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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, not as simple as that. Other murders followed. One John Sprigg was shot through the middle of his wig. A scholarly hunchback, whom children called Humpty Dumpty, sat on a wall, had a great fall, was found dead. Then came the slaughter of the suspects−an annoying device which S.S. Van Dine used to better effect in The Greene Murder Case. Shrewd readers should be able to pick the culprit among the two remaining suspects; stupid readers would do well to flip a coin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cock Robin Killing | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Harvard 1928 Andover Saltonstall l.e. r. e. Burns Simonds l.t. r.t. Foster Gregg l.g. r.g. Healey Bell c. c. Dorman Morris r.g. l.g. Sprigg Pratt r.t. l.t. Kingston Murchie r.e. l.e. Darby Crawford or Kelley q.b. q.b. Billhardt Chauncey l.h.b. r.h.b. Sandberg Gallway r.h.b. l.h.b. Frigard Linscott f.b. f.b. Ward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIPPLED FRESHMEN BATTLE AT ANDOVER | 10/11/1924 | See Source »

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