Tragedy At Good Ground
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Episode 423 delves into a love triangle gone awry. When two sides of the triangle, including an expert swimmer and sailor, are found drowned dead in a Long Island bay, suspicion immediately falls upon the third, even though the coroner declares the whole thing an accident.
Culled from the historic pages of The New York World, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The New York Tribune, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast has been made possible in part by scoundrels like Kimberly Anderson, |
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| 0:27.7 | june 13th 1902 the strange simultaneous disappearance of Clarence T. Foster, a young married man, and Miss Dimple Lawrence from Good Ground Long Island, where both had been living for the summer, is coupled with mystery. |
| 0:51.3 | Miss Lawrence is the pretty daughter of John S. Lawrence, a real estate man at |
| 0:57.3 | No. 149 Broadway and who resides in Brooklyn. Clarence T. Foster is a member of several |
| 1:05.3 | Long Island country clubs and was married to a young New York woman a few months ago. Neither Mr. Foster nor Miss Lawrence has been seen by near relatives since last Monday evening. |
| 1:18.6 | Mr. Foster drove that evening to the Ocean View Hotel at West Tiana, where the young woman was stopping with her parents. Mr. Foster and Miss Lawrence |
| 1:30.3 | chatted pleasantly for a few minutes, and when he suggested that she go driving with him, |
| 1:36.5 | she accepted the invitation. They later appeared at the Hampton Pines Club, where they were |
| 1:43.2 | joined by Lewis Disbrow, a mutual friend. |
| 1:47.0 | The trio dined at the club, and when Miss Lawrence and Mr. Foster drove away in Mr. Foster's |
| 1:55.0 | trap, they said they would return at once to the hotel. |
| 1:59.0 | That was the last scene of the couple by the relatives. |
| 2:03.6 | The next morning a small rowboat which Miss Lawrence was accustomed to use was missing from its moorings. |
| 2:12.6 | Later it was found adrift and one of the oars was broken. |
| 2:18.6 | This gave rise to the fear that both Mr. Foster and Miss Lawrence had been drowned while rowing. |
| 2:25.7 | When further search was made, it was learned that Mr. Foster's trap in which he and Miss Lawrence had been driving was also missing. |
| 2:35.0 | John S. Lawrence, the father of Miss Lawrence, |
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