In September 1890 a Frenchman called Louis Le Prince left his brother in Dijon and boarded a train to Paris, with the intention of connecting to London and then to Leeds, before finally joining his wife Lizzie and family in New York. But the weeks turned into months, and to his wife’s astonishment and dismay he never arrived or saw his family again.
Oliver-James Campbell
Was Thomas Edison guilty of murder?
When Louis Le Prince, a pioneer of motion pictures, vanished in 1890, his wife strongly suspected his rival Edison of foul play
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