John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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thought rt hypocntrcal as he hated hrs uncle-but he d1d not murder hmm As for a secret fortune rf hrs aunt dld have one he never knew of lt She had from trme to trme grven h1m money but never any large amount The lawyers were very shrewd and the lury was bemg swayed by th small evrdence at hand The only polnt Mr McRalley had rn hrs favor was that Mr Darpens lawyer seemed to have drsappeared questromng the truth of the mottve for the cnme They say rt only happens rn the movxes but how wrong that theory 1S for one the last day of the trlal the defense presented an exc1t1ng w1t ness Mr Darpens law partner Tom Tenhem After the prelrmmary ques t1on1ng the rught of the kxlhng was brought up The WIIIIGSS sa1d At 9 PM one hour before the de ceased was murdered h1S w1fe de she wanted to read awhlle before ret1r1ng I left shortly afterwards and at the door we heard a tmklmg sound hke a glass breakmg Ram sey savd I guess Aggle broke glass excuse me Tom She mxght have cut herself I sa1d goodmght and that was the last tlme I saw Ramsey Darpens A tenseness hung over the court room hke a hlck fog and then Mrs Darpens dropped to the floor rn a dead faxnt Actron seemed swrft after that Notes were found showrng that she was III heavy debt Her servants told of an argument f1Ve years prevlou when Mrs D Kas they called herl was once more heavrly 1n debt Mr D sa1d rf xt happened agam she could go to 1a1l for he would not smk thousands of dollars lnto her fool 13 gambhng escapades Fmally M Darpens came to the stand Before fxfteen mxnutes had passed she be came hysterrcal and admltted her gruesome cr1me When Ram entered I knew I would be caught so I steadmly walked to hrm and fearlessly stuck the crys tal whlch had just broken from th chandeller 1nto my husbands neck I am not normally a cold heartless person but I knew t was erther he or I and decrded upon the former When hrs breathmg stopped I set the t1me clock for 4 PM the next day so 1t would look hke I was the sup possed v1ct1m I replaced the chande l1er whrch was small I d1d thls by means of a ladder as our ce1l1ng IS very low The mstrument releasmg the pressure I had mserted befor Ram entered and my cnme seemed perfect gullty after only three hours delrbera tron The sentence was l1fe rmpnson ment but fate played one of 1ts httle tncks and after two months Aggre s mmd left rmaglnary dart the1r tum She ce1lmg of small llght lmagmary her She 1S ternfled by chandellers whrch seem to crystals 1n her at every stares contmually at the her room where only shows She IIISISIS that an chandeller wlll fall on her and on rarny evemng her rage IS terr1fymg She screams and says now tomghts the nlght I dread these nrghts more than anythmg m the world for sometrmes I even feel a strange power over us all You see I am her nurse Marlan at thrs sam tarlum for mental cases There she goes agam MA RIA N Here It comes' oooh' ' ' ' ' . ' , rs. I - .. ' 1 I . . . 9 i - ' I u l 9 . I i ' I - I - -1 I ' I . . . . - I ' 1 ' 9 I ll - 1 ' I - - H -u parted mto the llbrary where she sard The jury came in with Q verdict of I ' ' I - . - 1-I 1 I ' ' a . l . .. l . . G . . . . I . . S I I I 1 1 -

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'PONIGH'I S 'PHE NIGHT NORMA MORGILLO IT WAS a dreary, cold evening. The rain splattered on the window pane and in this atmosphere of mysterious surroundings a voice shrilly called Marian. A small wisp of a woman came hurrying into the spacious room where seated by the fireplace was an old woman wrinkled and gray. Her piercing eyes seemed to be held spellbound by an object above her. This is it, Marian-tonight is the night! The frightened looking woman in a very deceiving voice coolly replied, You've been saying that for live years now, Aggie! Oh, but tonight. I am positive! The black headlines on a drizzly night screamed the news of Ramsey Darpen's strange murder. The item said: Ramsey Darpens, aged 42, was found at 10 P.M., Monday night, by his wife, Agatha Darpens. Protruding from the base of his neck was ct sharp icicle-shaped piece of glass. The autopsy showed the death was due to the stab. Everyone was very puzzled as to the origin of the instrument. This mys- tery was solved soon enough, for at 4 P.M., a day later, a crash was heard in the library. The middle of the floor was covered with a gigan- tic mass of glass. The chandelier had fallen with a crash, bang to the floor below. This solved the origin of the crystal but why had the chandelier fallen? After careful investigation it was discovered that inserted in the body of the chandelier was a time clock. At 4 P.M. this was to go off releasing a pressure on the chande- lier which would cause it to fall. It was a daily custom that at 4 P.M. Mrs. Darpen had her tea in the library. This meant that someone had planned to kill Mrs. Darpens, but who? Thr. person in question solved his my tery herself by telling the story ot her nephew. It seems that she pos sessed a secret fortune. Only Iames McRally, her nephew, knew of this and upon her death he would inherit it all. He was on very poor terms with Mr. Darpens who cut him off entirely from his will. Mrs. Darpens felt someone should provide for her beloved nephew and felt the task was bestowed upon her He had come a week before the tragedy and imploringly asked for S20,00U. Of course, it was refused, not on the basis of denial, for the ridicu- lousness of the request, but because Iames would not give any reason for his immediate need. He stormed out in a rage, saying he'd get even. He had not been seen or heard from since then. If he was not entangled he would surely have shown his face when he read of the murder even if only out of respect for his aunt but this was not the case. There was no other evi- dence and that seemed logical so Iimmy was tracked down and brought to court on the circumstantial evidence introduced. He denied everything. He had not come to the funeral for he 12

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GRUWINI1 UI' empo me DWG ROSEMARY DIETER ARRIVING HOME on 915 Love Edd1e Th1s was lt Th1s was what Paddy had been hopmg and praymg for for two years seven months and hfteen days Her Edd1e was commg home The tears she had been hold ng back all that time came All her pent up emotlons were suddenly rel1eved and she was crymg for Joy and 1t was wonderful Everythmg was wonderful She took a warm bath and hpped mto her prettlest dress She brushed her ha1r unt1l 1t shone topped 1t w1th a showy flower looked crltrcally 1n the m1rror took 1t off and replaced xt w1th a more conservat1ve one After applymg her makeup so as to mclude just a teensy bit of everythmg Paddy was ready for the last test the long m1rror She found herself sur veylng a sl1ght g1rl who was very pretty and not too sure of herself The young lady about nmeteen kept fussmg w1th her ha1r and appeared very nervous Her ex xtem nt erved to glve an added sparkle to her W fl eyes Her Marlne would fmd her more matur more charmlng a d prettxer than the day he had left her It was exght oclock She would leave for the statlon at e1g lt th1rty and arr ve at n1ne She sat down closed her eyes and tned to thmlc Edd1e and she had been friends all the1r lxves She smlled to recall th bloody nose she rece1ved after re fus1ng to be burned at the stake and that he had been the one to burs 1nto tears when he reahzed what he had done That was the only t1me he had ever h1t her He made her a present of a hornbly mutllated teddy bear wlth one eye and no feet and she dldnt get over the Indian burn for a whole week She was amazed and d1smayed at the change and was glad when she became 1ust one of the gang agam The war came and as soon as he was old enough Edd1e Jomed the Marmes When he heard that he was gomg to be sh1pped overseas they were marned There was no paren tal objectlon She wrote to h1m every day but 1n hrs letters wh1ch were few and far between she sensed change He seemed to be growma her growlng so much more mature than she could ever be The rad1o er1als about the husbands retum ng home strangers to the1r brave wlves and how they lmally were reconc1led wamed ler She drdnt k ow how to be brave the only thmg she knew was nat she loved Edd1e away from It was 915 and the tall ean bronzed man vn front of her was Edd1e He came to her an.l stopped and looked at her He looked sur pr1sed and bewrldered Suddenly 1t was all very clear to her She too had changed The same fears that had troubled her had plagu d h1m too They had both grown up each mn the1r ovnm way But they both felt the same toward the other they al ways had and they always would Now 1f she could only convmce Eddl of Il'l1S She took a deep breath There are d1fferent klds m the school but 1t s stlll Adams and every one works at the war plant but they re stlll your fr1ends and I love you Please belleve me I do It was very dlsgraceful the way Ih1S Manne a grown man was swmgmg that pretty glrl through the a1r but they were so happy and so much III. love that people just had to smlle as they passed 14 11 4- I 1 1 1 1 1 11 , H 1 .1- ' 1 . 1 ' 7 I 1 LZ 1 L I 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 I ' 1 1 1 ' 1 I 1 1 1 1 5 a 1 S ' ' .. 1 ' ' I 1 1 . 1 C I 1.1 1 1 1 ' I 1 1 . ' .I 1 I 1 - 11 - - 11 ' ' 11, 1 . 1 ' ' ,51 I 1. 1 1 1 W I 1 J ' I J - 1 1 ' Q 1 1 1 r I ,. 1 I 1 1 C 3 S 1 1 I rs -..v 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I, Q l vi ' - ' v1 1 -. C 1 11 11 1 1 , 1 1 I . . 1 1 I .. 1 1 Q 1 . I 1 1 . . 9 1 1 . 1 I I I I I 11 1 1 . 1:1 1 V I 1 1 . - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 . 2 1 I 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 . - 1 1