New Britain herald., 1925-07-24
POSSE IS HUNTING
 FOR SLAYER OF TWO
Hudson, N. H, Sisters, " and
 80, Beaten to Death
SUSPECT STRANGE AUTOIST
Stranger Disappeared About Same Time That Killing Is Believed to Have Occured--Nelghbors Find Battered Bodies of Sisters.

Battered Bodies of Sisters.
 By The Associated Press.
 Hudson, N. H., July z4-Investi- gation of the murder of Miss H. Georgiana Gillis, v. and her So- year-old sister, Helen, in the house they occupied alone here, seemed today by the complete absence of any motive for the crime.
 Brutally Slain.
 The bodies of the aged women were found lying on the floor by Mrs. J. A. Locke and Mrs. Eugene Center, neighbors, who had called and received no answer to their knocks at the unlatched door. The skulls of both women had been crushed with some blunt instrument. No trace of any such weapon was found in the house.
 Lunatic Is Sought.
 The county and state authorities investigating the case, headed by County Solicitor George I. Haselton of Manchester, were pressing a search for Demetrios Reproductions, who escaped last Monday from the State Asylum at Concord, 40 miles away, where he had been confined for five years for homicidal assault on man,
 They also searched q summer camp on the Merrimac river nearby which had been broken into but all they found was evidence that some one had prepared nasty meal there. So far as the authorities could ascertain tho murders were committed about 20 hours before the bodies were discovered.
 House In Plain View.
 How such a violent attack could have been made or how any stranger could have entered the house by daylight, as seems likely, Is puzzling the authorities since the Gillis home is situated in a well populated part Of the town with neiEhbors within hundred yards in either direction. 4 trolley line passes the door.
 The bodies, while marked by sev- eral blows Showed no evidence of maniacal fury, The time of the murders has been fixed as most prohablv about yesterday noon since the younger sister had been prepar- ing co1lish in the pantry while rice had been steaming on the kitchen CtONe If iu thCnDbf ftat H6laY tered the house by B door leading into the kitchen during or directly after the murder of he sister. Hel- ems cape was found on the kitchen floor while her hat had rolled or been thrown into the dining room.
 Third sister Living.
 John r. Gillis, brother of the mur- dered woman, bought the parsonage when he retired as a farmer and be- gan the local real estate operations Thich left his sisters in 2 comfort able although modest position when he died. A third sister living in Goffstowr N H., is the only imme- diate relative to survive.
 Seek Strange Autoist.
 Detectives last night traced to Perry an automobile which had been lift in a garage here last Wednes- Jay under circumstances regarded l.- the authorities as suspicious. The driver. whose description has been given 10 the police, took his car to 1ha garage on Wednesday and asked if he might leave 1t there several days On Wednesday night, when the proprietor of the place was ab- Sent, he returned hurriedlv and drove the automobile away, leaving new tire which had been stored in the office for safe keeping The tune of the murders has been placed as not earlier than 4:&0 o'clock Wed u,sday afternoon, 2i hours before the crime vas discovered.
 An autopsy cn the bodies vas 10 ba rerformod today by Dr. Duncan oj Concord state ratholoEist, and 7Tolical Referee F. G. Moran of Naahua. Plans were made today 10 hold funeral services for the Misses GiNis on Sunday at the First Con- grogational church, which Is within q stones throw of the house in which they lived for @5 years.