The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-11-14
Slayer of Two Men
Got Over $1,000 In Loot
Continued from Page One

countryside auctions and dickers
with the townspeople swapping
horses and watcnes. Every detail
that led up their finding of the
two bodies and what followed was
very carefully gone w in the
hope of finding some trace of the
assassin. They could give no mo-
tive whatsoever for the crime ex-
cept that of robbery.
The opinion of the officers is
that someone of this section who
was seriously in need of money
and who knew the two old men
and their habits, committed the
crime. No one in tnis section can
point to a person who was an
enemy of either of the brothers
and everyone had a kind word for
them. They were honest, hard
working and frugal men who
minded their own. business and
never gave offenSe to anyone.
There are no signs of a struggle
connected with the double murder
showing that the murderer had
been given free entrance to the
house and that h was evidently
standing in the kitchen talking
with Charles when he swung the
axe that crushed the aged mans
skull. Two or three blows were
struck, according to the medical
examiner. The first blow was
sufficient to cause instant death.
The slayer then went through a
shed to a small clubhouse where
John was sitting and struck him a
blow full in the face with the keen
edge of the axe. The assassin
struck a second blow as the body
pitched forward and a third blow
as 1T rolled onto the floor, cutting
a deep cash in back of the mans
neck.
The fiend Thea dropped the
blood covered axe into the hole
between two boards where it was
recovered today. No hand had
touched the handle except on the
extreme end and in clear outlines
on the handle are the finger prints |
OF the assassin, dyed in the blood
OF his two victims.
The murderer then drew all the
curtains of the house and took a
paddock from a hook inside the
house and fastened it to the shed
door on the outside and made good
his escape. All details point to the
TACT that the murder took place
Tuesday night shortly after the
two men had returned from a trim
during the day. Inquiry at Brad
ford where they were believed to
have gone showed that they had
not been in Bradford for two
weeks. At that time they spent a
day IN Bradford buying shoes and
other supplies. They are well
known in this town and no one
saw them in Bradford last Tues
DAY. They may have gone to Wells
or Woodsville as they went
north on the afternoon train and
returned early in the evening.
The theory that bootleggers
may have discovered the amount
Of money that John Davis was
carrying and trailed the men to
thelr home in an automobile is
rather discounted by the results of
autopsy. The autopsy showed
no signs of a struggle. 1t indicated
That Charles Davis was in peaceful
conversation with someone whom
he brother had allowed to come
nto their home when the crime
was suddenly perpetrated. The
llshes from the evening meal had
been washed and stood in the sink.
| he authorities are now endeavor-
.ng to make a careful checkup of
men IN this town who were accus-
.omcd to visit the two brothers or
81 distant parties who may have
known the habits of the men to
larry large sums of money on
heir PRISONS. /
A morbid crowd of townspeople
and visitors crowded about the
place all day today but out of the
sntlre crowd not one theory was
advanced as to a possible identity
the p~eIpretator of this horrible !
OXFORD, N. H. Nov. 14-In-