Poor Knowlton

[Harry]

We know so little about the personal lives of the people in the Borden saga and it's rare when we get a glimpse of their daily lives outside of the case:

Here's one such glimpse contained in a letter to Pillsbury from Knowlton, about 3 weeks before the beginning of the trial.

HK178, page 179, May 14, 1893

"... I find myself seriously and unexpectedly handicapped. Our little 3
year old came down with scarlet fever last Monday. She is doing well: but
she is at that age when I would not trust her to hired nurses, for all the
world has in the way of reward or glory. That means the home broken up,
children out, Mrs. K quarantined, & I under the highest obligation to be at
home nights, for six weeks- so the Doctor fixes the time. Isn't it wicked, just at this crisis. That was why I had to have Moody come to New Bedford, instead of meeting him, as I originally intended and appointed, in Boston. ..."

The six week quarantine would have just about lasted through the length of the trial.

[john]

Do you know, Harry, if Pillsbury was related to the Pillsbury family of Minnesota, the "millers?"