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...frosty morning of Jan. 13, 1932 the hard-riding, fox-hunting socialites of Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen...
...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
...Maristan Chapman" (Wife Mary Ilsley and Husband John Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more pointed characterization than thrillers usually carry, Glen Hazard competes with nothing more literarily ambitious than a detective story...
...Author. Mary Ilsley, 36, was born in Chattanooga, Tenn., and raised in the midst of her material. During the War she worked in England, married Engineer John Stanton Chapman. After the Armistice the Chapmans went back to the Tennessee hills, solved the housing problem by roaming wild for two years in a house-car. When "Maristan Chapman's" first book (The Happy Mountain} appeared, Mary got the credit. Last month their secret came out: "Maristan Chapman" is a combination of Mary and Stanton...
Engaged. Clarence R. De Mar, 40, famed marathon runner, of Melrose! Mass.; to Margaret L. Ilsley, religious educator, of Melrose Highlands...