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Murdered. Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster of the Northfield (Mass.) Mount Hermon School for Boys, son of Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; by a shotgun discharged through his study window by an unknown assailant...
Snug behind closed windows in his study at Mount Hermon School for Boys one chill Massachusetts evening last week sat the Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster. Like hundreds of other schoolmasters, he was just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...
...late, great Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody founded Mount Hermon in 1881, two years after its sister, Northfield Seminary for Girls. There in an austere atmosphere thousands of boys and girls from pious homes have received a Christian, practical education, with two hours work per day on farm or in shop for rich and poor alike. To Northfield, too, have gone thousands of men and women for its famed summer conferences at which they refreshed their spiritual roots. There in 1926 went young Elliott Speer, fresh from a term as chaplain at LaFayette, to succeed Founder Moody's son William...
...immediately planned on the outdoor stage of the theatre; how members of the cast had dashed about buying presents and flowers for the improvised altar, and certain girls had donned their best summer frocks to be bridesmaids; how the bridal couple hastily enlisted a Rev. Frank H. Wells of Mount Vernon, N. Y. to perform the service while someone played the wedding march on a portable organ and someone else loaned Mr. Marshall a ring and someone else again gave Miss Fortescue away. Amid squeals, hugs, kisses, handshakes, the couple made their way to an automobile...
...Mount Carmel (Pa.) Item...