Post by Brian on Oct 15, 2013 8:41:47 GMT -5
01/07/08 at 11:33 AM
Maria
In one of the newspaper accounts of the Lawson murders the day after they happened the reporter said: "...the children's bodies being found in the parlor with new toys, evidently gifts from Santa, many of them blood stained lying about grotesquely to present a grim picture to the authorities." Where did that reporter get his information from about the toys I wonder. Some one would have to have told him that. Who? It sounds like the authorities were the ones who told the reporter, the authorities being Dr. Helsabeck, Dr. Taylor, and Sheriff John Taylor. Were there actually new toys they got for Christmas or did the reporter assume that they had gotten toys for Christmas because all children get toys for Christmas? The reporter also went on to say that the children were shot while playing with their toys. How could anyone know that since no one there at the time survived long enough to talk and tell anyone what happened.
Maria
01/07/08 at 12:58 PM
Angel71242
Probably every newspaper article written back then about the tragedy had a slightly different version. If Claude and Elijah Lawson didn't have matching stories, how could the reporters?!
MARIA
01/07/08 at 03:28 PM
Michael818
Note the "new toys" stained with blood. Haven't we all heard that there was no such that Christmas?
Michael R.
Michael818
01/09/08 at 11:31 PM
doodlebug
If there were blood stained toys there, or gifts strewn around the room, I would think the photo would show them (think of the impact THAT would have had!!) It just seems unlikely that they would have cleared the room of toys and gifts prior to taking the picture, unless they had already been taken by curiosity seekers. If that had been the case, you would think that someone over the years would have said something about having the a toy or gift that they took from the scene.
doodlebug
01/09/08 at 11:39 PM
Maria
I agree. The toys would be in the photographs. I doubt if any of the people there that day would have taken those toys. Surely no one was crass enough to steal Christmas toys from murdered children and wash off the blood and give them to their own children.
Maria
Maria
In one of the newspaper accounts of the Lawson murders the day after they happened the reporter said: "...the children's bodies being found in the parlor with new toys, evidently gifts from Santa, many of them blood stained lying about grotesquely to present a grim picture to the authorities." Where did that reporter get his information from about the toys I wonder. Some one would have to have told him that. Who? It sounds like the authorities were the ones who told the reporter, the authorities being Dr. Helsabeck, Dr. Taylor, and Sheriff John Taylor. Were there actually new toys they got for Christmas or did the reporter assume that they had gotten toys for Christmas because all children get toys for Christmas? The reporter also went on to say that the children were shot while playing with their toys. How could anyone know that since no one there at the time survived long enough to talk and tell anyone what happened.
Maria
01/07/08 at 12:58 PM
Angel71242
Probably every newspaper article written back then about the tragedy had a slightly different version. If Claude and Elijah Lawson didn't have matching stories, how could the reporters?!
MARIA
01/07/08 at 03:28 PM
Michael818
Note the "new toys" stained with blood. Haven't we all heard that there was no such that Christmas?
Michael R.
Michael818
01/09/08 at 11:31 PM
doodlebug
If there were blood stained toys there, or gifts strewn around the room, I would think the photo would show them (think of the impact THAT would have had!!) It just seems unlikely that they would have cleared the room of toys and gifts prior to taking the picture, unless they had already been taken by curiosity seekers. If that had been the case, you would think that someone over the years would have said something about having the a toy or gift that they took from the scene.
doodlebug
01/09/08 at 11:39 PM
Maria
I agree. The toys would be in the photographs. I doubt if any of the people there that day would have taken those toys. Surely no one was crass enough to steal Christmas toys from murdered children and wash off the blood and give them to their own children.
Maria