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The dynamic writing due, Renee Geving and Cecelia McKeig, have produced their latest paperback entitled Murder & Mayhem, about crimes in early Cass County, several of which have never been solved.

Geving is from Walker and is director of the Cass County Museum. McKeig is a resident of Federal Dam, and they have utilized the newspaper archives and state archives to put together these accounts.

If summer readers are looking for a good murder story of the north woods, a gripping tale of love gone wrong, or an unsolved murder of 100 years ago, this book includes those crimes, and more. The book follows stories from newspaper accounts of the day and court records and addresses such pointed questions as, who killed Patrick Hawley and buried his body in a manure pile? Who shot George Barclay on a cold October night at Pine River: Was Cass Lake's Dr. Dumas an outstanding citizen, wrongly accused, or a Jekyll and Hyde-type character? Why was there only one hanging in Cass County? Was Chounard an example to the rest of the would-be-offenders?

Follow the development of the stories in the words of first-hand witnesses, and in the editorials of the day.

The book is currently being sold at Lori's Luvs, in Longville; Little Apple Bookstore, and the Cass County Museum, in Walker.[[In-content Ad]]

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