It was pitch dark outside a stately New Jersey mansion early in the morning of Tuesday, July 11, 1916. Inside, a man’s body lay on the floor. His wife held a smoking gun.
Two little girls crept from their bed and clung to their mother. She arose with the revolver carefully pointed away from them, and then, in fright, threw it down. She sank back and wept. The six-year-old ran to soak a towel in water from the sink and returned to bathe her mother’s face. The servants came.
Was it murder or self-defense?
This true story is told as almost everybody learned it at that time — through the actual printed newspaper reports, day after day as the tale unfolded. It is a unique way to look at this gripping drama of not so long ago.
Two little girls crept from their bed and clung to their mother. She arose with the revolver carefully pointed away from them, and then, in fright, threw it down. She sank back and wept. The six-year-old ran to soak a towel in water from the sink and returned to bathe her mother’s face. The servants came.
Was it murder or self-defense?
This true story is told as almost everybody learned it at that time — through the actual printed newspaper reports, day after day as the tale unfolded. It is a unique way to look at this gripping drama of not so long ago.
