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Mrs. Angle's Room, Stamford (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Helen M. Angle of Stamford CT was accused of killing Waldo R. Ballou. Her studio apartment in the Rippowam Building was at the top of a flight of stairs; Waldo's body was found at the bottom of those stairs, dead from a skull fracture. The theory was that she pushed him down the stairs. The building belonged to Helen's father, Leonard Blondel, who proposed that perhaps the man fell, or a thug attacked Waldo on the stairs, and Helen's dress became bloodstained when she tried to help him. She was acquitted. In the process she became reacquainted with her ex-husband. They were divorced in 1910, but remarried in 1915, after the trial.