On March 30, 1928, the battered body of 27-year-old Marguerite Isabelle Stewart was found lying beside the Cambridge Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts. A respected supervisor at the Beverly School for the Deaf and daughter of a Worcester family, Miss Stewart had suffered a massive, fatal blow to the skull. The right side of her head
Month: May 2025

FRAMINGHAM’S FIRST AND ONLY POLICE MURDER — STILL NO CONVICTION.
3:30 a.m., February 3, 1923 – McGrath Square, Saxonville Patrolman William H. Welch, a 15-year Framingham Police veteran, was walking his beat on a rainy, sleet-slick morning when he noticed a man acting suspiciously near the mills. Just hours earlier, a store in South Sudbury had been burglarized—postage stamps stolen. Welch was on alert. He stopped