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During the last week of May 1933, the West Coast was thrilled by the strange death of pretty, young Allene Lamson. Wife of David A. Lamson, respected and popular sales manager of the Stanford University Press, her naked body was discovered in the blood-spattered bathroom of their small home on the University campus at Palo Alto. Lamson was held for murder...
...September 1933, David Lamson's first trial was concluded at San Jose. The State of California contended that Lamson's motives for killing his wife were his affection for a Sacramento divorcee and his wife's repulsion of his amatory advances, that he wilfully killed her by bashing in the back of her head with an iron pipe. The defense called Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur and best man at the Lamsons' wedding, to substantiate its contention that Mrs. Lamson killed herself accidentally by falling...
...October 1934, the California Supreme Court snatched David Lamson back from the shadow of the gallows, granted him a new trial. Declared the Court: "It is true that he may be guilty, but the evidence thereof is no stronger than mere suspicion...
...patronesses will include Mrs. James Phinney Baxter III, Mrs. Charles B. Taylor Mrs. Roy Lamson, and Mrs. Louis B. Hawes...
...Devereux is a dictator in her own small sphere. She tells Cincinnati matrons when to give their parties. As a reporter, she is rarely seen taking notes but no detail escapes her. The Enquirer ran 29½ columns of society news on the festival last week. Mr. Benjamin W. Lamson "deserted his own box party to enjoy Miss Ferguson's charming wit and humor." Mrs. Harry Elstner Talbott of Dayton "wore her pearls and diamonds in her ears." "Miss Mary Elizabeth Rogan was a dainty charmer. . . ." Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson "was, as always, very distinguee." Mrs. Henry Probasco...