The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-02
MRS. BROADWELL'S
BODY EXHUMED
Authorities Sought Lock of
Her Hair for a
Comparison
GRAND JURY
MEETS THIS WEEK
General Clean Up of Barre May Follow
New Witnesses to Appear-States
Attorney Davis Says Parties Are
Tampering With Witnesses.

BARRE, June 2.-The special grand
jury that has been impaneled to sit upon
the murder Of Mrs Lucinda c. Broad
well, will begin hearing the states evi-
dence in the case at Montpelier Thursday
This morning in the Barre police
court, before Judge Scott, the case Of
the two prisoners, which was continued
until that time from May %, when they
were originally arraigned, came up
for continuance, by agreement of coun-
sci The prisoners themselves did not
appear, and the calling of the case was
a mere formality, pending the outcome
of the grand jury investigation.
The interest that attaches to this grue
some tragedy was heightened by the ex-
humation Saturday, at johnson of the
victim, the wife Of Harry E. BroadweH.
and the mother of three children, whose
body, stripped of clothing, was found in
the Wheelock garden, off North Main
street, in the downtown business district
Of Barre, the morning of May 4,
States Attorney Earle h. Davis will
ask for the Indictment of Mrs. Parker
and Long, the states contention being
that the murder was committed at the
rooming house kept by Mrs. Parker at
llo South Main street, and that the body
was transported to the Wheeock gar
den and the clothing removed in order
to direct suspicion toward another room
ing house and toward other persons.
Among the exhibits that will be sub
mitted to the grand jury, it is expected
will be a lock OF hair of the dead woman,
which it was the purpose of the exhuma-
ton Saturday to obtain This hair was
desired for comparison with strands of
hair found, in an automobile which. it
| is alleged, was in Keith avenue, a few
yards distant from the place where the
| body was found at time that comedies
very closely with the time when the in
vestlgators believe the body was being
| deposited in the garden.
lhe " ashlngton county authorities have
| an array of new witnesses upon whom they
will rely to sustain the official theory OF
murder The taking of their testimony
is expected to occupy about three DAYS
| Numbers of these witnesses are beinc
questioned daily at the hotel where De
tective Wood makes his headquarters.
Witnesses are being watched with NOR,
| vigilance than prevails even in murder
cases, for States Attorney Davis charge.
that parties interested in hampering The
state IN its investigations have attempted
to induce important witnesses to leave tn,
jurisdiction of the local courts, even 90
ing SO far as to offer money eonsidera
/ tons. Ihls allegation has served to in
tenslfy the popular interest in the case
and has resulted i'll a sharp scrutiny o
the movements, not only of those witness
es themselves, but of certain individual
i who are suspected of having u motlv
IN approaching them
Through their connections, direct or in
direct, with the Broadwell tragedy.
number of persons win be brought to tn
attention of the grand Jury, the Durpos
being to take steps for a general clean
ing up of conditions in Barre. Indict
ments may be asked of persons suspecte
of having been implicated in robberie
IN the vicinity in the past few month.
and the conduct of a number of house
of dubious reputation will be inquired il
to carefully. The clergy of Barre. heade
by Rev. John Reardon of the Congreg;
ltional church, are unanimous in the de,
laration that some of the resorts that ar
blot upon the good name of the cit
must be removed
The two prisoners, Mrs. Parker, who
a widow, 60 years of age, and Long. VIII
IS 80. since their arrest May Is have steat
fastly insisted upon their innocence. Lon,
IN his protestations against what he tern
the injustice OF his arrest, has gone s
far as to name the man whom he d
clares that he believes to- be guilty OF IL
r crime. He has repeatedly told those WI
have talked with him that ethe hire
: detective" had made great error in a
resting him.
The state, in combating this assertion
has been busy investigating Longs pas
! and the investigators say that he Ii,
been known under different names.