On a September morning in 1922, the quiet, rural landscape of Somerset County, New Jersey, became the setting for a grim discovery that would captivate and scandalize the nation. On September 16th, the bodies of a man and a woman were found lying side-by-side under a crab apple tree in a field often used as a lovers' lane. The man was identified as Edward Wheeler Hall, a 41-year-old White male Episcopal priest from the nearby city of New Brunswick. He had been shot once in the head. His companio
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