The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-12-18
NOT AT HOME
DAY AF TER CRIME
Mudgett Left His Boarding
Place Early in Morning
Witness Says
GIRL SAW BODY
LYING IN GRASS
Thought Young Woman Was Asleep and
Passed Along - Various Witnesses
Give Testimony as to Intimacy Be.
tween Mudgett and Murdered Girl.

HYDE PARK, Vt, Dec lS.-Arthur
Mudgett, charged with the murder of
Miss Amy Shonio. left his boarding house
at n. IN. Sunday morning, Aug. 1, the
day after the alleged murder, returned
Sunday night and left again Monday
morning, saying he would not return to
occupy the room he had used several
years, according to testimony today by
Mrs. Harriet Foster. The body of the
young woman was not found until Tues
day noon.
Miss Irene Bourne of johnson tcsti-
fed that she was out walking Sunday.
Aug. /, and passed within 20 feet of
where a girl was lying apparently asleep
in the grass at just the point Miss Shon-
los body was found two days later. She
SAID she viewed the body of Miss ShOnio
and that the body she saw i'm the grass
Sunday wore the same clothing as was
worn by Miss Shonio
Albert Montgomery Of Fletcher. VT
who roomed at the Foster house. said
he saw Miss Shonio enter Mudgctt's
room on one occasion and he did not
know when she came out again. 1t was
at home
The largest crowd at the trial was on
hand today. Scores of persons were nm
able to jam their way into the court
room.
Five womer. closely associated with
Amy Nhonio in her lifetime. were the
prinelpal witnesses yesterday afternoon
/ NlsIbly embarrassed, some of them on the
verge OF mysteries, others voluble aud full
OF details, these women faced the crowded
court room and supplied the separate
H9tes ot the curious thread of life, from
WINCH the state Is attempting to weave a
cord for Mudgett's neck
Mrs. Harriet Foster was the principal
witness of the day She testified that
Amy ShonlO went to her house to board
sometime IN July, 1919: that she had
other 6oardeTs at that time, including SID
men wbor1 she named, and another mar
whose name she could not remember.
MIDGET went to her house in October
/ 1919, the witness said: was there at the
! house all but a short time. but while
away made frequent visits on SATURDAY.
nights and Sundays. The last week OF
Amy Shonlo's life he called there on the
saturday night, the crime is supposed &c
have been committed. She said he was
also there the Sunday previous.
Amy occupied room at the head oi
the stairs, the witness continued and
Mudgett occupied one on the same floor
At other times Mudgett slept on a couch
IN the hallway on the second floor. Mrs
! Foster testified that Miss Shonio and
/ Miss "C;lee' Emery roomed together al
one time Florence Chase also had a
room on the same floor with Miss Shonio
The witness testified that on the Sun
| dav following Amy's disappearance. Mud
I gett lett the Foster home at about
o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Foster haC
/ not risen when he went awav. She said
! that ON other occasions he did not usually
! go away until after dinner ON Sunday
( The witness testified that midget came
| back to the house on the Sunday follow
! inr Amv's death at about o'clock that
night, that on the night of Amy's disap
! nearaHce MudeTtt had supnkr at the
/ Foster house at about $50. He and Amy
! hHd supper together
| The next witness was Florence Lam
rhere. l. years old. Of johnson. She tcs
/ tifed that she went to work in johnson
! i'm lime, 1919 md worked there until No
| vember ]. 1919: that she roomed Will
| Amy Shonio at the Foster house. She