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...their fictional account of one of the young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
Fiction & Fact. Three years later, Richard asked for a divorce to marry Nancy. Mrs. Randolph prescribed for him a fatal dose of tartar emetic instead, and Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...
Crafty, silver-tongued old Patrick ("Give me liberty") Henry wanted no part in the Randolph case. By 1793, he was in ill health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...
...Randolph case had just about everything a grade A murder trial needed. Handsome young Richard Randolph was a member of one of Virginia's first families, and for months before the alleged crime, people had been whispering that he was having an affair with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after...
...noteworthy. Examples: ¶ In delirium tremens, ACTH begins to show results in three to ten hours. It is "easily the most effective treatment we have used," reported Dr. James J. Smith of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. ¶ Allergic conditions are often "materially relieved," said Drs. Theron G. Randolph and John P. Rollins of Northwestern University. In asthma, the relief is short-lived, but some hay fever (ragweed) victims were sneeze-free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first...