Article: TALES FROM THE PAST: The Teacher Clock.(Features)

Byline: Tom Slemen

I FIRST heard of the strange case of the Teacher Clock from my grandmother when I was a child.

I have researched the weird tale over the years to glean the following: In Edwardian times, a professor of Latin named Herbert A. Strong lived in Falkner Square. He was a stern and studious academic with a terrible temper.

His own children had grown up and left the family nest and in the summer months, Professor Strong's eight-year-old niece, Jesamine ...

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