FULL
TEXT: The township of Lafayette, Sussex County, New Jersey, is considerably excited
at the present time over some revelations made by a woman named White, just
previous to her dissolution, which took place last Saturday. The particulars of
her confession are horrible in the extreme, and would indicate that the
ferocious spirit of Lucretia Borgia has found another shocking parallel in
these latter days. Our correspondent writes us that the woman White, who was a
widow, fell a victim to consumption. Being a member of the Methodist Church,
she sent for her fellow-members to attend her in her dying hours, and stated to
them that about seven years ago she poisoned her infant child, so that it died.
A year or so after, she administered poison to her husband’s father, and he
died too. Later still, on the return of her husband from the army, she dealt to
him also a fatal potion, and he too passed into the spirit land. The miserable
woman has borne a good character, as also her relatives. They are poor people.
The only reason assigned for making this dying declaration is that she desired
to rid her conscience of this immense load of crime prior to her death.
[“Death-Bed
Confession Of A Murderess She Poisons Her Husband, Child And Father-In-Law.”
(from the Newark Journal), The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, S. C.), Jan. 1, 1869,
p. 2]
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►Three other deathbed
confessions:
1873 – Mrs. York – USA, Moeaqua, Il.
1883
– Emma Stillwell – USA, Waterford, Oh
1904
– Catherine Miller – Frederickburg, Pa.
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