The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-13
LONG LOOKS AT PICTURES
TAKEN OF WOMAN'S BODY
Many Photographs Were Shown to the Jurors,
Most of Which Were Taken on Keith Avenue
Many Views Were of Room in the Prndle
House on That Street.

den. Many people were gathered on
Keith avenue and in the vicinity
Witness identified photographs of the
| body and surroundings, one inside the
garden, another outside the fence, and
he testified they were exact reproduc-
| tions of what he found there One was
near view of the body as it lay ON the
ground before it was touched, and the
other a more distant view. The photo
| graphs were examined by counsel for the
defense, but were not examined by Long.
They were then shown to the jury and
examined by them individually.
After the photographs had been shown
to the jury and marked by the court
reporter, the witness further testified
that on May Is he took picture of
| portion of Keith avenue and told about
the Prindle house. Officer Slayton stood
| in the window when the picture was
| taken. He also told about the house
occupied by James Bennett on Summer
street. Taking another photograph, the
/ picture taken from the yard of the DIR.
! Worthen house, the Buzzell hotel was
shown, and the picket fence that was
shown in picture tDl He described 9th
/ er buildings, including the wood working
plant, shed, automobile stalls, grass land
between picket fence and highway ON
Keith avenue.
| Mr.. Eaton testified to taking a picture
of an automobile pointed out to him by
an officer employed by Detective j. r.
! Wood. Following recess, which has been
heightened to Is minutes, instead of 10,
as occurred last week each morning and
afternoon, the attorney general had more
photographs marked. The first of these
was taken from the third window of
the house, showing tin roof of Prindle
house. It was taken Oct. IL. 1t showed
/ foliage. Another taken MAY Is was
taken from garden in front of Good
| fellows garage, showing a garden plot,
showing wheel tracks of car shown in
picture he testified about earlier in the
day. Another photograph was picture
taken from the third floor window of
the Prindle building. There were l3 of
the photographs. They are used to
show conditions which will appear later
| relative to the view that could be OBJ
tanned from the windows on Keith ave
nue. toward the Wheelock garden and
of the car which it has been alleged was
used to carry Mrs. Broadwell's body to
/ tne Nheelock garden.
| The witness was cross examined by
Mr.. Fay, who asked about the number
of photographs taken of the automobile.
| Witness did not know where the car had
| been during the intervening two weeks
| between the murder and taking of pic
| lures. He then told of the difference in
the taking of pictures of the body, some
without clothing over the body and some
with the body nude, The wire fence
shows in a broken condition. Handker-
chiefs were hung over the wire to show
height of wire When he took the pie
| ture of the car in the garden it was
| raining. This is probably to make CON
ditions resemble the conditions relative
to the night of the murder, when, it is
| claimed, the Metz car was seen in the
locality. The wheels sank four or five
inches into the dirt The car was being
propelled by its being pushed by those
about it, Bruce was in the car
! Regarding the surface of Keith avenue,
! witness characterized it as medium hard,
at one time pressed with steam roller.
| He did not think the roadside near the
edges a hard surface. Witness esti-
mated width of street as Is to 20 feet.
Attorney Fay inquired if the lens were
/ likely to make near objects appear large.
Witness replied that he did not consider
! it wide angle lens of that character in
i the machine used,
Long spent Sunday about as usual in
/ his iail quarters He did not attend the
Salvation Army meeting. as he is said to
have resented something that was said.
/ He declares that he has kindly feeling
| toward churches but he thinks that some
of them do not live up to what they
| profess,
/ Mrs. Parker, who was indicted at the
same time as Long on the charge Of
numbering Mrs. Broadwel, spends much
of her time writing lines dedicated to
various people One of the compositions
is about the reporters and another is
about detectives