The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-09
Mysterious Night Dinner Is
Being Investi-
gated
MRS. f +JADWELL'S
ASSES BROKEN
May Eye Been Smashed in
T 5 ounter or Broken
: When Dragged

enough to warrant making the arrest of
a suspect. Nevertheless the search is
being conducted vigorously and along a
line which Is hoped to produce the neces
sary incriminating evidence
Persons alleged to have had some
knowledge OF the movements Of Mrs.
Broadwell or Of persons who are under
suspicion have been called before States
! Attorney Davis and Attorney General
Archibald and others are to be inter-
viewed at once by those specially. dele.
gated to that phase of the task. Pend
| ing the developments which may come
| from those inquiries, it is not probable
that an arrest will be made
| In the meantime the investigation as
to the probable scene of the crime is be-
| ing continued So far as can be ascer-
tanned, every article of the woman's
wearing apparel and other articles she
would have been likely to have with her
| on a Saturday night visit uptown from
! her home on West street have been ac-
counted for. There was some talk on the
street about nose glasses, which the
woman wore, being unaccounted for but
Attorney General Archibald stated posi-
| lively that the glasses have been located.
The glasses had been caught in the
womans hair and were found lodged
there when the body was taken to the
undertaking rooms. One of the lenses
was broken as if in some encounter or
| by contact with hard object while the
| body was being moved from the scene Of
| the murder. One theory is that the
lglasses were dislodged from their posi-
| tion while the body was being dragged
and that they were thrust back into her
hair in such a manner as to lodge them
| there. II is possible that the glasses
may have been swept off her face at the
| time the hat was pulled of as the body
was being taken over the low wire fence
| into the Wheelock garden off North Main
street, for the hat was found between
| the fence and the spot where the body
| lay. Nearby, it win be recalled, was
Mrs. Broadwell's gold-case Waltham
watch, still running when picked up the
morning after the murder
! There is one theory that life had not
been fully gone from the body at the
| time the murderer, or murderers, placed
/ it in the garden, in which event it is
supposed that the slayer or slayers, of
| the woman were so anxious to get the
body and the other evidence off their
| hands that they did not wait after draw
! ing the murderous band around her
| throat, but carried the woman to the
garden at once This theory, taken in
conjunction with the known facts, pre-
supposes, of course, that the murder was
committed away from the garden and in
some house.
/ 1t is presumed, on one theory, too, that
the tying of the woman's hands was done
| prior to the attack on her person and
the garroting of the woman, the crime
of murder being done TO prevent the
revelation of the details of the attack
1t is assumed from the torn condition Of
| the womans clothing that she resisted
the purpose of the man or men, thus in
dicating the possibility that she would
reveal the story of i'll treatment ii al
| lowed to live
That the attack and the murder fol-
| lowed a repast of some sort is believed
to be certain because the nature of the
contents in the stomach revealed by the
examination at the state laboratory of
| hygiene in Burlington was something
different than the woman had partaken
of at supper in her own home, it is said.
Some who are following the case are led
to believe that after partaking of this
hat and gloves preparatory to departing
for home when she was set upon in a
bestal attack, after which murder was
decided upon as the one sure way of pre-
venting her from telling any tales II
this theory is correct, it would presup-
pose that the assailant or assailants of
the woman in the attack were known to
her and known also to the authorities of
Barre, in which case their arrest and
prosecution would be accomplished with
out much trouble
Whether these night repasts and other
occurrences have been common in some
of the rooming houses of Barre is mat
ter that has not come officially to the
attention of the present prosecuting Of
ficers.. States Attorney Davis states
that never since he has been in Office has
evidence sufficient to warrant prosecu
tion been presented to him. He made
this statement in connection with com
plant made at the ministers conference
Wednesday night in which it was said
that evidence of a house of Ill repute
had been presented but the states attor-
ney then in office had failed to prosecute.
As matter of fact, 1t was stated at the
conference that the complaint was made
number of years ago, presumably long
before States Attorney Davis entered
the office
Harry u, Broadwell, husband of the
murdered woman, returned home last
night from johnson, where on Wednes.
day he assisted in the sad duty of con-
signing his wife's body to the ground.
He had been accompanied to johnson by
his three children and by his wife's ia
ther The last-named remained at his
home in johnson, having been in Barre
at the time of the death Of his daughter
only as a visitor. He came two weeks
before the death of Mrs. Broadwell.
For the present the three motherless
little children are staying in the home
of Mr.. Broadwell's parents, who are high
" respected residents of Hyde Park.
Mr.. Broadwell's mother is not very we'll
and for that reason docs not feel that
she can take care of the children. So
MIR Brcadwell, after spending last night
in Barre, went to-day to Burlington to
make arrangements for placing the chill
dren in home in that city. Mr.. Broad
we'll shows unmistakable signs Of grief
over the bereavement that has come to
him and he is receiving the hearty SYM
pathy of the friends he has made during
his four years residence in Barre.