MD MD - Myra Clare Stone, 8, Baltimore, body found 22 Feb 1922

[madfrank]

The Unsolved Case of Clare Stone, the Baltimore girl who went missing in 1922

The story that appeared 97 years ago today [sic] still resonates when the name Clare Stone is mentioned.

An eight-year-old schoolgirl left her Elmora Avenue home near Clifton Park. She normally caught a southbound Belair Road streetcar and transferred at North Avenue. Her destination was a brick schoolhouse at Wolfe Street, the Christopher Columbus Elementary School.

But she never made it — and for generations later, Baltimore parents have warned their children about winding up like Clare Stone. It is a chilling cautionary tale.
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The Sun of Feb. 23, 1922, reported, “Little Clare Stone’s body was found yesterday in Duncan’s Woods, near Orangeville, ravaged, shot through the head and stretched half naked in the mud.” The article went on to say that city and state police had been searching for two days. She was found by a man out for a Washington’s Birthday trek in a wooded area not far from the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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“Last night police and volunteers were still beating the woods over a wide area for some trace of the murderer’s identity,” The Sun’s report said.
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Also see: Myra Clare Stone (1914-1922) - Find A Grave...

 

[madfrank]

Sorry, I went happy with the 2's in the title. Clare was 8. I have notified the mods and am sure they will change it asap.

Sad case, 100th anniversary coming up. I know a guy in Owings Mill, in his 70's, and though this case was about fifty years old when he was a boy, it was still used by mothers -- who were children, perhaps, when Clare's case occurred -- as a cautionary tale.


ETA
When I talked to my friend, he said that rumors at the time included one we still hear about unsolved cases now -- that a policeman or friend or relative of someone on the force was involved. His mother was adamant that that was the case here -- even had a name (son of a sargeant). Again RUMOR from years after the case.

 

[madfrank]

Ooops! Owings Mills is what my friend's hometown should be. I am error prone today (and this lifetime). This is a fascinatingly sad case that never will be solved. As such, it serves as a cautionary tale: what can we do when even authority fails us? What can we do when it's all over? Can nothing can be done except swallow up the sadness and set out to begin again?

 

[Filly]

So sorry I missed thi still abound.s MF.

Wow! 97 years and the rumours or truth still abound.

Poor little girl. All I could find is they focused on a coal guy who saw the little one last.

May her spirit have at some point been free to go and meet loved ones on the other side.