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Gilded Age echoes in Wardlaw and Snead murder tale
A long article links the Wardlaw and Snead families to life imitate in The Gilded Age by Clemens and Warner. It traces poverty, land schemes, and a bathtub murder, comparing East Orange mystery to Murfreesboro and Latta Hawkins case, with Ocey Snead and Laura Hawkins as central figures.
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Sanuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Charles Dudley Warner
Ocey Snead
Wardlaws
Sneads
Silas Hawkins
Tennessee
Murphysburg
Murfreesboro
Missouri
Hawkins
Knobs University
Russell Sage
New York Herald
East Orange
New York City
Brooklyn
Laura van Brunt
Virginia O. Wardlaw
Wellesley College
Mary Wardlaw
Fletcher Snead
Fletcher Wardlaw Snead
Canada
John R. Wardlaw
Princeton University
Caroline Wardlaw
Oglethorpe
the Steads
Squire Hawkins
Golconda
Ocey
Nancy
House of Wardlaw
Laura
Sellers
House of Mystery
Ocey W. M. Snead
Col
Clemens-Warner
New York
Martin
Washington Hawkins
Pletcher W. Snead
Virginia
Bess
Latta Hawkins
Col. Selby
Hawkeye
Union
Atlantic
Pacific
London
Paris
Berlin
Laura Hawkins
Washington
Knobs