The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-13
ARREST WITHIN
 FEW WEEKS DUE
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 2.-Find that Rev. Speer died at the hands of a person or persons unknown and leave the case to po- lice for further investigation.
 3.-Hold a suspect for probable cause for the grand jury.
 State police are confident that following the inquest suspect will be arrested, and they say this man is an acquaintance of the victim "who never has been eliminated from the case"
 The long, private inquest, unpar- alleled in Massachusetts modern criminal history, is unusual in that the suspect is known to be one of the 57 witnesses who already have testified.
 The denouement, if and when it comes, will be sensational, state po- lice predict, revealing grim mur- der plot matched amid the peace- full surroundings of rural North field, site of one of the nations outstanding secondary schools.
 No definite motive has yet been revealed, but authorities repeated ly have hinted that 1t may have been an older mans jealousy of the rapid rise to power of Rev. Speer who, at 36. had been head master for a year. Police have found nothing to substantiate ru- mors that woman was involved in the case, and this angle apparently is being given no official attention. Here are some of the salient points in the states case against the principal suspect:
 IA 15-minute loophole in his alibi. This quarter hour would all low ample time for the commits sion of the crime, according to po- lice.
 2.-He is known to have owned a 12-guage shotgun of the type used by the slayer. Because he has failed to produce this gun, author ities suspect that he may have sawed it off for the crime. A wide spread search, involving the serv- ices of a professional diver, has re- vealed no trace of the death wea- pon.
 3.-Shortly after the killing it was noted that his trigger finger was injured. Persons who saw him few hours before the crime did not notice any injury. The shot gun he is known to have possessed had defective trigger guard. He has told conflicting stories of how he received the injury.
 IA telephone call to the Speer home a few minutes after the mur- der may have been made by the suspect in an effort to ascertain whether his shot had been effective police said.
 5.-The murder is a real-life ver- sion of a murder described in "The Public School Murder" an Eng fish mystery novel which Rev. Speer loaned to the suspect only a few weeks before his death. Po-
 lice believe the story may have inspired the crime and enabled the suspect to execute it in such a man. ner as to defy detection.
 6.-Two letters, one supposedly from Rev. Speer to the suspect, the other from the suspect to the
 headmaster, are believed to have
 been forced to indicate firm
 friendship which actually did not
 exist between the pair. These mis- sives came into the hands of school
 officials soon after the crime, For the purpose of dramatic
 contrast, no Van Dine could create
 more perfect setting for mur- der. Mount Hermon School for Boys. nestled in the rolling hills
 Of the Connecticut valley, is a community in itself.
 Founded 53 years ago by the
 late famed evangelist, Dwight Ly- man Moody. it hasegrown from an
 old farmhouse with IS students to q huge plant consisting of 70 build. ings and 1928 acres of land. with $40 students representing 25 states and Ave foreign countries The school has i4.4i4 alumni.