16Sep09

Vocalist---"I'm going away to study singing."
Friend---"Good! How far away?"

1922, "Murder of the decade:" The Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and his church choir leader Mrs. James Mills are found murdered at an abandoned farm in New Brunswick, NJ. The case, drenched in suggestions of adultery and innuendo, was the tabloid story of the decade. After no killer was found, a tabloid in 1926 got the case reopened with spurious evidence implicating the reverend's wife and two brothers . The sensational trial of the three was full of melodrama and histrionics. including an incapacitated witness ("The pig Woman") carried into the courtroom on a stretcher (and who proved surprisingly animated during testimony), but the defendants were found innocent.

1925 - B. B. King, American musician is born

1927 - Peter Falk, Ossining NY, actor is born

1956 - Mickey Rourke, American actor is born

1990 - Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed

1991 - US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins

Quote for the day:It's funny how a woman will trust her body and soul in the hands of a man whose own mother wouldn't trust him with a nickel.