![]() They all went to their rooms at 10 o’clock. To Mary Towle’s relief, “the horrors” appeared to have evaporated. On Saturday night, he played his banjo and sang with Aunty and Kathy in the living room. ![]() Hepburn instructed the boy not to try the stunt again.Īfter Tom, Kathy, and Aunty left the cinema, Tom struggled to regain his composure. But the Hepburns tended to avoid speaking of their most troubling thoughts and emotions. Hepburn’s father and uncle had shot themselves), the incident should have set off alarm bells. Hepburn’s brother had jumped from a window to his death, and Mrs. In a family with a history of three suicides (Dr. Any parent would likely be appalled by the sight of a child playing with nooses-especially a child of Tom’s nervous temperament. Hepburn had often described from his own youth. ![]() The boy had insisted he was only trying a mock-hanging stunt Dr. Hepburn had discovered Tom hanging by the neck from a noose at home. Deeply shaken, Tom confided to Kathy that the scene had given him “the horrors,” and she understood perfectly. ![]() In the dark of the movie theater, however, Tom’s mood shifted violently when the image of a hanging flashed on-screen. On Friday evening, Tom seemed to be in high spirits when Aunty took the young people uptown for a screening of a new silent film based on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. ![]()
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