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Podcast: The Long Island History Project
Episode: Episode 191: The 1914 Freeport Murder Mystery w Woody Register
Description: An obscure bit of early 20th century technology embroiled Dr. Woody Register in a murder mystery. Register, a professor of history at the University of the South (Sewanee), became intrigued by the detective dictograph and followed its trail to the 1914 murder of Louise Bailey in Freeport. Mrs. Bailey was shot in the Merrick Road office of Dr. Edward Carman. Dr. Carman's wife, Florence, had secretly installed a dictograph in her husband's office hoping to capture evidence of his philandering. What followed was a media frenzy of an investigation that played out in countless inches of newspaper columns...