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🌱 Patch AM: How a 1906 Montville farmhouse murder ended on the gallows

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In today's newsletter:

  • How a 1906 Montville farmhouse murder ended on the gallows

Also on today's calendar: Fall Open House and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: I'm a rock group with 4 members; one member was assassinated. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 79 and low of 56 degrees.
  • Saturday: Sun giving way to clouds, temps: high: 80, low: 66.
  • Sunday: Some rain and a thunderstorm, with a high of 81 and low of 63 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Montville Memories: Murder on the Kayhart Farm (tapinto.net) — A chilling Montville farmhouse murder from 1906 is retold through court records, eyewitness accounts, and the dramatic legal battle over a crucial dying declaration. The story follows victim Harriet Kayhart Decker, her neighbor-turned-killer Samuel Monich, and the Morris County proceedings that ended in his execution, offering Montville readers a vivid window into their town's darker past.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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  • Boonton's Haunted Trail Comes to Grace Lord Park on Saturday, October 24, With $3 Cash Admission (shopmorriscounty.com)
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  • New Jersey mayors, leaders to go 'over the edge' for clean water fundraiser (abc7ny.com)

Pequannock

  • Girls Soccer: Results & recaps for Thursday, Sept. 10 (nj.com)

Mountain Lakes

  • Predictions for 5 biggest Morris/Sussex football games of Week 2 (northjersey.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Mount Rushmore (Thank you J.J. W. for sending it in!)
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