The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-25
BLOODHOUNDS
ON TRAIL
Dogs Are Employed In the Hunt PoI
Dexter's Assassin.
FOUR MEN ARE SUSPECTED.
sheriff steenburge said TO Know the
Identity OF the Perpetrators OF
the Adirondaclss Murder For
whom He Is Searching.

Malone, N. Y, Sept -Bloodhounds
ana Pinkerton detectives have taken
up the selrch for the assassin OF Or
rando P. Dexter. Sheriff Frank steen-
burge and District Attorney Gordon
II. Main Of Franklin county have been
i in conference at Santa Clara with John
Z. Badger, attorney for the Dexter
family, and John NJ Cantwell, his law
partner. They were joined by four
/ Pinkerton detectives from New York
and Attorney James Stanford Of Ma
lone, who came up from New York
with a brace Of bloodhounds ana a
handler from the Wayside kennels.
The authorities have concluded that
| Mr.. Dexters murderer was one of four
who plotted the assassination. The
sheriff is almost positive that he knows
the murderer and his three compan-
ions in the criminal conspiracy. He
has several trusted woodsmen here
with him, and these, assisted by the
! Pinkerton detectives and a score Of St
Regis Indians. who are remarkably
keen in tracking forest marks, will
make a thorough search with blood
hounds Of the forest in which the muir
derer and his companions are thought
to be hiding.
1t is asserted Sheriff Steenburge
knows the four men by name and has
already established that none of them
has been seen about his home since
the murder The whole Adirondack
region will be secured for them. To
hunt them down win be life and
death matter, as they are dangerous
men and dead shots.
Help OF other Landowners.
The hunt for the murderers viii be
helped by other millionaire owners Of
game preserves In this region.
Following the lead Of William g.
Rockefeller, who has sent Paul Smith,
the noted guide, at the head Of force
OF 100 trappers and woodsmen, to scour
his estate Of $50 square miles and keep
, the criminals from finding refuge
there, other millionaire owners of pre-
serves have ordered out their EN-.
E ployees to assist in securing the woods
/ for the suspects.
q The force sent out by Sheriff Steen
burge will round up every man within
!, a radius OF twenty miles Of the Dexter
+ estate and make him prove his where
i abouts on the afternoon Of the pexte
1, murder
Though the Adirondack natives wer
il hostile to young Mr.. Dexter and rattle
/ inclined 10 sympathize with bis muir
derer. the fact that unlimited none.
o win be at the disposal Of those 4
,f charge Of the hunt Of the assassin ma.
e bring valuable cooperation.
y Armed Guard NJ Rocl0efeiler's.
e Armed men are guarding the Adiron
e dacks estate of William Rockefeller
o. one Of the millionaire neighbors Of o.
n rando p. Dexter, mysteriously assas
d sinated on his own estate on saturda,
y last
The disclosure, consequent upon th
a. murder, of the feeling Of bitter hosti
ID itv Of the woodsmen in the Mort
IS woods toward the wealthy owners Q
ID vast tracts Of land there has great
alarmed Mr. Rockefeller and hi
n neighbors.
/ Irving Falconer, head gamekeeper 70
lg Mr.. Rockefeller, left Malone with fift
10 men, heavily armed, to act as guard
| on the Rockefeller estate. These me
will patrol the preserve night and ia
2" 10 be on the lookout for and to preyer
e, any possible attack from the imbi
ad tered and hostile mountaineers.