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Fort Collins, Colorado, February 28, 1934. Mrs. Viola Smith had no pride in the gay curtains and the cheerily painted table and chairs,

with which she had brightened the little kitchen in the Smith home near

Wellington. What glow could they bring to her heart when her usually immaculate floor was smeared

with the blood of her husband, Clifford Smith, and of Robert Griffin, the boy who had chopped

wood for her cook stove? Freshly ironed tablecloths

and other household niceties were blackened heaps upon the floors of the rooms where they had

been dumped out of drawers by the men who ransacked the house before murdering the two men and wounding

Mrs. Smith.

Contents of every drawer in the modest four-room home, of a suitcase that contained Robert's clothing and personal effects,

and a trunk belonging to the Smith's, were littered about the house in mad arrangement.

Not even pictures of relatives and friends of the

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