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Theodore A. Trent-Lyon, who received his Bachelor of Sacred Theory here in 1945, allegedly shot and killed Dr. Lewis Thorne, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, when Thorne answered the door-bell at his New Haven home Sunday. His wife Helen received wounds in the head and chest when she went to investigate the shots...
...Trent-Lyon was picked up at Springfield, Massachusetts, by detectives who recognized him from Mrs. Thorne's description. He was placed under arrest on a coroner's warrant and put in jail pending formal charges...
Coroner James A. Corrigan said there was a complete absence of a motive. He added that Trent-Lyon took psychiatric treatment from Dr. Thorne in 1941, but records do not show the exact nature of this care...
...When Trent-Lyon finished Divinity School in 1945, he went to Graduate School for a doctorate in Theology. He did not finish his second year because of nervous breakdowns, an acquaintance of his said yesterday...
...Clerihew" is a verse of four lines of varying length in which the first two and last two lines rhyme. It gets its name from its inventor, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, author (Trent's Last Case), poet, and contributor to the New Statesman. Sample "Clerihew" from a New Statesman competition...