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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 9 
_ Editor of The Breeze 
Dear Sir: 
In last week’s issue you printed a letter from me in 
which I expressed the belief that Mrs. Estelle Roberts, 
whose body was found floating in Manchester Harbor 
on Sept. 16th, did not meet her death at the channel- 
drawbridge—a story which the Manchester police made 
their basis for closing the investigation. Since then, 
there has come to light evidence which, in my opinion, 
park. One advantage of his story is that he was out 
on the water, on the other side of the marsh, and that 
both stories agree that the shrieks came from the marsh 
and sounded as of one being strangled. These are facts 
which a day’s persistent inquiry would have revealed, 
but, so far as lh know, the Manchester police have made 
no effort to investigate them. 
Mrs. Roberts’ Hat Found 
2. When the eries directed attention to the marsh 
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t THE INLET BACK OF MASCONOMO PARK 
New Evidence Indicates that Mrs. Roberts Met Her Death on the Farther Bank and Lay for Some Time in the Grass Near the Water’s Edge 
entirely disproves the drawbridge theory. And, in the 
hope of showing to every right-thinking man how un- 
fair and unreasonable has been the closing of the in- 
vestigation, I ask you to print the following facts: 
Cries from Masconomo Park. 
1. Following the appearance of my letter, a woman 
who lives not far from Masconomo Park sent her hus- 
band to me with the information that, on the night on 
which Mrs. Roberts was killed, she and her daughter 
had heard three shrieks—as of one being strangled— 
coming from the marsh at the rear of the park. She 
is positive it was the night of September 9th—the night 
on which Mrs. Roberts was killed—because her daugh- 
ter had just come from town, where she had had a pre- 
seription filled, and the prescription label bears the date 
“Sept. 9th, 1912.’? The shrieks were heard some little 
time after 11 o’clock—the woman cannot say exactly. 
Mrs. Roberts’ watch showed that her body entered the 
water at 11.28 o’clock. 
Again, a captain of one of the pleasure yachts 
anchored in the harbor says that, one night in that 
week—he is not sure that it was the 9th—he was 
awakened by cries coming from the marsh back of the 
back of the park, Joseph P. Leary, who had become in- 
terested in clearing up the case, made a search of the 
marsh. It should be said here that, if the case is ever 
cleared up  satisfactorily—and I believe it someday 
will be—it will be due entirely to the efforts of Mr. 
Leary. Mr. Leary began searching last Saturday after- 
noon. Among the water’s-edge of the marsh, between 
Beach street and the main channel of the barbor, Mr 
Leary found several articles of distinct value as evi- 
dence. One of them was a black straw, saiiov hat Mr. 
Roberts, husband of the dead woman, came down from 
Gloucester, two detectives of the State Police came from 
Lynn, and, in the prsence of the detectives, Mr. Roberts 
positively identified the hat as that which his wife wore 
when she left home. Mrs. Roberts had not taken her 
hat off. The pins were still there, pushed way through 
both sides of the crown, with hairs sti!J clinging to 
them; it had been torn from her head. 
A Peculiar Cigarette Case. 
3. Mr. Leary also found, but a few paces from the 
hat, a cigarette case of unusual make. It was on the 
plan of the old-fashioned telescope cigar-case, made of 
leather, and of smaller size, suitable for cigarettes, In 
