The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-07-08
Sheriff Tracy Had 36 Pris-
Oners This Morning
ONE in DEATH MYSTERY
John MoIoney Held On Suspicion In
Connection With Death Of Levi Sun
Whose Body Was Found In
Moretown Saturday.

Not even barring Dewey day has the
population Of the Washington county
Jail at Montpelier been 30 numerous as
now. When two men were put in from
Berlin yesterday, the record was smashed
land today the total was further in.
creased to So when Swo men were sent
down from the Barre city court The
nearest approach to that record was the
time when the hero Of Manila bay came
home to Montpelier and various over
joyful celebrators had to have their ex.
Iuberance curbed. The Jail had 81 I'M
mates for fifteen minutes at that time,
Sheriff Tracy Is hard put to it to
keep the men busy. He took out eigh-
teen of them this morning to work at
various occupations and pay for their
salt" some digging bitches, other pitch
ing hay and still more at odd jobs.
An Arrest In Death Mystery.
Among the inmates is John Moloney
| of South Fayston who was arrested Sat
lurday by Sheriff Tracy on suspicion in
connection with the death Of Levi Sun,
whose body was found part way between
/ Moretown and Middlesex Saturday
imorning. There is yet no charge against
the prisoner, but the officers are Of the
opinion that he was with Sun part Of
Friday and Friday night. Moloney
stoutly maintained, when placed under
arrest, that he did not know Sun, but
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two men worked near each other and
must have been acquainted, while one
man, Burns Griffith, says that be saw the
two men talking together at $50 Friday
ievening near where Suns body was
found the following morning.
| An autopsy was performed Saturday
afternoon BY Drs. B. H. Stone and r. r.
Sprague Of the State laboratory at Bur-
| llington. but the official report Of the ex-
animation has not been made. It seems
to be rather general opinion, however,
THAT Sun came to his death BY alcohol
lism The autopsy disclosed about a
lquaEt Of fluid in the stomach, the exact
mature Of which has not been determined,
but it Is probably whiskey. The stoIn-
aeh, as well as the heart and Kidneys,
were taken to Burlington for exainina-
Ition. The kidneys were somewhat af-
fected, but not enough to cause death.
| Two bottles were found not a great
distance from the body, one of which
ieontained a small quantity Of whiskey.
/ In Suns pockets were some tobacco and
jackknife In looking along the road
Sheriff Tracy found another jaekknife
land 1925 in money. Suns pipe lay near
| the body.
There were no external indications of
foul play on the dead mans body ex-
cept over one eve there was brlise,
which might have been caused, however,
| by fall from team. Suns team was
! few rods from where the body was
found by Mrs. Sarah Boutwell, who was
driving to Middlesex Mrs. Collins, near
whose residence the body was found,
says her dog ran out Friday night at
about $50 O'clock and barked at some
thing in the road. The body was lying
with the head downward, and the face
was black. Sun was 35 years of age aud
leaves a wife and one child. They lived
with Mrs. SUNS father. Napoleon Berry.
The man in Jail, Moloney, has wife
and q child He lives in South Fayston,
where he was arrested Saturday. II is
said that on Friday Moloney hired
team of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Ferris
and went to Aiiddlesex. Ferris didn't
see anything more Of his team until the
| following morning when lie found 1t in
his yard At eight o'clock that same
morning, Saturday, Moloney called and
asked II his team had come home. 1t is
probable that Moloney viii be held at
least until The report Of the state labora-
tory one the organs Of Sun is received.