The irony of the case was how Mr. Wright was murdered and the incentive behind it. Before his murder, Mr. Wright strangled his wife's pet canary; This, added to years of unhappiness and possible abuse, set Mrs. Wright off. After his cock was strangled, Mrs. Wright killed her husband by strangling him in his sleep. The rope means that Mrs. Wright's death was the only happiness that threw her over the edge, because there was a gun in the house. The irony of the evidence was about who found it and solved the case. Because of the separate spheres doctrine, men were tasked with finding evidence because they were in the public sphere of politics. The women were only there to procure items for Mrs. Wright from the private sphere of her home. However, it was the women who found the evidence, not the