The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-15
MAN AND WOMAN
PLACED UNDER ARREST
CHARGED NTH MURDER
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ana cut Ice there Tor the providence Ice
Co., then going to Sterling Junction,
Mass, where the company has an ice
I house He soon found his way back to
Maine, being employed in the ice indus
try and later for lumber concerns, having
his headquarters off and on at Bangor.
Going to Boston, Long did not do
| much work but lived at the st. James
hotel and also nine days at the Revere
house While in Boston he took on a
job with the American Realty Co. and
was sent to Rochester, Vermont, but did
not go to work for the company, remain
| ing in Bethel about a week and then
coming to Montpelier, where he was EN-
ployed by Edward Demeritt.
Long Served Time for Forgery.
While living in Montpelier Long was
arrested and convicted on the charge of
| forgery, being sent to the house Of cor
recton, where he served one year On
| getting out of the house of correction
Long came to Barre during the month of
| September last year and has been resid-
| ing in Barre since that time.
| Long asserts that his arrest in Mont
peier is the first time that he has been
| uHuCi ctitot. TIC dNs thdt Ht HCftl Hus
been married and that he has one sister,
Mrs. Mabel Shelton Lovely. The last
| time he heard from his sister, which was
two years ago, she was residing in Fall
| River, Mass.
Long Man of Great Agility.
Sheriff Tracy has known Long since
his residence in Montpelier; and he tells
of the mans marked agility on his feet.
| He said that one could hold book up
about as high as one could reach and yet
Long could reach the book with dex
ferrous kick. Long does not appear to be
very rugged but he gives the impression
Of being of the so-called 'wiry' build, of
active sinews and considerable endur
ance, gained perhaps from his numbering
experiences.
Little is known about the man by
people in Barre except those who were
connected with him in the lumber job
at the Bennett mill and few others,
His name has been linked with the case
almost from the time of the finding OF
Mrs. Broadwell's body.
Mrs. Broadwell's Murder Most Revolving.
The murder of Mrs. Broadwel was
one of the most revolving that has &C.
Cured in Vermont for long time. The
woman's body was stripped of its cloth
ing except for stockings, shoes and kid
gloves. The stockings, blue-gray in col
or and apparently of cotton texture, en-
cased her limbs just above the knees and
the shoes had not been molested The
kid gloves of yellow color were consider
ably soiled at the ger-tips as if by
contact with moist dirt The body lay
face downward, with the arms bound
behind her back and the feet crossed as
if placed that way after death.
May Have Been Strangled by Hands.
The womans hands were bound with
articles of her own inner garments and
about her neck was her shirtwaist, while
around that was a mans handkerchief.
1t is said that the autopsy showed that
the woman had been strangled to death
but there were indications, it is said,
that she might have been strangled by
pressure of hands rather than from the
drawing of the shirtwaist and the hand
kerchief
This handkerchief bore a laundry mark
which was identified at local laundry
as having been given to q man who made
fairly frequent visits TO Barre but who
is reported not TO have visited Barre in
several months. As matter of fact,
sizeable package of laundry is said to
have been uncalled for at the laundry
and is now in the possession of the au
thorities.
Discovery of the Body.
The discovery of the body was made
by Harold jackson, a young man residing
in Orange, who stopped at the Buzzell
hotel Saturday night, May 3, and who
started out Sunday morning for short
stroll before going TO his breakfast at
restaurant on North Main street. He
went to Summer street and then took
short cut through the Wheelock lot. Ar
irving opposite the Wheelock garden, he
saw the body Of the woman and at once
reported the matter to the police, Special
Officer A. B. Curtis responding. In
short time considerable number Of OH
| GERS, States Attorney Davis, Grand Jur-
or Sargent, Health Officer Stickney and
other officials were on the spot and be-
fore the body was removed pictures were
taken for use in the event of trial.
Later the remains were taken to the
Perry & Noonan undertaking rooms and
there the autopsy was conducted by Drs.
Stone and Whitney of the state labora-
tory of hygiene.
Two days later the funeral of the VIC
tim was held at her little home on West
street, few hundred yards from where
the body was found and half a mile from
the Parker residence on South Main
street The remains We're taken to her
former home in johnson, where inter
ment was made. The three little chill.
dren made motherless have been placed
in home in Burlington and their father,
carpenter employed by Contractor A.
b, Lane, is preparing to finish breaking
up his home.
Mrs. Broadwell Devoted to Children.
The Broadwell family had lived in
Barre four years and was not well
known. The parents had been married
nine years and had reared trio Of
bright children, to whom the mother was
reported to be devoted in spite Of some
vagaries which caused her to wander into
other company at times. Other details
of her life which stand out in welcome
relief from the more sordid reports are
the fact that she was for considerable
time faithful worker in the Red Cross