The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
POLICE KNOW WHO
 SLEW MRS. DIBBLE
THEY WILL ARREST SUSPECTED MAN WITHIN NEXT TWENTY
 FOUR HOURS
MOTIVE NOT RAPE OR ROBBERY
Brutal StrangrIlatfon of Trumbull Woman Must Have Been Accom- Work-Fourth Awful Killing in Re- cent History of Little Town.

Within 24 hours the authorities ex- pect to make arrest in connection
 with the murder of Mrs. Sarah Dibble. at her home in Trumbull. yesterday
 afternoon. Captain Arnold of the To- cal detective bureau. with Sheriff Flaw ley. and Deputy Sheriffs Plumb of Trumbull. and Stagg of Stratford, hit upon d clue this morning which will
 probably lead to an arrest before to- morrow afternoon. They have learned the presence of a suspicious character
 in the neighborhood of the Dibble house, yesterday. and are looking for the man at this time.
 Dr. c. c. Godfrey. who is the medi- cal examiner for Trumbull. exploded the theory to-day that Mrs. Dibbles murderer hal a beastly purpose in his madness. He announced this after noon that his examination showed that no such purpose was accomplished by the aSSailant.
 This result of the medical examiners examina tion will cause the police to look for another motive. for it is not believed that anyone but a crazy man
 would have killed the woman without a motive. And the motive was not robbery. nor the baser crime which
 Captain Arnold had a long talk with George S. Dfbble concerning the case this mornir- and together they went over the happenings of yesterday with the result that Dibble established well in the mind of the detective that the murder must have been committed sometime between o'clock in the morning when he (Dibble) went into the fields. and 1915 o'clock when he re- turned.
 This is the fourth murder that this section of Trumbul1 has had in recent years. There was the killing of James Beardsley. who gave Beardsley Park to Bridgeport by the Kinsella gang the shooting of Marcus Nichols by, Boinay and Weeks. and the shooting last year of Miss Mallette. by Lucas Ku6inski. a. farmland.
 State Policeman Frank VerilE went to work on the case this morning in a big red automobile. in which he will SCOUT the country.
 Mrs. Sarah Dibble, aged S1 years, was fiendish1y murdered yesterday at her home on the Trumbull road, White Plains district, in the town of Trum- bull where she had lived for nearly a quarter of century She was cholked- to death and there was every indication that a criminal assault had been committed upon the body. George alone lived with his mother, found the body Secreted in a dark corner of the cellar after a long search when he re- turned from his work in the fields at noon time.
 Deputy Sheriff Willard S. Plumb of Trumbul1 was notified of the murder and at once summoned Captain George Arnold and Sergeant George Fox of the detective bureau. Officer Joseph P. Coughlin went to the scene of the murder later with Dr. c. c. Godfrey, who is the medical examiner for the town of Trumbull
 Dr. Godfrey and Medical Examiner F. B. Downs of this city made a post mortem examination of the body. They found that death was caused by stran- gulation. There were finger marks upon the throat, contusions on the face and the nose was broken. while on the back of the head there was an incised wound. Several ribs on the right side were broken. The latter injuries are believed to have been caused by the sharp corners of the brick floor in the cellar.
 George Dibble says that he last saw his mother alive when he left the ing to do some work on an adjoining farm which he owns. He says he re- turned shortly after 12 o'clock and was surprised to find that there was no deavored to prepare dinner and- be- cause the wood fire in the stove show ed indications of having been out for some time.
 He looked through the rooms on the ground floor. The only thing he mo-, ticed out of place was the kitchen ta- ble which was pushed from the side of the room into the center. He went OnlO CDe DdCk StOOp to IOOk ON0I lHc back yard and about ten feet from the porch he saw his mothers false teeth lying on the ground. He said that he then became suspicious of foul play away with her and carried her off in- to the woods. He next went to the home of his. brother, Frank Dibble, who lives two houses north. He ask ed if his mother had been there, and when he found she had not he was joined in the search for her by his brother, Frank, and his nephew. They looked through the woods in the neigh borhood of the house and through the barn. Then they returned to the house where George lighted a lamp and went into the cellar to continue the search. It was then he found the body lying in the cellar, face upward, in a corner. The clothing was dis heveled and disarranged. The rel mains were not disturbed until the medical examiner arrived late in the
 When the clothing was brought from the cellar with the body it was dis covered that an old coat, belonging to George Dibble, was with the woman's clothing. There was blood the coat and the examination by the phy- sicians showed that there had been hemorrhage from the nostrils. George Dfbble said he left the coat in the kitchen when he went to work in the morning. From the rigor mortis that set in pr. Godfrey concluded that death had come about 10 o'clock in the morning. or about three hours after George Dibble said he left the house.
 The police began a search to see who had been in the neighborhood of the house during the forenoon They se- cured information of two strange men 1 in the neighborhood during the morn | ing. One who came through by way of Nichols was headed for this city looking for work. He was seen by | several people along the way, but the | other man. who was going north was seen only by Lemuel Patchin, who | lives a quarter of a mile south of the | Dibble house. The stranger, a stout | man weighing about 1S0 pounds, stop | ped Patchin in the road and asked | him for a chew Of tobacco. It was | then a few minutes before 10 o'clock.
 The police were unable to find any indication of a struggle at any place | in the Dibble house, although there is | good reason to believe that the vener- | a hle 1Uornau,S aSSailaut seized her by |