The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-08-14
TROOPER HELD
FOR MURDER
Of YOUNG GIRL
Shocking Crime Discovered
at ST. AIbans
VICTIM IA YEARS OLD
Body Of Jennie Hemminway, Killed
by stranguIation, Found Lying
in Cornfield.

st. Adams, Aug 13.-The dead body
of Jennie Hemingway, the 14-year-
old daughter of Henry Hemingway
of Catherine street, was found at $3.50
O'Clock this morning by the girls un-
Gle, Joe Wiley, and Private Robert
Warm of Potsdam, Pa, a trooper of
the 18th U. S. cavalry stationed at
Fort Ethan Allen. The body was
sound on the edge of cornfield lit
tie distance west of the house OF Will
liam II. Finn on the Newton road.
Private Warm is under arrest at
the county Jail pending an investiga-
tion. He has been frequent visitor
Sunday evening, according to his own
statement.
A superficial examination of the
body indicates that the girl was
strangled to death. There were also
| indications that the girl put up hard
struggle for life, both her wrists be-
| ing discolored as If firmly held by
some strong person. One arm was al
so discolored and the neck was black
ened and swollen. II she did put up
a resistance she must have been
quickly overcome because her clothes
were not disarranged. There was no
blood on the body or on the ground.
A spot seven feet square was tram
pied down and back of that was an
other place where the stalks OF corn
| had been broken. The body was fiat
on its back with the arms outstretch-
ed above the head
The city police are at work on the
case and States Attorney w. r. Nc
,Feeters of Enosburg Falls is holding
an inquest An autopsy will be held
late this afternoon or tonight by Dr..
| B. II. Stone of the state laboratory.
| Private Warm told the authorities
that he enlisted in the army three
months ago after the death of his
wife, being assigned to the supply
company of the 18th cavalry. He is
going on q years of age
Private Warm got into the habit of
coming to this city during his leisure
time and got acquainted with the
Hemingway girl. He has been in
| her company much of the time since
then. He was at her house Saturday
night when several soldiers congre-
gated in front of the house and made
such a demonstration that someone
called the police, who arrested one of
the soldiers. Private Warm says the
men blamed him and declared they
would get" him.
On last evening at 1880 o'clock he
and the girl started for walk and he
said today that when they reached the
Newton road some soldiers jumped
out and he (Warm) and the girl fed
the girl running westward and he to-
ward the east. After shaking off his
two pursuers, Warm says, he met the
girls uncle. Wiley Warm says he
spent most of the night hunting fol-
the girl, although he mapped for tim,
near the railroad station Early this
morning he went to the courthous,
and then to the city hall, looking fol
the police, Wiley came along and tn,
the police. While he was waiting TO
two started out to search for the girl
finding the body was above reported.
Private Warm does not give tn
J pames of the soldiers who sprang ou
1t him and the Hemingway cir
. Sunday night, but he says that tn
men who appeared in front of tn
, r<Iemmingway house Saturday nigh
s rere Joseph Joseph Santro of Brool
lyn, N. Y, Thomas Voss of Brushtor
3 Pa, Sidney Decker of Burlington \
l. j., Frank Hyler and Private Panze
, all of the 18th cavalry.