The Rhinelander Trial

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    Media Frenzy November 15-16, 1924

    The newspapers’ discovery of the marriage between Leonard and Alice Rhinelander set off a frenzy of New York City-based reporters headed up to New Rochelle hoping to find and interview the young couple. William Lawby, a reporter for the New York American admitted a year later in 1925 that he “saw it as a good…

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    Discovered November 13-14, 1924

    After Leonard Rhinelander and Alice Jones wed in New Rochelle on October 14, 1924, the couple rented an apartment in Westchester and continued shopping for furniture for their new home. The newlyweds must have had plenty of money to buy things. Only a few months before their marriage, the New York Times published a short…