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 THE MURDERER 
 
 OF 
 
 THREE-HUSBANDS. 
 
 This woman was born a few miles below 
 Quebec, about the year 1 730, during the domi- 
 nion of France over Canada. Her jiarents 
 ^ , were farmers in ordinary circums- 
 tances. During youth, she evinced no extra- 
 ordinary ill disposition, but disphiyed a very 
 decided turn of mind. She was married at an 
 early age ; her husband died sometime after, 
 in apparent Lea'th, and no suspicions were, 
 at the time, entertained tending to incriminate 
 her. A second husband met the same fate. 
 
 As in the previous instance, nothig as yet appear- 
 ed to justify or necessitate legal investij * 
 
 The third husband who left her hi? 
 ever famous in the annals of crime,^ 
 She attempted to strangle this 
 of a rope passed round his ne( 
 
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 asleep on his bed, in ji state of partial inebriety, 
 but this unfortunate man warded off this death 
 blow, for, happening to awake he freed his neck 
 from the noose of the rope, whilst his wife had 
 run outside of the house to pull at the other 
 end of the rope, which she had passed through 
 a small aperture in the lower part of the outside 
 door, in order to cause death by strangulation. 
 The poor fellow seemingly taking this as a joke, 
 passed a bolster or pillow in the rope noose 
 and held it firmly, offering at the same time, 
 a jerking resistance, as he slowly allowed it to 
 reach the door against which it was firmly held, 
 until she thought her nefarious design had been 
 accomplished. 
 
 But great was her amazement and stupefac- 
 tion, as she walked in the house, at finding her 
 husband very quietly sitting on his bed^ staring 
 at her. 
 
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 or confusion, she threw herself on her knees, 
 craving for pardon readily granted by her 
 husband. 
 
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 her hands, sometime after she struck him on 
 the forehead and temples with a hammer till 
 life ceased. In this third homicide, the marks 
 then inflicted, left her no prospect of conceal- 
 ment. IJer father acquainted with the deed, 
 lamented and asked her, in his anguish, how 
 she could save herself, when she replied : — 
 /' Father you will help me in dragging the 
 
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 body to the stable and laying it at the horses 
 
 feet, ill order to make it appear, as though 
 
 he had been trampled under the horses feet.'' 
 On executing this attempt at concealment, 
 she pierced the scull pretty deeply with a dun^< 
 fork. 
 
 Both individuals were apprehended, (Sir 
 George Murray, being at that time 1st Gover* 
 vernor of Canada after its capitulation.) 
 
 Her aged father, for her sake, had assumed 
 all the responsibility, by giving himself as th« 
 perpetrator of the crime ; but in the act of pire^ 
 paring for death, according to the Kitutl 
 of his Church, (Catholic) he avowed the truth 
 to the Ministers, who remonstrated the impro- 
 priety of the assumption and urged^him to 
 denounce his daughter. 
 
 This wretch, had with complacency, accepted 
 in xier behalf, the sacrifice of her aged father's 
 life. She was soon convicted and sentenced to 
 death. 
 
 On the eve of the execution, she publicly 
 confessed her deeds of blood, stating that she 
 had destroyed her two first husbands, by pour- 
 ing fused lead in their ears. She was executed 
 and her body enclosed in this iron cage, re- 
 mained exposed for a long time in Point Levy, 
 till by special permission of the Governor, it 
 was taken and buried as appears by public 
 records. 
 
Au lecteur elranger a la langue Anglaise. 
 
 II suffira de dire (vu que la tradition est ge- 
 neralement bien connue,) que cette femme 
 avait successivementepouse trois maris ; qu'elle 
 detruisit les deux premiers en leur coulant du 
 plomb dans I'oreille ; qu'elle tua le troisieme 
 en lui asserant des coups de marteaux sur la 
 t^te, ayant falli a 1 etrangler dans le principe ; 
 qu'elle fut executee et exposee dans cette cage 
 conformement au jugement porte contre elle 
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