The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-02
MURDER CASES
| ARE NOT HEARD
Agreement Reached for the
Postponement Because of
Grand Jury Session
MRS. BROADWELL'S
BODY WAS EXHT I'D
Her Hair Said toCe A 5pond
With Samples SIND in
Mysterious I symobile

Mysterious ( Smobile
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Because of the y nat the Washing
ton county grand j.. is to take up con-
sideration of the Broadwell homicide Oh
Thursday Of this week at Montpelier, the
cases of George A. Long and Mrs. Isabel
Parker, charged with numbering Mrs. Lu-
Gina c. Broadwell in Barre on the night
of May "a, were not brought up in Barre
city court to-day, the date to which the
cases had been continued from May l6.
Attorney j. Ward Carver, who APP
| peared for the respondents in prelim-
| mary hearing, announced this morning
| that the defense would not insist on the
/ beginning of the hearing to-day mas
much as the state was so soon to begin
presenting its case to the grand jury.
| States Attorney Davis, of course, was of
similar mind regarding the postponing
of the hearing, since the grand jury ses
| sion was so near
The grand jury which has been sum
moned 10 Montpelier on Thursday is
made up as follows: j. W. Canerdy of
| Duxbury, NJ p Ladd of Worcester, +. r.
Leavitt of Plainfield, Fl. L. Hill of Wa
| terbury Center, j. X Thurston of Barre
| Town, Frank L. Pratt of Montpelier,
Henry Bushnell of WaitsfeId, Ira A.
Benjamin Of Berlin, Hugh Henry of
| Fayston, g. C. Sleeper of Moretown,
Ralph c. Brown of Middlesex, John r.
Hale of East Montpelier, j, T. Drew of
/ Cabot, Al Clark of Mortified, Z. NJ Tur-
ner of Warren, r. i. brennan of Wood
bury, +. ]. Wiley of Roxbury and H. S.
| Foster Of Calais.
Mrs. Broadwelps Body Exhumed
The investigators have returned from
johnson, where the body of Mrs. Broad
well was exhumed Saturday. under the
supervision of the authorities acting on
! the case The body was exhumed partly
for the purpose of securing samples Of
| Mrs. BroadweIl's hair in order to com
pare it with strands Of hair which were
| found in the tonneau of the mysterious
automobile" which has figured in the in
vestigations ever since the authorities
began to act-the same automobile, by
the way, which Harry f. Broadwell,
husband of the slain woman, is said to
have seen at the Parker residence on
South Main street the night of May 3-4
when he was searching for Mrs. Broad
well 1t is alleged that this automobile
was the same machine which was seen
on Keith avenue the night of the trag-
| edy.
The samples of hair secured by the in
vestigators on Saturday whl undoubted
| ly play an important part in the presen-
tation of the case before the grand jury
and, in case of indictment, before the
court. 1t was said to-day that the sam
Piles are of the same color as the strands
taken from the automobile. Other steps
will be taken to determine whether the
hairs came from the same person.
In addition to the hair found in the
automobile, there are said to have been
found some straws which might have
come from woman's straw hat; and
these are expected to figure as exhibits in
the case. On the night of the tragedy
Mrs. BroadwelI wore small black straw
| hat of dull color This hat was found
about Is feet distant from the body in
the Wheelock garden Off North Main
street, and nearby was the womans gold
watch bearing the initials of her maiden
name, Il. P. c." (Lueina, P. Courserl.
More Alleged Traces of Long.
More evidence continues to crop up
concerning the career of Long, one of the
accused parties in the crime. The au-
thorities are inclined TO believe that the
man who lived for Il short time in Ran
dolph is the same man as now under ar
rest. The following item from the Ran
dolph Herald and News tells Of the fel-
| low who stayed in Randolr' for a time
as follows:
George A. Long, Ender arrest in Barre
| for the murder of Mrs. Broadwell, at one
time was employed on the farm of
George Lane of this town, remaining only
ten days. A year ago last June he board
ed at Mrs. French's in this village. Long
came to Lanes well dressed, carrying
only valise; he said his trunk was in
Bethel While at Lanes his mind
seemed to dwell ON a murder case then
occupying the police in Boston, as was
shown by his desire to daily sean the
papers from there. He claimed to have
! been married in Canada and to have
parted with his wife; that his father
was a farmer; that he could speak
French and that he was native Cana
dian. His valise contained much detec
tive literature, clippings bearing on mur
der cases and other criminal transac-
tions.'
Another report from Marsbfeld con
cerning the identity of a man who stayed
short time in that town and then de-
camped with borrowed money which has
never been paid back has come to atten
ton; but there is some doubt as to the
identity of the fellow as sthe man now
under arrest So far as the authorities
here have been able to learn Long was
not in the region of Marshfeld or in that
railroad valley.
BARRE GETS TRAIN BACK.