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1853 True Crime Murder by Rarest Poison, Conspiracy and Gallows
Trial of John Hendrickson, Jr. for the Murder of his Wife Maria, by Poisoning, at Bethlehem, Albany County, N.Y., March 6th, 1853, Tried in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, at Albany, N.Y. in June and July, 1853. Reported and Compiled by David M. Barnes, of the Mornign Express, and W.S. Hevenor, Assitant District Attorney of Albany County. ”Hendrickson, twenty years old and a wastrel, poisoned his nineteen-year-old wife in the first case of aconite poisoning in America. The murder took place in a small country house with seven others of the Hendrickson family close by, all apparently conspiring to conceal the crime. Hendrickson was convicted and hanged”. Scarce.
