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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...
Immediately after the double murder the enraged citizenry of Loudoun County put their horses and hounds to hunting George Crawford instead of a fox. Leader of the chase was Brigadier General William Mitchell, of Air Service renown, at whose home Mrs. Ilsley had visited the evening before her death. But George Crawford was not to be found, a fact which possibly saved him from a lynching. Nevertheless he was indicted for the murder. Exactly one year later the police of Boston fished up from the dregs of the city's unemployed on a petty larceny charge a Negro...
...became known that Mrs, John Hay ("Liz" Altemus) Whitney, socialite and horsewoman whose country estate is in Loudoun County, Va., had leased a cinema theatre in nearby Middleburg; had remodelled, air-conditioned it, installed sound equipment, upped admissions to 30? for adults, 15? for children...
...that this property is 55 miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through the villages. We venture the prophecy that by the time Mount Weather is fitted for Presidential occupancy the White House chauffeur will have...
Seats for Fife, Cromartie, Loudoun, Seafield, Roberts, Wolseley, Rhondda, noble ladies in their own right...