manhunt for murderer of a girl who shot her because she wouldn’t give him money
On the Springfield Police’s dot gov website, there is a detailed history of this serial killer’s crimes (name was Spencer) and the murder of Martha Blackstone that spurred this manhunt shown in the photo.
Here is a brief excerpt of the file that can be read in full at:
springfield-ma dot gov slash police slash fileadmin slash user underbar upload slash spencer dot pdf
“Miss Martha B. Blackstone, the woman who was murdered on the last day of March,
1910, was the daughter of Charles J. Blackstone, a well-known hardware man in
Springfield. She was an only daughter, thirty-nine years old, and lived with her
parents. She graduated from Smith College in the Class of 1893, and for the last
two years had been teaching the first grade of the Jefferson Avenue School in
Springfield. She was said to be a woman of high intellect and culture, and was
respected and beloved by her pupils and associates. While teaching at the Jefferson
Avenue School, she had made the acquaintance of the Misses Harriet and Lucy Dow,
the former of whom was also a teacher there, and Miss Blackstone frequently visited
them at Round Hill, where they lived with their mother Mrs. Sarah J. Dow.”
There is much more to the story and many details and many newspaper articles about the crime spree and eventual capture and execution of Spencer. Easily found online.
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