BOOK TITLE: A Deeply Interesting Work. Just Published. Life, Career And Awful Death By The Garrotte, of Margaret C. Waldegrave: Otherwise Margaret C. Florence – Alias Mrs. Bellville, Mrs, Bolande, Mrs. Le Hocq, The poisoner and murderess, at Havanna, Cuba, June 9th 1852. For the Murder of Charles D. Ellias, Lorenzo Cordoval, and Pierre Dupont, April 14th, 1852, who were three Desperate Members of a Powerful and Sanguinary Band of Robbers, Counterfeiters, and Assassins, known as “The Alumni.”
DESCRIPTION: Margaret C. Waldegrave, the most remarkable
woman of this age and generation – as all who read her life will testify –
Lima, in the valley of the Genesee, of highly respectable parents, – her father
being esteemed one of the wealthiest men in Western New York. Her mother dying
at her birth, she was brought up with care, and at the age of twelve years was
sent to a seminary to finish her education. At the age of fourteen she returned
home, where she me with a cool reception from her step-mother – her father
having married again during her absence. Soon a domestic revolution drove her
from home, and she made her way to Buffalo, where she found employment in a
fashionable millinery establishment. Her marvelous beauty attracted many young
men who let slip no opportunity that offered to flatter her vanity by praising
her beauty. The result was, Margaret was beguiled of herself by the luring
smiles and siren songs of those who professed to be her friends and admirers.
Her first step in the center of crime was the murder of a little child; and
then to bide that she murdered the witness of the deed, by administering
strychnine in liquor to him. She then flew to Canada, where she joined fortunes
with a notorious gambler and swindler, who took her to Philadelphia, where she
left him and flew to New Orleans with that notorious villain, LeHocq,
perpetrating many dark and memorable deeds. From New Orleans she flew to
Havana, where she finally murdered the members of “The Alumni.” Space will not
admit of our saying much more. But full particulars are given in the book
written by herself, and edited by Rev. A. Delos Velos of Havana, which shows at
once the interest manifested in her fate.
***
Rev. A. Delos Velos, Life,
Career And Awful Death By The Garrotte, of Margaret C. Waldegrave .. New
Orleans: Published by Arthur R. Orton, 1853 (illustrated).
***
***
1133-1/10/21]
***
No comments:
Post a Comment