Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-04-13

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UIm h. Ty1:-Was present at Mrs.
Griswold's about , o'clock the morning
after the murder; the body Of Mrs. GINS
void was in the house at the time; made
an examination Of the house; examined
the outside front Of the house, and the
piazza; examined the tracks in the house:
seemed to have been made 10y person
in their sock feet; first tracks | saw were
in the bedroom Of the kitchen: measured
them there; they had the appearance Of
mems tracks; one was bloodicr than the
other; did not think the tracks We're made
by more than one person; there were also
tracks on the piazza, which seemed to
come from the front side Of the house. rs
if the person making them came from the
south; i also measured the tracks on the
piazza, and there was no difference in
the length between them and those /
measured III the bedroom; the instrument
used to open the window must have had an
edge about an inch wide; the window
opening from the dining room upon the
piazza was not open, bus bore marks
OF having been pricd open; the doors
were evidently pried open by the same
instrument, as were the windows the
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the door from the kitchen into the din
iug-room had the appearance OF being
pried open. so that the lock was torn ont
from the wood this door Was opened
from the kitchen it opened into the din
ing-room the door from the parlor into
what WAS called Mrs. Griswold's bed
room, was also broken open tins was
evidently pried open. rs the other door;
| found IN this bedroom bureau. with
the upper drawer broken open. the lock
having been torn of the drawer appear
ed to have been rummagcd; old Mrs.
Potter handed me pair of bloody socks
which were found in the room by Mrs.
Sol Walker; these socks belonged to
Mr.. Ephraim Griswoli; they were bloody,
and were not stretched out as a dry sock
would be; they were an old pair OF mems
socks, evidently sale socks +; Ia pair OF
socks We're here handed to the
witness, which he identified rs the pair
found in Mrs. Griswold's bedroom y
| heard noise in the buttery: looked in
through the window and saw a dog be
longing to the house in the room; the
window of the buttcry was showed up n
little, and l went in and let the dog out
through the window; / discovered a cup
board in the buttcry broken open; exam
med the window Of the sitting room;
found marks Of blood on the sill, which
appeared as if they were made by some
person reaching their hands out of the
window to shut the blinds if they had
been open; Mrs. Griswold was reputed to
be woman of property; understood that
that she owned the property where
she lived; the road by the house was
north and south; about third of a mile
north of the house the road crook and
rises up a ledge, and then strikes road
east and west; from the east and |
west road a pair of bars opens into a lot,
from the south end of which a pair Of |
bars opens into pasture; L noticed in
the lot wagon tracks, by the grass having /
been tTod down; the track led through
the lot to the bars opening into the pas
ture; found stick broken, evidently by
4 wagon wheel, IN the pasture; also marks
Of horse-shoe, should think they were fresh
tracks; a wood road leads from this pas
.ure to Mrs. Griswold's barn; the ground
vas so hard that a wagon could have
been driven on it without leaving any
mark; the distance from Mrs Griswold's
o Essex Junction is Il miles; the dis
ance from Burlington to Mrs Griswold's
S about miles; there is a road from the
POOR Farm which intersects the main
Dad about a mile and quarter from Es-
ex junction.
CroSS-eufmiEed- of the blinds of
he south window of the small kitchen
ad been taken off and set on the win
ow stool, the top of / leaning against
he window; standing at that window a
erson could see into the kitchen and into [
lrs. Griswold's bedroom, if the door !
,ading from it into the kitchen was open; |
ne tracks ON the piazza were made by |
person who had blood on his feet: I
here was bureau in the northwest cor I
er of the dinlng-room; found a scratch $
q the edge of one of the drawers of the |
ureau, which seemed as if something v
adj been against it and made a marx: r
one of the drawers were open; was not |
lie first person who had been in the O
'om that morning found finger marks of I
God on the door opening from the
tchen into the dining room; noticed \
e latch to the kitchen door; it was worn: Il
not think 1t had been filed; found it b
I'd been so worn as to have a notch in IL: h
is latch was fastened down on the in. q
10 by button over the latch; by press II
6 down hard and lifting up the latch n
e door could be opened from the ont n
lie, even with the button down; did not b.
easure the tracks in the kitchen; noticed ~
little blood on the doorstep of the n
chen; 1t appeared as if something had CT
en- drawn over it from the kitchen: h,
lowed along from the kitchen door to ~
barn where the body was found. but ba
covered no tracks of blood; there was IN
title blood in the place where she Law: ba
lock to the upper drawer in the sitting tb
IN of the bedroom was broken open; the lv
Iers could be opened without a kew: ali
things in the drawers had been han. hi,
d over. There is no road from the oh
OF bars near the corner of the east Tn,