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(Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) A Gay family marker in Spring Grove Cemetery indicates the graves of Rosamond and Florence Gay
(Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) Bessie Skeels Lundgren is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, not far from Florence Gay.
(Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) Bessie Mae Skeels lived in a boarding house at 60 Chestnut St. when she was charged with poisoning Florence Gay, who lived at 35 School St. Andover Story: Andover Story: The 1919 murder trial that gripped Andover
By Christopher Klein Andover Center for History and Culture  Feb 18, 2021 1 of 3
(Photo courtesy Gail Ralston) A Gay family marker in Spring Grove Cemetery indicates the graves of Rosamond and Florence Gay
It was a suspected murder plot seemingly poured from the pen of Agatha Christie. And it happened in Andover a century ago, when nurse Bessie Mae Skeels stood accused of