The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-05
John Crolu;s Body
 Has Not Been Found
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the body was also discovered by Constable Howard Kraft of Vol colt. He notified pr. Platt, who notified Cornor Monzani and Wa terbury police. pr. Platt, Coroner Monzani and Patrolman Shea raced to the scene, and after a preliminary investigation, the cor oner ordered the body to be re- moved to the Alderson funeral home. State police were at the scene by this time and they joined in the investigation to discover whether or not the body was that
 of the missing Wolcott hermit.
 The body was clothed in a dark overcoat, two pairs of pants or overalls, and a heavy sweater. His shoes were high, laced and he wore heavy socks. The body was badly eaten away about the face, while decomposition of the hands made fingerprints impossible.
 Anytime This Winter
 Dr. Platt, the medical examiner said this afternoon that the body could have been in. the water since anytime during the winter, but not before. The man could have been drowned at any time during the cold spell, the ice and cold pre- venting decomposition until the spring. Dr. Platt declared that the body could not have been in the water since last June, when Crow disappeared after the two killings.
 Crow was described as about five-eight, and weighing from 17O to 1SO pounds. The body found though badly bloated, was obvious ly shorter and lighter than that of Crow.
 Bristol police records were being checked this afternoon to deter mine if the drowning victim had been reported as missing from that town. There were no papers or personal effects in the clothing, only the three keys.
 Sought Since June
 John Crow has been sought as a murderer since June 24th, 1884. On that afternoon he was lost from sight a few minutes after he had shot and killed Clarence Yuskis, 22 and Julius Karvauskas, A, a farm hand employed by Yuskis' father, in the yard in front of the Yuskis homestead on Wolcott road. Crow jumped out of his car as he came in front of the Yuskis' home, and fired at Clarence as the youth, at- tired in a bathing suit and ready to go swimming, sat in the seat of his car. As the lad slumped down in the seat, Crow fired at him again, this time with an automatic. Karvauskas, the hired hand, was on the roof of the barn across the road, when he saw Crow firing the shots. He shouted for the killer to stop and hurriedly went down to ! the ground. He ducked behind a barn door as Crow swung his rife l toward him, but the killer fired a shot through the door, the bullet penetrating Karvauskas' body. Crow then went around the door and fired another bullet, from the automatic this time, into the hired hands body.
 Mrs. Yuskis Alarmed The shots had alarmed Mrs. Yuskis, who was in the rear of the house and she raced to the front to see Crow clubbing the uncon- scious body of her son with the butt of his rife. The butt broke off, and Mrs. Yuskis attempted to strike Crow with sprinkling pail which she had in her hand. He turned the rife on her, and a bull | let glanced off her forehead, the middle-aged woman toppling to the ground unconscious. She later re- covered.
 Crow then leaped into his auto mobile, and drove speedily down the road, only to abandon the car at fork in the highway which led to his shack. A few minutes later he was seen for the last time that he was identified positively, a neighbor seeing him swinging through the woods on foot, rife in his hand and pack on his shoulder.
 Army of Ohicers
 In a short time the place was teeming with state policemen, con- stables and deputies. Directed by Lieutenant William Schatzman, state policemen armed with riot guns advanced on Crows rude shack and riddled it with bullets. They entered the shack, to find that the killer had disappeared.
 State troopers pouring into Vol colt from all parts of the state surrounded every highway and road in the vicinity late that after noon and night, but there was no trace of Crow. Alarm after alarm that he had been sighted came in. but all ended in complete lack of veriflcation when checked. The one given most credence was that he had been seen in the Bucks Hill section of Waterbury the night of the murders.
 Found in the rear of Crows auto were two roughly-constructed bombs. the purpose of which has never been established by investi- gating authorities.
 No Success in Hunt
 The next day and the next, there was no success In the hunt for the murderer. and q volunteer posse was called on to comb the woods. They found little or nothing that was of definite value in the hunt. Bloodhounds were brought 10 Wolcott from New Jersey but