Harry A. Kirby was arrested at the lodging home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Pond at 34 Market Street Newburyport, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1925, for the abduction and murder of Aida Hayward and the attempted murder of her aunt. Kirby burned Hayward's cottage with her aunt inside it before he escaped to his own cottage with the victim. This photograph ran in the May 26, 1925 edition of the Portland Evening Express.