The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-06
WOMAN SLAYER STILL
At LARGE AFTER 48
HOURS OF SEARCHING
Continued from first page

city's rooming houses, the officials have
found conditions which caused them to
utter expressions of disgust and to say
that the local board of health, or the
state board Of Health, ought to be called
in to make the rooms sanitary at least,
One Of the officials made the statement
to-day that after climbing innumerable
staircases he had come into rooms where
he actually could not remain for min
ute because of the conditions 1t is such
places as this that the "fioaters" resort
TO. while not few Of the more perma-
nently located population find their home
in similar quarters. II is probable that
one of the high officials of the state may
make the recommendation that some of
these places be cleaned up"
Those Loose Buttons Still Figure Prom
inently.
The part which the loose buttons win
play in the investigations still looms
large for upon the determination regard
ing them will hinge a theory whether
the crime was committed at the spot
where the body was found or in some
building. Ii the buttons were ripped off
the woman's clothing in some room, it
is evident that the murderer or murder
ers made dligent effort to leave no
traces in the room because the loose
buttons were picked up with the clothing
and deposited in the heap Of articles
that lay beside the body Sunday morn
ing. If the buttons were ripped off the
clothing at some outdoor spot it is not
probable that the murderer or murderers
would have taken the trouble to pick
them up with the clothes, even admitting
that the buttons were discernible out
doors in the darkness Of the murder
hour.
| That the buttons were enclosed in the
| pile of clothing or near the bottom is
| testified to by those who were on the
spot when the clothing was moved, for
! it was not till some of the articles fur
/ Their down in the pile had been turned
/ over that the buttons were revealed;
and, in fact, Chief Of Police Mitchell
picked up one button from a place about
a foot outside OF the pile of clothing
and near the edge of the grass between
the body and the fence. All the theoriz-
ing seems 10 point to the fact that the
place where the body was found was
not the place of the murder. That being
the THEORY, it devolves upon the investi-
gators to find the house and the room
in which the life of the woman was
forced out by brutal strangulation.
Searching for the Murder Room.
To find this room is one of the efforts
! to which the prosecuting officers and at
torneys have directed their attention
during the past as hours and which is
being continued by the augmented force
of deputies under Sheriff Tracy, who
came to Barre to-day and joined in
conference which was held with other
officers and Attorney General Archibald
and States Attorney Davis. Attorney
General Archibald asserts that he plans
to stay on the job until the matter comes
to head or the state is forced to admit
itself baffled. He is at Hotel Barre and
can be seen by anyone who has bona fide
evidence which they wish to submit
Who Saw Mrs, Broadwell Saturday
Evening?
1t is this voluntary evidence which
may prove of tremendous hello in soly
/ ing the mystery, at least so far the steps
of Mrs. Broadwell in the early part of
Saturday evening is concerned 1t is
considered probable that Mrs. Broadwell
was seen on the street, in the stores or
at the moving picture houses at some
time in the early part Of Saturday even
! ing before the beginning of the tragic
chapters which led to her death. Friends
or acquaintance of the woman who saw
her early Saturday evening would be
contributing to the solving Of one Of
the most brutal crimes in the history of
the state should they make known their
evidence to the officers, Attorney General
Archibald, States Attorney Davis, or
some others.
A possible clue which led to Water
bury did not turn out to be as effective
rs il VAS at first thought to be- Deputy
Sheriff Parcher arrived from that town
this forenoon and made known the re-
suit Of the investigation of the clue
| there.
While these investigations are being
made, the states officers are waiting for
the official report from the state labora.
| tory of hygiene concerning the condition