FULL TEXT: Reis and Rovyet, a native Indian paper, says :— A
horrible story of a series of most diabolical murders in cold blood appears in
Prabhakar, and is reprinted in the Bharat Darpan. A prima-facie case appears to
have been made out, and the facts are under investigation by the Court of
Sessions. It appears that a public woman of Calcutta, living in Amratolla lane
has hitherto with impunity been trading on the simplicity and superstition of
women of her class, and inveighling them to their destruction.
She bethought
herself to the common device of giving out that she was the repository of
charms which had wonderful power of benefitting those who would have them. In
this case she succeeded in getting her dupes to believe that by using her
charms they would be able to enthral Circerlike their sweethearts to their
will. Her credit spread, and many unfortunate women besieged her doors. She
chose her victims, however, with shrewd discrimination from those who had
profusion of jewels on their limbs, but a meagre allowance of brains within.
It
appears she used to take these to a secluded place called Kakoorgachi, at a
distance from town, which she pretended, was her guru’s garden, and tell them
to immerse themselves in the tank for purification, antecedent to the wearing
of the charms. When they dipped their heads she violently caught hold of them
by their tresses, and by sheer force strangled them under water.
The place was
so well sequestered that no cries they might make availed to bring any relief.
In the present instance, however, some fishermen were engaged in the
neighboring pond and they were attracted to the spot by the cries, and seeing
what the matter was about, handed her ever to the police.
The police say there
had been on five different occasions corpses seen floating on the water of the
tank to which they had failed to obtain any clue, and not unnaturally were
disposed to connect her with these cases. Further particulars are promised on
the conclusion of the proceedings in the Sessions Court.
[“A Wholesale Murderess.” The Daily Telegraph (Napier,
Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand), Nov. 8, 1883, p. 6]
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For a remarkably similar case from a century later, see: K.D. Kempamma, alias “Cyanide Malllika” Female Serial Killer, India – 2007
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