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...steamer on which he was traveling ran aground. 31. Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, deranged slayer of Eileen Pahey, wanted...
...Deputy Chief Inspector James Leggett's instincts refused the idea. Could the killer have been enraged, not at the girl, but at the American Physical Society? The inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed from...
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