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Kathy Tyree Viets Dean, North Carolina Suspected Double Black Widow - 1975

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Whiteville – Dr. Page Hudson, state chief medical examiner, said Friday he asked the State Bureau of Investigation to investigate the poisonings of two men, one a Whiteville man who died two years ago.

Results of an autopsy last week revealed William West Viets, who died on May 15, 1973, died of arsenic poisoning.

Viets’ widow. Kathy Tyree Viets Dean, 24, is now married to Robert Wrenn Dean, 30, who is being treated for arsenic poisoning at the Durham V. A. Hospital.

Hudson and Dean was married in the early part of the summer and became mysteriously ill in August. He was transferred from Moore Memorial Hospital to N. C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel, where his illness was finally diagnosed as arsenic poisoning.

Hudson said he investigated the circumstances of Viets’ death and discovered he had symptoms of arsenic poisoning before he died.

After performing an autopsy on Viets’ exhumed body, Hudson said he contacted SBI agents and Moore County law authorities.

Mrs. Dean is a nursing student in Moore County where she lives with her second husband in Southern Pines.

[“Arsenic poisonings probed,” Wilmington Morning Star (N.C.), Oct. 25, 1975, p. 13]

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FULL TEXT (Articles 2 of 2): No arrests or charges have been made in the homicide investigation of Bill Viets, who died here in 1973 of arsenic poisoning.

Columbus County police officials say, however, there is more than one suspect under consideration.

Neither SBI agents of law enforcement offices would reveal the names of the suspects stating that all evidence has not been gathered and no changes can be made.

The investigation began after Robert Dean, 30, the husband of Viets’ widow, Kathy Tyree Viets Dean, 24, was diagnosed as having been poisoned by arsenic.

Dean, of Southern Pines, is recovering in a Durham hospital where it was reported he is walking for the first time in a month.

Dean’s doctor is refusing to allows reporters to talk to Dean saying the publicity on the case has not been beneficial to his patient’s recovery. He added Dean had read about the controversy around the case in the newspapers.

Mrs. Dean is with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Tyree, in their Whiteville home. Last week, she was reported to have visited her husband in the Durham hospital.

Harold Elliott, head of the investigation has been broken down into two parts.

He said agents from the Fayetteville office of the SBI are helping Moore County officials investigate the poisoning of Dean, SBI agents from Jacksonville are helping the Columbus County police to investigate the Viets’ homicide.

“The investigation is still in progress,” Elliott said. “I really can’t say anymore.”

[David Eskeridge, “Arsenic investigation continues,” Wilmington Morning Star (N.C.), Oct. 30, 1975, p. 1]

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For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.

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“Gender” Ideology & Its Assault on Liberty Explained

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Video: “GWW at 2013 NY Libertarian Convention

The video by Karen Staughan (“GirlWritesWhat”) of a talk given on April 27, 2013, is, in my view, perhaps the finest of all general introductory presentations on the ethos and influence of “gender” ideology. It deserves to be regarded as a canonical educational aid.

In other words it is a “must see.” (“Socialism in panties” is hereby exposed!)

The talk was given at the annual NY Libertarian Party Convention, Rhinecliff Hotel, Rhinecliff, NY.

ALSO SEE: YouTube channel for GirlWritesWhat.

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“Feminism is socialism with panties.” – StefanMolyneux (quoted by Karen Staughan)

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Edna Roseberry, Child Care Provider & Sadistic Baby-Torturer - 1948

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2):  Atlanta, Ga. – A motherly-looking operator of a boarding house for babies was portrayed in criminal court today as a cruel woman who played the radio loud to drown out the screams of infants when she beat them.

A grim-faced jury heard testimony from the state’s witness that Mrs. Roseberry, 52 beat a nine-year-old senseless and left another with the outline of her open hand plainly outlined on its body.

Mrs. Pauline Burch, a neighbor, testified that she stayed at the boarding house for two weeks during which she said she saw one-year-old Charlene Stalling “beaten unmercifully” several times.

She said she called juvenile authorities after arriving at the house one night to find the Stalling child unconscious in its crib, naked and bleeding.

Mrs. Burch testified that Charlene and an older child were in the house at the time. She said she got a wet towel and was trying to wipe blood from the baby’s face when Mrs. Roseberry entered.

“I kept trying to get her to help me do something about the baby, “ Mrs. Burch testified. “But she had lost her purse and all she would say was ‘help me look for my pocketbook and leave the damn baby alone.

“There’s nothing the matter, but I had to beat it.”

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dempsey, who live nearby, testified they had seen Mrs. Rosenberry abuse children and said she always “turned the radio on real loud” before beating the babies.”

[“Cruel Treatment To Babies Is Charged,” (UP), The Tuscaloosa News (Al.), Feb. 17, 1948, p. 1]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Atlanta – Mrs. Edna Roseberry, 52-year-old operator of a boarding house for babies, was sentenced two years in prison Tuesday for beating two small children.

The plump, gray-haired woman was charged with mistreating 10-months-old Marjory Jean Gordon and one-year-old Charlene Stallings.

Mts. Pauline Burch, a neighbor, testified that Mrs. Roseberry, in a drunken condition, beat the baby girl until blood ran from her mouth. She told the court that the boarding house keeper turned up the radio to drown out the cries of the baby.

Before passing sentence, Judge John S. McClelland asked:

“Mrs. Roseberry, have you any previous record?”

“Yes, sir, for hijacking, bootleg liquor in Kansas back in 1934,” she replied. She told the court she was given from 10 to 21 years on a charge of armed robbery and served six years of this term.

“Woman Convicted of Beating Baby,” St. Petersburg Times (Fl.), Feb. 20, 1948, p. 8]

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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For more cases, see: Women Who Like to Torture

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Dolores Miller, Midwestern Lonely Hearts Predator - 1982

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3):  Columbia, Mo. – A woman who reportedly met her seventh [later reports reveal he was the tenth] husband through a lonely hearts club was charged with killing him with an insulin injection less than two months after their wedding.

Dolores Miller, 52, who police said had withdrawn more than $30,000 from bank accounts held by her husband, Erroll L. Miller, 59, pleaded innocent to first-degree murder Friday in his death and was jailed in lieu of $150,000 bond.

Police said they had information that the suspect had been married at least six previous times in other states – including Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and south Carolina – and that at least two of her husbands had died.

Miller, who had been hospitalized for a brain tumor but suffered a sudden deteriorization and lapsed into unconsciousness 10 days ago, died Wednesday and Mrs. Miller was arrested late Thursday.

Found in her car and in a room  she had rented in a boarding house were $2,500 cash, some controlled pharmaceuticals and a pistol reportedly stolen in Mississippi.

Police Lt. Tom Hudson said Mrs. Miller told officers that she had “injected her husband while he was asleep with an excessive amount of insulin.”

Augusta Thompson, a woman who lived in the same rooming house and met Mrs. Miller foir the first time late Wednesday, told police the suspect talked of her husband’s death “as if she was having pot roast for dinner.”

The former Dolores Phullips and Miller reportedly met through “Love Unlimited Matching and Dating Service,” wed Jan. 21 in Vienna, Mo., and began living in Miller’s home in Dixon.

Two weeks later, Feb. 3, Miller was admitted to Truman Veteran’s Hospital in Columbia for removal of a brain tumor.

He recovered enough by March 3 to be taken from intensive care and placed in a private room. Later that day, police said, his deteriorated and he lost consciousness and never gained it before he died.

Tests taken that day showed abnormally low blood sugar.

[“Lonely Hearts Spouse Charged With Murder,” (UPI), Youngstown Vindicator (Oh.), Mar. 13, 1982, p. 3]

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EXCERPT (Article 2 of 3): Mrs. Miller, a licensed practical nurse, was arrested at a rooming house. Police found newspapers with ads placed by elderly men seeking companionship circled in red ink, leading them to believe she was “planning to set up operations in the Columbia area,” [Sgt. Dale] Richardson said.

[“’Black widow’ admits killing ‘lonely hearts,’” (AP), Williamson Daily News (W. WA.), Mar. 12, 1982, p. 3]

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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Union, Mo. – A licensed practical nurse found guilty of murdering her husband by injecting him with insulin as he recovered from brain surgery faces life in prison without parole for 50 years.

Circuit Judge Lawrence Davis read the verdict Thursday against 53-year-old Dolores Miller. Her attorney, Patrick Eng, said he would appeal the decision.

Authorities said the Millers met through a computer dating service and were married in January 1981 at Dixon, the dead man’s hometown. Miller was her 10th husband.

“Right now, I just feel like the bottom has dropped out of my world,” Mrs. Miller told reporters. “But I feel there’s a miracle somewhere.”

“I’ll be all right,” she told a friend who stood by sobbing.

Mrs. Miller will be held at the Franklin County jail in lieu of $100,000 bond pending sentencing Feb. 15. she faces the life term for capital murder because the prosecutor did not seek the death penalty.

During the trial, Boone County Prosecutor Joe Mosely told the jury that it should believe a statement signed by Mrs. Miller that detailed how she injected 100 units of insulin into her husband, Erroll “Roy” Miller, 67. miller was recovering from brain surgery at a Columbia hospital.

[“Licensed nurse found guilty in death of 10thhusband,” The Gasdsen times (Al.), Jan. 14, 1983, p. 2]

America’s First Female Serial Killer? – No! Not By a Long Shot

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Ever since her arrest in 1986, Aileen Wuornos has been feminism’s favorite serial killer. Under the influence of feminist “helpers,” Aileen’s ever-changing story came to match the standardized feminist narrative. Wuornos, as she embellished her story eventually added a claim that all of the eight men she murdered had in fact been men who had attempted to rape her and that she needed to shoot them all the protect herself. Thus, ignoring the huge number of female serial killers in the United States who preceded her (at least 49 in the 19th century alone), she was dubbed “America’s “first female serial killer.” It was a lie, but few journalists cared. They repeated the falsehood cheerfully.

On June 26, 2012, about 10 years following her execution in Florida, a book was published memorializing Feminism’s most beloved serial killer – with her  own words.

The book is Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words, edited by Lisa Kester and Daphne Gottlieb.

The Huffington Post published an interview. The interviewer, Ariel Gore,regurgitated the fictional “America’s first female serial killer” claim. Here is an excerpt from that interview that offers a glimpse into the feminist version of reality:


Ariel Gore (interviewing author Daphne Gottlieb :“When I first heard news about Aileen Wuornos’ killing spree, I was a young feminist in California, hanging out with a bunch of other young feminists, and Aileen did strike a lot of us as a vigilante hero. … There was something terribly and morbidly refreshing in the news reports that: “two women are being sought as possible suspects in the shooting deaths of eight to twelve middle-aged men in Florida.”

[Source: Ariel Gore, "Autobiography of a Serial Killer:Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words," Huffington Post, Dec. 17,  2012]

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Not only was Alieen Wuornos not the first, but there were at least 49 known Female Serial Killers in 19th century America.

You can hundreds more in the Index of Female Serial Killers

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Female Serial Killers were not even regarded as “rare” in the early 20th century. In the year 1925 at least 8 cases were reported in American newspapers.  Three of them (Anna Cunningham, Della Sorenson, Martha Wise) were caught and prosecuted and were pictured and discussed in a single newspaper article. Other 1925 cases include, in the United States, Helen Geisen-Volk, and in other countries, Mrs. Dvoracek (Czechoslovakia), Dinorah Galou (suspected, France), Vera Renczi, (Yugoslavia), Antoinette Scierri (France).

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Some other False “Firsts”:

Each of the following is called, in some sources,  “America’s First Female Serial Killer”:

1820 – Lavinia Fisher – an early date, but research shows that she probably did not commit any murders. She was, however a criminal and was executed. (source for error)

1917 – Amy Archer-Gilligan (source for error)

1908 – Belle Gunness (source for error)

1921 – Lyda Southard (source for error)

1928 – Bertha Gifford (source for error)

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Female serial killers are rare.” What? ? ? ? ? ?

You have been lied to. Who has been lying to you?

Aileen Wuornos, executed in 2002, was not only not America’s first serial killer, but she was not even the first American female serial kill killer to be executed. How about Elizabeth Reed, serial killer, executed in Illinois in 1845?

Start learning some honest history of violence against women and men and girls and boysthe kind the overpriced education industry kept you from knowing – here:



In this list there are 11 female serial killers executed in the united states before the 2002 execution of Aileen Wuornos.

1845 Elizabeth ReedLawrenceville, Illinois hanged
1866 – Martha GrinderPittsburgh, Pa. – hanged
1889 Sarah Whiteling– Philadelphia, Pa.– hanged
1934 – Anna Marie Hahn– Columbus, Ohio – electric chair, Ohio Penitentiary
1936 – Mary Creighton– Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing Prison
1947 – Louise Peete– San Quentin, California – gas chamber, San Quentin State Prison
1951 – Martha Beck– Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing prison
1957 – Rhonda Belle Martin– Montgomery, Alabama – electric chair, Kilby Prison
1984 – Velma Barfield– Raleigh, North Carolina – lethal injection, Central Prison 
1998 – Judias Welty Buenoano – Starke, Florida – electrocuted
2000 – Betty Lou Beets– Huntsville, Texas – executed by lethal drugs, Huntsville Prison

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The Dirty Dozen: 12 Female Serial Killers Executed in the USA – 1945-2002

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Of the twelve American serial killers who have been executed between 1845 and 2002 only six have had their biographies published (eight if we count a rare 1866 pamphlet about Martha Grinder and the fictionalized story in the 2007 novel about Elizabeth Reed).

1)  1845 Elizabeth “Betsey” ReedHeathsville, Illinois (residence)

~ 6 suspected murders attributed to Reed:
• nephew
• Leonard Reed, husband
• 2 other persons
• 2 children

~ Executed: May 23, 1845,Lawrenceville, Illinois,hanged

2)  1866 – Martha GrinderPittsburgh, Pa.

~ 6 suspected murders attributed to Grinder:
• Mrs. Caroline Mary Carruthers (sister of Mrs. J. M. Johnston)
• Jane R. Buchanan
• Samuel Grinder (her brother-in-law)
• A little child, left to her care
• Her own child
• Mrs. J. M. Johnston (sister of Mrs. Caroline Mary Carruthers)

~ Executed: Jan. 19, 1866, Pittsburgh, Pa.,  hanged

3)  1889 Sarah Whiteling– Philadelphia, Pa.

~ 3 suspected murders attributed to Whiteling:

• John Whiteling, 38, died March 20, 1888
• Bertha Whiteling, 9, died April 25, 1888
• Willie Whiteling, 2, died May 26, 1888

~ Executed: Jun. 25, 1889, Sarah Whiteling, Philadelphia, Pa.,hanged

4)  1934 – Anna Marie Hahn– Columbus, Ohio

~ 5 suspected murders attributed to Whiteling:

• Ernst Kohler, died on May 6, 1933
• Albert Parker, 72
• Jacob Wagner, 78, died on June 3, 1937
• George Gsellman, 67, died July 6, 1937
• Georg Obendoerfer, died on August 1, 1937

~ Executed: Dec. 7, 1934, Columbus, Ohio, electric chair, Ohio Penitentiary

5)  1936 – Mary Frances Creighton– Ossining, New York

~ 4 suspected murders attributed to Creighton:

• Mrs. Anna Creighton, mother-in-law, died. Dec. 1, 1920, tied and acquitted; confessed
• Walter J. Creighton, father-in-law, 1923, not confessed
• Charles Raymond Avery, 18, brother, 1933, tried and acquitted; confessed (John C., husband as accomplice)
• Ada Applegate, died Sep. 27, 1935, confessed

~ Executed: Jul. 16, 1936, Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing Prison

6)  1947 – Louise Peete– San Quentin, California Prison

~ 4? suspected murders attributed to Peete:

• Jacob C. Denton, common-law husband, 1920; tried and convicted
• Co-worker, circa 1938
• Emily Dwight Latham
• Margaret Logan

~ Executed: Apr. 11, 1947, San Quentin, California, gas chamber, San Quentin State Prison

7)  1951 – Martha Beck– Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing prison

~ 3 murders attributed to Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez:

• Janet Fay, 66, died 1949
• Delphine Downing, 22, died 1949
• Rainelle Downing, 2, died 1949

Raymond suspected of 1 murder before meeting Martha
Other victims likely were intended by the couple

~ Executed: Mar. 8, 1951, Ossining, New York – electric chair, Sing Sing prison

8)  1957 – Rhonda Belle Martin– Montgomery, Alabama

~ 8 suspected murders attributed to Martin (plus 1 survivor):

• George Garrett, 2nd husband, died in 1939; confessed
• Claude Carroll Martin, 4th husband, 1951; confessed
• Emogene Garrett, 3, daughter, died 1937; confessed
• Anna Carolyn Garrett, 6, daughter, died 1940; confessed
• Ellyn Elizabeth Garrett, 11, daughter died 1943; confessed
• Mrs. Mary Frances Gibbon, mother, died 1944; confessed
• Ronald Martin, 6th husband, survived poisoning, but made paraplegic
• Judith Garrett, daughter, 1; denied murdering
• Mary Adelaide Garrett, 4; denied murdering

~ Executed: Oct. 11, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama – electric chair, Kilby Prison

9)  1984 – Velma Barfield– Raleigh, North Carolina

~ 7 murders attributed to Barfield:

• Thomas Burke, Velma’s husband, died Apr. 1969
• Jennings Barfield, Velma’s husband, died 1970
• Lillian Bullard, Velma’s mother, died 1974
• Montgomery Edwards, died 1976
• Dollie Edwards, died in 1976
• Lee's husband, John Henry, Velma’s husband, died Jun. 4, 1977
• Stuart Taylor, died Feb. 3, 1978

~ Executed: Nov. 12, 1984, Raleigh, North Carolina, lethal injection, Central Prison

10)  1998 – Judias Welty Buenoano – Starke, Florida

~ 4 murders attributed to Buenoano

• James Goodyear, husband, died 1971
• Bobby Joe Morris, common-law husband, died Jan. 1978
• Michael Goodyear, son, died 1980
• John Gentry, fiancé, survived poisoning (Nov. 1982) bombing in 1983

~ Executed: Mar. 30, 1998, Starke, Florida, electrocuted

11)  2000 – Betty Lou Beets– Huntsville, Texas

~ 2 murders attributed to Beets:

• Jimmy Don Beets, husband, Aug. 6, 1983 (date went “missing”)
• Doyle Wayne Barker, husband

~ Executed: Feb. 27, 2000, Huntsville, Texas, executed by lethal drugs, Huntsville Prison

12) Aileen Wuornos – Starke, Florida

~ 7 murders attributed to Wuornos:

• Richard Mallory, 51, died Dec. 1, 1989
• David Spears, 43, body found Jun. 1, 1990
• Charles Carskaddon,40, May 31, 1990Peter Siems,65, Jun. 1990 (body never found)
• Troy Burress, 50, Jul. 31, 1990
• Charles "Dick" Humphreys, 56, Sep. 11, 1990
• Walter Jeno Antonio, 62, Nov. 19, 1990 (body found)

~ Executed: Oct. 9, 2002, Starke, Florida – lethal injection, Florida State Prison

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Early Men’s Rights Activism

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1890s   New York Alimony Club (informal)

1911    Anti-Alimony Association, New York

1926    Liga für Menschenrechte (international), Vienna, founded by Sigurd von  Hoeberth (split into two organizations circa 1928: Aequitas (Hoeberth), Justicia (Koornblueh); journal “Self-Defense”

1927    Society of Disgruntled Alimony Payers, Chicago, founded by Mrs. Bessie Cooley

1927    Alimony Payers Protective Association, led by Robert Gilbert Ecob

1928    Fifty-Fifty League, London; manifesto “The Sex War”

1928    Tibet Men’s Rights organization (name of org. unknown), founded by Amouki

1931    National Sociological League, Dr. Alexander Dallek, executive secretary (another link)
           
1932    Alimony Club of New York County (Adolph Wodiska) (cited Jan. 9, 1932)

1932    Ohio Alimony Association, Cleveland

1933    National Divorce Reform League, Theodore Apstein (cited Feb. 14, 1933)

1935    Alimony Reform League, New York


Husband-Killing Syndicates in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1882-1889

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In the period dealt with here, “Hungary” was commonly used to refer to any region within the Austro-Hungarian Empire outside Austria proper. The husband-killing syndicates collected by The Unknown History of MISANDRY  contain cases which occurred in present-day Hungary, Romania and Romania which were reported as having taken place in “Hungary.” Some of the reports of this type of crime would refer to earlier cases noting that such organized poisoning rackets were common in the region. The following article is of particular interest in that in addition to the news report of a new case in 1899, it makes note of three earlier cases: from 1882, 1897 and 1890. Out of these four only one took place in present-day Hungary; two were in Serbia; one took place in Romania.

Below the article you will find the synopses of the four cases mentioned (taken from the comprehensive collection of “Husband-Killing Syndicates.” Such cases continued to be reported in the region up to the mid 1930s (1900, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1911, 1912, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935).

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FULL TEXT: London, July 4. – An extraordinary criminal trial has taken place in Hungary, 18 married women being charged with poisoning their husbands and children with arsenic.

Nine of them were acquitted, and the other nine were found guilty, and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

[The wholesale poisoning of husbands by their wives is a crime that of late years has been peculiar to Hungary. In August, 1882, some 25 women were convicted of poisoning their husbands at Gross Bedakerch, a woman named Theckla Popov being said to be the head of the conspiracy. In July, 1890, 10 women were tried at Mitrowitz for poisoning their husbands with arsenic. Two were acquitted and four were sentenced to death, and four to penal servitude. In July, 1897, four women were sentenced to death for poisoning husbands, and other relatives, at Buda Pesth.

[“Hungary Poisoning. – Terrible Crimes In Hungary. – Nine Women Convicted.” The Argus (Melbourne, Australia), Jul. 6, 1899, p. 5]

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Leaders: Thekla Popov, active more than two years (1880-1882), Anna Minity, Sophia Ivanovitch;
over 100 women implicated; court cases continued into at least 1889
Method: bottles of "red liquid poison" priced at 50-100 florins
Victims: over 100

Leader: Esther Sarac (“witch or herbalist”); 10 women arrested
Method: arsenic extracted from flypaper
Victims: 60 estimated, over a period of 10 years 

Leader: Mari Azalai Jager
Accomplices: "a band of poisoners" 3 men & 2 women (including Gulyas Kis-Samuel, male)
Method: Three poisons, belladonna, arsenic and chloride of mercury
Jul. 24, 1897, Budapest: Trial of 12 women & 2 men; 4 sentenced to death; 1 to life in prison (man who killed his mother); 1 to 6 years in prison
Victims: estimated at over 100

Leaders: George Korin, apothecary, ringleader, and Dr. Johann Mayer, village physician
Perpetrators: Maria Nikodem (murdered 2 husbands); Lisa Triku (murdered 4 husbands)
Method: arsenic
Victims: 14

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A note on names: It should be note that names of persons and places from there regions are spelled in numerous different ways since a great many ethnicities resided these and used a great variety of languages. For example, Serbian was spoken in Serbia, but German was the official language of the ruling empire while the following other languages being spoken there include Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak, Rusyn, Croatian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romani, Czech, Bosnian, Vlach, Bunjevac, Macedonian, Montenegrin.

Further, English language transliterations of these names use many different spellings for the same name and vary in their choice of which original language form as the basis for their transliteration. In short, working with English language sources is extremely messy and confusing work.

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Florence Nightingale & Her Disappointment With “Women’s Ways of Feeling”

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This item copies a post that appeared in reddit on the subreddit Red Pill, posted in June 9, 2013 by HumanSockPuppet.

Florence Nightingale [1820-1910] was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. [Wikipedia]

Nightingale in these remarks contrasts Victorian stereotypes about women’s superior capacity for sympathy to her extensive experience with those persons whom she came across and worked with  during her remarkable and famous career serving the needy.

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From reddit: I’ve been doing some reading on Florence Nightingale and I came across some fascinating commentary she made [in a letter] to a fiction writer [Madame Mohl] with regards to her misgivings about female nature.

Here are some choice quotes by Florence herself on the nature of women:

I have read half your book thro’, and am immensely charmed by it. But some things I disagree with and more I do not understand. This does not apply to the characters, but your conclusions, e.g. you say “women are more sympathetic than men”.

Now if I were to write a book out of my experience, I should begin Women have no sympathy. Yours is the tradition. Mine is the conviction of experience.

Now look at my experience of men. A statesman, past middle age, absorbed in politics for a quarter of a century, out of sympathy with me, remodels his whole life and policy - learns a science the driest, the most technical, the most difficult, that of administration, as far as it concerns the lives of men - not, as I learnt it, in the field from stirring experience, but by writing dry regulations in a London room by my sofa with me. This is what I call real sympathy.

Another (Alexander, whom I made Director-General) does very nearly the same thing. He is dead too. Clough, a poet born if ever there was one, takes to nursing administration in the same way, for me.

I only mention three whose whole lives were remodeled by sympathy for me. But I could mention very many others...

I have never found one woman who altered her life by one iota for me or my opinions.

Now just look at the degree in which women have sympathy - as far as my experience is concerned. And my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. I have lived and slept in the same bed with English Countesses and Prussian Bauerinnen. No [other woman] has ever had charge of women of the different creeds that I have had. No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me. My doctrines have taken no hold among women...and I attribute this to a want of sympathy.

It makes me mad, the Women’s Rights talk about “the want of a field” for them - when I know that I would gladly give £500 a year for a Woman Secretary. And two English Lady Superintendents have told me the same. And we can’t get one ... they don’t know the names of the Cabinet Ministers. They don’t know the offices at the Horse Guards...Now I’m sure I did not know these things. When I went to the Crimea I did not know a Colonel from a Corporal. But there are such things as Army Lists and Almanacs. Yet I never could find a woman who, out of sympathy, would consult one for my work.

I do believe I am “like a man,” as Parthe says. But how? In having sympathy.

Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so...They cannot state a fact accurately to another, nor can that other attend to it accurately enough for it to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?

I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from his own experience.”

Full Google doc text available here. The quoted section begins at the bottom of page 13. [Sir Edward Tyas Cook,The Life of Florence Nightingale: in Two Volumes, Vol. II, 1862-1910, MacMillan, 1914]

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The Red Pill subreddit, submitted June 9, 2013, by HumanSockPuppet

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This post resulted from a suggestion by A Voice for Men editor TyphonBlue.

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Barbara Wilkinson, Australian Serial Baby-Killer Mom - 1969

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TEMPORARY POST:  Barbara Wilkinson, 29, formerly of Central Mangrove, was charged with murdering six of her newborns at Wahroonga between 1961 and 1968. Her husband was unaware. She confessed to police and showed them the shallow graves of three, according to Detective-Sergeant William Thomas Holmes, of Gosford.

The following sources will be available online shortly. At the moment they appear only in fragments on Trove.com – “Six Dead Babies - Mother said to have confessed,” The Canberra Times, Apr. 30, 1969, p. 3; “Infanticide charge laid,”The Canberra Times, Apr. 30, 1969, p. 3.

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For more cases of this type, see Serial Baby-Killer Moms.

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Occult Female Serial Killers

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1679 – Marie Bosse– Paris, France– Magic
1679 – Catherine DeshayesParis, France– Magic
1679 – LavigoreauxParis, France– Magic
1883 – “Kakoorgachi Serial Murderess”– Calcutta, India – Hindu superstition
1885 – Rachel Ostrovoskafa– Odessa, Ukraine – Child sacrifice cult
1910 – Esetis Liberis– Barahona, Haiti – Voodoo
1911 – Clementine Barnabet– Lafayettem, Louisiana Voodoo-related cult
1912 – Louisa Lindloff– Chicago, Illinois – Seeress
1912 Enriqueta Martí– Barcelona, Spain – Magic
1912 –Frieda Trost– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Spiritualism
1924 – Anastasia Permiakova– Perm, Russia – Gipsy clairvoyant
1928 – Mme. Tamara– Athens, Greece – Human sacrifice cult
1932 – Anna Allas, Mary Chalfa & Gizella Young– Munhall, Pennsylvania – Witchcraft
1935 – Julianna Nagy– Debreczen, Hungary – Fortune teller
1939 – Philadelphia “Arsenic Incorporated”– Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Voodoo
1950 – Mariam Soulakiotis– Keratea, Greece – Calendrist sect
1958 – Anjette Donovan Lyles– Macon, Georgia Voodoo
1963 – Magdalena Solis– Villagran, Mexico – Bogus human sacrifice cult
1983 – Suzan Barnes Carson– San Francisco, California – Idiosyncratic pseudo-Muslim cult
1985 – Shannon Rivera – Houston, Texas–Satanic cult
1986 – Melissa Norris – Gaithersberg, Maryland – Exorcism
1989 – Sara Maria Aldrete Villareal– Mexico City, Mexico– Human sacrifice cult
1989 – Geraldine Parrish – Baltimore, Maryland – Voodoo
1995 – Filita Mashilipa– Zaire – Witchcraft, cannibalistic human sacrifice
1995 Sachiko EtoSukagawa, Japan – Cult exorcism
2000 – Priscilla Souza Ferreira Victoria da Conquista, Brazil– Sorcery, child sacrifice
2000 – Dawn Godman – Martinez, California– Children of Thunder cult
2000 – Credonia Mwerinde– Kunungu, Uganda – Cult leader
2001 – Jummai Hassan– Maiduguri, Nigeria– Witchcraft, human sacrifice
2002 – Josephine Gray– Baltimore, Maryland – Voodoo
2003 – Valentine de Andrade – Altamina, Brazil – Superior Universal Alignment (UFO cult)
2004 – “Anambra, Nigeria Cult” – Anambra, Nigeria – human sacrifice cult
2012 – Silvia Meraz– Nacozari, Mexico– Human sacrifice cult
2012 – Isabel Cristina Pires da Silviera & Bruna Oliveira da Silviera– Garanhuns, Brazil– Cannibalistic depopulation cult

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Woman Tries To Stab A Policeman With A Hat Pin: Kitty O’Neill - 1896

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Government schools teach our children that females are by nature  not aggressive and that they never initiate violence (and when they do, females are excused under ” so-called “diagnoses of supposed “mental illness.”) These schools are practicing intellectual fraud.

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FULL TEXT: Policeman Hunt’s grip upon her wrist prevented Kitty O’Neill yesterday in Jefferson Market Court from jamming a long. Steel hairpin into the neck of Policeman Benning.

Kitty, who gives her address as No. 345 West Sixteenth street, was found in West Thirty-second street Monday night very drunk. Benning attempted to arrest her, and there was trouble. She is a large woman and attacked Benning viciously, tore his uniform, scratched his face, bit his hands, and it required the aid of two other policemen to take her to the station.

She wore few clothes when arraigned yesterday. Magistrate Crane fined her $5. She had no money, and was being led away when she whipped out a hairpin and, running back to the bridge, struck at Benning’s neck.

She was carried to a cell swearing in a horrible manner.

[“Woman Tries To Stab A Policeman With A Hat Pin.” The World (New York, N.Y.), Sep. 23, 1896, p. 8]

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Lottie Woodside Attacks 3-Year-Old Boy With Hatchet & Saw - 1946

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FULL TEXT: Mineola, N. Y., Nov. 14 – A 51-year-old mother was charged by police today with luring a three-year-old boy neighbor in her cellar and madly attacking him with a hatchet and a saw because “the kid got my goat.”

The boy, Frank Pubins, jr., his skull fractured, his body hacked and his left leg and left wrist partly sawed through, is near death in a hospital.

Mrs. Lottie Woodside, the woman, was charged with first degree assault, Nassau county District Attorney Frank Gullata said yesterday in making public details of the attack which allegedly took place Tuesday. The cases was not made known until the woman was booked.

He said Mrs. Woodside, mother of a nine-year-old boy, had been under treatment for several years for a mental ailment.

Gullatta told his story:

Mrs. Woodside took the boy to the cellar, promising to show him the playroom there. She then fractured his skull and hacked his body with the hatchet, and started to dismember him.


She left the boy unconscious in the cellar, where her son, Robert, found him shortly afterwards. Robert, afraid to talk to his mother, told his father, Charles, who drove the boy to the hospital.

Police found a bloody hatchet Tuesday night. After an operation on the boy’s brain yesterday, doctors took off emergency body bandages and found saw marks. Returning to the cellkar, police found a saw.

Gullatta said Mrs. Woodside wrote a note to her husband.

“I couldn’t stand it any more – the kid got my goat,” Gullatta quoted the note, adding it said she was sorry she had to leave him and their children, and said “good-bye.”

Gullatta traced the trouble back three years when a brother of Frank left a coat and a hat in the Woodside’s front yard. Mrs. Woodside buried the clothing under rubbish in her rear yard. Taken to court, she received a warning, Gullatta said.

[“Neighborhood Tragedy – Woman Attacks Child With Hatchet And Saw,” Miami Daily News (Fl.),  Nov. 14, 1946, p. 21-A]

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For more Violence by Women cases involving axes and hatchets, see: Give ‘Em the Axe

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For more cases, see: Women Who Like to Torture

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The Murder of Cecilia Reil: Violence by Women Against Women in Philadelphia - 1951

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The patriarchy works in mysterious ways.

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Philadelphia , Sep. 14 – Fifteen-year-old Cecilia Reil was stabbed to death on a mid-city street today by one of three smartly dressed women who fled in a taxicab.

Miss Reil, a high school sophomore, was stabbed at least six times in the chest and back as she chatted with Paul Schmal, 22, a senior and friend.

~ Dope Addict Suspected. ~

Safety director Samuel H. Rosenberg ordered police to hunt for questioning a 23-year-old woman arrested several times on charges of being a dope addict.

Police quoted Schmal, a bus boy at a hotel as giving this account  of the fatal attack:

Cecilia was sitting on the front steps outside the house where she lived in a third-floor apartment. Schmal came along and talked with her a while and then the two walked up the street, stopping under the canopy of a hotel. Another girl – friend of Cecilia – met them but Schmal didn’t hear her name.

As they talked, three women came along and the two girls. They passed, but shortly after turned and came back and pounced on Cecilia. One of the assailant’s companions said:

“That girl (Cecilia) called this girl (pointing at the killer) a bum.”

“No, she didn’t,” Schmal contradicted. “I was right here and she didn’t say a thing.”

After the attack the slayer, followed by her two companions, earn to the corner and entered a cab. Schmal tried to stop the cab but he was unsuccessful.

In Pennsylvania Hospital Cecilia’s mother, a waitress at a nearby tap room, arrived shortly before the girl died. Cecilia regained consciousness to say:

“Oh, mother, mother, kiss me! I didn’t know these girls. Why did this have to happen?”

[Woman Stabs Girl to Death on Street – 3 Smartly Gowned Attackers Sought in Philadelphia,” (AP), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pa.), Sep. 15, 1951, p. 2]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Philadelphia – A 15-year-old girl talking with a friend on the doorstep of her home early yesterday, was attacked and stabbed to death by a young woman in a black dress whom she did not know, Detective Sgt. Robert Wentz reported.

The victim, Cecilia Reil, was knifed six times in the chest and back. Her attacker fled in a taxi cab with two girl companions.

Wentz said Paul Schmal, 22, a hotel bus boy who was chatting with Miss Reil when she was attacked, gave this account of the slaying:

Schmal was talking to Cecilia and another girl, who was not  otherwise identified, when three young women approached. All wore dressy clothing as though they had been at a dance or a party.

Suddenly, the shortest of the three woman rushed toward Cecilia.

Then, Schmal said, he saw “something flash,” in the glare of the street lights. To Schmal “it looked like she was plunging it again into Cecilia.”

The girl died within an hour.

[“’Mystery’ Woman Slays Girl, 16,” (AP), St. Petersburg Times (Pa.), Sep. 15, 1951, p. 2]

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Florence Langley, Predatory War Bride Scam Artist – England, 1916

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FULL TEXT: London, June 16 – A strange story of an alleged bigamous marriage to an Australian soldier led to the  appearance in the dock at Westminster yesterday of Florence Langley, 22, and her mother, Florence Sheldon, residing at Acton, the latter being charged with aiding and abetting her daughter in deception.

Mr. Rowe, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said a soldier’s separation allowance was the apparent inducement to the younger prisoner to commit bigamy. The mother was present at her marriage with George Langley, a fruiterer of Richmond, in 1911, and Mrs. Sheldon knew that he was alive when she signed the register as a witness of the second marriage, last December, to Wm. Francis Smith, a private in the Australian Imperial Forces.

Langley gave evidence that the younger prisoner left him a few months after marriage, and the “second husband,” Smith, deposed that he made the girl’s acquaintance last October, she representing herself as Jennie Anderson, and single. He made her an allotment of his pay to the extent of 4 s [shillings] a day, and her mother signed the register at their wedding. After the marriage ceremony “his wife” told him that she had no love for him, and she could not keep true to him. She left him last month, and from what he heard he informed the police.

Detective-sergeant Gooding said the mother on arrest stated that her daughter declared to her that she was “a free woman.” “I thought the pair would go to Australia and make a new start,” was also a statement of the elder defendant.

Mr. Horace Smith committed both prisoners for trial.

[“Singular Bigamy Case.” Feilding Star (New Zealand), Jul, 28, 1916, p. 4]

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For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"

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Ekaterini Dimetrea, Greek Female Serial Killer - 1962

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FULL TEXT: Nauplion, Greece – A Greek woman has been sentenced to death four times for murdering her aged mother, her brother and two other close relatives.

The prosecutor in this Peloponnesian town alleged that the woman, Ekaterini Dimetrea, intended to poison the entire village.”

“She hated everybody,” one witness said.

The announcement of the four death sentences – one for each victim – was greeted in the criminal court here with shouts of “bravo.”

No one testified in defense of the 40-year-old “monster,” as the prosecution called her.

From May to September last year [1962], she poisoned her 80-year-old widowed mother, brother, aunt and five-year-old nephew.

In addition to the quadruple death sentence, she was given the 15-year sentence for attempting to poison a four-year-old girl.

The court listened in stunned silence as the murderess told how she poisoned her victims with an insecticide which she had put in their food and coffee.

Ekaterini said she had tried to poison her brother once before, but did not us enough to kill him. So she trued again and succeeded, just 10 days after he returned home from the hospital.

She told the court that her mother died after she had eaten food she had prepared for her brother. Her aunt drank the coffee she had also prepared for her brother.

The murderess, dressed in black and her head shrouded in her shawl, looked indifferent as the verdict was announced.

[“Greek Poisoner of Four Gets 4 Death Sentences,” syndicated (Reuters), The Washington Post (D.C.), Jul. 4, 1963, p. A14]

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Margaret Waldegrave, International Female Serial Killer (USA & Cuba ) - 1852

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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.

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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).

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Lillian Thorman, Teenage Serial Killer of Children - 1906

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FULL TEXT: York, Pa., Feb. 22 – Lillian B. Thorman, a thirteen-year-old girl, today fatally burned the three-year-old child of Robert Dorsey of this city.

The girl, who was employed to do light work around the house literally fried the child was writhing and screaming in its agony an aunt entered the room and rescued it, but the child had been roasted from head to foot and cannot live.

The servant girl in jail tonight confessed that she had fatally burned three other children in a similar manner, giving their parents the impression that they had fallen on the stove accidentally while climbing to reach something.

[“Fire Used To Kill. - Girls Says She Killed Three Children by Placing Them on the Stove.” Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Oh.), Feb. 23, 1906, p. 1]

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For similar cases see: Baby-Sitter Serial Killers

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Female Serial Killers – COLLECTIONS

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Madge Clayton, Australian Child Care Provider Starved 6 Babies to Death - 1908

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FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Melbourne, Wednesday. – An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances of the deaths of five boarded-out babies. On January 17 12 babies were removed from a house of Nurse Clayton’s, at Preston, to the depot for neglected children at RoyalPark, and five of them died there. Their ages ranged from six weeks to six months. The cause of death in each case was colic, accelerated by intense heat. One infant, aged five months, weighed only 5 lb; another, seven weeks old, 5¼ lb; and a third, six weeks old, 6 lb.

Madeline Murray, inspector under the Infant Life Protection Act, deposed that on January 13 she visited Nurse Clayton’s home, which was a six-roomed dwelling. In one good-sized room she found six babies. There were others in another room, and one was outside. Most of the children were suffering from dysentery, and were so dirty that she was affected for a couple of days. The children were in boxes and in makeshift beds. The bed-clothing was ragged and dirty. The place was not too small if properly aired.

Dr. James J. Sheahan said that when the children wore admitted at the RoyalParkdepot on January 17 they were in an extremely emaciated condition, and looked as it they had been starved.

Constable McCormlck gave evidence as to Mrs. Clayton’s residence at Whittlesea as a registered nurse. Before she removed to Preston in December last, he considered her an excellent nurse. She had as many as nine children there, and had the assistance of two girls. Everything was clean.

Agnes L. Taylor, a married woman, stated that she visited Mrs. Clayton at different times. She was there when Miss Murray called, and did not notice any bad smell. The children were thoroughly looked after. The inquest was adjourned till Saturday.

[“Alleged Baby FarmingShocking Evidence.” The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Jan. 30, 1908,. P. 7]

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FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3): Melbourne, Monday. 8 – Further remarkable evidence was given on Saturday at the adjourned inquest regarding the deaths of the five infants who were among the 12 boarded out to Mrs. Madge Clayton, a registered nurse, residing at Preston.

John L. Davies, the acting secretary of the Neglected Children’s Department, said that on January 7 he instructed the lady inspector (Miss Murray) to visit Nurse Clayton’s house.

The Coroner: Is this portion of her report to you? “Jack Smith, 14 months old. Nurse J informed me he was three month», very small , and thin, and badly needs medical care and - nursing. This child’s legs were tied together with a piece of rag at the ankles to keep him from kicking and disturbing the other babies in the same cot or box. There were four babies in this structure of 4 ft long, which was bad smelling and dirty.”

 Witness: Yes. Lena Davies, a general servant, said aha went to work for Nurse Clayton on October, last, and remained until January 11.

The Coroner: How were the children fed? —One of the bottles out of which the children were fed was a pickle bottle.

Did the children ever cry? —Yes.

What was done to them? They were put on the floor and given a good smacking until they stopped.

Marian Lane, a domestic servant, said she was at Nurse Clayton’s when she removed? from Whittlesea to Preston on Christmas Eve. During the seven weeks witness was there Nurse Clayton kept the children nice and clean.

The Coroner: How were the children removed? – In the train, some were put in hat racks, and others on seats and on the floor.

Did you see any of the children with their legs tied? – Yes; and one had its arms tied to prevent it taking a teat out of its mouth.

After being warned by the Coroner, Mrs. Clayton said she did not wish to say anything or give evidence.

The Coroner said, “This is an inquest, the like of which has never occurred before, and I hope will never occur again. It is a good  thing that the children were discovered when they were, and it is a pity that they were not discovered before. The constable at Whittlesea, whose duty it was to visit the nurse, should have known that 12 children were far too many for one nurse, even with the assistance of two girls to look after them. I do not think he is free from censure for not reporting the number of children the nurse had. There is not sufficient evidence to warrant the nurse being committed for manslaughter, but she certainly should not be allowed the care of any more children; and it is possible to punish her for her cruelty, to them it should be done. I return a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, with a rider that the children were not properly treated by the nurse.”

~ ANOTHER CHILD DIES ~

Melbourne, Tuesday.—Yet another of the 12 infants who were entrusted to the care of Nurse Clayton of Preston, has died from colitis. As the child had been under the care of the doctor since January 17 the coroner has decided not to hold an inquest.

[“Alleged Baby Farming Case. – Further Shocking Evidence – Strong Remarks By The Coroner.” The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Feb. 4, 1908, p. 5]

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FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Melbourne, Friday. – Nurse Clayton, of Preston, who had control of six infants, all of whom died, was charged at the police court to-day for failing to provide adequate nursing in the case of two of the infants, and was fined £1 on each of the two charges with costs.

[“Control Of Infants. A Nurse Charged. – Failing to Provide Adequate Nursing.” The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW, Australia), Feb. 29, 1908, p. 8]

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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.

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