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...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...
That was Aug. 4, 1802. A week later, following the inquest, Lizzie Borden was indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It was known that the Bordens were not a happy family. Lizzie and her older sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand...
Last week Edmund Pearson, who specializes in writing up famed U. S. murder cases, published a full-length dissection of the Lizzie Borden mystery, complete with photographs of the victims, plans of the house, rescript of the trial and inquest testimony. Author Pearson was careful not to bring in a verdict, or at least not to say it out loud; but he obviously thought Lizzie Borden was lucky, not innocent...
...Circus de Paris moved on to Philadelphia, where a city ordinance forbids such animal turns as "Bride of the Lion." But Dr. Hamiter testified at an inquest that Dancer Cote, vexed by newspaper criticism of the lions' lethargy, had sewed a large bolt in the hem of her veil, presumably thumped George's snout with it. The troupe's manager. Eddie Pierce, announced that blameless George would continue to perform in the act, that three girls had already applied to replace Gladys Cote as his bride...
...warrant, sworn out by Mrs. Taylor's brother, charged the General with her murder. The inquest was promptly adjourned. General Denhardt was led off to the office of the County Judge, where bail of $25,000 was furnished by his old friend Dr. Arthur T. McCormack, president-elect of the American Public Health Association. A hearing was set for this week. Meantime Mrs. Taylor's body was exhumed. Examination revealed that she had been shot from the front, the bullet having struck her breast, pierced the heart, come out the back. At once officials attached great importance...