The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-07-14
WITH THROAT CUT.
Body Of woman Found at Belmont,
Mass, Yesterday.

Ralmont Mass. July lathe body
~ ,goman was found yesterday after
noon near the links Of the Arlington
Golf club over the Belmont town line
rba throat had been cut, deep, Jagged
wound Indicating murder. The identity
Of the victim has not been learned III
though many persons have seen eie
tody.
The victim was about 20 years el
aae. weighed 100 pounds, was oi ? dafk
cofnpiexon and had dark half' she Wote
j white waist, dark skirt ana q aiaeA
picture hat
Medical Examiner Swan held an au-
topsy last night and his conclusions
were that the woman had been muir
defed Death, he found, was due %
nnltinle cuts and bruises on the head'
faee ana neck. The skull had been trac..
tured III tile front part Of the head
and the head itself had been practically
severed from the body BY 4 sharp kaife
or similar instrument.
The authorities after On exhaustive
investigation decided that the murder
was committed on uneultiYated land Pc
longing to the farm of Walter Frost
and within seventy-iive feet Of the stone
wall. under which the body was found.
The wall divides Frost's property from
tile golf links. :,
Tie crime was discovered al 10y
o'clock Yesterday afternoon by 2 farm
hand named Peter Igo, who was walking
through a lane, which passes near ing
Arlington Coli club house and runs heal
the hill.
Iro's attention was first attracted by
4 woman's hat He looked at the hal
4 second OF two and then observed
marks along the ground and among th'
shrubbery, which indicated that som'
heavy object had been dragged for seV
eral feet, There were further mark
as Il a struggle had occurred.
The murderer had evidently attempt
ed to get the body Of the woman owe
barbed wire fence which skirts q sinai
pond Failing to get the body owe
The fence, it Is thought the murdere
retraced his steps as he evidently drag
red the body back a number ot Zee
and then took it to a shaded depresslo
alongside of the stone wall, about seV
entv-fve feet distant.
The body was then thrown oYer n
wall and into a gully on the propert
vi tAN AHAA NA0Hs
IN addition to the hat parasol an
blood stains were found near by %
marks on the ground. The hat, whe
first seen by Igo, rested near the 6arpe
wire fence. Later a pair Of Guns q
longing to mans blue striped snli
was picked up near the reservoir. Ihei
we're also blood stains on the CUTS.
the vicinity a woman's pocketbook on
a whiskey bottle, the latter nearly eml
ty, were found.
Medical Examiner Swan said Ia
night that he had found no traces
alcohol on the body and he was certal
that the woman had not been drlnkln
He also said that the woman had n
been criminally assaulted.
Two stones, weighing about htte'
pounds each and bearing blood starr
were found on the scene Of the murdt
and it is thought that the wounds
the head were made by them. All
almost decapitating the woman the mu
derer made a deep cut over the ie
breast, evidently with a knife, the saI
weapon he had used on the throat I
poeketbook was turned over to the sta
police, who decided to withhold trC
tile public for q time the nature Of
contents
In the pocketbook was q slip OF par
on which were written two names,
mans and a woman's, but the pol