The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-14
ARREST MAY
BE IMMINENT
Broadwell Case Believed to
Be Coming to Sharp
Climax
IMPORTANT CONFER
ENCE HELD TO-DAY
An Automobile : Possible
Factor Agaj ecomes
UppsS 4ost

An arrest-pS iy more than one--in
the Broadwelay der case seemed immi
nent early . afternoon. The officials
maintained- air of secrecy, as usual,
but at the ee of States Attorney Da-
Wis and at Hotel Barre, where Chief Of
Detectives James r. Wood maintains his
headquarters, there was apparently an
| undercurrent of expectancy that some
important developments were TO take
place in the unfolding Of the mystery
which has kept q dozen or more officials
on the alert for the past II days follow
ing the finding of the unclothed body Of
Mrs. Lucina p. Broadwell in the Wheel
ock garden off North Main street on the
morning of May 4.
| The officials refused absolutely to com
ment on the progress OF the inyestiga-
| tion but the continued summonng of
witnesses, taken in conjunction with the
| peculiar undercmrent which goes with
the investigation of murder case, indi
Gated that the inquiry might be coming
to swift denouement.
This feeling was heightened by the
fact that Attorney General Frank c.
| Archibald, who was early on the scene
| anu WIZ NGtlL W blitdbuiI DU HLhbe JUST
ness, returned to Barre at noon and soon
afterwards went into conference with
States Attorney Davis, Mr., Wood and
others intimately connected with the
case. 1t is understood that they went
over the results of the investigation as
secured since Mr. Archibald was called
away from the case and that mass Of
new facts, or amplified old facts, was
| spread before Vermont's chief prosecut
ing officer, the man who will be associat
ed with the states attorney in the event
of trial OF causes growing out of the
death of Mrs. Broadwell
Meanwhile the three persons who were
| placed under surveillance" earlier in
the week were still in that position to-
day, being kept in building where they
were not accessible to the outside public,
although they were Immediately avail
able in case the investigators should de-
sire to call upon them to furnish evil
dence in the case, Others who are Meth
! er detained nor kept under surveillance"
have either reported at stated intervals
to the officers OF have been within call of
/ the officers all the time Some Of these
1 are considered rather important wit
/ IttcctS III LtiE NFEttb VI a EidnQ IQIN bEtiAk
| called to consider the death of Mrs.
/ Broadwel.
That an automobile figured in the
tragic events of Saturday night, May 3,
| is contention that refuses to down;
and the belief is strengthened by evil
ence which is alleged to have been
brought to hight during the past "a hours.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Broadwell,
| husband of the murdered woman, made
the statement the day the body was
found that he spent the greater part of
Sunday morning, May 4, seeking for his
wife, he having returned home at 2:30
o'clock and finding that his wife was not
! there and had not been there since she
| left at 1880 Saturday evening.
! In the course of his search he went to
house on South Main street, where he
had had occasion to 90 before in search
Of Mrs Broadwel. Standing in the yard
of the South Main street house was an
automobile the number of which Mr..
Broadwel took down and later in the
day presented TO the officials when the
finding of Mrs Broadwell's body started
the search for the murderer or murderers.
This automobile is said to have been
sNGtt az bHt kSOuIl MANI otl6tl ll0teG
earlier in the evening and the same car
is alleged to have been seen in the yiein-
ity of Keith avenue around midnight on
the night of May 3. This same car is
alleged to have been returned to the
South Main street house and that when
seen early Sunday morning it was stand
ing in a different location than when
seen Saturday evening
The car in question was a Saxon which
South Main street automobile dealer
had let out on trial to possible pur
chaser, the name of whom is known to
the officials. 1t is said that this man is
the same person who has been identified
as having purchased food at Shsdroui3s
store on South Main street Saturday
evening, some of the food being meat
corresponding to the partly digested food
found in Mrs Broadwell's stomach after
examination by the state laboratory of
hygiene in Burlington.
The persons now under surveillance
are Mrs. Belle Parker, resident of Barre
for many years; George Long, a team
ster and chauffeur, and Gabriel Bianchi,
stone cutter, of Montpelier Whether
any or all of them are merely held as
witnesses, the authorities have failed TO
state. All of them have been interrogat
ed BY the investigators since the start
of the inquiry into the death OF Mrs.