Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-08-23
NO OTHER STORY
BUT WARNS YET
Surface Indications Point to No
Developments in st. Adams
Murder Case.

st. Adams. Aug. 1.-THE inquest into
way was continued to-day. AS a result
of the testimony taken States Attorney
McFeeters will interview Private Robert
Warm, trooper of the 18th United States
cavalry and ask him to explain seeming
discrepancies between his story to the
police Monday and the testimony of many
witnesses who have been examined.
This interview is likely to govern the
State in deciding whether or not 1t will
enter formal complaint against Warm. AS
he is now held in Franklin county Jail
In default Of the required bonds of IS, 900
for appearance as witness before the
grand jury, haste is not necessary. Warm
states that he has not secured an attor-
ney az he has no funds.
The officers refuse to say whether salts
factory Identification of Warm was made
by witnesses, who were taken to the tail
building, as the soldier they saw with
Jennie Hemingway on the Newton road
Sunday night. They seem confident to-
day. however, that they will be able to
prove that the two were together that
night at the place mentioned. The young
man does not seem much concerned over
the possibilities in the case, although the
officers thought they detected some signs
of nervousness when he was taken before
the witnesses. He told Chief Of Police
j. F. Mahoney to-day that his nerve was
good.
There appears also to be considerable
doubt In the minds Of the officers as to
the couple having been molested by SOL
diers at all Sunday night. II they were.
the molesters were apparently not the
soldiers who were in front of the Hem
mingway house Saturday night as, accord
ing to report. they had reported back at
Fort Ethan Allen Sunday night 1t is
also said that one Of the witnesses, a
relative OF the dead girl, states that
Warm met him Sunday night and told
him he had had no trouble with the SOL
diers that night.
Henry Hemingway, Jennie's father,
and Joe Wiley. her uncle. say they are
at loss to understand how Warm alone
could have killed the girl in the manner
In which she Is supposed to have met her
death and have no scratches or bruises
on his face. They say that instinctiveIy
the girl would have resisted by scratch-
ing her assailant's face and that she was
strong healthy and large for her age and
well able to protect herself for a time
at least. Although they make no definite
statement to that effect 1t Is evident that
both the father and uncle incline to the
belief that more than one person was
mixed up In the death. Pointing to the
fact that the girls neck and wrists were
discolored they ask II 1t il plausible that
both wrists could have been held and
the girl choked at the same time by one
person. Chief Mahoney made another
careful examination this morning, but
there was no sign that the skin on
warns face had been broken. The SOL
der is Of slight build.
Although Warm is to outward appear
ances not worrying about the situation
he shows considerable concern about his
personal appearance This morning he
asked Chief Mahoney IL he could not
have his razor and other toilet articles
SO he could clean up. The chief told him
he would ask the States attorney about
letting him have a razor.