THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 16, 2012


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VOLUME 21, NO. 7


THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012


COMPLIMENTARY Lenny


Clarke At Capitol Center


The “Bad Boy from Bos-


ton” is back. Legendary Boston Comedian Lenny Clarke, is back on the road with his “No Holds Barred” stand up comedy tour. The tour stops at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, March 9th, at 8pm. Tick- ets start at $20. Lenny is currently fea-


Herman Mudgett, infamously known as H. H. Holmes, shown here in separate photographs, was one of America’s first documented serial killers. He grew up in Gilmanton, NH.


SERIAL KILLER GREW UP IN GILMANTON — Leonardo DiCaprio will play the role in upcoming movie —


by Roger Amsden News Correspondent


GILMANTON - This town, long known as the setting of Grace Metalious’ “Pey- ton Place,” a best-selling 1950s novel which later was turned into a movie and then a daytime soap opera, will soon find itself the subject yet again of media scrutiny.


Focus of the attention


will this time be a 19th century home located across from Gilmanton Academy at the intersec- tion of Province Road and Cat Alley which was the birthplace and childhood home of Herman Webster Mudgett, better known by his alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes (May 16, 1861- May 7, 1896).


Holmes, the first docu- mented American seri- al killer, confessed to at least 27 murders, many of which took place in a hotel that he had built for the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 which included soundproof rooms, torture chambers and elaborate measures for disposal of the victim’s remains, in- cluding an incinerator and


a basement lime pit. Some have speculated


that the actual number of Holmes’s victims may have been as many as 200 and his crimes received wide publicity at the time of his trial through a se- ries of articles in William Randolph Hearst’s news- papers, including mem- oirs written by Holmes See HOLMES on 14


AMERICA’S FIRST DOCUMENTED


tured in NBC’s new com- edy “Are You There, Chel- sea?” Recently, Lenny also appeared in the Dennis Leary FX show “Rescue Me” and has also been in some great comedy mov- ies. Don’t miss the rare stand up performance by one of the original comics from Boston. Tickets are available


now by calling 603-225- 1111, online at www.cca- nh.com, and at the box of- fice on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 am to 6pm and Satur- day 11am to 2pm. Ticket prices are: $25 Orches- tra/Mezzanine/Balcony and $20 Rear Balcony. Performance sponsored by Melanson, Heath & Company, PC.


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