The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-10-14
Several Describe Location and
Condition of Remains
of SLAIN JOHN MCAULEY.
Considerable Progress Made in Washing.
ton County Court To-Day in Trial of
John Turley, Who Is Charged
With the Murder of July IL.

On the opening of the second day OF
the trial of State VS.. John Turley,
charged with the murder Of John Nc.
Auley at Websterville on July III, last,
the prosecution called Daniel Cameron
in Washington county court to-day. The
witness, who lives in house next to
that occupied by Frank Primavera. the
second man indicted for the murder,
testified that his attention was called
to McAuley's body at 5:45 on the morn
ing OF July IL, and that L. j. Dens-
more told him of the discovery. He
said that he went down to the place
named and saw the body lying on the
ground. There were three men present,
he testified, one being Densmore, anoth-
er Michael Malone and a third one who
came from the Eastman house with Ma
lone. The witness said that be was
awakened once during the night by
something, he was not certain what;
| il might have been the CRYING OF
baby in the tenement beneath him. On
cross examination, he was asked if he
saw Hugh Mcdonald on the night that
McAuley was killed, and the witness re-
piled In the affirmative, saying that I've
saw Mcdonald in team passing his
/ (Camerons) house at about . o'clock
The reason for the line Of cross exam
ination was not made apparent
Following Cameron on the stand. came
NJ. j. Whtcomb, an East Barre under
taker, who testified to being called with
his ambulance TO the place where the
body was found, to carrying the body to
his undertaking rooms, keeping IL there
until the autopsy was performed and to
attending to its burial. Next on the
stand was Michael Malone, who lives
near the scene Of the tragedy and who
was one Of the first arrivals. as testified
TO previously by Cameron.
Malone testified that he lived in the
Eastman house and that he boarded at
Mrs. Jangraw's He said he was sit
ting on the fence with two Italians,
named Jim and Mike, that morning
when his attention was called TO the
body Of McAuiey. That was at $3.50,
He said the three were waiting TO go
to breakfast when Densmore called to
them. Witness said he went over and
looked Mt the body. but did not reeog-
nize il. He saw white straw hat near
the head but no blood on it,
On cross examination Malone was
asked as to the description of the two
Italians. whose last names the witness
did not know.
Have they gone since then asked
Attorney Hoar.
"Yes,' replied the witness, 81 haven't
seen them since two days after the
MURDER Further cross examination re-
vealed that Malone did not touch the
dead mans body and that he didn't see
it again after he had gone to his break
fast
Dan McAuley, brother of the dead
man, was on the stand but few min
utes and gave little material evidence.
He said that he went to the place where
the body lay and identified the remains
as those of his brother, John. He made
no examination Of the body or of the
place.
State Chemist Testified.
DIR. c. F. Dalton. state chemist, was
then presented by the state He testified
to performing the autopsy. He said
that death was caused by hemorrhage of
the brain from blows on the skull There
was a wound over the left eye one and
half inches long another wound on the
bridge of the nose, black and blue spots
on each side Of the neck, slight bruise
on the right shoulder, a clot of blood un-
der the skin of the neck, and a large
quantity of blood on the brain.
A club which was found near the
scene. he said he had examined and
found human blood spots on it.; also
human hair. The club was shown TO the
2 -. a. Is
sizes One Of the stones had human
blood on it, he testified, and there was
blood on the others, but he was not able
to say whether it was human blood.
DIR. Dalton was examined by Attorney
General Sargent who took active partici-
patton in the case for the first time.
Five Witnesses Yesterday Afternoon.
Five witnesses were heard at yester-
day afternoons session, they being Frank
A., Walker, who made plans of the
ground in the vicinity of where the body
was found, L. J. Densmore, who found
the body, Selectman Daniel Fraser, DR..
I c. r. Dalton Of the state laboratory Of
hygiene in Burlington and Sheriff Frank
Tracy, the last-named being placed on
the stand at this time SO that he could
leave last night for Omaha as a dele
gate from Vermont to prison reform
congress.
The Finding of the Body.
The purpose of the state in presenting
the FIVE witnesses yesterday was to es
tablish the fact of the finding of the
body and also to give the jury an idea of
the surroundings. The latter purpose
was done through the civil engineer, Mr..
Walker, who presented blue prints, etc.
Mr.. Densmore testified to finding the
body of McAuley early in the morning Of
July l2. 1t was lying in the ditch be
side the road, one leg being curled under
the body. The face was partly turned
toward the ground. The head was bat
tered in. Witness saw no blood between
the body and the road, and he saw no
tracks in the vicinity, but did see a
stone near by.
Selectman Fraser on Stand.
Densmores testimony as to the loca-
tion of the body was corroborated by
Seleetman Fraser, who also asserted that
the body was from 80 to 40 feet down
the road from path which leads to the
house of Frank Primavera. The witness
said he went back up the path and
found blood at the lower end, where
the path leads over the lodges in the