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...friends knew William Thomas Clatterbuck as a man who worked hard to support his wife and four children, but never quite seemed to be out of debt. Not long ago he had borrowed $2,500 to spruce up his two-story frame house in the Blue Ridge foothills near Hillsboro, Va. A stonecrusher in a quarry, William Clatter-buck, 33, was powerfully built (240 lb.). He was kind and shy; he gave $5 a week to the Nazarene Church; he often carried candy to give to children as he walked down the street...
...last week William Clatterbuck went to visit at the white-painted, old Virginia farm home of A. Morris Love, a wealthy, third-generation Loudoun County farmer. The two men were friends; it was from Love that Clatterbuck had borrowed the $2,500. On this day Morris Love was angry. He had discovered that the names of the co-signers on his friend's note were forged; he demanded full payment...
...full payment that William Clatterbuck dealt out was five murders. In his first moment of rage he clubbed Morris Love, 58, to death with a croquet mallet, lying handy on the old front porch. When son James Love, 21, ran out of the house with a rifle, Clatterbuck disarmed him, shot him in the head, bashed his head with the gunstock for good measure. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot Mrs. Love through the heart, went on out to the barn. There he shot and clubbed the hired man and his wife, left them dead...
Said William Clatterbuck of his onetime friend: "I pleaded with him, but he said no. I saw the croquet set there...
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