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looking back — 1933
Bessie Darling’s Murder Haunts windows. When they Photo Courtesy of Thurmontimages.com
entered the Darling’s
Us Still by James Rada, Jr. bedroom, they found
her lying dead at the
foot of the bed.
When the mail train from a sixty-three-year-old man who had They also found
Baltimore stopped in Thurmont lost his wife a year earlier. He also Schultz nearly dead
on Halloween, more than the mail lived in Foxville, much closer to from a self-inflicted
was delivered. George F. Schultz, a the boarding house than Baltimore. gunshot to his chest.
sixty-two-year-old employee with (Wolfe later told the Hagerstown Crum brought Dr.
Maryland Health Department, left Daily Mail that he and Darling had Morris Bireley up
the train. Schultz hired Clarence been little more than acquaintances.) from Thurmont to
Lidie and his taxi to give him a ride The thought of Darling with treat Schultz, who
to the Valley View Hotel, which another man made Schultz angry, was then taken to the
was ten minutes away on the side of and he was known for his displays of hospital in Frederick.
Catoctin Mountain. temper. Once Schultz
As Schultz climbed into the car, “One Thurmont resident recovered from Photo shows the Valley View Hotel where Bessie Darling was
Lidie noticed that he was carrying a remembered that Schultz frequently the wound, he was murdered in 1933.
.38-caliber revolver and remarked on drank, and, on one occasion, tried for murder on
it. assaulted Darling during an March 13, 1934. The prosecution
“Shultz laughed and remarked argument in front of the Lantz post called twenty-six witnesses in sentenced and, sixty-six years later,
that ‘he didn’t know what he might office,” Wehrle wrote. their case of first-degree murder. still remembered watching Schultz
run into,’” Edmund F. Wehrle wrote While Darling forgave him that Schultz claimed that Darling had sob as the verdict was read.
in a study about the history of time, she was not so forgiving in also had a pistol, and his killing The drama of the murder fed into
Catoctin Mountain Park. this instance. Schultz and Darling her had been an act of self-defense. the tabloid-style journalism of the
The Valley View Hotel was got into a loud argument apparently The jury deliberated an hour and day, and people followed the case
actually a summer boarding house, over Wolfe, which ended when found him guilty of second-degree with interest.
which had been run by Bessie Darling left the hotel. She went to a murder; Schultz was sentenced to “Even today, the murder stirs an
Darling, a forty-eight-year-old neighbor’s home to spend the night, eighteen years in the Maryland State unusual amount of residual interest,”
divorcee, since 1917. It was a large and told the neighbor that Schultz Penitentiary in Baltimore. Wehrle wrote.
house built in 1907 that sat on a was no longer welcome in her home, Wehrle recounted the story of Most recently, the Thurmont
steep tract of land near Deerfield. according to newspaper accounts. Charles Anders, who had been in Thespians performed an original
Darling, a Baltimore resident, had Darling didn’t return to the hotel the courtroom when Schultz was musical based on the murder case.
purchased the property from Mary E. until Schultz left for Baltimore, and
Lent after Darling’s divorce in 1917. Darling didn’t return to Baltimore
“She generally managed the at the end of the tourist season. She Emmitsburg Senior News
hotel in the summer and returned to decided that she would spend the Susan Allen
Baltimore in winter, where she used winter in the hotel rather than having
her considerable social contacts to to deal with Schultz and his jealousy. Here we are in September, looking You can celebrate life at our
drum up summer business for her Around 7:00 a.m. on Halloween forward to the last summer holiday center’s Health and Safety Day on
hotel,” Wehrle wrote. “Her skill at morning, Schultz came up to the (Labor Day on September 7), and September 22, from 9:00 a.m.-noon.
cooking and baking, as well as the rear entrance of the hotel as Maizie ready to celebrate National Senior Learn how to prevent falls and plan
scenic site, helped build her a solid Williams, the eighteen-year-old maid, Center Month! There are several healthy eating, have your blood
clientele.” was coming out for firewood. Schultz events scheduled later in the month pressure checked, and get your flu
In the early twentieth century, demanded to see Darling. Williams that will enhance that celebration. shots. For more information, contact
people took the Western Maryland said Darling was in her room and We will begin our September our coordinator, Linda Umbel. She
Railroad from Baltimore to Pen Mar tried to close the door on the man. activities by sharing bingo with will oversee our next group activity,
Park to enjoy the cooler mountain Schultz forced his way inside. residents at St. Catherine’s Nursing “The Gathering” picnic on September
temperatures and to get away from Williams hurried upstairs to Darling’s Center on Wednesday, September 23, from 10:00 a.m.-1 p.m. There
the stresses of the city. Such was the bedroom to warn Darling, with 2, followed closely by our monthly will be all your favorite picnic foods
appeal of the Catoctin Mountain Schultz following. Williams entered Birthday Party on Friday, September to share—hot dogs, baked beans,
area as a summer retreat that visitors the bedroom and locked the door 4, at noon. The Center will be closed corn on the cob, watermelon, and
always needed a place to stay. behind her. on Monday, September 7, for Labor dessert, for a low cost of $1.00. A
“These such boarding houses This didn’t stop Schultz for long. He Day. The rest of the week will be great celebration of the senior center!
offered the women of the area a rare forced the lock and opened the door. taken up with our usual pursuits. On We can also celebrate the change
opportunity to operate businesses,” Then he entered the bedroom and shot September 11-13, we can all go to in season, as we mark the first day
Wehrle wrote. Darling who fell to the floor dead. our own local fair: the Thurmont and of autumn. On September 25, the
Schultz had known Darling since Schultz then calmly told Williams Emmitsburg Community Show at celebration continues with lunch and
1926. They had become so close that to make him coffee. She did, and Catoctin High School. entertainment at the Frederick Center;
Schultz had even spent Christmas when he finally let her leave the We’ll share a mid-month picnic check with Linda for details.
1930 with Darling’s family. house to get help for Darling, he told with other seniors at the Frederick The senior citizens encourage
Newspaper accounts at the time said her, “When you come back, you’ll Senior Center on September 15, from everyone fifty years of age and
they were romantically linked, and find two of us dead.” 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. On September older to join their activities at the
he often spent weekends at the hotel Williams rushed out of the hotel 16, we’ll try something new: Seated Emmitsburg Community Center.
while Darling was there. to the nearest home with a phone. Dance with Allie Harris. That sounds Persons sixty and over are eligible for
Darling, who was fourteen years She called Frederick County Sheriff like fun! To end the week, we have the hot lunch program.
younger than Schultz, met a lot Charles Crum who drove to the hotel a trip to the Wildwood Park and For information on the lunch
people, both men and women in with a deputy around 9:30 a.m. Nature Center scheduled. We will program and all other activities,
her work. In the summer of 1933, They entered through the leave the Frederick Center at 9:00 contact the coordinator, Linda
Schultz had become convinced that basement door, because Schultz a.m. and return at 3:30 p.m. The fee Umbel, at 301-600-6350, or email
Darling was seeing Charles Wolfe, had locked all of the doors and is $30.00 per person. [email protected].
Page 36 September 2015 The Catoctin Banner Newspaper www.TheCatoctinBanner.com Published by www.EPlusPromotes.com
looking back — 1933
Bessie Darling’s Murder Haunts windows. When they Photo Courtesy of Thurmontimages.com
entered the Darling’s
Us Still by James Rada, Jr. bedroom, they found
her lying dead at the
foot of the bed.
When the mail train from a sixty-three-year-old man who had They also found
Baltimore stopped in Thurmont lost his wife a year earlier. He also Schultz nearly dead
on Halloween, more than the mail lived in Foxville, much closer to from a self-inflicted
was delivered. George F. Schultz, a the boarding house than Baltimore. gunshot to his chest.
sixty-two-year-old employee with (Wolfe later told the Hagerstown Crum brought Dr.
Maryland Health Department, left Daily Mail that he and Darling had Morris Bireley up
the train. Schultz hired Clarence been little more than acquaintances.) from Thurmont to
Lidie and his taxi to give him a ride The thought of Darling with treat Schultz, who
to the Valley View Hotel, which another man made Schultz angry, was then taken to the
was ten minutes away on the side of and he was known for his displays of hospital in Frederick.
Catoctin Mountain. temper. Once Schultz
As Schultz climbed into the car, “One Thurmont resident recovered from Photo shows the Valley View Hotel where Bessie Darling was
Lidie noticed that he was carrying a remembered that Schultz frequently the wound, he was murdered in 1933.
.38-caliber revolver and remarked on drank, and, on one occasion, tried for murder on
it. assaulted Darling during an March 13, 1934. The prosecution
“Shultz laughed and remarked argument in front of the Lantz post called twenty-six witnesses in sentenced and, sixty-six years later,
that ‘he didn’t know what he might office,” Wehrle wrote. their case of first-degree murder. still remembered watching Schultz
run into,’” Edmund F. Wehrle wrote While Darling forgave him that Schultz claimed that Darling had sob as the verdict was read.
in a study about the history of time, she was not so forgiving in also had a pistol, and his killing The drama of the murder fed into
Catoctin Mountain Park. this instance. Schultz and Darling her had been an act of self-defense. the tabloid-style journalism of the
The Valley View Hotel was got into a loud argument apparently The jury deliberated an hour and day, and people followed the case
actually a summer boarding house, over Wolfe, which ended when found him guilty of second-degree with interest.
which had been run by Bessie Darling left the hotel. She went to a murder; Schultz was sentenced to “Even today, the murder stirs an
Darling, a forty-eight-year-old neighbor’s home to spend the night, eighteen years in the Maryland State unusual amount of residual interest,”
divorcee, since 1917. It was a large and told the neighbor that Schultz Penitentiary in Baltimore. Wehrle wrote.
house built in 1907 that sat on a was no longer welcome in her home, Wehrle recounted the story of Most recently, the Thurmont
steep tract of land near Deerfield. according to newspaper accounts. Charles Anders, who had been in Thespians performed an original
Darling, a Baltimore resident, had Darling didn’t return to the hotel the courtroom when Schultz was musical based on the murder case.
purchased the property from Mary E. until Schultz left for Baltimore, and
Lent after Darling’s divorce in 1917. Darling didn’t return to Baltimore
“She generally managed the at the end of the tourist season. She Emmitsburg Senior News
hotel in the summer and returned to decided that she would spend the Susan Allen
Baltimore in winter, where she used winter in the hotel rather than having
her considerable social contacts to to deal with Schultz and his jealousy. Here we are in September, looking You can celebrate life at our
drum up summer business for her Around 7:00 a.m. on Halloween forward to the last summer holiday center’s Health and Safety Day on
hotel,” Wehrle wrote. “Her skill at morning, Schultz came up to the (Labor Day on September 7), and September 22, from 9:00 a.m.-noon.
cooking and baking, as well as the rear entrance of the hotel as Maizie ready to celebrate National Senior Learn how to prevent falls and plan
scenic site, helped build her a solid Williams, the eighteen-year-old maid, Center Month! There are several healthy eating, have your blood
clientele.” was coming out for firewood. Schultz events scheduled later in the month pressure checked, and get your flu
In the early twentieth century, demanded to see Darling. Williams that will enhance that celebration. shots. For more information, contact
people took the Western Maryland said Darling was in her room and We will begin our September our coordinator, Linda Umbel. She
Railroad from Baltimore to Pen Mar tried to close the door on the man. activities by sharing bingo with will oversee our next group activity,
Park to enjoy the cooler mountain Schultz forced his way inside. residents at St. Catherine’s Nursing “The Gathering” picnic on September
temperatures and to get away from Williams hurried upstairs to Darling’s Center on Wednesday, September 23, from 10:00 a.m.-1 p.m. There
the stresses of the city. Such was the bedroom to warn Darling, with 2, followed closely by our monthly will be all your favorite picnic foods
appeal of the Catoctin Mountain Schultz following. Williams entered Birthday Party on Friday, September to share—hot dogs, baked beans,
area as a summer retreat that visitors the bedroom and locked the door 4, at noon. The Center will be closed corn on the cob, watermelon, and
always needed a place to stay. behind her. on Monday, September 7, for Labor dessert, for a low cost of $1.00. A
“These such boarding houses This didn’t stop Schultz for long. He Day. The rest of the week will be great celebration of the senior center!
offered the women of the area a rare forced the lock and opened the door. taken up with our usual pursuits. On We can also celebrate the change
opportunity to operate businesses,” Then he entered the bedroom and shot September 11-13, we can all go to in season, as we mark the first day
Wehrle wrote. Darling who fell to the floor dead. our own local fair: the Thurmont and of autumn. On September 25, the
Schultz had known Darling since Schultz then calmly told Williams Emmitsburg Community Show at celebration continues with lunch and
1926. They had become so close that to make him coffee. She did, and Catoctin High School. entertainment at the Frederick Center;
Schultz had even spent Christmas when he finally let her leave the We’ll share a mid-month picnic check with Linda for details.
1930 with Darling’s family. house to get help for Darling, he told with other seniors at the Frederick The senior citizens encourage
Newspaper accounts at the time said her, “When you come back, you’ll Senior Center on September 15, from everyone fifty years of age and
they were romantically linked, and find two of us dead.” 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. On September older to join their activities at the
he often spent weekends at the hotel Williams rushed out of the hotel 16, we’ll try something new: Seated Emmitsburg Community Center.
while Darling was there. to the nearest home with a phone. Dance with Allie Harris. That sounds Persons sixty and over are eligible for
Darling, who was fourteen years She called Frederick County Sheriff like fun! To end the week, we have the hot lunch program.
younger than Schultz, met a lot Charles Crum who drove to the hotel a trip to the Wildwood Park and For information on the lunch
people, both men and women in with a deputy around 9:30 a.m. Nature Center scheduled. We will program and all other activities,
her work. In the summer of 1933, They entered through the leave the Frederick Center at 9:00 contact the coordinator, Linda
Schultz had become convinced that basement door, because Schultz a.m. and return at 3:30 p.m. The fee Umbel, at 301-600-6350, or email
Darling was seeing Charles Wolfe, had locked all of the doors and is $30.00 per person. [email protected].
