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NIGHTMARE     HOUSE
Seneca, Kansas
July 1934


This short story came out in  Master Detective Magazine in 1934 after the bizarre ordeal that came to  light  in Seneca, Kansas about July 4, 1934. This created  excitement like was never known in our town before or since. There were all kind of roomers and speculation. The courier ran nearly two pages on the story.

 Click on the pictures to read the account as portrayed by this magazine and also the account as printed in the Courier  Tribune on July 3, 1934..   Some of these pages may load very slow on smaller computer and small modems. They will  open if given time.  Perhaps in time some can  typed this up and  put it on in a better  form. 

 

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Myrtle Latimer is Convicted
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