The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-30
FAIR HAVEN MAN
KILLED AND BODY
THROWN IN RIVER
-Four Suspects in Rutland Jail
Charged with Murder
VICTIM WAS OWEN HAYES
Crime Committed Oct. 5, but Facts
Hidden Until Given Away by
Daughter Of One Of Accused


Rutland, Nov. 20. Four men are un-
der arrest In Fair Haven and Proctor
vile for the alleged murder Of Owen
Hayes of Fair Haven. Attorney Gen
eral Frank C. Archibald Of Manches-
ter charged tonight that the four men
were implicated in the death OF
Hayes who disappeared on the night
Of October 6, after displaying large
sum Of money. His body was found
IN the Castleton river week later.
A theory that Hayes walked off the
roadway and fell down an embankment
into the river was set aside today
when Peter Longe, Lawson Bardwell
and Joseph S. Duffaney were taken in
to custody as suspects. Tonight Her
bert Lowell alias Ernest Lowell, was
arrested at Proctorsyille as the fourth
suspect State authorities charge that
the four men followed Hayes on his
way home, struck him unconscious
with a club and robbed him OF $23S.
The arrests were m ad Q
soon after the death of Hayes, was
renewed by a bit of evidence disclos-
ed by a defeated Romeo who Is now
in custody at the Addison county
Jail in Middlebury The gruesome
aftermath resolves into tale of ro-
nance and tragedy leading from bur
glary, robbery and adultery to most
brutal homicide, evidently perpetrat-
ed in Fair Haven when the body OF
Owen Hayes was cast into the Castle
ton river
The body of Hayes was found under
meath the bridge in Fair Haven village
on the morning of October 6. An
autopsy was performed and 1t was be-
lieyed that the man had accidentally
walked off the bridge into the waters
OF the Castletcn river where he was
drowned. The investigation was stop
cd after the autopsy.
The first intimation of murder came
from Madeline Longe, the Is year-old
laughter OF Peter Longe, and sweet
heart Of Louis Bishop who is now in
the Addison County jail pending his
trial for a statutory offense. He Is
charged with assaulting the young
daughter Of Peter Longe.
Constable Brown OF Fair Haven
while committing Bishop to the Addi-
son County jail developed conversa-
ton with the young prisoner in which
he diyulged some startling information
He was sore on Peter Longe. who
entered the complaint against him
which sent him to jail. Young Bishop
who is not rated very high mentally.
to d Brown that "Longe's girl has got
story that is more interesting than
mine. Brown persuaded Bishop to
write a note to the girl, and the Con-
stable, on his return, to Fair Haven,
took 1t to her. The epistle urged her
to tell the officers what your father
has done
AS soon as Brown returned, the girl
liyulged the whole story.
Lowell told me that father and
his companions had killed a man" she
said, he urged me to keep still and
not say a word about it, Now I've
| spilled the beans
The Wood Detective agency of Bos-
ton was called in to the case and Mr.
Wood and Agent Brown came to Rut.
land Monday morning on the sleeper
They went to Fair Haven yesterday
where they consulted with the attor-
ney general and the states attorney
al day
According to info rmaNon in the
possession OF the state authorities,
owen Hayes was trailed to a dark
place near the river. where he was
hit on the head with club, and HIS
senseless form was then hidden in
the bushes Later, while dying It has
been disclosed he was taken up and
thrown into the river.
Hayes bad $2SS on his person on the
lay in question, but only SO was on
his person when found. He was one
If FIVE brothers, all bachelors who
lived with their S2year-old widowed
mcther who was the family treasurer.
There was one sister, Mrs. Mary
Brown
The girl Madeline. claims to bo IN.
,atuated with Bishop, who is in Jail,
md she finally admitted to her faith
ar who became suspicious of her ac-
tions. that she he'd taken trips to
Springfield. Bellows Falls and Bos-
ton with Bishop The father com
blamed to the states attorney who in.
yestlgated the case and finally oharg
ed Bishop, who appears to be some
What of a half wit, and who admitted
he trips with the girl. but said he
vas madly IN love with her and want.
I'd 70 marry her, Her age Is, would,
however by an age bar to marriage.
Bishops wife was Florence Smith of
Benson, and following yesterdays dis
''osure she came to the state authori-
Hes and asked permission to take the
hree children and care for them. The
'hildren are Alta, not yet 1--WE, Helen,
hree years old, and Leland, only one
'ear.o'd They have been turned oy.
" to their grandparents, It is also
expected that the girl Madeline will
1e turned ever to the state board OF
'harities and corrections.
To Cure a Cold In One Day