>He was only 85 and surely had many more years of life in him.
His mother was devastated.
If you reference the General Slocum Walking Tour thread, in which my obsession with mayhem first reared its head on ET, you'll find the notorious Poderjoy case...in which a dashing European with a home torture chamber and a propensity for women's clothing, married a wealthy but frumpy NY woman. He booked passage aboard the Olympic, in an E deck outside cabin for them, but she jilted him and never boarded. Well, she DID board, postmortem, in his steamer trunk, but soon vanished out the porthole.
Tabloids loved it. He was found guilty. And, odd to say, when "The Lady of the Lake" began washing ashore in fragments at Euclid Beach, Cleveland, in September 1934, they actually made an effort to determine if it was Mrs. Poderjoy. Since she was disposed of from the Olympic, it probably wasn't...but one never knows.
His mother was devastated.
If you reference the General Slocum Walking Tour thread, in which my obsession with mayhem first reared its head on ET, you'll find the notorious Poderjoy case...in which a dashing European with a home torture chamber and a propensity for women's clothing, married a wealthy but frumpy NY woman. He booked passage aboard the Olympic, in an E deck outside cabin for them, but she jilted him and never boarded. Well, she DID board, postmortem, in his steamer trunk, but soon vanished out the porthole.
Tabloids loved it. He was found guilty. And, odd to say, when "The Lady of the Lake" began washing ashore in fragments at Euclid Beach, Cleveland, in September 1934, they actually made an effort to determine if it was Mrs. Poderjoy. Since she was disposed of from the Olympic, it probably wasn't...but one never knows.
