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Gertrude Taylor, a 13-Year-Old Murderess – Missouri, 1896
Note: This is a very well-documented case. There are numerous long articles giving minute details of the trial.St. Joseph, Mo., Mar. 20. – Gertrude Taylor, a 13-year-old girl of Craig Mo., yesterday...
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Lizzie Daniels, 14-Year-Old Murderess, Pennsylvania, 1894
FULL TEXT: Scottsdale, Pa., Aug. 10. – Lizzie Daniels, 14 years old, shot and instantly killed Miss Weaver, aged 16. The girls had been swinging in a grove near by, and got into a violent quarrel. When...
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Anna Isaac, 13-Year-Old Murderess – South Carolina, 1896
FULL TEXT: Columbia, S. C., Nov. 30. – Anna Isaac, 13 years old, is in Sumter jail, charged with the murder of her 12-year-old cousin, Rosa Joseph, of Wisacky, Sumter county. The girls were sleeping...
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Ada Urry, 14-Year-Old Murderess – England, 1893
FULL TEXT: The girl Ada Urry, aged 14, who was remanded on Monday on a charge of abducting a child named Emma Dawson, aged five, yesterday made a confession in Kingston Jail, her depositions being...
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Jennie Burch, 14-Year-Old Murderess – Carmel, New York, 1906
FULL TEXT: New York, Sept. 24. – A strange story of murder, prompted by an affection that could not bear separation, has been revived near Brewster, N. Y., through the confession of Jennie Burch, an...
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Virginia Hudson, 7-Year-Old Murderess – South Carolina, 1887
FULL TEXT: Granville, S. C.. July 25. – Virginia Hudson, aged seven years, a negro child, was jailed here to-day for murder. She killed a child one year old on Saturday [Jul. 23], and threw the body in...
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Mary Sowards, 12-Year-Old Murderess – Indiana, 1888
FULL TEXT: La Porte, Ind., Nov. 13 – Mary Sowards, aged 12, has been held to the grand jury on a charge of poisoning her father. Two children of the family were rendered dangerously ill at the same...
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Sadie McMullen, 17-Year-Old Murderess – Akron, New York, 1890
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Buffalo, November 22. – Pretty, rosy-cheeked Sadie McMullen is in jail in this city, and will soon be tried on the charge of causing the sensational death of little Nellie...
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Mary Stewart, 16-Year-Old Murderess, Pennsylvania, 1890
FULL TEXT: Pittsburg, April 21. – Mary Stewart, a girl 16 years of age, is under arrest at McKeesport, on a charge of poisoning her mother, two sisters and a 4-year-old brother, James, from the effects...
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Axey Cherry, 12-Year-Old Murderess – South Carolina, 1887
FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): A dispatch from Charleston, S. C. says: At Barnwell, Judge Hudson sentenced Axey Cherry, a colored girl twelve years old, to be hanged on the third Friday in September for...
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Agnes Criddle, 14-Year-Old Who Poisoned Three Persons – Pennsylvania, 1880
FULL TEXT: Philadelphia, August 18. – Agnes Criddle, aged fourteen, a servant in the employ of John C. Macy, a provision dealer, was arrested last night upon the charge of poisoning Mrs. Macy and two...
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Annie Banks, 14-Year-Old Mass Poisoner - West Virginia, 1890
FULL TEXT: Clarksburg, W. Va., Jan. 21 – The colored girl, Annie Banks, indicted for poisoning the Bond family in December with rough on rats, pleaded guilty in court to-day, and was sentenced to three...
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Lizzie Cook, 6-Year-Old-Murderess, Alabama, 1899
FULL TEXT: Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 27. – Mrs. Lou Cook, who resides near Tuscaloosa, left home Saturday afternoon to go to the village store. She left a 2-year-old boy in charge of her 6-year-old...
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Okato Take, 15-Year-Old Murderess & Would-be Serial Killer – Japan, 1904
Okato Take (15) planned to murder four children but failed in two attempts, succeeding in only one.***FULL TEXT: Startling facts in regard to Japanese war superstitions are given in a letter from J....
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Youthful Borgias: Girls Who Murder – The Forgotten “Lizzie Bordens”
“Youthful Borgia,”“Young Borgia” were common terms used in the nineteenth century to describe girls who committed or attempted to commit murder.The vast majority of the cases listed here have failed to...
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Hattie Record, 9-Year-Old Murderess – Mississippi, 1896
FULL TEXT: Jackson, Miss., Sept. 9 – The youngest and smallest convict ever received at Jackson is Hattie Record, a Holly Springs negress, 9 years of age, who arrived at the penitentiary Monday. She...
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Annie Bebles, 9-Year-Old Murderess – North Carolina, 1884
FULL TEXT: Lumberton, N. C., June 26. – A 9-year-old girl named Annie Bebies murdered her 5-year-old sister at Tarheel, in Bladen County, to-night. After beating her victim to death with a stick, the...
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Nellie Kinsley, Thirteen-Year-Old Woule-Be Murderess, Corning, New York, 1903
FULL TEXT: Corning, N. Y., Jan. 26. – Thirteen-year-old Nellie Kinsley has confessed that a mysterious illness from which her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac B. Kinsley, have been suffering is due to...
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Mary Owens, 11-Year-Old Murderess – Ohio, 1899
FULL TEXT: Mortonville, O., Nov. 1. – Mary Owens, 11 years old, quarreled with her playmates on the way from school and, running home, secured a musket and fired into a group of children, fatally...
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Blanche Cook, 11-Year-Old Would-Be Murderess – Maryland, 1887
FULL TEXT: Baltimore, Md., July 1. – Blanche Cook, a colored girl, about 11 years old, made two attempts Wednesday to kill the members of Albert Whalen’s family, by whom she was employed. It seems that...
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