The story that captured nationwide interest continues to spark curiosity one hundred years later

By TIM BLYDENBURGH
Observer-Dispatch

In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt and his rambunctious six children filled the White House. The world didn't yet know the horrors of world war.

Ragtime music - no violent lyrics here - was the hit of the nation. The Chicago Cubs were on their way to 116 wins and a record season, with steroid scandals a century away.

An age of innocence?

Not if you were talking about a remote Adirondack lake one summer day, when a dashing young man smacked a tennis racket into his pregnant lover as they rowed together on a small boat - a blow that's echoed through the years to this day.

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