Murder In West Granville, 1911
NOTE: You will need to use the "enlarge" (+ icon) to make the newspaper type in the viewing windows legible. <br /><br />The 30 Sep 1911 Springfield Daily News account of a tragic murder in West Granville.<br /><br />The article mentions a photo (shown here; the two men in the center of the photo committed the murder) used to identify the killers. It was a George Aldrich photo the soon-to-be murderers had asked him to take so they could send it to their friends back in the old country to show them how well they were doing in America. But fate would soon deal them a new hand.<br /><br />One of the killers went to the electric chair, the other later died of "brain disease."<br /><br />This occurred at the Harger place on what is now Sheets Road. The house is gone but you can see it by <strong><a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/428">CLICKING HERE</a></strong>.<br /><br />The map location below is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">estimated</span> and not based on the discovery of the actual location of the foundation hole.
September 1911 to June 1913
Springfield Daily News
South Lane 2 (now Crest Lane), East Hill and Liberty Hill
East Hill, Liberty Hill, West Granville, Massachusetts. This photo is looking east at East Hill and Liberty Hill. South Lane 2 runs across the upper portion of the landscape. The South Lane school is center left and the Yarmitsky place is on the right (both on South Lane 2).
Likely a George Aldrich photo.
1894 map courtesy of Bill Toomey, 2015.
Granville Public Library Historical Room
South Lane School <strong><a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/343">CLICK HERE</a><br /></strong>South Lane 2 (Crest Lane) <strong><a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/404">CLICK HERE</a></strong>
South Lane 2, West Granville, Massachusetts (now Crest Lane)
South Lane in West Granville. This would be South Lane 2 which was renamed to Crest Lane. It is not the present day "South Lane." <br /><br />The photo appears to have been taken from Liberty Hill or Prospect Hill, looking more or less south or slightly south southwest. Refer to the collection of old Granville maps for points of reference (<a href="https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/collections/show/25">CLICK HERE</a>).
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