0:03 [SPEAKER_01]: In November afternoon, in 1878, a house on a commercial street in a river town on Maryland's Eastern Shore. 0:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Ola Hurn is at her father's parlor. 0:15 [SPEAKER_01]: She is 19 years old. 0:18 [SPEAKER_01]: The daylight is coming in through the windows, and the house is quiet. 0:24 [SPEAKER_01]: A kind of quiet that settles over well-capped rooms and there is nothing wrong. 0:31 [SPEAKER_01]: A visitor arrives, someone she has known since boarding school, someone who shared her room, her confidence, her daily life, for years. 0:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Lily Duer is in the house, the two women are alone, or nearly so, whatever passes between them on these visits is the kind of thing their neighbors have quietly watched 1:00 [SPEAKER_01]: but something is wrong today. 1:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Lily has a revolver. 1:06 [SPEAKER_01]: She always has a revolver sewn into a pocket of her dress, carried as casually as other women carry a hinkercief. 1:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Today is different. 1:20 [SPEAKER_01]: A neighbor hears a shot, then a scream. 1:25 [SPEAKER_01]: He runs inside, Ella Hurn is on the floor. 1:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Her hands pressed against her mouth, trying to stop the bleeding. 1:35 [SPEAKER_01]: A bullet has gone to her lip, shattered a tooth, and lodged somewhere in her head. 1:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Will we do our stands over her? 1:46 [SPEAKER_01]: The pistol is still smoking. 1:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And through the blood, through the agony, Ella speaks. 1:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't mally please don't, I'll marry you. 1:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Those words spoken by a 19-year-old woman with a bullet in her head would make this case and forget a bullet. 2:08 [SPEAKER_01]: They would also make it impossible for anyone to pretend they did not understand what had just happened in that room. 2:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Hello friend, welcome to foul play. 2:22 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm Shane Waters, and this is season 40. 2:25 [SPEAKER_01]: This season we are doing something we have never done before, 50 states, 50 crimes, 250 2:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Every episode pairs two cases, two states, two stories connected by a single thread. 2:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, we begin with Maryland and Indiana, one case from 1878 and one from 1889, both are about desire. 3:00 [SPEAKER_01]: The kind that could not be spoken aloud, but that everyone around it could feel. 3:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And both are about what happens when that desire turns into violence, and the justice system 3:15 [SPEAKER_01]: We start on the eastern shore of Maryland. 3:18 [SPEAKER_01]: In a town so new, it had not even had its name for a full year. 3:25 [SPEAKER_01]: The town was called Pokemon City. 3:28 [SPEAKER_01]: It had been new town for most of its life. 3:31 [SPEAKER_01]: In 1878, it took the name of the river. 3:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And now Gunkween word, long translated as black water. 3:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Though modern scholars believe it actually means broken ground. 3:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And re-incorporated itself as something it hoped would sound more like a destination. 3:51 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pokemon River ran dark and tan-and-stained through Cyprus swamps on Maryland's lower eastern shore. 3:59 [SPEAKER_01]: And the industries that built the town were lumber milling and shipbuilding. 4:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Cyprus and pine fed the mills. 4:09 [SPEAKER_01]: The mills fed the shipyards. 4:11 [SPEAKER_01]: The shipyards built scooters for the Chesapeake Bay trade. 4:17 [SPEAKER_01]: The hernd were among Pokemon's established families. 4:21 [SPEAKER_01]: River commerce, lumber, shipping, the steady accumulation of a merchant household near the docks. 4:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll let her and grew up in that world, boarding academy, music, drawing, literature, department. 4:40 [SPEAKER_01]: The kind of education that was supposed to polish a young woman into a suitable wife for suitable man. 4:48 [SPEAKER_01]: she was the opposite of the person she loved, where Lily was loud, assertive, a mad cap. 4:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Ella was quiet, in gentle, trusting. 5:01 [SPEAKER_01]: She observed lady-like manners. 5:04 [SPEAKER_01]: She carried herself with what the newspapers called a delicate, unassuming grace. 5:09 [SPEAKER_01]: In the autumn of 1878, those qualities 5:16 [SPEAKER_01]: After graduation, both women had returned to Pokemon City. 5:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Ella continued to see Lily. 5:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Continue to move within her orbit. 5:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Whether she walked into the closeness, tolerated it, or feared, what refusing it might bring, those questions were never answered at trial. 5:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Lily Dua was everything the newspapers loved to describe, eccentric, independent, a mad cap. 5:47 [SPEAKER_02]: She wore her hair cropped short, she dressed in men's clothing on hunting trips. 5:53 [SPEAKER_02]: She practiced markmanship, and she carried a revolver in specially sewn pockets inside her dresses concealed daily as a matter of habit. 6:02 [SPEAKER_02]: By the standards of 1878 Merrilland, she was a woman who had decided not to perform conventional femininity. 6:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Her family standing was enough to let her get away with it, to a point. 6:14 [SPEAKER_02]: What she felt for Ella, the newspapers of 1878 could not name her directly. 6:19 [SPEAKER_02]: They circled it with a lab at avoidance, the close companionship, the shared room at the Academy, the intense attachment that the whole town observed. 6:29 [SPEAKER_02]: The Alana Sanchez study published in 2024 characterizes the relationship through the framework of obsessive attachment and coercive control. 6:40 [SPEAKER_02]: The Victorians had no such vocabulary, they had only what they could see. 6:45 [SPEAKER_02]: On November 5, 1878, Lily Dewer walked into the hern family home with revolver in her pocket. 6:52 [SPEAKER_02]: A neighbour heard the shot on the screen and ran inside. 6:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Ella hern was on the floor. 6:58 [SPEAKER_02]: The bulleted pass through her lip, broken a tooth and buried itself somewhere in her skull. 7:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Lily stood over her with the smoking pistol. 7:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And Ella, leading, slipping towards unconsciousness, spoke the words that would follow this case for a century and a half. 7:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Don't Lily, please don't. 7:17 [SPEAKER_02]: I'll marry you. 7:19 [SPEAKER_02]: A woman with a bullet in her head was still trying to manage the person who had just shot her. 7:24 [SPEAKER_02]: Lily did not wait. 7:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Within hours she had borrowed men's clothing from her brother, cropped her already short hair shorter, and boarded a train to Baltimore disguised as a man. 7:35 [SPEAKER_02]: This was not improvisation. 7:38 [SPEAKER_02]: She had been living in a way that made it possible without knowing she would need it. 7:42 [SPEAKER_02]: The pockets for the revolver, the familiarity with male dress, 7:50 [SPEAKER_02]: The month that followed the shooting was a vigil. 7:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Ella earned survived the night, and then the week, and then the month. 7:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Her condition was genuinely uncertain for weeks. 8:01 [SPEAKER_02]: The bullet was lodged in her head. 8:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Victoria's surgical technique was not equipped for safe extraction. 8:07 [SPEAKER_02]: The press covered the vigil closely, and the coverage ensured that Ella's words spread far beyond Worcester County. 8:13 [SPEAKER_02]: The record does not tell us exactly how Lily Doer was found in Baltimore, whether she was trapped through family connections, recognised despite the disguise, or discovered by some other means. 8:25 [SPEAKER_02]: What the record tells us is that she was brought back to Pocomorke City and surrendered to the sheriff. 8:31 [SPEAKER_02]: The legal proceedings are followed, tell us everything about the priorities of 1878 Maryland. 8:37 [SPEAKER_02]: Ellis Father had initiated charges immediately. 8:40 [SPEAKER_02]: A coroner's inquest was held, but the charge that emerged was manslaughter, not murder. 8:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Ellis had survived, however barely, and the charge was shaped by that survival. 8:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Lily's trial opened on May the 29th, 1879, at the Worcester County Courthouse in Snowhill, the County seat. 9:01 [SPEAKER_02]: A few miles inland from Boca-Mock City, she was housed not in their County jail, but at the National Hotel directly across the street from the Courthouse, under the Sheriff's custody. 9:12 [SPEAKER_02]: Jail, the court determined, was unsuitable for a young woman of her standing. 9:17 [SPEAKER_02]: That arrangement already predicted the verdict. 9:19 [SPEAKER_02]: The trial was a sensation by eastern shore standards. 9:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Ella's words gave the newspapers a phrase that could repeat endlessly, quote, Al-Marie-U. 9:29 [SPEAKER_02]: And each repetition hinted at something the culture had no public language for. 9:34 [SPEAKER_02]: The short hair, the men's clothing, a flight to Baltimore in disguise. 9:39 [SPEAKER_02]: The revolver in the dress pocket, the press found the story irresistible without knowing what to call it. 9:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Ortaela herself testified if she testified at all, is not recovered from any available source. 9:52 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the most important gap in the entire case. 9:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Did she describe the nature of the relationship? 9:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Did she explain what happened in the ring before the shot? 10:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Those answers, if they were given, are lost. 10:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Contemporary accounts reveal that the trial was shaped from beginning to end, by the intersection of class and gender, two prominent families, a crime that had exposed something the community had watched and refused to name, a young woman who had shot another young woman in the face inside a private home, and a jury that had to decide what a thing like that was worth. 10:29 [SPEAKER_02]: The jury returned its verdict on approximately June 19, 1879. 10:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Man slaughter. 10:37 [SPEAKER_02]: The sentence, a fine of $500, roughly a skilled laborers and your wage, and no present time. 10:45 [SPEAKER_02]: The reasoning was not legal, it was social, jail was no place for young woman of good family. 10:51 [SPEAKER_02]: The courthouse and the hotel were across the street from each other, and the distance between them was the full extent of Lily Dewa's accountability. 10:59 [SPEAKER_02]: The jury had spoken, $500, no prison. 11:04 [SPEAKER_02]: And whatever Ella Hurn had endured, the shooting, the vigil, the exposure of her most private relationship to public scrutiny. 11:13 [SPEAKER_02]: None of it carried a price the court was willing to collect. 11:16 [SPEAKER_02]: The question that hung over the yeast and sure that summer was not about Lily Doer's punishment. 11:21 [SPEAKER_02]: It was about the words Ella had spoken with a bullet in her head and what kind of world makes a woman say them. 11:29 [SPEAKER_01]: What happened to Lily Doer after the verdict is unknown, whether she remained in Pokemon City, whether she left Maryland, whether she ever had contact with Ella Hurn again, the record is silent. 11:44 [SPEAKER_01]: She paid her $500. 11:46 [SPEAKER_01]: She walked out of the national hotel, and into an absence that the archives have never filled. 11:55 [SPEAKER_01]: What happened to Ella is similarly obscure, 11:59 [SPEAKER_01]: the bullet remained. 12:01 [SPEAKER_01]: The Victorian surgery could not safely extract it, whether she lived with chronic pain, with a cognitive weight of a lead ball lodged in her skull. 12:12 [SPEAKER_01]: With the constant physical reminder of what had happened in her father's parlor, those questions outlived her. 12:21 [SPEAKER_01]: her life after the trial disappears from the available record. 12:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The NAP Center at Salzburg University holds her and family materials that may one day tell us more. 12:35 [SPEAKER_01]: For now, the gap stands. 12:39 [SPEAKER_01]: $500, that was the price, the state of Maryland placed on a bullet in a young woman's head. 12:52 [SPEAKER_01]: The fine was real. 12:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The accountability was lost. 12:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Historians now recognize the dual-horn case as one of the earliest well-documented examples of intimate partner violence between two women and American history. 13:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sanchez study characterizes it through the modern framework of obsessive attachment and coercive control. 13:18 [SPEAKER_01]: vocabulary that in 1878 could not supply for a relationship that in 1878 could not name. 13:28 [SPEAKER_01]: All Mary, you, is a phrase that can be read as a love or as desperation. 13:35 [SPEAKER_01]: It is almost certainly, both, a woman with a bullet in her head was still trying to manage her shooter. 13:44 [SPEAKER_01]: That is, coercive control. 13:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Separated from us, by a century and a half. 13:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Maryland, 1878, a $500 fine, a bullet that stayed in her head, and a question that no 14:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Ella hurns survived a bullet to the head and a justice system that valued the reputation of the woman who shot her more than the blood on Ella's face. 14:18 [SPEAKER_01]: That is the Maryland story. 14:21 [SPEAKER_01]: What connects these two cases and there must be a connection where I would not be telling them together is the space between what people desired and what they were allowed to say out loud. 14:35 [SPEAKER_01]: In Pokemon City, the desire was between two women, and the entire county could see it, and had no words for it. 14:44 [SPEAKER_01]: In Indiana, the desire was between a minister, and his wealthiest parishioner, and the words existed, but no one dared speak them until a woman was dead. 14:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Both cases are about what happens when that silence breaks and how much it costs the person standing closest to the blast. 15:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Summer, 1889, Flat Farmland, Western, Indiana, A Methodist Parsnage near a country church Inside, Hattie Pettit is setting her husband's table. 15:32 [SPEAKER_01]: She has been away for a month, visiting a friend in South Bend. 15:37 [SPEAKER_01]: She has just come home. 15:39 [SPEAKER_01]: The house is clean. 15:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Her husband, the Reverend William Petit, seems glad to see her. 15:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Neighbors from the church have stopped by. 15:50 [SPEAKER_00]: One of them is Alma Whitehead, a tall, slender woman, and the richest woman in the county. 16:02 [SPEAKER_00]: The personage was familiar, the people around her were familiar, everything looked normal. 16:10 [SPEAKER_01]: What Haddy did not know, what she couldn't know, was that three weeks ago, while she was in South Bend, her husband had asked Alma to marry him, and Alma had said yes. 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: In 1889 Indiana, that meant something specific about her character, practical, self-sufficient, disciplined. 16:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Teaching was one of the very few professional colleagues available to educated women. 16:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And the women who entered it were accustomed to managing situations that would have been difficult for people of less resolve. 16:55 [SPEAKER_01]: She had married William Pettett through church and work connections in New York. 17:02 [SPEAKER_01]: The kind of marriage the era considered sensible, even when it was not passionate. 17:08 [SPEAKER_01]: They had relocated to Indiana, where Pettit had reinvented himself as a debt collector for Student Baker, then as a fervent Methodist, and finally as an ordained Minister. 17:22 [SPEAKER_01]: By 1888, he had been assigned to the church at Shawnee Mount, in the farming country near Crawford'sville, Montgomery County, 17:32 [SPEAKER_01]: What had he did not know was that the man she had married had once been jailed for theft in New York. 17:39 [SPEAKER_01]: He had lied his way into the Masonic Brotherhood. 17:43 [SPEAKER_01]: He had used Masonic connections to secure his ordination. 17:48 [SPEAKER_01]: The minister at the head of her table was a fabrication. 17:53 [SPEAKER_01]: The congregation at Shawnee Mount had a patron who changed everything. 17:59 [SPEAKER_01]: David Mayheri, a Scottish Irish settler whose family had arrived in Indiana in the late 1820s and accumulated thousands of acres across Montgomery and typical new counties, had donated the land and paid for the church building. 18:16 [SPEAKER_01]: had it made himself useful to the old man. 18:20 [SPEAKER_01]: He helped May Harry draft his will. 18:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And that will approximately $40,000 was left to May Harry's daughter, Alma. 18:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Alma Clementine Whitehead, called Klemmy by those close to her, was David Mahirri's daughter and Prince Polar. 18:40 [SPEAKER_02]: A widow, tall, slender, enormously wealthy. 18:44 [SPEAKER_02]: While the summer of 1889, with a substantial inheritance from her late husband, and the expectation her father's estate, she was the richest woman in the county. 18:53 [SPEAKER_02]: When Hattie left for South Bend in June, Hattie moved into the maheria state. 19:00 [SPEAKER_02]: He took a remacross the hall from Elmer's. 19:03 [SPEAKER_02]: The maid heard them together at night. 19:05 [SPEAKER_02]: The neighbours saw them together during the day. 19:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Three weeks before Hattie came home, Elmer agreed to marry him. 19:13 [SPEAKER_02]: As I'm happy that it's crossed her own threshold on July the 12th, she was already scheduled to die. 19:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Over the next five days, Hattie was poisoned on at least three separate occasions. 19:24 [SPEAKER_02]: A poison was strict nine. 19:26 [SPEAKER_02]: The dose is produced violent convulsions. 19:29 [SPEAKER_02]: The body arching, the muscle seizing simultaneously. 19:33 [SPEAKER_02]: The face drawn into the involuntary rictus, the Victorians, called the Risu Sardonicus. 19:39 [SPEAKER_02]: I need to put it an Alba fed her during this period. 19:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Witnesses would later testify that each episode of convulsions began shortly after a feeding. 19:48 [SPEAKER_02]: How do you figure it out? 19:50 [SPEAKER_02]: She told her doctor, John Yeager, that she believed she had been poisoned with strict nine. 19:55 [SPEAKER_02]: She was right. 19:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Yeager, a free-maston-like petite, treated her for malaria in public. 20:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Privately he acknowledged the suspicion of poisoning. 20:04 [SPEAKER_02]: He did nothing. 20:06 [SPEAKER_02]: And how to, not knowing that Elma was one of her poisonous, pleaded with her to stay. 20:12 [SPEAKER_02]: Don't go away! 20:13 [SPEAKER_02]: I want you in the house! 20:17 [SPEAKER_02]: She was asking the woman who was killing her, not to leave. 20:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Hattie Petit died on July 17, 1889. 20:23 [SPEAKER_02]: The official cause of death was malaria. 20:29 [SPEAKER_02]: The rumours started within weeks. 20:31 [SPEAKER_02]: By August 1889, published speculation about pittits, conduct had begun circling in Crawford's film, a town of five to six thousand people, with Warbash College in its midst and a community that read newspapers and talked. 20:46 [SPEAKER_02]: The story of a minister poisoning his wife were a rich widow, spread at church socials and grain elevator conversations, and over fences between neighbours. 20:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Public pressure eventually forced the authorities to act. 20:59 [SPEAKER_02]: In November 1889, or months after Hatties death, an order was issued for the exhumation of her body. 21:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Officials conducted the proceedings in deliberate secrecy. 21:10 [SPEAKER_02]: Organes were removed and shipped to Chicago for chemical analysis. 21:15 [SPEAKER_02]: The results were unambiguous, large quantities of strict line. 21:19 [SPEAKER_02]: In January 1890, Elma Whitehead was called before a grand jury. 21:25 [SPEAKER_02]: She invoked the Fifth Amendment refused to answer. 21:28 [SPEAKER_02]: A grand jury convened in Lafayette in March. 21:32 [SPEAKER_02]: The tit was arrested and charged with murder. 21:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Elma was jointly inducted. 21:38 [SPEAKER_02]: The trial opened in Crawford'sville in October 1890, more than a year after Hattie's death. 21:45 [SPEAKER_02]: It ran six to eight weeks. 21:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Journalists from Indianapolis and Lafayette filed dispatches that were reprinted across the Midwest. 21:53 [SPEAKER_02]: Notice who was watching. 21:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Lou Wallace, the man who wrote Ben Her, who had served as a union general, who had served on the military commission that tried the Lincoln assassination conspirators, 22:07 [SPEAKER_02]: By 1890, Wallace was Crawford Dville's most famous living resident. 22:13 [SPEAKER_02]: His presence in that gallery, watching a minister tried to for poisoning his wife, says something about the gravity of what that courtroom was producing. 22:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Prosecutions case rested on the chemical analysis of Hattie's exhumed organs. 22:26 [SPEAKER_02]: The testimony of witnesses who'd observe of both betit and Elmer feeding Hattie before each episode of convulsions. 22:33 [SPEAKER_02]: And two full days of testimony from Dr. Yeager, a physician who had known the truth and done nothing. 22:40 [SPEAKER_02]: And the Masonic Brotherhood hung over every proceeding. 22:43 [SPEAKER_02]: George E. C. Snyder, a free Mason, petit, a free Mason, a free Mason. 22:49 [SPEAKER_02]: The brotherhood and gilded age Indiana was not a benign for turn or club. 22:54 [SPEAKER_02]: It was one of the primary mechanisms through which professional men organised mutual protection. 23:00 [SPEAKER_02]: During the trial, three witnesses against petite suffered serious injuries. 23:04 [SPEAKER_02]: John Aixon was shot by a burglar. 23:07 [SPEAKER_02]: George W. O'Dell was nearly killed by a falling pile driver. 23:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Susan Curson was broken in a fall. 23:14 [SPEAKER_02]: The sources leave it to the reader to decide whether that was 23:19 [SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, Alma was released on bail, a separate trial was delayed indefinitely. 23:24 [SPEAKER_02]: She and her father immediately left Crawford'sville and spent years traveling the country to avoid subpoenas. 23:30 [SPEAKER_02]: She was never tried. 23:33 [SPEAKER_02]: She funded petits' entire defence from a distance. 23:38 [SPEAKER_02]: guilty, life imprisonment's hard labor. 23:42 [SPEAKER_02]: The jury had convicted a minister of murder. 23:44 [SPEAKER_02]: The chemical evidence was beyond dispute. 23:47 [SPEAKER_02]: The witnesses had survived their accidents and their testimony held. 23:51 [SPEAKER_02]: But the judge on the bench was a free Mason, and the rulings he made during those weeks in Crawford'sville would come back, all the way to the Indiana Supreme Court. 24:01 [SPEAKER_02]: A tit was going to prison, but this case was not finished with him. 24:07 [SPEAKER_01]: had it was transferred to the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City in early 1891. 24:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Factory labor. 24:16 [SPEAKER_01]: His health failed. 24:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He contracted tuberculosis. 24:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Alma funded his appeals throughout. 24:25 [SPEAKER_01]: The case climbed to the Indiana Supreme Court. 24:29 [SPEAKER_01]: The court examined Judge Snyder's ruling. 24:32 [SPEAKER_01]: ruling shaped, at least in part, by the fraternal loyalties of a free Mason, presiding over the trial of a free Mason, and found them sufficiently irregular to demand a new trial. 24:47 [SPEAKER_01]: In 1893, the Indiana Supreme Court granted Petit his retrial. 24:53 [SPEAKER_01]: He died the same day the ruling came down, 24:57 [SPEAKER_01]: whether he was told of his legal vindication before he died. 25:01 [SPEAKER_01]: The sources differ on that. 25:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Elma White had outlived him by approximately five years, dying around 1898. 25:10 [SPEAKER_01]: She was never tried. 25:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The woman who agreed to marry a man three weeks before his wife died, who had fed a dying woman, strict name, who had invoked the Fifth Amendment and spent years avoiding testimony. 25:28 [SPEAKER_01]: She died with her inheritance intact. 25:32 [SPEAKER_01]: The Shawnee Mount Methodist Church, built by Meheri Money, 25:37 [SPEAKER_01]: The church were petted, preached, and had a worshiped, eventually closed and was demolished. 25:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing marks the site today. 25:47 [SPEAKER_01]: The one thing that separates this case from so many others is that had he petted, figured it out. 25:54 [SPEAKER_01]: She told her doctor she had been poisoned with strict name, she was right, and the doctor 26:07 [SPEAKER_01]: The system that was supposed to protect Hattie was networked with the man who was killing her. 26:15 [SPEAKER_01]: She was right, it did not matter. 26:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Indiana 1889, a minister, a $40,000 inheritance, and a woman who knew exactly what was happening to her and could not make anyone act. 26:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Two women trusted the people closest to them, Ella earned a trusted companion she had known since boarding school. 26:43 [SPEAKER_01]: The woman who shared her room, her competences, her daily world, had he peted trusted the husband who stood at the head of her table, in the neighbor who brought her food while she was sick. 26:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Both paid for that trust with their bodies 27:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Maryland and Indiana. 27:06 [SPEAKER_01]: The Eastern Shore and the Wabash River Country, 1878 and 1889, 11 years apart in 700 miles between them. 27:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Both cases turn on desire, it could not be named by the society, in which it existed. 27:26 [SPEAKER_01]: between two women and Pokemon City where the newspapers had to invent ways around what everyone already knew between a minister and his wealthiest parishioner in Crawford'sville. 27:41 [SPEAKER_01]: where the words existed, but no one dared say them. 27:46 [SPEAKER_01]: In both cases, the desire was not secret. 27:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Neighbors knew, families knew. 27:52 [SPEAKER_01]: The community felt the wrongness of something it could not bring itself to say out loud. 27:58 [SPEAKER_01]: And in both cases, the violence happened in the most intimate space available. 28:03 [SPEAKER_01]: The family parlor, a parsnist dining table, behind walls that were supposed to keep private things private. 28:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Lately do her paid $500 and walked free. 28:18 [SPEAKER_01]: William Pettett died on the day his retrial was granted. 28:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Alma Whitehead was never tried at all. 28:26 [SPEAKER_01]: The law found away, in every instance, you soften the blow for someone. 28:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It was never the victim. 28:37 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what the first season, a foul play is America, looks like, 50 states, 50 crimes, 250 years. 28:48 [SPEAKER_01]: The America of 1878 and 1889 was making promises about liberty and justice that it was refusing to keep for women, for anyone whose desire fell outside the boundaries of what 29:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Ella earns words, I'll marry you, and had he pet its words, I won't you in the house. 29:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Are both in their own way, please from women who had already been sentenced. 29:22 [SPEAKER_01]: We tell their stories because no one else did, what stays with me is this. 29:30 [SPEAKER_01]: The justice system saw both of these women, it heard what happened to them, and in both cases, it decided that the person who hurt them deserved mercy, more than the person who was hurt, deserved accountability. 29:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Was that a failure of 1878, or is it something older? 29:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, good night, friend.
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