The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-28
BLOOD ALSO FOUND
,- ON BACK VERANDA
Longs Divorced Wife Has
Been Brought to Mont
,pelier and May Testify
Sheriff Tracy Brings a
\ Defense Witness f rom
Springfield, Mass.

That the efforts of the defense Of
George A. Long, who is being tried on
the charge of numbering Mrs. Lucina
c, Broadwell in Barre the night of
May "a, 1919, will be directed toward
tracing the course of the death process
sion into the Wheelock garden from
Pearl street instead of from the Parker
residence on South Main street, where
the state contends the murder was
committed was indicated by the trend
OF the testimony presented to-day
when the defense got fairly well start.
ed, having began yesterday afternoon.
The beginning Of this effort was no
ticed in the presentation of the testi-
mony of Grand Juror Albert A. Sargent
of Barre, who stated that there were
evidences of the body of Mrs. Broad
well being dragged from the wire en-
closing the garden toward the picket
fence bordering the Keith avenue sec
tion. He also told about going onto
Pearl street and into room of the
Buzzell hotel, where he saw a good
deal of blood and evidences of general
disorder of the room.
Deputy Chief of Police Harry A.
Gamble also testified to seeing blood
on the back veranda of the Buzzell ho-
tel.
The appearance of Grand Juror Sar-
gent on the stand for the defense was
somewhat of a surprise, especially since
he testified in cross examination that
he was called to the Wheelock garden
the morning of May 4 by States Attor-
ney Davis.
Longs Former Wife Brought.
to-day when it was learned that Long
has a divorced wife, who was Haley Il.
Dow of Woodstock, N. B., that they
were married June 10, 1906, at Sher-
man, Nc, following an elopement, aft
er which they were restrained by the
officers at Houlton, Me-, upon the re-
quest of John Dow, father of the wom-
an who later married Long. A divorce
was obtained in 1915 and the woman
resumed her maiden name. The state
has brought Mrs. Dow here and it is
understood she will be a witness for
the state if Long testifies on the stand.
This is not the Eva Dow whose name
has already appeared in court and who
is now in Montpelier.
Sheriff Tracy Brings Witnesses for De-
fense.
y
Sheriff Frank Fl. Tracy returned last
evening from Springfield, Mass, where
he went to subpoena d. A. Daprey, who
is an. important witness for the defense
and for whom Sheriff Tracy had to
look long time. The sheriff and
detective from the Springfield force
spent two days visiting every board
ing house and rooming house in Spring
field some 450 of them being visited,
and it was not until they came to the
last of the list that they located Da-
prey at ii o'clock Saturday night.
Sheriff Tracy brought Daprey to Mont
pelier and turned him over TO the coun-
sci for the defense yesterday afternoon.
Lena Bell Thurber,
Lena Bell Thurber of Williamstown,
nurse was the first witness called by
the defense this morning. She testified
that she was in Barre May and fixed
the date because she attended we'd
ding at Mrs. Woods, Kirk street, on
that day She did not remember see
ing i. " Blanchard of Montpelier at
the wedding; thought it was at the
railroad station. Mrs. Thurber said
she left the house at ll:45 in a Central
Motor Car Co.'S automobile driven by
Mr.. Soper. Grace Wood was in the car
with her. They went to the junction
TO see the married couple off. She saw
Mr.. Soper and Mr. Blanchard later at
Montpelier.
The witness and Miss Wood then re-
turned to Barre, going up Smith street
and Ayers street to Kirk street. Wit
ness knew where Mrs. Parker lived.
She saw an automobile on the lawn.
The top was up. No lights were lit.
The car was runabout. Witness and
friend made comments about the au-
tomobile. They saw man a short dis
tance ahead of them on the way up
South Main street He went into
brown house at the corner of EImore
and Main streets. Witness said Mrs.
Soper was in the car that carried them
to the depot.
Witness said they went directly
home from the railroad station on ar
irving in Barre, She thought the time
was LAS or 80 a. M when they
passed the Parker house. Mr.. Carver
conducted the direct examination,
The cross examination Of Mrs. Thur
Der by Attorney General Archibald was
brief He asked the witness if she told
all she saw on that occasion. Witness
replied that she did all she recalled. S
She saw an automobile approach the