TRIANGLE FIRE VERDICT’S 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Acquittal of Owners on December 27, 1911A hundred years ago today after four ballots, the jury acquitted Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of the Triangle Waist Company, of manslaughter. To convict the owners of manslaughter the jury would have had to find that the owners knew the door to the ninth-floor door was locked [...]