Wikipedia: Hester Rebecca Nepping (baptized Amsterdam
October 9, 1774 - June 15, 1812) was a Dutch poisoner who was sentenced to guillotine
in 1812.
Nepping was born in 1774 as the only child of the master painter
Johannes Nepping and Cornelia Schram. At the age of nineteen she married the
Amsterdam tobacco retailer Jan Brummelkamp. Due to debts, they left the capital
in 1800 for Loenen, later Hilversum, where Brummelkamp again opened a tobacco
shop. After that business also failed, they moved to Hall in 1805, where they
both worked in a paper mill.
In 1808 Nepping acquired a considerable inheritance,
including a house in Wijk bij Duurstede and five thousand guilders in cash. The
couple moved to that town and Brummelkamp bought a paper dyeing shop there.
This company was also made bottles. Nepping meanwhile had an extra-marital affair
with the Wijkse city messenger Gerrit Verkerk. The inheritance ran out and the
couple took boarders: the elderly couple Beerenburg-Vinjole with a
sister-in-law. They had to be cared for for life, for three thousand guilders
at once, with an additional amount after their death.
Mrs. Beerenburg turned out not to be an easy boarder.
Nepping, together with her maid Adriana van Rijswijk, planned the murder of the
woman. Beerenburg died on August 31, 1811. On November 9, Nepping's old father
who lived with her also died, and two days later Jan Brummelkamp. The deaths
aroused suspicion, the bodies were exhumed, and the section indicated arsenic
poisoning. Nepping and Van Rijswijk were arrested, as was the lover Verkerk who
had provided the arsenic.
In January 1812, they were detained in Amsterdam, where the trial was to take place. All three suspects made (partial) confessions. The Assize Court in Amsterdam considered two of the murders proven and sentenced the three to the death penalty. From 1810 onwards, because of the annexation of the Netherlands to the First French Empire, French criminal law was applied and an appeal had to be made to the Court of Cassation in Paris. This court confirmed the verdict of the Amsterdam Court and on June 15, 1812, the verdict was executed with the aid of a guillotine on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. It was the only time that a death sentence was executed in Amsterdam in this way.
In January 1812, they were detained in Amsterdam, where the trial was to take place. All three suspects made (partial) confessions. The Assize Court in Amsterdam considered two of the murders proven and sentenced the three to the death penalty. From 1810 onwards, because of the annexation of the Netherlands to the First French Empire, French criminal law was applied and an appeal had to be made to the Court of Cassation in Paris. This court confirmed the verdict of the Amsterdam Court and on June 15, 1812, the verdict was executed with the aid of a guillotine on the Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam. It was the only time that a death sentence was executed in Amsterdam in this way.
~ Watercolor illustration of the execution ~
“The execution of Hester Rebecca Nepping and her accomplices
Adriana van Rijswijk and Gerrit Verkerk in 1812 in front of the Waag on the
Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam,” [Het guiliotine regt voor de eerste maal binnen
Amsterdam uitgeoefend aan Hester Rebekka Nepping, Adriane van Rijswijk], pen
and watercolor, by Gerrit Lamberts (1876-1850). (Nationaal Gevangenismuseum Bron
[056707282], NCRD; 27,9 × 38,7 cm)
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CHRONOLOGY
Oct. 9, 1774 – Hester Rebecca Nepping
born.
Aug. 31, 1811 – Beerenburg, boarder, dies.
Nov. 9, 1811 – Nepping's old father dies.
Nov. 11, 1811 – Jan Brummelkamp, boarder, dies.
Jun. 15, 1812 – Hester Rebecca Nepping & accomplices, Adriana
van Rijswijk and Gerrit Verkerk, executed.
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Sources, notes and / or references
Nepping, Hester Rebecca (2015), in: Digital Women's Lexicon
of the Netherlands. Consulted online, February 24, 2015.
Scratching, A. (2012); Heads roll on the Nieuwmarkt ,
www.isistory.nl.
Meddens-van Borselen, A. "The life of the poisoner
Hester Rebbecca Nepping (1774-1812)" in: Oud-Utrecht, jg. 71 (1998), No.
5, p. 124-129
Baptism book Amstelkerk and Death certificate
In her last weeks, Nepping was assigned the pastor Willem
Broes as a caretaker. He wrote in 1812 the detailed booklet about the
life, character and last religious afflictions of the infamous poisoner Hester
Rebekka Nepping, sentenced to death with her accomplices, for the murder of her
resident, and of her husband, from which, inter alia, the main well.
Execution on the Nieuwmarkt , Ons Amsterdam , June 2012.
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