This collection houses the materials that Donald Paine collected while researching Carl Still's murder of Gilbert May in Lonsdale in 1910 as well as the articles that he published on the subject. The research materials consist of derivative newspaper articles, trial transcripts and other trial records, photocopies of publications about the trial personnel, and census and other biographical records about Still, May, their families, and the Lonsdale neighborhood. Also included are Paine’s notes on the research materials as well as his correspondence with other researchers, photographs of the Still and May tombstones, and contemporary articles and other disseminated works.