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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1889
Page
7
A fragmented historical verse depicts a tale of Laine Eagle Jit and a square in a salt tract near Squire Orchard. The speaker recalls affection, loyalty, and conflict amid a harsh sunlit landscape in a world of labor and personal bonds.
A century old detective recalls the “fatal potato” murder in a Fifth Avenue mansion. Harriet Wardrop, a cook, was found strangled with a handkerchief. the killer used a potato with blue dye under the peel as a distinctive marker. A blue dyer’s stain and precise method pointed to a calculated act rather than suicide.
In a murky inquest scene John Wardrop a mid dle aged dyer from Parisian firm Detaille & Co emerged as a suspect in the death of his wife Jane Blair. Eyeing a masked motive amid allegations of elopement and a double life Wardrop confessed after pressure and a dramatic reveal with a poisoned potato and cyanide. The case ties Wardrop to Philadelphia separation and a plan to marry Jane Blair once divorced. Wardrop awaited arrest as details from the inquest and local witnesses painted a portrait of a failed marriage and a desperate man.
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