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Bessie Darling, a 48-year-old divorcee, purchased this property from Mary E. Lent after Darling’s divorce in 1917 and ran it as a summer boarding home on Catoctin Mountain.

George F. Schultz knew Bessie and was a friend, but he had come to believe they were more than friends. When he became convinced she was cheating on him, he murdered her in this house on Halloween 1933.

He then made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself. When he recovered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, he was tried and sentenced to 18 years in the Maryland State Penitentiary in Baltimore.

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