A Hall Of Fame Baseball Player Was Found Mysteriously Dead In Niagara Falls
“Big Ed” Delahanty was a legendary baseball player with the fifth-highest career batting average in Major League Baseball history. He was also a bit, shall we say, troubled, in the “Hollywood starlet” sense of the word. He was a gambling addict and an alcoholic, the latter of which might have been the reason he sat out what would have been his last game with the Washington Senators in Detroit in 1903. After he left the city on a train headed to New York, he drank five glasses of whiskey and proceeded to terrorize his fellow passengers with a razor, at which point he was kicked off and deposited near a bridge overlooking Niagara Falls. A week later, his body — naked but for shoes, socks, and a necktie — was found in the falls. Yes, in them.
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What happened in between isn’t clear. The official story is that Delahanty tried to cross the bridge, was stopped by and had a brief scuffle with the night watchman, then either fell or jumped from the bridge (the night watchman said it was “too dark to see”). Suicide seems a likely possibility: Delahanty had just taken out a new life insurance policy and wrote that he hoped “the train would run off the track or that something worse would happen to him.” But that doesn’t explain what happened to his clothes or the $1,500 of jewelry and even more cash he was traveling with, which was never recovered.
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Indeed, other accounts suggest he was being followed or chased, possibly by someone looking to collect a gambling debt. Delahanty certainly had plenty of those, but how could they know he was going to be kicked off the train? Others believe the scuffle with the night watchman could have been more violent than previously thought. Whatever the case, we don’t recommend being drunk and belligerent near Niagara Falls.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Whole Household Was Massacred At His “Love Cottage”
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the few architects whose names you know, so naturally, the homes he built for himself were of particular interest to the public. After all, a chef might cut corners on someone else’s meal, but never his own. Of even more particular interest was the home that he built — much to the consternation of the locals — in 1911 in Spring Green, Wisconsin for himself and his mistress which he named Taliesin but the media dubbed the “Love Cottage.”
Despite the scandal, Wright wasn’t even a little ashamed of abandoning his wife, who refused to divorce him, telling the press, “Laws and rules are made for … the ordinary man … It is infinitely more difficult to live without rules, but that is what the really honest, sincere, thinking man is compelled to do.” He was a white dude living at the turn of the century, so it goes without saying that he was kind of a dick.
Someone who wasn’t a dick, by all accounts, was Julian Carlton, a Black handyman from Chicago hired by Wright on the recommendation of an associate. Wright and his family described Carlton as friendly, “mild-mannered,” good at his job, and “well educated for a member of his class.” (You can guess who that was.) There was no apparent ill will between Carlton and his employers or anyone else in the household, save for a few other servants who were rumored to be racist jerks.
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