The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-04-27
Cousin of Slain
 Girl Queried
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l CT assailants.
 l Corrigan. State Police Sergeant
 Gene Lenzi, County Detectives Stan-
 ley Gianelli and George Nicolari and | Captain Harry Barrows of the
 Hamden police subjected William | Wetmore, cousin of Clement, the
 dead girls brother-in-law, to an hours questioning at the coroner's
 office in New Haven. Wetmore left shortly before D. m. after giving | testmiony. While awaiting ques- | tioning he told newspapermen he
 knew nothing about the murder and denied he was Miss Kirk's former sweetheart.
 The autopsy performed by Medi-
 cal Examiners Marvin M. Scarbor- ough and George H. Joslin revealed the girl wal shot twice in the head. once in the upper right arm and once in the palm of the left hand after what appeared to have been terrific struggle in the underbrush 1000 yards behind the Mix district volunteer fire company's headquar- ters in which q gay chicken dinner and dance was going on Saturday night.
 Fragments of a bottle were found imbedded in the girls scalp. Death cid not come. the d0cotrs reported, until a large boulder was dropped on her head, forcing 1t into the spongy earth.
 Hamden, Conn, April 27.-(UP)- This quiet farming and residential community was shocked to-day by the brutal murder of demure Emily Kirk, 2l-year-old daughter of Charles Kirk. wealthy farmer. and descendant of the Kirks who colon- ized Hamden nearly 300 years ago. Police believe two intoxicated men met the attra active, athletic girl outside the district volunteers fire house during chicken supper and dance Saturday night. slugged her with q ginger ale bottle and dragged her nearly 1000 feet through under
 brush to q spot where they shot her twice and crushed her, skull with a 50-pound boulder. Emily was a member of the la dies auxiliary of the fire company. which was giving a supper and | dance in honor of the West Haven Republican league. She had been I waiting on table and was clad in a white dress and apron when she | skipped out of the firehouse, pre- sumably to obtain her dancing frock in q parked automobile.
 Shortly after midnight, Emily's 1 father became alarmed at her faIl-
 ure to return home and reported to the police that he believed she had
 been kidnapped. A searching party | of farmers. beating through the woods and undergrowth in driving
 rain, found the mutilated body in a rayine back of the 6rehOuSe just after dawn Sunday.
 The white dress and apron were
 torn. dirty and disarranged. The boulder had crushed the girls skull :, ii.to the soft earth and clotted blood indicated bullet wounds in the right | upper arm and left hand.
 Two of the searchers ran forward with exclamations of horror. They
 were Dwight Kirk. the girls older
 brother and captain of the fire com pany, and Clement Wetmore, her sis | ter Marion's husband. Another 1 searcher. a 20O-pound railroad l freight conductor tainted. | With tears streaming down their
 cheeks, the brother and brother-in-
 law stood guard over the body while others ran for the police. | News of the murder spread rap
 idly through the town while Ham,
 den police, state police and Cor
 oner James J. Corrigan began inves-
 tigation.
 It, was talked about in awed whis-
 pers by the congregation of Mt Car mel Congregational church, where
 she attended Sunday school regular
 iy since she was a small girl. It seemed impossible that this aw-