Carlyle and Helen.

 

Carlyle Harris and Helen Potts.
(The Trial of Carlyle W. Harris for Poisoning His Wife, Helen Potts, at New York.)

Helen Potts, a nineteen-year-old student at Miss Comstock’s School in New York City, decided not to join her roommates when they went to hear a concert. Helen was feeling ill, but her boyfriend (secretly her husband), a medical student named Carlyle Harris, had prescribed a remedy. When the girls returned, Helen told them of the wonderful dreams she had been having about Carlyle. But she also complained of numbness throughout her body; before long, she could not move, and her breathing was labored. The dreams soon vanished, giving way to nightmares, revealing a world filled with deceit, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Read the full story here: The Six Capsules.