The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-09-08
And Denies That She Ever
Harmed the Brad
shaw Girl
ADMITTED GUILT
TO A DETECTIVE
Who Describes Respondents
Alleged Account of the
Girls Murder

: st. Johnsbury, Sept. s.--The crowc
g that has throaged the courtroom
throughout the week for some thrills in
the Bradshaw murder case got it's first
thrill late yesterday afternoon when At
torney Porter, for the defense, called
the respondent as a witness and escort.
ed her TO the stand. Mrs. Kenerson ap.
peared calm and gave her testimony in
, a clear voice that was heard in every
Ipart of the room. She repeatedly told
how she loved the little Bradshaw girl
and her last testimony was that when
she heard she had been lost she went
OF the telephone to inquire If she had
been found.
Th forenoon was largely spent in At
torney Porter's cross-examination of
John Kerwin, who continually contra
dicted himself in various features of his
testimony on Thursday. Kerwin said
he did not remember writing letter
to Mrs. Hicks while they were both in
Jail, promising to furnish her home if
she would help him get fire. Several
times the witness was in tears as he
again described how he carried the dead
body of the child through the woods on
the night of July 5.
| Mrs. Kenerson in opening her testi-
mony stated she was born in Woodsville,
| N. H., was married when Is and had
child before her marriage, and that the
SON is now in the army. After her mar
riage she went to Canada, where she was
arrested for being with stolen team.
Her jail sentence of two years for this
act was shortened by her good behavior
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She described her visit to the Brad
shaw home on July 5 and said she and
Mrs. Hicks went berrying twice that
day and that when they returned in the
afternoon Alice Bradshaw was missing
Mr.. Porter then asked why she stopped
hunting for the child, TO which objections
were made by Attorney General Barber
and exceptions filed.
II appeared from her testimony that
she and Mrs. Hicks looked around the
barn and then stopped their search be-
cause the witness had been told some
thing by Mrs. Hicks, and that she be. |
lieved the child was down at her grand |
fathers. The witness then said Alice |
was a nice little girl I gave her candy I
when had it and liked the little girl. |
She was "a sweet child and made no dis
turbanee about the house"
Question-"Did you have anything
against her?"
Answer-"I never harmed her / al
ways loved her"
She denied that she used the words to
Mrs. George Ford Il will get even with
him yet" The defense will have all it's
evidence in before court adjourns to-
day, and the case will be argued next
week.
The Pinkerton detective George Leith,
under direct examination by Attorney
General Barber, said that when he saw
Mrs. kenerson at the Jail, she made
to him to the effect that she
choked the little child, while Miss Hicks I
hit her with club. Mr.. Leith also said
the accused woman retracted the latter
and that she alone choked il. {
He said Mrs. Kenerson made both the
statements of her own free will. But lat
sr he said that he led up to it by saying
that she had not told the whole truth,
according to stories she had told other 6
parties. 1t was then she retracted her
statement about Miss Hicks. c
In cross-examination of Leith in the :
afternoon. witness denied that he had
alked with Sheriff Worthen before Sc
uring Mrs. Kenerson's confession. tC
OF this confession witness said he re-
,arded her final story in the main as d
and though some portions 4
night have seemed improbable, her first L
tory seemed unreasonable, as she said
othing about the child's death. a
Edward Gray was recalled by the state n
o testify as to the various places in his Il
eld where the fence was broken. Wit II
ess found four such places in his exam
nation early yesterday morning, but on b
said he did not know b.
hat various parties, named by the attor- n,
ey, had been over these fences within
our weeks.
All attempts by Attorney General Bar y y
er to have the witness state the dis - -
,nce from his house to the respondents Ps
ouse were objected to, and the court
Istained objections, stating the plan fur n,
ished the information. an
Sheriff Worthen was the first witness fe
He'd yesterday when the defense M
,ened. He identified the warrant by
hich he arrested Kerwin. The warrant lv
as shown to the court and after exam m,
alton by attorneys for the state and Il,
e defense was marked as an exhibit. 90
Attorneys for the defense declared he
at the warrant was not taken out in ar
e municipal court until Kerwin con-
ssed TO the part he took in handling ed
e body of the dead child III
Attorneys for the state brought out 90,
e fact that the states case was sim -;
Y postponed because the states attor- saI
Y. James B. Campbell, was away from -;
wn. NJ
Sheriff Worthen said that he was al -'1
Tvs kind TO John Kerwin while the e.
ter was in his charge in the county -,
D. Il only placed him in solitary con- 80
ement when found a large file in his -.
, pocket" he testified. s.,
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