Name/Title
4th through 8th grade from Bedford ElementaryEntry/Object ID
1747Description
Copy of a photograph of 4th through 8th graders from Bedford Elementary in front of Victory Garden. Alan Wiltse identified the following individuals in (approximately) July, 2007:
Front row: second from left: Walter Philips, fifth from left: Lillie Perez As____, sixth from left: John Clark, seventh from left: Peter Perez, eight from left: Joe Aquilino, ninth from left: Gary Carpenter, tenth from left: Marshall Pancoast, eleventh from left: Alan Wiltse, twelfth from left: Henry McGowey
Second row: second from left: Rosalie Albano, third from left: Frances Bauer, fourth from left: Alice Johnson, sixth from left: Virginia Mazurah Palmer, seventh from left: Anne O'Brien, ninth from left: Roland Wiltse, second from right: Joe Faucher
Third row: first on the left: Joan Mooney Naylor, second from left: Nancy Duff (was with the girls but was close to hom so didn't take ride-- helped identify car), third from left: Marcella Mooney (sister to Joan Mooney Naylor) of Mooney's gas station and bar
Second row from top: second from right: Sal Albano (brother of Rosalie Albano)
Top row: first on the left: Miss Spaulding (grades 1-4), second from left: Miss McOrry, third from left: Mrs. Wood (principal, taught 7-8), fourth from left: Edwood Ladue, one below and one to the right of Edwood Ladue is Ted Albano (cousin to Sal Albano), third from the right of top row: Helen Progreske Henker, first on the right of top row: Joan Oats (Bill Banks' Cousin)
The girl in the first row, third from left, and the girl seated in the front were sisters. They lived at Middle Patent Road and were picked up by a guy named Hait from Stamford who worked at a factory. He raped and cut them with a razorblade-- threw one in reservoir ___ and threw the other in brook by Garrett RE? on Bedford Center. He went to Sing Sing and was sentenced to the electric chair.