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...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...
...early life. I hope that the present failures in aviation will result in a permanent improvement, both in our organization and equipment. We have everything in this country to do with, in aviation. All we need is proper organization and an intelligent and patriotic control. WILLIAM MITCHELL Middleburg, Va. Grateful Georgian Sirs: I wish to express my appreciation for your stand against the sportswriters as to the come back of Bobby Jones [TIME, April 2]. As all loyal Georgians, I am an ardent admirer of his superb quality as a golfer and a sportsman. May your broad-minded foresight...
...frosty morning in January 1932 Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, sport-loving widow of a well-to-do Wisconsin banker, and her elderly white maid, Mina Buckner, were found hacked to death in their beds on Mrs. Ilsley's estate at Middleburg, Va. Wanted for the murder was George Crawford, Negro chauffeur whom Mrs. Ilsley had discharged on suspicion of stealing her liquor (TIME, May 8). A Virginia Grand Jury indicted Crawford but the police could not find him. Last January he was picked up in Boston on a petty larceny charge...
...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...
...saved him from a lynching. Nevertheless he was indicted for the murder. Exactly one year later the police of Boston fished up from the dregs of the city's unemployed on a petty larceny charge a Negro who admitted he was George Crawford. But he stoutly denied the Middleburg murders, insisting he had left Virginia months before the crime. To his defense rushed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Virginia's Governor Pollard asked Massachusetts' Governor Ely to send Crawford down to stand trial. There were formal hearings. Boston witnesses upheld his alibi. Virginia...