Conrad Siever-Cooney Potter Summary

In this section the reader meets Conrad Siever, a man who worked long under an apple tree; Doc Hill, who poured out his love to the town because his wife hated him and his son came to no good; Andy, the Night-Watch, who guarded the residents of Spoon River while they slept; Sarah Brown, who fell deeply in love out of wedlock; Percy Bysshe Shelly, who accidentally shot himself in the heart after learning nothing at the University of Montreal; Flossie Cabanis, the Spoon River actress who tried to make it on Broadway; Julia Miller, who married a man twice her age to hide her indiscretion with a man of her own age; Johnnie Sayre, who was run over by a train; Charlie French, who got lock-jaw when a piece of cap from a toy pistol went into his...