The Studio Murder

[Howard Brown]

Duluth News-Tribune
July 1, 1906
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[Whitechurch]

How,
However do you find all these articles?

[Phillip Walton]

There's an article on the murder in the New York Times May 25th 1906.

[Stan Reid]

Was this case ever officially solved? References I find on the net, which are sparse, don't mention any arrest, trial and so on.

[Howard Brown]

Stan:

In GenBank, one Omaha paper has the same story that Duluth had.
Other than that, nada amigo.

[Phillip Walton]

Apparently his killer was never caught. >>

http://www.coldstreamguardsband.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=444&start=180

page down to 2nd item.

[Howard Brown]

Good effort Phil...thanks !

[Phillip Walton]

For some reason I have been unable to post the items but if you Google 'Archibald Wakely pictures' you will be able to see examples of his work.

[Howard Brown]

Will do Phil.

Maybe we can just check them out by going to the link you found :

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=archie+wakely&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1756l4414l0l4652l13l12l0l0l0l0l238l1622l5.6.1l12l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1333&bih=618&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WdQET6nzA8Po0QHrj6Vc#um=1&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=archibald+wakely++pictures&pbx=1&oq=archibald+wakely++pictures&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=78626l89051l0l89155l26l25l0l15l3l0l207l1373l2.7.1l10l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=76d6779351493ec9&biw=1333&bih=618

[Chris G.]

The same article that ran in the Duluth News-Tribune of July 1, 1906, also ran in the Washington Post of the same day, as might be seen in the Casebook press section.

A couple of observations.

First, that Archibald Wakely's "skull [was] smashed in with a hammer" is reminiscent of the 1967 homosexual murder of British playwright Joe Orton by his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

Second, note the point made that Wakely "was known as a woman hater" and relate it to the similar statement in the Littlechild letter about Tumblety. How much then is that a period euphemism for the individual being homosexual in sexual preference rather than outright saying that?

All the best

Chris

[Phillip Walton]

It did raise a smile when I read that Wakely liked to be ridden like a horse by a soldier wearing spurs! It reminded me of one MP a few years ago who's favourite pastime was sniffing guardsmen's socks after they had been marching up and down outside Buckingham Palace.

[Howard Brown]

Second, note the point made that Wakely "was known as a woman hater" and relate it to the similar statement in the Littlechild letter about Tumblety. How much then is that a period euphemism for the individual being homosexual in sexual preference rather than outright saying that?---Chris George

Very nice going CG... glad you picked up on that, otherwise it may not have been noticed at all.
It sure sounds as if that term was as you suggest, a euphemism for someone who was a homosexual.
Again, good eye CG !

[Wolf Vanderlinden]

Second, note the point made that Wakely "was known as a woman hater" and relate it to the similar statement in the Littlechild letter about Tumblety. How much then is that a period euphemism for the individual being homosexual in sexual preference rather than outright saying that?

I posted on this very subject a couple of years ago on Casebook. The term "woman hater" was used as a euphemism for homosexuality and was used as such in the Wakely murder. "The Woman-Hater's Lamentation," as another example, is a broadsheet ballad dated 1707 which tells of the arrest in London of a group of homosexual men, 3 or 4 of whom killed themselves in prison because of the disgrace.

"Woman hater" was also used to describe confirmed bachelors, men who didn't like to socialize with women and men who just didn't like women (any of which may or may not have been a cover for homosexuality I suppose).

Wolf.

[Howard Brown]

Wolf:

Thanks a lot for that additional information.......I'm sure you remember the Three Stooges first short on their own was entitled "Woman Haters", where they were a group of confirmed bachelors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBMZOLD965w&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC1C166B221B6373A

Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk....
How

[Chris G.]

Second, note the point made that Wakely "was known as a woman hater" and relate it to the similar statement in the Littlechild letter about Tumblety. How much then is that a period euphemism for the individual being homosexual in sexual preference rather than outright saying that?

I posted on this very subject a couple of years ago on Casebook. The term "woman hater" was used as a euphemism for homosexuality and was used as such in the Wakely murder. "The Woman-Hater's Lamentation," as another example, is a broadsheet ballad dated 1707 which tells of the arrest in London of a group of homosexual men, 3 or 4 of whom killed themselves in prison because of the disgrace.

"Woman hater" was also used to describe confirmed bachelors, men who didn't like to socialize with women and men who just didn't like women (any of which may or may not have been a cover for homosexuality I suppose).

Wolf.

Thanks, Wolf and Howard.

Chris