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Elliott Speer

Case from Northfield, MA dated Sep 14, 1924

Victim Details

Elliott Speer

Male

White / Caucasian

Northfield

MA

1924-09-14

35

Elliott

Speer

08/02/2026

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On a quiet September evening in 1934, Elliott Speer, the 35-year-old White male headmaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys in Northfield, Massachusetts, was working in his study. His wife, upstairs tending to their children, heard a noise she initially dismissed as an exploding light bulb. Rushing downstairs, she found her husband bleeding from his arm and chest, two holes shattered the window of his study. Speer collapsed and died twenty minutes later from a shotgun blast fired at close ran ...
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  • Alamy: Northfield mount hermon school Black and White Stock Photos & Images - Alamy
  • Websleuths: MA - MA - Rev. Dr. Elliott Speer, 35, Gill, 14 Sept 1934
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