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...told of having gone up to the car after it stopped, and of having been ordered back by the driver, a man with a shotgun. The milkman said a woman was in the back seat, her hands tied and her mouth taped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

Died. John Charles de la Poer Beresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, 33; accidentally (shotgun); in Portlaw, County Waterford, Irish Free State. Legend held that a curse of violent deaths had been put on seven generations of his family; the third Marquess died of a fall in the hunting field; the fifth shot himself; the sixth drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...family, Ma (Helen Zelinskaya), Tillie (Frieda Altaian) and Florrie (Francine Larrimore) when Ma refuses to give Florrie $10 to go to Asbury Park. Deprived of a chance to see her own beau, Florrie goes out with Tillie's. The result of this excursion is a baby and a shotgun wedding. By the time the baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Police who swarmed over Northfield's campus last week had no trouble reconstructing the murder-someone lurked on a macadam path outside the study until Headmaster Speer stood up, then fired a shotgun pointblank through the window. But of weapon, killer or motive they could find no trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Northfield | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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