Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a WPA badge and serving as a volunteer policeman at the scene of the discovery of the bodies was slim, 32-year-old Albert Dyer who had known the three little girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls...
This week from Los Angeles' skyscraper jail where police had taken him to prevent a lynching attempt, came the name of the murderer to Mrs. Dyer. It was her own husband...
Weeping, shuddering, fainting at one point in the questioning. Murderer Dyer told how he had urged the girls to come with him into the Baldwin Hills where they would catch rabbits. They met him Saturday afternoon and walked back into the gullied wilderness where they built a fire. To catch the rabbits the girls were to be placed separately at different spots. "I left Jeanette and Melba sitting there, I took Madeline up the canyon. . . . After I choked her there with my hands ... I tied a piece of rope around her neck to make sure she was dead." Then...
...competitive season draws to a close, standings on the House Tennis Ladder appear to be fairly decisive. Following is the order of the present standings: Donald Barker '38, Dudley H. Bradlee '38, Samuel L. Feeder '37, John C. Wood '39, Robert H. Sibley, Jr. '38, and John F. Dyer...
...Charles Lee Burwell 105 Richard Peter Hedblom 95 Cleveland Amory 82 Richard Stanwood Benner 74 Oliver Payne Bolton 70 Robert Alexandre Sears 68 Frank Paul Davidson 61 Robert M. Bunker 57 Henry Edwards Russell 56 Ulysses John Lupien, Jr. 51 Richard Russell Flood 50 Caleb Foote 49 Charles Dickey Dyer, 3rd. 37 Robert Maurice Ravven...