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there's the show

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we came from a

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family a large family and

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her parents were not particularly well

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ah sometimes they had money sometimes they didn't

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her father was a a rather luckless

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inventor and , be moved

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around a lot lot as they moved

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her older siblings should have married

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and stayed where they where and

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glance eventual he as the

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second youngest of second family eventually

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ended up in sort of the new

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england new york area where

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she realized how much she loved

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new york city and also

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that she really wanted to get a music

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education and beyond the states

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niki ninety five glance chesbrough

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moved into a small apartment of her own since

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in grammars the park in new york city she

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brought a portrait of appearance as ease

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her flowers and she bought a piano

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he resisted music than

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my one absorbing interest he

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wasn't interested in getting married writing

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i'm one of my existence to be furthered

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and glowing we're hearing

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about her from historians and author april

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way true life

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in the york like our she supporting

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herself

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i added time she was

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the game and singing i'd searches

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mean lace i'm and and making

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a small safe and each week for

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being a part of the player

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that was enough

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it

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not for her to get by

2:38

in new york it wasn't enough for her to

2:40

live the life she pointed sale her

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dream was to some day study music in paris

2:47

for extra money last job

2:49

singing for socialites at parties

2:51

he made friends lot of these people and

2:54

they sometimes expressed interest in funding

2:56

her education

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nothing ever seem to come of it

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plans for contender invited to join them

3:03

on their yachts and the summers are

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she doesn't sing for everyone he

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voted on one of those yachts

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the first time in my

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i need to champaign

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in august and eighty ninety seven blanche

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, that to sail up to the coast mean

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mean the boat pulled into the harbor in harbor

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another yard pulled in yard them and

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the skipper invited everyone over for

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lunch and that's when

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glance first met

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the mile an hour

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roman moment i was sitting by and reading

3:37

a book

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lance writer wrote this something

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clash between us and

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that he had he had aerosols possession

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it's poison and breeding

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one the sign of

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a

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new york family that had become

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us out well see in

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are in business sort of part of this

3:58

new the marshal aristocracy

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the woman father vienna successful paint

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company roman

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was working as the superintendents and

4:09

she's chemists for another companies

4:11

one that manufactured dies the

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was a member of an exclusive men's

4:17

club in the city the knickerbocker

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athletic club the season

4:21

tickets to the metropolitan opera then

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he was also that hey this guy's he would find

4:26

as blanche did on a yacht

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and drinking champagne and eating caviar

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because he moved in those worlds

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he introduces heard this

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world you know there they go to the mats

4:39

and stayed diner da monaco's

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and they have access

4:44

to this world as theater and

4:47

art ensued that blanchett

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always

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that's far

4:52

he brought her guess almost every day sometimes

4:55

, things like fruit or flowers real

4:58

surprise her jewelry the

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do for a butterfly in with a hundred

5:03

diamonds on it in a custom

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ring from tiffany's it still does the

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word misbah with diamonds

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it , a popular gifted the time misbah

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, for watch tower the

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rings were way to keep the person you love

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in mind even if they were far away

5:22

with your died roland

5:24

was interested in glance but

5:27

she wasn't one hundred percent

5:29

sold on the idea of rolling

5:33

she did she didn't feel that she was in love with them

5:36

and x rays the idea

5:38

of marriage of marriage of times

5:40

and and see but

5:43

i am she's

5:45

read on the verge of this world

5:48

and his life she wants to be a part of

5:51

a but despite the fact that roland introduced

5:53

her to this she

5:56

doesn't want to marry him she

5:58

just jokes away this idea

5:59

the marriage she really believes

6:02

that to become a wise is a

6:04

narrowing of horizons as she

6:06

says or curtailment of freedom

6:09

keeping herself as free as air

6:11

she says and dot and

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that's what she wanted to be she didn't want

6:15

to have this traditional married

6:18

relationship but

6:20

on thanksgiving day eighty ninety

6:22

seven roland kneels down

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in front of plants and ask for

6:27

her hand in marriage and

6:29

plants says no

6:31

they continue to see each other

6:34

one evening in november they went to the opera

6:37

during intermission swollen saw a friend from

6:39

the knickerbocker club and introduced

6:42

him to blanche the man's name

6:44

was henry barnett

6:46

why henry barnett

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a friend of rowlands from

6:53

that the knickerbocker athletic club and

6:55

he just loved lies

6:58

and had these big appetites and

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he was just sort of the life of the party

7:03

i'm and although she continued

7:06

to date roland date roland

7:08

to the theater with ham and get you know go

7:10

to dinner with him and she also

7:12

felt free to pursue this other

7:15

relationship now that she had made it clear

7:17

that she was not going to marry roland

7:19

and so she began a relationship

7:22

with that with henry barnett's in

7:25

january they to nine to lead the

7:27

avast at the same party near washington square

7:29

park they'd come with other people

7:32

as their dates plans

7:34

to come with roland he was wearing

7:36

the diamond butterfly pin he'd given

7:38

her

7:40

henry barnett

7:41

and glance issued like

7:43

to leave the party for little while

7:45

he got

7:47

it out i know where we

7:49

can have can moment together

7:52

he probably does that ruined and henry

7:55

barnett were very different ruined

7:58

was reserved and aloof

7:59

henry barnett was always smiling

8:02

cheerful and friendly

8:05

the last call him born

8:07

a couple of weeks before rolling

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just

8:10

there is this relationship

8:13

the for years and can friends

8:16

barney , it but blanche

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is unhappy that he would go to barney this to

8:21

barney argument between her and relax so

8:25

he summons roland to her home

8:27

to have this out as ham and

8:30

she's not gonna apologize their what happened

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she's angry

8:34

about a confrontation with barney blinds

8:36

took off the misfiring room and had given

8:38

her

8:39

and it he flings it across

8:41

the room and and roland scramble

8:44

to retrieve that i'm he's going to hold

8:46

on to this rang and that's when he storms

8:49

alex and he yells tell barnett

8:51

the coast is clear see

8:53

when

8:54

i'm feeding judge this is

8:56

criminal

9:19

we

9:24

should all try to send

9:26

, little time thinking about a good prank

9:28

that we could pull pull

9:30

be a good idea and in fact this

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era if you turn around

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lance henry barnett continued

10:27

to see each other

10:28

das it's not

10:30

going as well as blanche

10:33

had imagined and a big part of

10:35

that is that henry barnett's

10:38

does not have the wells that

10:40

role in high

10:42

they can not have the same sort of dinners

10:44

and theater outings which is something that barney

10:47

wasn't all that interested in any way and

10:49

, psyche so stingy with his money

10:51

that plants begins to wonder if maybe he's

10:54

seeing someone else else

10:56

she decides that she's gonna step away

10:58

from new york for the summer and she's going

11:00

to go and stay with sand

11:02

outside of the city which was out in typically

11:04

whites the more well to do new yorkers

11:07

would do during the summer months to

11:09

little more challenging for blanche because

11:11

she didn't have the have but

11:13

she manages to to leave the city and

11:15

and vacation elsewhere for the summer

11:17

and return at the end of the season

11:20

and when she comes back she finds

11:23

that there is no message

11:25

at all from barney waiting for her but

11:27

there is a letter from rowlands

11:31

the latter the written on rowlands

11:33

eggshell blue stationary that

11:35

he just returned from a vacation in europe

11:38

and after she might like to come to the waldorf astoria

11:41

for lunch some thursday

11:43

granted this point against the get

11:45

pretty practical

11:47

realize that the

11:49

, vacation that's

11:51

roland just returned from is

11:54

not something she'd be able to

11:56

has in her life with bernie i'm

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the me

11:59

the education

12:02

preferably in your app that she'd like to

12:04

have is not something she'll

12:06

be able to afford in a life with

12:08

barney but it is something that roland

12:10

can offer her blanche

12:12

reply to rowlands invitation then

12:14

agreed to meet him for lunch

12:16

you know sits down

12:19

and and she's back in

12:21

this world that she loves and

12:23

you know sees

12:25

the hating on fillet a soul

12:28

and drinking white wine and you know

12:30

great cable at the at

12:32

the waldorf astoria with a view

12:35

of set avenue and

12:37

so roland maxes play

12:39

the reach across the table with the miss

12:42

covering he'd given her before the

12:44

ones you turn across the room

12:46

and she makes her choice

12:48

she decides that she will be engaged to

12:50

rowlands

12:53

it's not clear to me

12:55

that's he realized how

12:59

little bland says marines had really changed

13:02

and she didn't love them seed

13:04

didn't wanna be married but she'd made she'd made

13:06

profitable decision

13:08

he

13:10

could make of so

13:12

they could build a good life to to

13:14

their it just wasn't the things

13:17

that she wanted and she didn't she didn't love

13:19

him and it's not clear to me

13:20

he recognized

13:23

williams mean to tell henry barnett those

13:25

her decision

13:27

that's not just for him at the newcomers kirkland

13:30

but isn't was

13:32

he didn't hear from him for a long time

13:35

until , he called her and said

13:37

he'd already heard about the engagement from

13:39

someone someone

13:41

, and he came to read

13:45

he told her that

13:47

she cleans a barrier between them grant

13:51

had that there are no barriers

13:54

can't leave remains

13:56

any bernie shortly

14:00

after she learned very sick

14:04

and he is

14:06

the vomiting and see has it in

14:08

flames road and tongue and can't

14:10

eat and doctors don't

14:12

know what's going on with hams they

14:14

can't figure out the problem was

14:18

the had done a little under

14:20

the weather fryer issue at this

14:22

sudden illness and he

14:24

had over indulge the night before

14:27

and so he had taken medication

14:30

, medication called now's

14:33

improved effervescent powder i

14:35

and it was

14:38

something that treated hangovers

14:41

so he had decided he was gonna have

14:43

some of that by the the

14:45

gets incredibly l they

14:47

cannot figure out what's happening to him

14:50

a think that possibly it's did syria

14:52

which they did have the means to treat at

14:55

this point but he is not responding

14:57

arms any of the treatments they give him

15:00

what what the twins do when she found

15:02

out that henry sick you

15:05

wrote him a notes i'm and

15:07

sent some flowers saying

15:09

how much she wants to see em

15:12

and how much she wants to mend their relationship

15:15

and

15:17

a couple of days later he's dead

15:22

henry barnett died on november tenth

15:25

eighty ninety

15:28

i the end of the month blanche involvement

15:30

molineux are married for

15:32

their honeymoon it's this as an entire month

15:34

in a suite at the waldorf astoria the

15:38

went shopping on that

15:39

and it ended a party at the opera club

15:42

though deeper expensive presents

15:46

that she read about the during that time

15:48

secretly i grieved

15:51

you thought about bernie all the time

15:54

they were persistent thoughts of him sad

15:57

and tender full of grief

16:01

at one point she asked roland

16:03

want

16:04

two screens and indifferent about

16:06

barney's death you

16:09

knew him so well and for so long she said

16:12

i think when one dies any little difference

16:14

should be forgotten

16:17

the woman change the subject

16:20

the new during their honeymoon was distracted

16:23

and remote until

16:25

just before christmas you

16:28

could try to what you described as a pile

16:31

of little christmas gifts elaborately

16:33

, in layers and layers of tissue

16:36

paper p was in p good

16:38

mood

16:39

christmas eve the

16:42

athletic director at the knickerbocker athletic

16:44

club a man named harry current

16:47

the received against

16:50

there is no colored and he didn't know who was

16:52

from inside

16:55

with a blue tiffany box with what

16:57

looked like decorative holder for a medicine

16:59

bottle made of silver and

17:01

a bottle of powder labeled emerson's

17:04

burma soups promo

17:06

seltzer was often used for hangovers

17:10

mary cornice assumed it was some kind

17:12

of joke from a friend and

17:15

then a few days later when harrys

17:17

cousin kate adams said

17:19

she had a headache the offered some

17:22

to her

17:23

the complain that it tasted bad

17:26

eerie cornish try to little and agreed

17:28

that he said that medicine

17:30

the was supposed to taste good that

17:34

and within a few minutes to dance

17:36

got very sick the

17:39

time the doctor arrived harry cornish

17:41

was very sick too did

17:44

not describe kid adam cease

17:47

as having a kind of dark bullish color

17:49

editor's

17:50

the had a cold clammy feeling

17:53

he put ammonia under her nose gave

17:56

her an injection of a heart stimulant

17:58

and then performed

17:59

laughter is artificial respiration

18:02

a process of raising and lowering a patient's

18:04

arms to try to manually sills

18:07

an empty their lungs

18:09

none of it worked in quito

18:12

died

18:14

the doctor tried to help harry who'd

18:16

ingested much less of the medicine

18:19

powder and

18:21

then the doctor tasted it himself

18:25

he put a little bit of the powder from the bottle

18:27

on his tongue and , smelled

18:29

omens omens later

18:31

he and nine eleven

18:33

and contact with most deadly poison

18:36

that i'd ever heard

18:54

the

18:59

adam died on december twenty eighth

19:02

eighty nine years the records

19:04

survive he

19:07

didn't just get enough of the powder to

19:09

be very sick one

19:11

of the doctors at the knickerbocker club realized

19:15

didn't see me symptoms before then

19:18

another patient he tweeted about a month

19:20

earlier henry barnett

19:25

before , died born he told

19:27

the doctor that the hangover powder

19:29

he taken just before he got sick that

19:31

arrived in the mail but

19:33

he symptoms look like diphtheria

19:37

and that was listed was listed cause of death

19:40

how we sort of had this revelation

19:42

that maybe

19:44

maybe barney was murdered because

19:48

this woman had died and very similar

19:51

ways after taking a

19:53

sample of medication that had arrived

19:55

in the mail

19:56

within a day

19:59

newspapers

19:59

the reporting on the possible connections

20:02

between the two deaths

20:04

what headline read

20:06

double murder mystery in a new york club

20:09

and called it's one of the most mysterious

20:11

crimes of recent occurrence in

20:13

new york city

20:15

the new york times quoted the district attorney

20:18

saying that he thought the poisoner was

20:20

a woman

20:21

that quote history

20:23

, that poisoning is a woman

20:25

said that of accent homes

20:27

nature is essentially soda

20:31

the next day at six am beliefs

20:33

involvement woke up to someone pounding on their

20:35

door it was rolling father's

20:38

holding father's copy of the new york journal and

20:41

they're the headline and it says police

20:44

squints roland burnham at molineux

20:47

in the poisoning case and

20:50

this is the first moment

20:52

that bland smartphones that her

20:54

husband is suspected to be a

20:56

murderer the

20:59

roman new harry cornish from

21:01

the knickerbocker club

21:03

harry was the athletic director

21:05

at the knickerbocker and and

21:07

and roland did he really just

21:09

disagreed on how the club's should

21:11

be run

21:13

the morning

21:14

grogan place an order for gymnastics equipment

21:17

for the club from a company he like

21:20

harry apparently went behind his back and

21:22

change the owner ritual

21:25

and didn't know about until the wrong equipment

21:27

arrived in

21:29

another instance roman learned that

21:32

harry had written a letter insulting

21:34

one of rowlands friends using it's

21:36

knickerbocker athletic club stationary

21:39

and complained to the club's board

21:42

the board told him he to stop using the stationary

21:45

the room and couldn't let go

21:48

roland thought he had the power

21:50

and that

21:51

there's social standing as to place

21:54

harry out of the club over this disagreement

21:56

and get him fired by

21:59

instead

22:00

harry guy

22:02

roland forced out of the club

22:05

on his way out

22:06

the woman had harry

22:08

you when

22:11

to hear his cousin keyed adams died

22:14

there is a coroner's inquest to determine

22:17

whether a crime have been committed the

22:20

inquest was only called to examine

22:22

the death of kitab barney

22:25

body had been exude and was being

22:27

analyzed but his death

22:30

hadn't originally been investigated like investigated murder

22:33

it was attributed to diphtheria

22:39

he was more detail on in terms

22:41

of motives

22:44

though even though barney's that wasn't

22:46

the purpose of the inquest the

22:48

love triangle between barney roland

22:50

and blanched was brought up over

22:53

and over

22:55

connection made between

22:58

henry barnett and though

23:00

it there were there were lots of

23:02

a sort of overlaps or that

23:04

would come up in these particular cases

23:07

and so they made the connection between

23:10

these pieces of physical evidence

23:13

on end of course during

23:15

the inquest it was just so

23:17

much easier to explain the potential

23:20

motive for barney's

23:22

death than it was to explain qaeda

23:24

adams das that you really saudis

23:27

two cases be entertained the

23:30

prosecution has two deaths and

23:33

one doesn't have a very good explanation

23:36

they look the same but the

23:39

other does and so they kind of

23:41

say well let's good

23:44

points the cute the easier case here in

23:46

and talk about henry barnett and glance

23:48

and hopefully that translate the

23:51

other yes there there prosecuting

23:54

kate adams dust but they're trying

23:57

to use the mode is in

23:59

the potential

23:59

n n n henry barnett's case

24:02

to explain

24:03

how this might have all happens

24:07

branch out to testify about her relationship

24:09

with barney she denied that was

24:11

anything more than friendship the

24:14

handwriting expert was called need

24:16

, the label on the package that harry cornish

24:19

had received and compared it to a

24:21

handwriting sampled roland had provided

24:24

he couldn't match

24:26

not only was it a match but not

24:28

the label and the sample

24:30

the mean the same small error

24:34

forty any address or

24:36

forty fifth street written out as a word

24:39

misspelled with the you

24:41

after you are t y

24:44

other handwriting expert agree that

24:47

the handwriting with the masks investigators

24:51

had gone to order letter requesting medicine

24:53

powders from drug manufacturers looking

24:56

for handwriting matches and

24:58

, found several linked to rented

25:00

post box and

25:02

ah well written on eggshell blue stationary

25:05

just kind rolling nice newspapers

25:10

follow the keys closely and report

25:12

it's any detail about role than they could

25:14

find that itself to opium

25:17

video and pornography the

25:19

newspaper described him as a moral degenerate

25:22

a roundabout way to suggest that he was gay

25:25

an implied it it was suspicious

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enjoy decorating his room at

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the knickerbocker plant

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sustain with romans parents newspapers

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were allowed in the house she

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read about the new seats are

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not even unfolded in my presence after

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the inquest movement was arrested and

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taken to the tombs prison he

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was charged with first degree murder for killing

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kid animals the

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trial began almost a year later in

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november eighteen ninety nine your

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faction took more than two weeks five

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hundred and four men were considered the

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paper reported that everyone in new york

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wanted to come watch both

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men , wealth tried to bribe their way and

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and about town tried getting by pull

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the women used every artist persuasion

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they knew

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the briefing on duty told them that

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women would not be admitted under any circumstances

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who did get in

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mm among here one

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the get in to collect material or

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tragedy he was reading

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an elderly man and the garb as a clergyman

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one and material for a sermon a

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drama critic covered the trial for the new

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york herald

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in his opening statements the prosecutors

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up for more than four hours he

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told me juri today

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there is a fight between society and poisoners

26:58

every poisoning case is supposed to be

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an improvement on it's predecessor

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every point the next try to improve on

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or nothing now

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in this case the murderer adopted it's

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what he thought was very fine method

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the selected cyanide of mercury

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a point in that some of our greatest druggists

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live all their lives without ever seen

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he went on to say that cyanide of mercury had

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been discovered by german chemist was

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experimenting with a color called prussian

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blue

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the side

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no other person except the canister a

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color maker would have either such a

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poison

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the woman was a chemist who worked

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at a company that manufactured pigments

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hi nice mercury the sound and the medications

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that both harry corners and

27:49

henry barnett received in the mail

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the prosecutor said

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how can anyone have knowledge of the to crimes

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and not be convinced that they were can

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see

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lived at the same brain

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what role did glance play

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in the trial

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he was considered

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to be the mode as in this

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in this trial says she sat there

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and seats she waited

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an arm and played the role of the loving

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wife but she was really very

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much on trial for were for

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her relationship so they're they're prosecuting

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kate adams death but they're trying

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to use the mode is in

28:30

the potential motors and in henry barnett's

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case to explain how

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this might have all happens

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the prosecutor said

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you might remember gentleman that the defendant

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was married on november

28:42

twenty nine eighty nine

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barnett died on november tenth eighty

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ninety eight the

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defendant has testify but he wanted to marry

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plants just burrow since january

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of that year

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the receiver to marry him

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the plane called sex or that she would

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not marry him more barnett was allies

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when barnett was called in his grave she

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marries the defendant and marries

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him immediately mm

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a prosecutor said it's

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not often in life that a mode as a

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real life concrete presence full

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of personality the endowed

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with flesh and blood then

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he pointed at plants and said

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the mayor limited

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we'll have the rest of bleach next

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