When John and Ida Harris didn’t answer their door in 1895, the visitor knew something was wrong. Cautiously they opened the door. The nightmare they saw inside would stay with them the rest of their lives. Come hear a tragic tale of the American West that your grandma didn’t want you to hear.
Sources
Cut Their Throats. The Nebraska State Journal, 1/15/1895
Sad Nebraska Suicide. Fremont Tri-Weekly Tribune, 1/17/1895
Deaths from Destitution. Omaha World-Herald, 1/15/1895
Nebraskastudies.org