On the frosty morning of Jan. 13, 1932 the hard-riding, fox-hunting socialites of Loudoun County, Va. awoke to find murder in their midst. Sometime during the night Agnes Boeing Ilsley, widow of a well- to-do Wisconsin banker, had been brutally done to death in bed at her house in Middleburg. Also killed was her elderly white maid Mina Buckner. A butcher with a meat cleaver could not have done a gorier job. Nothing was stolen.
The summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford...
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