The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-10
FIND NO TRACE
Of GIRLS BODY
Mrs. Mary Hicks Led the
Authorities on Another
Wild Goose Chase
BELIEF GROWS THAT
MAN is IMPLICATED
Just What the Arrest of John Kerwin
Means Is Not Explained = Murdered
Girls Father and Grandfather Offer
Reward for Finding Body.

ST. JOHNSBJRY. July Mrs. Mary
Hicks the self-confcssed murderer of lit
tie Alice Bradshaw, led the authorities
on another wild goose chase yesterday in
the search for the body Of the cghtyear
old cripple murdered Thursday. Accom-
panied by Sheriff Worthen his deputies,
States Attorney Campbell and T. II. Il.
Gray, a. neighborng farmer who is fami-
liar with the country, the Hicks woman
went to cedar swamp some 800 rods from
the Bradshaw farm house Before leaving
the jail she had told Sheriff Worthen that
the body was buried in cedar swamp and
that she would show them the place The
party went down through pasture INTO
the swamp where she Indicated clump
of cedars in mly bog, stating that the
body was there. The men dug until they
struck haldpan. although convinced that
no woman could have entered the swamp
at that point without being mired
Then she told them that the body was
on an old country road, which was aban-
doned many years ago, under some logs
and that place was also searched without
result. The woman was then returned to
| the jail
| This afternoon she broke down when
her father, John Hicks of Newbury, was
admitted to her cell Again she agreed to
| tell Just where the body was and she made
a rough drawing OF the swamp, indicating
the spot where the childs body lay With
this map new search was made but this
was as futile as all the others
! The belief grows that a third person
a man, knows more Of the whereabouts OF
the body than tho women and that he is
being shielded by them for some4 reason
There are no Developments in the entrance
into tue case Of John kerwin, the SO
called brother Of Mrs Alvin Remission
the other woman held for the crime. He
is in jail but Just what his arrest means
is SO far a matter Of conjecture.
John Bradshaw, the murderer gllls ia
4 thtr, has offered reward OF 5000 and the
grandfather, James Bradshaw, will ado
Sl00 for the finding Of the childs body
Mrs. Hicks when taken to the Brad
shaw farm today, was very composed He
employer, father Of the murdered child
whom she had stated that she was to mar
~. was absent. She removed her wrap
and then told the men she was ready t,
take them to the place where the bod!
: lay She showed some emotion when the,
were digging and sobbcd several times an'
said she would tell where it was
The scene Of the murder is eight mile
! from the jail where the women are con
fined and the authorities have begun t
suspect that the two prisoners are in
venting yarns for the purpose Of obtain
ing automobile rides Several times eac
day each one has denied that she kney
anything about the murder and later the
would retract and pretend to tell wher
the body is hidden
The little girl, who was an almost he'll
less cripple, is supposed to have been mul
= dercd by Mrs Hicks, who was hou>ekcel
er for Mr.. bradshaw, aud her friend. Mr.
. kenniston, because she was a bother t
? the Hicks woman