The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-06
Mrs. Kenerson Z id to Have
Quarrel{ ! with
BradGHaW
MUCH TECHNICAL
TESTIMONY GIVEN
State introduced 13 Wit
nesses in First Day of the
Trial at st. Johnsbury


st. Johnsbury, Sept. 6.-Men. women
e and children crowded the Caledonia
county court room yesterday women
|, largely predominating, TO hear the first
days testimony in the Bradshaw murder
trial |
During the day the state introduced
; 10 witnesses, including the farmer who
first found the body of the child and
John Bradshaw. the father
Several witnesses testified to having
seen the little girl some time during
the day OF July 5, the day of her dis
appearance, and that both Mrs. Kener-
son, the respondent, and Eta May Hicks,
Brsdshaw's housekeeper, were seen that
day. Mrs. Clifton Gray Lyndonville testi-
fed she delivered a telephone message to
Mrs Kenerson that afternoon stating
that the child had disappeared and Mrs.
kenerson told her they all went berry
ing that afternoon and that before she
left the, house she knew the child had
wandered away. Mrs. Kenerson then
asked the witness if the child had been
found and said Il hope they will find
her" John NJ Perham, st. Johns
bury surveyor, exhibited plans of the
entire region, showing the Bradshaw
house and the spot in Edward Grays
field, where the body was found five
weeks later.
Photographer jerks of st. Johnsbury
exhibited four photographs of the ex-
act spot where the body was found. Ed
ord IxaJ ts l.
badly decomposed body while moving his
field on August 0 and how, after failing
to get the states attorney and sheriff
by telephone, he reported his discovery
TO Health Officer Hartman and Select
man Farnhsm They. with doctor and
undertaken, came and took charge of
the body
John Bradshaw testified that his
daughter had been paralyzed on the
left side since she was about two years
old, that she could not walk easily and
had occasionally walked alone to her
grandfather's home. about an eighth of
a mile away. He described in detail the
search for the body the night of July
) and how he was informed on July
by Sheriff Warden that the child was
dead. He said Mrs. Kenerson had
bought an old horse of him in May,
coming to the house late at night with
George Ford to get it,, and two weeks
later complaining that it was crook
kneed and had a spawn. Asked on cross
examination if he knew any son why
Mrs. Kenerson should have killed the
,hild he said, Il do not"
Mrs. George Ford of Lyndon furnished
he only sensation of the day, breaking
iown in her testimony, crying profusely,
md assuring the court she was telling
,nly the truth. This occurred after she
lad related conversation between her
elf and the respondent at the home of
he witness. Mrs. Kenerson had been
citing milk of the witness and at the
lose of a friendly conversation. said
he respondent said with an oath, Il
yill get even with him yet On cross
she said she did not know
hen nor did she know now who Mrs.
emerson referred to and further, it de-
eloped in the cross-examination, that
ne had told her husband that he ought
OF to stay at Mrs. kenersons house
, long when he went there.
Mrs. Ellery Gray was the last wit
ess She testified that Alice had oc-
lsionally walked to her home with diff
,ulty, that two weeks before the child's
sappearance she saw Mrs. kenerson,
e Hicks woman, and Alice Bradshaw
gether at the home of the witness and
at later Mrs. Hicks and the child went
their own home. On the afternoon
July 5. about 5: 30 o'clock, she said
e saw Mrs. Kenerson driving towards
r home in Lyndonville. This corrobo,
ted the testimony of several witnesses
the morning who also testified to hsv-
: seen Mrs. Kenerson driving home
e that afternoon.
The line of cross examination pursued
the defense indicates that they will
tempt to prove that the child could
TX to other houses farther away than
grandfather's home, that she wan
ed away in the berrying expedition of
" and perished from exposure in
so-cslled swamp in Grsy's moving
d.
The respondents husband was an in
ested spectator of the days proceed
5 and conversed freely with her at the
se of the session. Mrs. Kenerson FIRE
.ntly consults her attorneys. She took
le interest in the photographs of the
I where the child was found