The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-21

marks, and her blouse was pulled over her head.
 Gruesome Find
 The gruesome find in the par- sonage kitchen was made by State Detective Edward Sherlock as U. S.. Representative Edith Nourse Rog- CTS, R., Mass, was enroute to dis cuss the case with the girls grief stricken parents
 Shattered furniture indicated she had struggled with her assailant before he struck her on the head and stabbed her. A four-inch knife was placed in her left hand in a crude attempt to give the impress sion she had committed suicide. The groceries she had purchased were on table.
 Questioned in the presence of his father, Woodward, who had been employed by the Rev. Raymond w.. Cooper to care for the parsonage grounds before the minister left with his family on a vacation, de- nied all knowledge of the crime.
 T wasn't inside the house." the boy said.'"I didn't have the key. pr. Cooper did not give me one"
 On Tuesday morning, he said, he moved and watered the parsonage lawn and paid no attention to passersby in the quiet, shaded residential neighborhood.
 Searched Four Days
 Believed the victim of amnesia at first, police, Boy Scouts, eco en- rollees and volunteers had searched four days for Miss Shipp in nearby Wods after girl friend reported Connie" had failed to acknowledge her greeting on the morning she vanished
 Working on the theory she disap- peared between the public library and her home, Detective Sherlock tried the door of each house, found { the parsonage locked and learned the Rev. Cooper and his family were on vacation. Obtaining key from a church trustee, he entered the parsonage = and the search ended
 Noticing a water sprinkler still running, he checked further, went to the Woodward home and brought the boy to the police station
 Last winter, Woodward was con- victed in Woburn district court of an attempted attack on another Reading High school girl, received suspended sentence and placed on probation.
 Arrested In May
 In May he was arrested by State Police ill connection with an attack in a state forest reservation on a North Andover girl. In this case he was free under $1 ,000 bail when the Shipp girl was slain.
 His junior high school principal, Robert F. Perry, told newsmen: T can't understand and neither can the teachers in the high school why the legal authorities should allow this boy to go free on $1,000 bail with a record behind him"
 Perry said Woodward appeared to be normal student, made a fine first impression, but was unpopular with his classmates. He said that after Woodward's first arrest he had placed him under supervision Of a teacher with some experience in handling problem cases" but that the teacher dropped his task after the boy allegedly attacked the second girl. who was rescued when her screams brought help.
 Rev. Cooper told authorities the boy was in the Christian EndeayoF Society and that he had been in the church spring play.
 District Attorney Bradford said the time Of the shlpp girls death Ifs undetermined. The pathologlsts's report indicates she Wass knocked down and from then on all the other wounds were inflicted at dif. ferent times, Her eyes are goiged out and there are cuts ln the viclns ity of them. There are several deep wounds in ihe general region 0f tie breasts
 Nelghbors said Miss ehipp, an