[Female Poisoners:] Speech Delivered at the Court of Oyer Terminer of Bucks County, Upon the Trial of Mrs. Lucretia Chapman for the Murder of Her Husband:—February 25th 1832.

A female poisoner, a school teacher, a murderous thief


McDade 170. A knock on the door by a stranger in Andalusia, near Philadelphia. Lucretia Chapman, the wife of a Pennsylvania school teacher, becomes taken by the manners and charms of a diminutive Spaniard (the door knocker), a man claiming to be the son of the Spanish governor of California and insisting upon moving into the couple’s home. After a not-so-secret tryst, a cuckolded and then poisoned husband, a secret marriage between Lucretia and the Spaniard, and then a series of thefts and chicanery by the Spaniard, foul murder was finally outed. The wife and her new husband, Carolino Espos y Mina, were tried in separate trials. She escaped unscathed. He was convicted and executed.

This is the speech of Lucretia’s lawyer defending her innocence vigorously and beseeching the jury to not leave her children orphaned should they impose a sentence of death. Scarce. OCLC: LOC, APS, HSP, UPenn Law Library, University of Washington, Harvard. Further, Clements.


Description: [Female Poisoners:] Speech Delivered at the Court of Oyer Terminer of Bucks County, Upon the Trial of Mrs. Lucretia Chapman for the Murder of Her Husband:—February 25th 1832.

[Np., 1852.] 54pp., untrimmed. 8vo., rmvd., printed wrappers absent, stains to title-leaf and pale old stains to three to four leaves within, else very good.

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