, all new colorings.
Poplins in all colors and black, 75c. ‘
Silk and wool plaids, 750.
Silk and wool
wide, 50c.
50 ps. fancy and check suitings, all
new, 500.
Children’s school suitings,
rep plaids, 38 in.
250, 15c
three weights, 750, $1.00 and $1.25, -
Out Winter Jackets are
N ow on Sale.
You are invited to inspect them.
They are all tailored garments made
for us exclusively. As the cut shows
they are made both styles, high collar
and rever collar; both correct; damp
climates like curs, the high collar is
best. Our st0ck as usual will be the
largest in town.
New Fall Gloves.
Our importation of. fall stylesdin
Ladies Trifousse and Maggioni former-
ly (P. Centemeri) kid gloves, will be
ready for your inspection Saturday. '
All the newest colorings and embroid-
eries with Clasps, together with the
lowest prices, will make the display
very attractive. '
Real Kid Gloves.
_ '200 pairs ladies 4 button, 2 clasp, and
a hook, in reds, tans, modes and
, whites, with black and self embrOLder-
ed backs, regular price, $1.25, but for
Saturday, opening price per pair $1.00.
120 pairs 3 clasp Trifousse black kid
gloves, regular price, $1.95 for this
sale, $1.50.
Tailor Made Suits.
25 suits in navy, green and black,
$10.00.
10 suits of last spring’s make, that
were $15.00, we will close at $7.50 each,
and by altering the sleeve you have an
up-to-date suit at half price. The
skirts are all plaited backs and are
worth the price you pay for the suits.
Counterpanes.
A great variety in Marseilles quilts -
—750, 980, $1.25 and $1.50.
Comfortabl-es.
75c, 98c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.98.
Fall wrappers, 75c and 980.
Our great sale of winter underwear
will be continued this -week. You
never saw heavy underwear at‘ such
low prices.
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