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Near the old Northfield, Mass, summer home of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody is Mount Hermon School, which he founded for serious boys willing to work in the fields to win a plain, pious education. Three years ago Mount Hermon's half century of Christian calm was rudely shattered by a murderous charge of buckshot, fired through his study window at youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934). For that shotgun murder no one has ever been brought to trial. But last week another gun and two old associates of Elliott Speer once more surrounded quiet Mount Hermon with...
...Public School Murder was the name of a book which youthful Headmaster Elliott Speer loaned in 1934 to Dean Thomas Edwin Elder of the Mount Hermon School for Boys at Northfield, Mass. In the story, the victim was killed by a prowler who fired a gun through a window...
...dogs had not barked, as they presumably would have if an un known intruder had made his way through the school's heavily wooded grounds. Because the villain of The Public School Murder had dropped his gun into a pond, the pond on the Mount Hermon grounds was drained, in vain. After ten days the inquest adjourned leaving Dr. Speer's death the greatest school murder mystery of the generation. Five months later Dean Elder resigned from Mount Hermon, went to raise poultry on his farm at Alton...
...night last week 66-year-old S. Allen Norton, who was Mount Hermon's cashier at the time of Headmaster Speer's death and who retired to nearby Greenfield last August, went to see the police. In a state of high agitation Oldster Norton related that he was putting his car in the garage when he saw a man standing in the door, pointing a shotgun at him. "Hey, Norton, I want to talk to you," Mr. Norton said the man said. He dodged behind his car, saw his assailant run off across the lawn. A maid employed...
...names of common drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...