The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-01-13
POLICE THEORY IS
THAT WOMAN
KILLED BOY
Identity of Murdered Lad Has
Not Been AsCertained
RUBBER SHOE POSSIBLE CLUE
Authorities Confident Crime was Com
mitted Some Distance from Spot
Where Body Was Found
RUBBER SHOE POSSIBLE CLUE

Albany, Jan 13.-Further inyesti-
cation by the police authorities into
the murder Of the six-yearold boy
whose body was found in the swamp
on the Schenectady road convince
them that the crime was committed
by woman. No tangible clue SO far
has been discovered. Several posi-
BILE trails were followed during the
day without result.
The autopsy showed conclusiyely
that the acid had been forced down
the child's throat, causing death. Di-
rector Ordway of the Bender labora-
tory and his assistant, DR.. Bernstein
assert that sears on the windpipe and
esophagus point TO some of the
poison having been inhaled, while
the burns on the face suggested a
struggle. The stomach was taken to
the Bender Laboratory for chemical
analysis. The blood indicated that
the murder was committed a short
time before the body became frozen.
Yesterday boy, George Fisher,
found well-worn rubber of the gar.
net brand between the Schenectady
road and the swamp. Written inside
1t was the name George" and the
nail impressions suggest that the
child's shoes had been half soled.
The police are now tracing the child
shoes, which Harry Frost saw along
side the road on Monday, a mile or
so west of where the body was found.
They learned that the shoes were
picked up on Tuesday by Bushtel
Wachtel, who gave them to another
boy whom he knew only as Joe.
The shoes and the rubber may have
no connection with the crime, but the
police look upon them as possible
clues.
There was a story current in the
neighborhood that one Of the curious
women who visited the swamp pick
ed up a check on the Schenectady
road, drawn on Springfield. Mass,
bank 10 the order OF a Mrs. Trenton
The police are following out this clue,
If clue It be, but have not yet sue
ceeded.
The chocolate creams found near
the child's body we're apparently
bought at the drugstore of p. e
Lewis, where the carbolic acid is sup
posed to have been purchased. Mr.
Lewis still asserts that he has nc
recollection of selling carbolic acid
to strangers, but the police may YET
revive his memory. The placing Of q
poison label on q bottle, the police
think, should be sufficient to enable a
druggist, especially one who does not
frequently sell poison, to recall the
transaction. The bottle bore Lewis
label newly attached. He says the
law was complied with by the placing
OF the red label above the label spec
flying the contents of the phlal.
Any idea that the boy might have
taken the poison himself, either by
accident or design, is negatiyed by q
number Of circumstances, chief o
which Is the fact that the body was
without shoes and the stockinged feet
showed no trace OF mud. as they
would had the child walked to the
place where he was found dead.
Thus far the police have received
word of no kidnapping involving q
boy of this description. Their search
is embracing the entire country. Had
the boy come from this vicinity, they
believe that they would ere this have
found his home. Every mark thai
might have served as an Identifies
ton had been removed from the
chllds clothing. Everything about
the victim, however, indicates comfor
table, II not wealthy, circumstances