The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-07
MURDERED GIRL s
BODY NOT FOUND
Two Women Admit That
Alice Bradshaw of st.
JOhnsbury Was Killed
CHILD DISAPPEARS
IN FATHERS ABSENCE
That She Was to Marry Bradshaw =
Mrs. Kenerson With Her Day Crime
Was Committed.

ST. JOHNSBURN, July 7.-Alice Brad
shaw, cight-year-od daughter Of John
Bradshaw. who lives or lonely farm on
( the extreme northern outskirts of the
town Of st. Johnsbury, has been murdered
+ and two women have been arrested for
/ tie crime. each OF whom charges the other
with having killed the child The body
Of tho dead girl is missing the women
. refusing To- tell what disposition they made
col; il. The little girl was cripple and it
j. believed that Mary Hicks. housckecpcr
ior Mr. Bradshaw, and one OF the women
held ier the crime, wished to put her out
ni the way. Tie Hicks woman has claimed
that She was to marry Bradshaw
The child was missed Thursday night
and searching parties secured the coun-
thy all night. but it was not until TODAY
that the finger OF suspicion pointed toward
the two women both OF whom. when nut
through the ,hird degree, admitted that
the child had been murdered
Mary Hicks, who Is about - years old
and divorcce, and her chum and neigh
bog. Mis-. Alvah Kcnerson. went bcrrying
while Mn Bradshaw was at work on the
mountain The little grl who could walk
but little. was LETT ut home alone. At noon
the women returned and after eating din
nor returned 10 the berry field
When the father returned about 30
o'clock his horSekecpet said that the lit
tie eu was lost and Mr. Bradshaw al
once spread the alarm a party oi about
~ scarchcrs secured the country all night
following the brooks and rivers and tramp
ing through the undetbrush.
Yesterday morning the scarehc,s becam,
suspicious oil the two women and Sheriff
W II Worthcn of St JohnshuIy WA
summoned He and States Attorney J
y. Campbell put tho Hicks woman throl4l
the third degree and she broke down an,
confessed that the child lad been lillcd
Tut placed the blame On the shoulde,
81 the kcnerson woman The latter ais
admitted that the girl was dead sayin
she had been Killed by Mrs Hicks
Both women were placed under aires
and the officials attempted to make ther
tell what they had done with the bod,
They told conflicting stories inst Stain
thcy had thrown the body INTO nearh
| river. then that they had buried il an
/ finally that they had covered it with
| large flat stone.
Yesterday afternoon the sheriff too
Il Mrs HENDERSON To- the scene and tried
make her disclose the whereabouts Of III
l dead body hut she absolutely refused
| 10 SD. declaring boldly that the officer
| lad obtained all Of the information frol
her that they would get
The search for the body continued a
day today and tonight but no trace Of
bad been discovered up to a late holfr.
Tho people of the vicinity are great
wrought up over the affair and even hin
"t lynching were heard. It j. believe
'hat tho women would have suffered boz
/ lly harm ii they had not been protected /
officers
The noiIhbors ascrhe as a motive tn;
'hc child was Il great care and that
Mrs. Hicks expected to marry BradSha
lie got Mrs. Kcnerson to help put Il
little gll out Of the way.
Bradshaw claims that lie is not engage
20 tie woman and had no intention
marrying her.
The little sirl's mother, who was
l. White River Junction woman, died VIII,
Vice was an infant The child had ma
tile paralysis when She was baby Will,
rendered her almost helpless and also q
I'M. ccted her mind.