The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-28

pressed a determination to "blow town as early as D. m. Saturday, at least two ana half hours before Emily Kirk's life was snuffed out by a 50-pound boulder in the thicket behind the brightly-lighted fire house.
 Of the three, most of the inves- tIgating authorities seemed to favor the first. State police have broad Cast instructions to watch for a car of the description of the one seen in Hamden.
 The United Press learned to-day that virtually the, most promising physical clue to the slayer--a frag- r1ent of the quart ginger ale bottle with which Emily apparently was sjugged before she was attacked had failed to produce finger prints. The fragment was too small and had been washed clean by the driving rain whcih fell Saturday night and carly Sunday before Emily's body was found.
 An unbroken whiskey bottle is known to be included in the exhib- it's held by the coroner What it's connection with the case is is not known, for the autopsy performed v been drinking.
 Another development today was the assertion of authorities that they had been informed by man who occupied small building near the fire house at about the tme Emily left to obtain her party dress" that he heard no .commotion. Some inves- tigators nave maintained Emily went willingly with the man or men who carried her to her death.
 The announcement that no more Saturday night dances would be held st the fire house won the hearty ap- proval of Hamden police officials, |" ho declared the dances had often been the occasion of 'rowdyism and drunken brawling." Although an ap- rarent effort was made to restrict the attendance to friends and rela- lives of the volunteers, outsiders often gained admittance.
 Policemen on several occasions have been sent to the firehouse to restore order. It was said some of the men at the dances made fre- quent excursions to a nearby speak easy. Scores of bottles were found by investigators in the firehouse yard during inquiry into the murder Sun day.
 Police c,ung to their theory that two intoxicated men accosted Emily when she left the firehouse to get her party" dress from her fathers parked car after the dinner, at which she served as waitress. They believed it likely that the assailants struck her with a bottle there, rem dering her unconscious.
 A theory that Emily went willing " with one or more men to the place where the murder occurred seems disproved, according to au- thorities, by the evidences of ter rife struggle in the underbrush 1000 yards back of the fire house. Any outcries, of course, would have been drowned out by the dance mu- sic. it was pointed out.
 Belief two men participated in the crime cesfed chiefly on Emily's well-known strength and vitality. She was active. healthy, and weighed l40 pounds. She had been bred on farm and could handle heavy plough horse as easily as pony, her friends said. i''t
 Funeral services. were to be held this afternoon at New Haven un- establishment. The Rev William c. Lathrop of the Mt Car mel Congregational church, was to read the Scriptures and short prayer.
 The body will be inferred in the family plot at old Whitneyville cem- etery, with brief committal services as the casket is lowered into the grave.