Republican farmer., 1919-08-22
VICTIM WAS CARRIED
 TO MILFORD BY AUTO
 WITH 7 PASSENGERS
Bridgeport and New Ha- ven Police ScOur Re spective Cities Today Seeking An Old Pack ard Car-Men Alight- ed With Body.

The energies of the police to solve the murder of an uniden- tified man, whose body was found yesterday morning on The New Haven turnpike, near Fairlea Farm, Milford, were today centered in Bridgeport and New Haven. The authOri- ties are searching for an old model Packard automobile, which carried the murderers and their victim to the spot where the body was found.
 The police have discovered that on he night the man was supposed to have been stabbed to death, g. Pack lrd touring car. which had every ap- hearance of being an old style model, topped near the spot where the body Eas found.
 Seven men bearing a heavy burden were seen to alight from the machine Lnd leave the road, walking into the pushes. A few moments later they keappeared and entering the auto arove rapidly from the scene.
 With this information in their pos bossion the police are conducting Egid search for the murder car in Bridgeport and all surrounding towns The finding of the missing machine Eil1 undoubtedly solve the mystery.
 On~ clue which was followed up as the result of the discovery of a laun- pry mark on the murdered mans lin en, pointed to Derby as the possible residence of the victim. This theory was exploded. however, when it was learned that the Derby mark was The name of the collar which the dead nan wore.
 Bridgeport police are hard at work bn the case, and will do all in their power to locate the murder machine if it belongs here. It is not believed the dead man was a resident of this rity, inasmuch as the police have re- Eeived no report of the disappearance pf a man answering the description of Lhe murder victim.
 The mutiliated body of the man gives mute testimony that he put up a desperate struggle for his life, and probably more than one person com Initted the actual act. When the body was discovered the mans hands were nightly gr1pped about a strand or wire fence. Scratches and marks ip the dirt which had not been obliterated by the rain gave evidence that the man struggled vainly to drag himself into the roadway after his assailants had probably left him for dead. The face was cut and slashed so as to make recognition almost impossible Mine stab wounds were inflicted in the mans chest, and his hand was terribly gashed probably through his attempts to ward off the knife thrusts
 The remains although in. partly decomposed state show that the vic tim was a man of more than ordinary physical development. Ii is the gen eral concensus that he put up a ter yifc battle for his life. and that he was killed only by number of per cons who used an axe or hatchet, a heavy knife and n stiletto in accom- Blshing their purpose.
 The story of the automobile scouts any idea that the murder might have Ieen committed at the scene where ine body was discovered. With tam Gihle clue to work on the police arc 1eav1ng no stone unturned in their eff Eorts to locate and bring to justice the perpctrators of this murder. the mos Chastly in the records of the loca police department.