The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-10
And Solution of Broadwell
Murder Case Has Not
Been Made
MYSTERIOUS AUTO
ON SUMNER ST.
Whether i I'D Connection
Witt caldwell Case
SSProblematical

street, ostensibly to attend the moving
pictures, and never returned to her hus-
band and three little children, her un-
clothed body being found early Sunday
morning in garden about midway of
rectangie bounded by North Main, Pearl
and Summer streets and Keith avenue.
| The woman had been assaulted and
strangled to death, a mans handkerchief
and part of her own underclothing hav-
ing been drawn tightly about her neck.
| Undoubtedly the murder had been com
mitted at some other place and the body
was brought to the garden as the place
| Of temporary concealment most easily
approached.
To this garden there are three open APP
| proaches, the Keith avenue side being
closed by a fence Of considerable height
which would have prevented easy access,
especially for the carrying Of such an OBJ
| ject as human body. The North Main
street approach is barred from considera-
tion because of the fact that it would
| have been difficult for the murderer or
| murderers to carry the body from that
direction without detection.
This leaves two other approaches to
the garden, either one Of which might
have been taken in the stealthy march
| of the person or persons carrying the
| body. The bypath from Summer street
would have been an easy course to ira
verse without likelihood Of detection
over most of the way because the path
is shadowed by work buildings closed
earlier in the day, but anxiety to get
rid of the telltale evidence of murder
would have caused the depositing of the
| body in any of the convenient shadows
along the 200 feet from Summer street
TO the spot where the body was found
long before the murder party had reached
the garden.
Moreover, If the body had been brought
| from that direction the line of progress
would naturally have been in an almost
| straight line to the spot where the BODY
| lay in the dirt, instead of forming the
| right angle of triangle by traversing
| the path westward to the corner OF this
angle and then proceeding southwark on
| the short leg of the triangle into the
| garden.
Murderer Probably Came from Pearl
Street Way.
The condition of the grass and the dirt,
as well as the location of the woman's
hat and watch. indicated that the BODY
was brought along the short leg of this
| suppostious triangle, but the corner of
such a triangle is almost at the end Of
small path which leads directly from,
Pearl street, only 60 feet away, the near
est approach from any street.
Therefore, the inference is gained that
the Summer street route was not the
one taken but that the body was brought
into the vacant plot of ground by the
short cut from Pearl street, for, as al
ready stated, this path is almost in
direct connection with the route into the
garden as shown by the Indications above
mentioned. If the body was brought
from that direction it would have been
the most natural course for the person
or persons carrying the body to make
haste TO cross the more used path fron
North Main to Summer street and get
fthrough the low wire fence into the gar
den where detection of their act would
be least likely and where the body would
not be apt to be found till morning So
the conviction is gaining strength that
the murderer or murderers entered the
Wheeloek garden By means of the little
path from Pearl street
Where the body came from, or where
the murder was committed is still prob
lematieal and is the subject of continued
investigation by the authorities as the
effort to trace the movements of the
woman during Saturday night is con
tinued. 1t is stated quite positively that
Mrs Broadwell was seen in the Wool
worth store early in the evening, the
person recognizing her stating that the
hour was probably around s o'clock, al
though that is not definite
Mysterious Automobile on Summer
Street.
In this connection a story Just brought
to light furnishes some interesting theor-
izing, if nothing more. Mrs. A, r. Wheel
er, who lives on the East Barre road, Just
outside the city, and who drove team
downtown last Saturday night to get a
washing relates story as follows:
While on Summer street a part OF the
harness broke down SO that she had to
stop the horse and wait considerable
time to get the repairs made. She was
assisted in this work by man who
volunteered to help her. During the
time that they were thus engaged in re-
pairing the harness woman who is de-
seribed by Mrs. Wheeler as rather dark
complexioned and Of medium height and
wearing hat with somewhat upturned
brim kept pacing along the sidewalk be-
tween Keith avenue and Pearl street,
which beat, by the way, is just opposite
the spot where the body of Mrs Broad
we'll was found.
Presently an automobile drove along
and stopped just opposite where the
woman was walking, continued Mrs.
Wheeler. A man got out of the car, as.
sisted the woman into the front seat
and then, jumping in himself, started
the car, driving a short distance and then
turning the car around. Whether this
mysterious couple had anything to do
with the murder mystery is as yet
matter of speculation, but if the two
persons had no connection whatever with
the Broadwell case they would help to
eliminate extraneous matter from the
case by giving such information to the
officials The time Of the occurrence on
Summer street is given by Mrs. Wheeler
as 9:l5 Saturday evening.
Activities In fhe investiuafian head