New Britain herald., 1929-05-09

yesterday morning. Steel reds were
 brought into use. metal detecsot
 was also employed in the search. j'-
 rected by County Detective Edwarl
 J. Hickey. for the weapon which Mir
 Hickey seems to think will be found
 in the vicinity.
 The investigators firmly hold to
 the theory that the weapon Was
 hurled into the swamp either by
 Huntington or an assailant after .hs shooting.
 An inundated plot about ten feet from where the body lay was tae center of activity and 50 carefully was it covered that q fountain pen and pencil, lost by one Of the search- CTS yesterday. were found In the mud, a coupI. of feet below the su,- face of the water Hip boots bor., rowcd by the Windsor fire depart. ment were worn by the inv-stisa- tors.
 The only weapon discovered this morning was boys air rife near q brook in the lot.
 The swamp about the place where the body lay will be combed with | metal indicating device in an effort to obtain the pistol used in the crime. This instrument. about tiie size of a pocket watch with . hand which dips Ill the field of iron Or steel, is commonly utilized to locate buried water pipes. One was tried out by Detective Hickey yesterday but proved 100 weak and a better instrument vas obtained.
 Huntington Woman Hater"
 The note which was found across the road from the place where tue body lay was assigned to one Billy" the nickname of Huntington's sis- ter Mary. According to Detective Hickey. the rest Of the note is not decipherable.
 Young Huntington was considered of woman hater." friends of the dead youth stated to- day, and had no special girl friends in the town whom he visited on his frequent trips home. It was re- called that m his high school days, it was his custom to attend school 'stag" or with a relative. This fact the friends stated, would strongly tend to eliminate the theory of a love affair prior to the death.
 The body was found a short dis tancc off Bloomfield avenue, in the corner of lot owned by John Sabot but commonly known as the Murphy place. The road of red dirt is seldom used for traffic. according to resi- dent of the section. who added that, if murder had been committed, the a assailant had selected an excellent site for the decd. No houses are in the immediate vicinity and . quizzing of farmers in the section failed to disclose a clue to the crime. the in. vestigators announced.
 Morbid Throng Gathers
 Hundreds of cars. many from out of state, visited the scene of the shooting yesterday afternoon and evening and today many visitors waded about the lot ankle deep in mud and water in an attempt to find the gun used. Mrs. Mary Clark Hunt inEton. the mother was reported to have been prostrated with grief over the death of her son.
 Following the autopsy, County Detective Hickey and Constable Maurice Kennedy. leading investi- gators in the case. conferred with members of the Huntington family at the Main street home.
 z Huntington. who was home from Harvard college for . brief visit. was said to have been in a caprici- ous state of nina Tuesday evening when he went riding with Burdett Williams. high school classmate. It was 1o:30 o'clock. Williams said. when he drove Huntington home. The students mother told authori- ties she heard her son call to her in the house that he was going to zee Edward Prouty at . local drug store. He never went to the store md his movements thereafter to the time of his death have remained 
 A diamond ring was on one of fingers and his cloth- ing was not disturbed. Death had been caused by bullet fired through the left temple. Detective Hickey, after conducting a preliminary ip. eestisation, declared that Hunting ton was alive when his body was left or thrown on the field. Persons living in the vicinity of the farm. the place where Governor John H. Trumbull spent his childhood. heard