Second opinion

Daily Critic (Washington, D.C.), May 24, 1878. I love the epistemological nuance of “She is now insane.”

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Pie of dark destiny

Atlanta Constitution, November 27, 1929. It had to be mince pie, it could only have been mince pie. Had she been making pumpkin, banana cream or shoofly pie, she would have lived to watch Murder, She Wrote.

The man who shot Liberty Snooks

Chicago Tribune, August 6, 1891. I understand detective Floont Artney broke the case.

Urged to get a job, man kills mother

Detroit News, April 3, 1931. The hearty breakfast is the detail that really pulls this item together.