The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-24
BARRON BUNDLE
HAD BEEN LEFT
THERE FEB. IL
Mrs. Edith Edison, on Cross
Examination To-day in
Trial of Long, Charged
With M u r d er, Denied
Seeing Buttons in Room
in a Building on Pearl
Street.


been found bound around the neck Of
Mrs Lucina c. Broadwell on the morn
ing Of May 4, last, when her body was
discovered in the Wheelock garden,
was produced in Washington county
court to-day and for the first time the
name of Ed Barron was brought into
the limelight by court channels during
the trial of George A. Long on the
charge of numbering Mrs. Broadwell
Mrs l.. A. Houghton, proprietress of
the Barre Steam Laundry, identified a
name ed. Barron and then she said
the marks on the clothing were EXT
and "CxI". She believed the "ExI"
was marked by her, and she was then
shown handkerchief and said the
mark looked like EXP. The witness
said she thought she had labelled the
handkerchief.
This latter handkerchief is said to
have been the one found around Mrs.
Broadwell's neck.
Gabrielle Bianchi one Of the states
foremost witnesses, man who was
at the residence of Mrs. Parker the
evening Of May 3, was said to-day by
the attorneys Of the state to have gone
to New York City to meet his wife.
This statement was elected from them
when the report became current that
Bianchi was not on hand to be called
onto the stand by the state. 1t was
said by the states side that Bianehi
would be ON hand Saturday.
Irving Smith was recalled to the
stand this afternoon in courtesy to the
defense. Harry Mason was also brought
in and Smith was asked if he knew
Mason, Smith replying that he had
played pool with the man and knew
him only by the name of Harry"
Hattie Lovely of Jones brook testi-
fed this afternoon that she and her
sister, Tillie Stafford, were with Long in
a room in the Buzzell at one time and
had bottle of beer, after which they
took the ear as far as the Valley View
place.
The opening of the trial was
delayed until 9:30, waiting for the ar
rival of Mrs. Edith Edison, who was
on the stand when court suspended
last evening. States Attorney Davis
was put in meanwhile to identify
laundered handkerchief he gave to De-
tectiye Wood in which Long tied the
knots. Other witnesses were then
called.
William Nichols saw Long working
on his ear at $3.50 a. IN. May A and
he helped him for Is minutes. He
told witness the car worked all right
the night before. He advised him to
get Stanley George to help him
On cross examination witness said
the car was pushed up on the lawn and
headed toward the Bradford house.
Laura A Houghton of the Barre
Steam Laundry identified the bundle
on which the name of ED Barron
appears on the slip, dated "2-l7" in
dicating Feb. II and the year the
witness said, ''must be 1919" The
bundle contained one negligee shirt.
two union suits. one work shirt, three
handkerchefs, four collars. Three
handkerchiefs missing the witness said
were given to States Attorney Davis
The bundle had been in the laundry
all of the time since the week of Feb
II. The marks were "ExI' and "CxF'
and she placed them together.
She identified "ExI" on handker-
chief with the sample knots and be-
lieved the marking was made by her
She was then shown the handkerchief
marked * Prime" and said "It looks
like ExI' When asked if labelled by
her she said II think So" This was
the handkerchief found bound around
Mrs Broadwell's neck.
The witness went to the court room
window, where the light was better, SO
rs to examine the words. She did
not think she knew Mr.. Barron but
thought he had laundry work done
there before She said they kept a
carbon copy of slips.
On cross examination by Mr.. Fay
witness said she made a search of the
records and thought she found two on
three previous carbon slips and it was
her impression she turned them over
TO the states attorney, but was not
sure about IT, Ed. Barron had not
called for the bundle since February
He gave his name She knew that
The laundry mark on * Prime,
witness said was not plain. Asked il
she was sure it was the same mark
witness replied, 1T looks like it =
THE only way you know it was in
your laundry, you say, is because i
looks like your mark - was asked
eyes announced witness
Il think | marked it and the pen did
not strike heavy on the E'," She added
VITLa,, Brgf osI-oJ obC,,f A., ~, 4, Il