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100	1		_aTrain, Arthur Cheney, _d1875-1945
245	1	4	_aThe hermit of Turkey Hollow
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-09
508			_aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer
520			_aThe hermit of Turkey Hollow by Arthur Cheney Train is a legal mystery novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a small Mohawk Valley town, it follows the murder of a reclusive “hermit,” the hounding of a gentle drifter known as Skinny the Tramp, and the defense mounted by the crafty attorney Ephraim Tutt. Expect a courtroom battle over timing and circumstantial evidence, colored by village politics, fraternal lodges, and a prosecutor with sharp ambitions. The opening of the story sets the scene in Turkey Hollow, where a moth-pinning hermit spars with Skinny over life, death, and souls, beneath the watch of an old grandfather clock. After the corrupt, newly minted district attorney Hezekiah Mason pays Skinny his trust income and dismisses his questions, a storm clears to reveal a rainbow; Skinny dashes to the hermit’s cabin and glimpses a crock of gold just before a shot is fired. Charlie Emerson, a mill hand nearby, hears the cry and the shot, finds the hermit dying, notes a broken bean pot, a gold coin clenched in the dead man’s fist, fresh boot prints, and a moth beating at the window. Minutes later, Skinny shows up breathless in town at exactly four o’clock; Emerson arrives at 4:15 with the alarm, leading to a frenzied chase and arrest. The town erupts; Skinny is indicted, while the local Sacred Camels fraternal lodge hires Ephraim Tutt to defend him. As the trial begins, Mason leans on the footprints, the gold in Skinny’s pockets, and his silence, but tries to sidestep the time of death; on cross-examination, Tutt quietly draws from Emerson that the hermit’s clock showed four o’clock when he reached the body—hinting at a crucial alibi—just as the sheriff’s testimony starts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1921
653			_aNew York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
653			_aLegal stories
653			_aAttorney and client -- Fiction
653			_aLaw firms -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-CVU-257
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77895
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