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Fall River, Massachusetts, Monday, August 8, 1892, 10 a.m. Last Thursday, the banker Josiah Crandall, 69, and his wife, Lucinda, 64, were killed in their own home.
Lucinda at about 9:30 a.m., in the upstairs guest room. Josiah at about 11, dozing on the sofa in this very room. Both were struck down with a heavy blade, possibly a hatchet.
No money or watch was taken, and the house was always kept locked. Whoever did it was on the inside.
Three people slept under this roof that week. One of them spent Thursday morning between the two bodies.
Parlor of a middle-class house in Fall River, 1892, morning, with a horsehair sofa and a pendulum clock.
Suspects
Moira KinsaleIrish maid of the household, 26
Jasper LyleBrother of Josiah's first wife, visiting since Wednesday, 59
Constance CrandallJosiah's youngest daughter, Sunday school teacher, 32
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