Burdock, Mary Ann (1805–1835)

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Burdock, Mary Ann (1805–1835)

English murderer. Born 1805 in England; hanged April 1835.

While operating a rooming house in Bristol, fell in love with one of her roomers, a sailor named Charles Wade, who did not have money to marry her; to solve the problem, poisoned one of her boarders, Clara Smith, and stole her money; was reported to police by a suspicious relative of Smith's and sentenced to death.

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