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November 18, 1920. "Newsboy holding the Washington Times." Whose banner headline, DYNAMITE KILLS TWO BABES ASLEEP IN CRIB, summarizes a lurid crime that literally rocked Montgomery County, Maryland, in the fall of 1920 when a house painter engaged in a political feud with his neighbor, farmhand James Bolton, dynamited his bungalow, killing the man along with the two small children of his housekeeper. Guy Vernon Thompson was hanged for the crime the following April. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
You can still see remnants of the exploded house just off the trail that leads up to Black Hills from the Waters Landing community. Over the recent years, it has become more obscure. You can still find it if you know what you are looking for.
According to this article, Guy Vernon Thompson has the distinction of being the last person hanged in Montgomery County before executions were centralized to Baltimore.
From the archives of the Gettysburg Times, January 10, 1921.
1911 pattern Boy Scout badge on his lapel.
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