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Norma with her dog, Lady, after her arrest and before her jailing. She is outside Rev. Brighton’s home in Natick. Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.
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Rev. Norman Brighton, Norma’s divorced father, by Judge Nelson. Rauner Library Special Collections, Dartmouth College archives.
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“I wish I were back in school too” Norma wrote in a signature book during her trial. Needham Historical Society.
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“He’ll kill me (poetic license) when he reads this,” Norma wrote to a friend of Murt’s while the couple were on the lam. Note her caricature of Murt in the center, and the sideways notation, “P.S. Please tear up Murt’s letter as it contains evidence.”
Norma later claimed she lived in fear of Murt, and that he forced her to write the letter. At trial the letter did much to determine Norma’s fate.
Courtesy Leslie Jones Collection, Boston Public Library.
