FULL TEXT: Suffolk, Va., April 10 – Lavinia Jones, aged 12 years, was to day committed to jail charged with a second attempt to poison F. L. Holland’s family at Elwood. At first she drugged the coffee with arsenic, from the effects of which one person died and four were made ill. Failing to kill the victim intended, she put “rough on rats” in milk, which was ejected by the first person who tasted it. Investigations pointed to the guilt of the girl, who, at a preliminary hearing today, was sent on to the grand jury. It is questioned whether Lavinia acted on her own responsibility or in the capacity of agent. She is a domestic.
[“Arrested for Attempt to Poison a Family,” The Wilmington
Messenger (N. C.), Apr. 11, 1896, p. 1]
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FULL TEXT: To-day, in the Nansemond County Court, Lavinia
Jones (colored), aged 12 years, was indicted for the poisoning of a family near
Elwood.
[“Indicted For Poisoning.” The Richmond Dispatch (Va.), May
13, 1896, p. 8]
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FULL TEXT: At Suffolk yesterday evening Lavinia Jones, aged
13 years, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for poisoning F. L.
Hollands’ family last April. She placed rough on rats in the coffee, after
drinking which one person died and five others were made violently ill. Lavinia
heard the sentence pronounced without tremor and appeared to only feebly
comprehend its purport.
[Untitled, Alexandria Gazette (Va.), Nov. 10, 1886, p. 2]
More cases: Youthful Borgias: Girls Who Commit Murder
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