The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-06
MARI = Il HANDKER-
- .1IEF IDENTIFIED
1t Belonged to Man Who Is
Well Known in Certain
Circles in Barre, but Who
Is Said Not to Have Been
in the City on Saturday
Night - Victims Funeral
Was Held To-day.

After more than 4s hours inyestiga
ton the mystery of the murder of Mrs.
Harry T. Broadwell of West street,
who was strangled and left naked in the
Wheeloek garden off North Main street
Saturday night, was not appreciably
nearer a solution this afternoon, al.
though state, county and local author-N
tiles are bending their efforts to trace
the murderer or murderers.
| Attorney General +. c. Archibald, who
arrived in town yesterday forenoon, con-
tinued his investigations to-day after
having spent the greater part OF yester-
day in going through various buildings
in that part of the city where the body
/ was found. Sheriff Frank Tracy, who
returned to Montpelier last night from
attending a prison reform conference in.
| New York, to-day took charge OF the
| force of deputy sheriffs who have been
busy since Sunday; and the force OF
deputies was increased by fresh arrivals
| to day from other towns in the county.
| States Attorney Davis is in close CO.
operation with Attorney General Archi
| bald and local officials are lending their
support to search which is rapidly
growing statewide.
The Handkerchief About the Woman's
Neck.
/. Neither Attorney General Archibald
nor States Attorney Davis was willing
| to say to-day that any definite progress
/ IL L. 10 ha l1af mo tra
clues which have been uncovered The
clue regarding the laundry mark on the
mans handkerchief encircling the wom-
| ans throat has been followed 70 the
point that the identity of the owner of
the mark is known. identification OF
the mark was made at the Barre Steam
laundry and is said by the officials to
have been positive.
So far as known by the authorities,
however, this man was not in Barre Sat
/ urday evening and has not been in Barre
for some time. Inquiry at place some
40 miles away, where relatives Of the
man reside, failed to elicit any informa
tion as TO his whereabouts. IL was said
that the relatives did not know where
the man was. He is said TO be more or
less of a rowing character but has been
in Barre at short intervals during the
i past few years. He is well known to
il habitues of certain places, il is said, but
not generally known throughout the
town.
Saturday Night "Floaters7 Add Compli-
cation.
As matter of fact, this element of
"loaters" is adding a difficult complica
tion to the situation. Especially is this
class of people evident on Saturday
nights. The week end always sees q
visible increase in the eity's population
as the "hoaters" drift in, not only from
surrounding territory but from points
further distant. In the summer months
parties motor in from places as far dis
tant as in New Hampshire, pass up and
down the scenes of their sort of hilarity,
participate to safety and either spend
the remainder of the night at some
roominghouse or motor back home in
the early hours Of Sunday morning lt
is probable that the motorload of roister.
ers heard by several people going New
Hampshireward early last Sunday morn
inc were members Of this transient ele-
ment, but that they had any connection
with the tragedy in question is merely
matter of conjecture.
But not all of these guests" come by
motor A large number OF them come
in any sort of conveyance, chiefly the
railroad trains, although some are forced
to make their entrance into the city by
the most ancient method of locomotion
Outgoing trains carry away odd assort-
ments Of individuals early Sunday morn
ing or later in the day.
1t is this element, therefore. that the
authorities have to consider in investi-
eating the brutal murder of Mrs Broad
we'll. There is manifestly the chance
that the crime may. have been committed
by some of these wayfarers, albeit the
authorities are not pinning great reli-
ance on a theory that involves these
one-nght visitors. If the crime was
committed by one of them or by more
than one of them there was plenty of
time in which they or anyone else could
have made their getaway, tor the mur-
der was probably committed around the
hours of midnight or o'clock Sunday
morning while the body was not dis
covered until few minutes before s,
allowing about seven hours start If the
theory concerning the time of the crime
is correct The barking of dogs early
Sunday morning, heard BY the night
clerk of the Buzzell hotel, may have
marked the time when the body OF the
unfortunate woman was being carried
to the secluded, yet central, spot, where
Harold Jackson came across il Sunday
morning as NE was taking stroll be-
fore bfeakfast
officials Condemn Some Rooming Houses.
/, In the course Of their rounds of the