The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-05-25
Probable that it Will Never
Be Solved
.BEATlE CANT BE FOUND
Although there is No Tangible
Evidence TO Connect Him
With the Crime.

Although nearly tRo weeks have
elapsed since che finding 90 tho body -
william Flynn on a ledge 10 che river
Just bolos the grisi mill dam a. Man.
chester Center, the people Of that town
and OF tho other towu- To- the northern
part of Ibis county are siIli deeply
myst.lDl about the ease
From an that can boz obtained from
ihc authorities. the only action which
has bccn taken in iho matter thus Gar
D.. The holding of "a private inquest
last week behind closed doors. None
oi tho evidence wa. made public but
10 is thought. in icw 40 the witness.
e. examined that little was testified
Go other than io iho finding oi the
body on The morning of May DO aud
% the autopsy performed by the physi-
clans 40 Manchester Center. Other
witnesses were cSled wlo testified
that they had been N ths street 40
la'e hour ia the ey,nin Of May %, but
that they had 81, no ming TO arouse
suspicion nor & iey see Flynn.
The hearing is still left open, the
authorities apparently waiting for
some new developments la the case
which are now unknown. one reason.
however, why the inquest should not
be closed at present is the fact Of the
disappearance OF a man named Beatie
who was the dead mans pal and con
slant companion.
Beatie was last seen in Manchester
on the Sunday previous to the finding
OF the body Of Flynn, and the opinion
OF the people most interested In the
case Is that Beatie, although he may
have had nothing 10 do with the muir
der, might however furnish the only
possible clew TO the solution OF the
mystery. Some effort has been made
TO find this much wanted man but thus
far the efforts have been in vain and
it is extremely doubtful II he ever APP
pears again in that village. Probab-
he, guilty or innocent Of the crime,
considers il much safer to remain
away.
Thus with practically the only clew
gone. it is more than probable that
the mystery will remain forever I'M
solved. As is usual in an affair OF
this nature all sorts of theories, each
one based on some alleged fact, are
expressed. The most probable, how
ever, is that the man had been in a
severe tussle and received his death
blow in this manner. Being thrown
into the river at some point above the
mill dam, the high water during the
night of the 9th, caused by a heavy
rainstorm, washed the body over the
dam where it was left on the ledge be-
low. The theory that he fell into the
river while intoxicated and was
drowned is untenabe, since at the au-
etopsy it was found that the lungs were
ntirely free from water. This is con.
elusive proof of death other than by
drowning.
An attempt to find a motive for the |
gives decidedly unsatisfactory |
results. The one first thought of is
that of robbery for, although Flynn
was not a man who would have much |
it is said by some, that he
had roll of bills and watch a few
days previous while absolutely moth
ing of value was found on his body
One of the physicians, who assisted
at the autopsy is of the opinion that
Flynn was killed by a blow from
some heavy instrument or possibly a
stone. Two wounds we're found one
on the forehead and the other above
one ear. Around the cut on the fore
head the skin was considerably
blackened as if it had been bruised
by coming in con tact with an iron in