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This is to document a piece of history associated with happenings in Smeltertown. It is about the murder of a 17 year old resident of smelter hill and a student of EPHS.

Information provided by a cousin researching family history.

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Robinson, Rowena young Smeltertown girl attended EP High, brutally raped and murdered 1/7/1924.  first recorded rape-murder case in EP county and never solved (Metz chronicle)

Maybe some reading this can add more information or have contacts that might have documented these times.