Word: tree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire-engines and faced the accusation that he cut the throat of Mrs. Mills; Henry Stevens, another brother, tight-mouthed, an expert marksman, said to have fired the fatal shots. The curiosity existed also because of the ghastly disposition of the bodies, in the dismal field, under the spectre tree. Curiosity was awake because of the time that had elapsed since the murder-four years. Finally, curiosity was awake because the newspapers had been stampeded by a grimy little sheetlet bleating, "Awake, awake...
...disheveled, suffering from a mortal organic disease, she said that she was driving her mule down a lane the night that Dr. Hall was killed. She heard shots in a field, saw flashes of light, hands groping, momentarily terrible faces. She saw a man pitch forward under a crabapple tree...
That crabapple tree no longer stands. As testimony to the public morbidity which the murder, the various hearings, the long investigations have excited throughout the U. S., souvenir hunters long since rooted it up, tore it apart, carried it away. The bodies of Dr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, his mistress, were found side by side under the crabapple tree. A bullet had killed the amorous Episcopalian. The woman's throat was cut and there were three bullets in her head...
Before the Daily Mirror was born, before Philip Payne became its managing editor, there was the double murder beneath the crab-apple tree. The first investigation ended without indictments; the case was hushed...
...tree, a gift of the late J. T. Wheelwright '76, founder of the Lampoon, was planted with great ceremony on the Jester's fiftieth anniversary about two years ago. Although carefully watched and watered by Bob Lampoon, it had not burgeoned up to expectation in the Gold Coast atmosphere, and there have been rumors that it was to be removed...