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Wow, interesting article, thank you.

Here is the interesting interaction of Doherty & Harrington with Dr Handy.
They thought the Dr acted strangely.
I tend to agree.

From WS

Went in search of Dr. Handy; found him at Chas. J.Holmes’. Asked him, would he accompany an
officer to Boston to see a party whom the Boston police located, and who they thought resembled the
person whom he saw. He said “well, I suppose I must go.” I said “No, there is nothing compulsory about
the request”. He did not seem to like the idea of going, and said “it is a very warm night, and I have
quite a number of cases on hand, from which I expect births, but then, (laughing) I suppose they are as
apt to come during the day as well as night. Wait a momment and I’ll see.” He then went to another part
of the house, and talked with the Holmes family for a few minutes. He then returned to the parlor and
said “well, I’ll go. Who is going with me, is it you?” I told him I could not say. “Will the officer call at
my house, will he come in a carriage, or will we go to the depot in the horse car”? I said I did not know,
but whichever way, the officer would be there in time.
After arriving in Boston, we called at Station 4, and learned
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something of, and the residence of the man we sought. We then went to Police Headquarters, and after
transacting my business there, we retired.
Evening. Wednesday 10, 1892. Doherty. Summoned Hannan H. Gifford, Alice Russell, Chas. S. Sawyer
and Mrs. Geo. Whitehead.
Thursday 11, 1892. In the morning we went again to Station 4, from whence a local officer
accompanied us to No. 19 Oxford street, the home of Henrick Wood, the man wanted. Mr. Wood was
not at home, he had gone to Lexington in the morning to see a friend who was building a house near a
lot owned by him. From the lady who came to the door, we got a description of Mr. Wood. She also
showed us a photograph of him. She handed it to me, and I immediately turned it over to the Doctor,
who before he had it rightly in his hand, pronounced him not the person. There were three persons on
the card, two men and a child. The child was in Mr. Wood’s arms. Owing to the position in which he
sat, his face was very much shaded, which made it rather difficult of observation. This, together with the
fact that Dr. handy so readily pronounced him not the man, is, to my mind, very significant. His social
relations with Miss Lizzie are very close. She was to spend her vacation at Dr. Handy’s cottage at
Marion, with his daughter.
He left Boston for home at 8.30 A. M. I went again to Police Headquarters, and with a detective
went to the Diebold (?) Safe Co. No. 72 Sudbury street. From there a mechanic accompanied me home.

Couple things :
Hiram Harrington spoke of Lizzie’s feelings towards her dad

Lizzie is of a repellant disposition, and after an unsuccessful passage with her father would become sulky and refuse to speak to him for days at a time. She moved in the best society in Fall River, was a member of the Congregational church, and is a brilliant conversationalist. She thought she ought to entertain as others did, and felt that with her father’s wealth she was expected to hold her end up with others of her set. Her father’s constant refusal to allow her to entertain lavishly angered her. I have heard many bitter things she has said of her father, and know she was deeply resentful of her father’s maintained stand in this matter.

This I’m not sure what to make of,
Is it close to where JVM made his late night outing on August 5th to meet H Harrington?

Wednesday 17. Called on Maurice Libby, from whom we got an old brown and white plaid apron
stained with blood. He found it in the yard adjoining his shop on Turner street. This we left in the office.

I can't recall where we learn that JVM and Harrington met? I've looked in Jennings Journal where I thought it was and can't find. Do you know?

Odd this fellow finds the bloody apron on August 17 (presumably), 2 weeks after the murders, and still thought to call it in to the police.

I’m sorry. I should have referenced, I’ll go back and find it.
It was in a thread about Emma.

Well shoot, I reposted it in the original thread..lol
You might enjoy the thread though.
I need to see how close H Harrington was to Turner Street.