Merton Millen’s wife, Norma, was convicted as an accessory. The trial, held in
    Dedham, was heavily covered by the news media.

    “Murton Millen, I think, really was a sociopath, in the sense that it was all about
    him,” Greis said. “Irving — these days, he’d plead diminished capacity. And
    Norma seems to have been caught up in it like it was an adventure. The cameras
    loved her. She was gorgeous. She seems to have been posing as if for modeling
    shots.”

    The Millen brothers and Faber were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown
    State Prison on June 7, 1935.

    “No crime in recent years had so aroused the state,” The Boston Globe wrote on
    the day they died. “Crowds gathered about them whenever they appeared in
    custody of detectives to boo, hiss, and deride them." Bostonglobe.com   

    After a two month trial, all three men were found guilty and sentenced to death.
    The men certainly did their best to avoid their fate by attempting several escapes
    from the Dedham Jail, but by June of 1935, all appeals had been exhausted and
    the electric chair awaited them at the state prison in Charlestown. After the
    executions, the drama continued as a mob of onlookers tussled with members of
    the Millen families at the cemetery during burial services.

    Twenty-year old Norma Millen was released from the Dedham Jail two months
    later, and disappeared into obscurity. Although the case received as much
    attention in 1934 as the Sacco-Vanzetti trial had a few years earlier, today it
    remains a little known chapter in Norfolk County legal history. Dedhamtales   

                                       Hopedale Selectmen Grateful
                                    George Draper Bust Recovered           

    HOPEDALE - Selectmen last night voted an award of $25 each to be given to Keith Jordan of Holliston
    and Cliff McKeage of Blackstone for the safe return of the marble bust of George Draper which was
    taken from its pedestal on a landing in Town Hall on Jan. 21 of this year.  

       It was noted by the board that a reward of $100 had been posted for the arrest and conviction of
    person or persons responsible for the theft. The reward expired on June 1 however, and because the
    bust was discovered in woods off Cedar Street in Milford, and because no arrest and conviction
    followed, the board voted to extend its appreciation to the pair with a small monetary reward.

       In a prepared statement on the matter, Selectmen said,  

       "The Hopedale Board of Selectmen wishes to extend its appreciation to Keith Jordan of Holliston and
    Cliff McKeage of Blackstone for the safe return of the marble bust of George Draper.  

       "It is most rewarding to us and to the townspeople of Hopedale to know that these two young men
    realized that they had found something of value, and made the moral and physical effort to bring the
    bust to the Milford Police Department to try and seek the rightful owner.  

       "We want to also commend the Milford Police Department for identifying the bust and contacting our
    Police Department for verification.  

       "George Draper gave to the Town of Hopedale the present Town Hall Building in 1886. The marble
    bust is the Town's remembrance of him for his generosity. To reproduce a bust of marble at today's
    prices would certainly be in excess of $1,000; but it would be impossible to place a monetary value on
    the original. Within the next few weeks, we will again install Mr. Draper's bust in a more secure but very
    prominent location in our Town Hall.  

       "The Hopedale Board of Selectmen, on behalf of the people of Hopedale, publicly commend Mr.
    Jordan and Mr. KcKeage and simply, but most sincerely say, 'Thank you.'"  Milford Daily News, August
    19, 1975.