Barney's Death Wasn't the Purpose of the Inquest

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Inquest was only called to examine the death of kate adams. Barney's body had been exhumed and was being analyzed, but his death hadn't originally been investigated like a murder. The love triangle between barney, roland and blanche was brought up over and over. There were lots of sort of overlaps that would come up in these particular cases.

In 1895, Blanche Chesebrough moved into a small apartment in Gramercy Park, in New York City. She brought a portrait of her parents, a vase for flowers, and her piano. She later said, “music had been my one absorbing interest,” and that she wasn’t interested in getting married. But eventually, she agreed to anyway. When she returned home from her honeymoon, she learned her husband was suspected of murder.

April White’s book is The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

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