The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-08-13
HE CLAIMS SOLDIERS
ATTACKED THEM
He Fled One Way and the
Girl the Other-Her Body
Was Found this Morning
With Wrists Discolored
and Throat Blackened and
Swollen

st. Albans, Aug. l3-The dead BODY of
Jennie Hemingway, the l4.year.o!d
daughter of Henry Hemmingway of
Catherine street was found at $50
o'clock this morning by the girls uncle,
Joe Wiley and Private Robert Warm of
Potsdam, Pa, trooper of the 18th u. s.
cavalry stationed at Fort Ethan Allen.
The body was found on the edge of
cornfeld a little distance west of the
house of William r. Finn or the Newton
road. Private Warm IS under arrest at
the county jail pending an investigation
He has been a frequent visitor of the
girl and was with her early Sunday even
ing, 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 being discolored as if
firmly held by some strong person. One
arm was also discolored and the neck
was blackened and swollen. If 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. 4
spot seven feet square was trampled
down and back of that was another place
where the stalks Of corn had been brok-
en-. The body was fat on its back with
the arms outstretched above the head.
The city police are at work on the
case and States Attorney w. r. McFeet-
ers of Enosburg Falls is holding an in
quest. An autopsy will b. held late this
afternoon or tonight by Dr. b. Fl. 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 81 wears of age.
Private Warm got into the habit of
coming to this city during his leisure
time and got acquainted with the Hem
mingway girl He has beer in her COM
pany much of the time since then. He
was at her house Saturday night when
several soldiers congregated in ont of
he house and made such demonstra-
ion that someone called the police, who
arrested one of the soldiers. Private
Warm says the men blamed him and de-
Jared they would get" him.
On last evening at 7;30 o'clock he and
he girl started for walk, and Re said
o-day that when they reached the New
on road some soldiers jumped out and
ie (Warml and the girl fled, the girl
unning westward and he toward TIE
asst. After shaking off his two pursuers,
Warm says, he met the girls uncle. vii
ay. Warm says he spent most of the
light hunting for the girl although h
apped for time near the railroad sta
ion. Early this morning he went to the
ourthouse and then to the city hall,
boxing for the police. While lie was
-aiting for the police Wiley came along
nd the two started out TO search for TIE
irl. finding the body as above reported.
Private Warm does not gre the names
{ the soldiers who sprang out at him
nd the Hemingway girl Sunday night.
ut he saws that the men who appeared
front of the Hemmingway house Sat
rdav night were Joseph Santro OF
rooklyn, n Y, Thomas Voss of Brush
N, Pa, Sidney Decker of Burlington,
j. Frank Hyler and Private Panzer,
I of the 18th cavalry.