Henrietta Robinson ...Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 - 329 páginas "The history of Henrietta Robinson, known as 'The Veiled Murderess,' who apparently was born in Quebec City in 1827. In 1854, she was tried and convicted in Troy, New York, of poisoning her neighbour and his sister-in-law with arsenic and she was sentenced to life imprisonment by reason of insanity. The greater portion of the text deals with her true identity, which has never been reliably established, and recounts her trial in detail."--David Ewens Books description. |
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Página 301 - And that each of the other defendants, between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock in the afternoon of the third day of December next, in the manner provided by the statute of this State, be hung by the neck until he is dead. Remove the prisoners.