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...Sept. 24, 1934). For that shotgun murder no one has ever been brought to trial. But last week another gun and two old associates of Elliott Speer once more surrounded quiet Mount Hermon with an incongruous criminological atmosphere, provided it with a second mystery. In Superior Court at nearby Greenfield, Mount Hermon's retired Dean Thomas Edwin Elder, 55, was on trial for assault by gun on Mount Hermon's retired cashier Stephen Allen Norton...
...jury of twelve of his neighbors old Mr. Norton, solid and bushy-browed, told the same story he told to the Greenfield police hurriedly summoned to his house on the night of May 25. He was just leaving his garage after driving his wife home from a church meeting when a man in a long coat appeared in the doorway, pointed a gun at him and said in a clear voice: "Norton, I want to talk to you." Mr. Norton ducked into his house and the man disappeared. But he had recognized a face and voice he had worked with...
...helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about Michigan...
...Russell Allen, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, Head Usher, the group includes the following Juniors: Nathaniel G. Bonehley; Frederick S. Bigelow; Alden S. Blodget, Jr.; Sherman Brayton; John L. Dampeer; Nathaniel V. Davis; John C. Dovelin; John T. Dunton; John Dwinell; Morris Earle; Francis C. Eaton; David Emerson; John W. Ewell; Volney W. Foster; Fellown D. Gardner; William T. Glendenning; Lincoln Godfrey, Jr.; John MacD. Graham; Hubert H. Hauck; Samuel T. Hicks, Jr.; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.; Francis Keppel; Francis X. Leary...
Through the Berkshires again went the shudder of the Speer murder mystery. Out went a police alarm for Thomas Edwin Elder, who was arrested next day at his Alton farm. He waived extradition, was taken to Greenfield. His alibi was simple: he said he had spent all the night in question with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story...