The Handwriting of a Killer

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Blanche was called to testify about her relationship with barney. She denied that it was anything more than a friendship. An synide of mercury was found in the medications that both harry cornish and henry barnett received in the mail. The prosecutor said, how can any one have knowledge of the two crimes and not be convinced that they were conceived by the same brain?

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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