The Squirrel Hill Affair
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Episode 232 is really just your average love triangle gone awry, but there are mysteries to be solved here, and the real reason I like this story is that the bad girl in this case is not the instigator, but a survivor, the victim of a jealous husband, a strong Southern woman with flair and flaws of her own.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.4 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 0:07.0 | April 11, 1903 |
| 0:10.3 | Quote, |
| 0:12.7 | My husband has been very good to me |
| 0:14.8 | until he left me three weeks ago |
| 0:16.7 | And the only thing to matter with him |
| 0:18.6 | Is that he is so desperately jealous |
| 0:20.5 | Why, he thinks that if another man looks at me, he wants me and the only thing to matter with him is that he is so desperately jealous. |
| 0:27.4 | Why, he thinks that if another man looks at me, he wants me, the idea, unquote. |
| 0:32.3 | Thus spoke pretty Margaret Counts to Judge Evans this morning in the trial of non-support case against her husband, Dr. Walter P. Counts, secretary of the Viotto Coal Company. |
| 0:41.8 | Quote, about a month ago he was with me at the theater. Behind us sat a big fat man who did a |
| 0:47.5 | dreadfully lot of laughing. I looked around and smiled because I thought he was funny. My husband |
| 0:53.4 | then took me out of the theater and told me, |
| 0:56.0 | if you want the man, you had better get him. The very idea of a man being that jealous, unquote. |
| 1:03.4 | Mrs. Counts was elaborately dressed and wore a large hat of the most tasteful style. She laughed |
| 1:10.2 | frequently when anything appeared to her to be funny, |
| 1:13.3 | and when she was displeased, she drew her eyebrows and curled her lips in a very expressive manner. |
| 1:20.3 | When the court thought that too much time was being consumed and examining the witness |
| 1:24.6 | and asked, what is the use of wasting all this time? |
| 1:28.5 | She said, and I wonder too, meaning that she also thought it unnecessary to go into the details. |
| 1:36.2 | Dr. and Mrs. Counts were married at Hot Springs, Arkansas, June 9, 1902, his wife, having been a native of the place. After coming to Pittsburgh, they took up |
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