Henry S. Gaw, a 29-year-old white man, was found dead in New York City in the days just after Christmas of 1928, inside the Guggenheim Brothers metallurgical laboratory near 202nd Street and Tenth Avenue. He worked there as a laboratory assistant and was also filling in as a night watchman, alone in a building full of chemicals and valuable materials. What first looked like a grim accident quickly hardened into something colder: poison had burned his mouth and throat, and the scene suggested he
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