Connecticut western news., 1921-12-08
HENRY w. DEAN IDENTI-
 FEED BY PARSONS SISTER
Recluse Caught by State Police
 Preston Six Months After Norfolk Crime

hermit, who has been living in se- cluded hut on road leading up to Canaan Mountain, two miles from the main highway, was arrested late Sunday charged with the murder of Joseph M. Parsons last June. He was positively identified Sunday night by Mary Parsons, sister of the murdered man, as the slayer of her brother.
 Dean was taken before Justice H. H. Cook Monday morning and the case against him will be continued for two weeks to enable the state police to complete their investigation. Dean and Parsons, as well as Miss Parsons had been friends for years, having been schoolmates. Dean mur- dered Parsons after a quarrel but succeeded in making his escape and living in the remote sections of Ca- naan Mountain, hoping that the vigi- lance of the state police would, in time, let up.
 Chief Robert T. Hurley of the state police reached here Sunday night and took charge of the investi- gation. The arrest was made by State Policeman Preston who had been watching Dean quietly for some time. Sunday he saw an opportunity to hold him on a technical charge, Dean having spent large part of the day hunting without license. He was brought before J. c. Roraback who represented the state. While being held for violating the law by hunting on Sunday and without a license, Dean was questioned about the Parsons affair and Miss Parsons was summoned. She readily identi- fled him as the murderer of her brother.
 Dean, who has lived secluded life for long period, was divorced from his wife some time ago. He has three children. A son and daughter live in Danbury and his former wife and a son live in Waterbury. A brother, Wallace Dean, lives on the. road be- tween Torrington and Norfolk.
 Deans name was never revealed among those listed as suspected of murdering Parsons. Miss Parsons's s suspicious, however, were outlined to the state police and for months the investigation has been quietly kept up. Dean, although charged with murder and positively identified as the man who shot Parsons, denies the crime and claims he has an alibi.
 NE D. I and his sister, Miss Mary Parsons was shot in the neck at their home at a lonely point on the South Norfolk road the night of June ', last. Par sons was murdered by an intruder who shot him, probably in his own bedroom, and then shot Miss Parsons as she walked from her bedroom into the parlor and opened the door into the dining room. In the latter room she was struck by the bullet which after some days was discover ed. For some weeks she lay at deaths door in the Litchfeld County hospital, but eventually she recoV- cred.
 Miss Parsons will be the only wit ness against the murderer. She has vivid recollection of his appearance and has told the police she :ould recognize him at once.
 The Parsons murder was one of the most brutal in the history of crime in Connecticut and for some time the police of Litchfeld and the state police. were not sure just wh2t had occurred. There was quanti- ty of blood in Miss Parsons room and very little in that of her brother Some indications pointed to the fact that Miss Parsons story was too un. usual to be accepted readily.
 Chief Hurley and his men made g complete study of the crime anc then announced that Miss Parsons was in no way connected with the shooting save as a victim. The state police have been working on the case ever since the day of the mur der, never letting up in their deter animation to find the man who com mitted this cold blooded killing anc attempted the life of the woman.
 Dean was taken to Canaan by tht state policeman and there he was confronted by Miss Mary Parson! who is said to have identified hin positively as her assailant the nigh her brother was slain. Dean, who i between 45 and 50 years old, denied the charge and said he was in Forest vile working for Junius z. Douglas a county commissioner of Hartfort county, at the time of the murder that he had read of the murder il the newspapers and never supposed he would be accused of such a crime
 Mrs. Parsons, mother of the slai1 man and of Miss Parsons, who heard Deans statement, said to him:
 "You now have chance to prove you are innocent"
 Dean was taken before Justice