Robinson, Henrietta (1816–1905)
Robinson, Henrietta (1816–1905)
American poisoner. Name variations: The Veiled Murderess. Born 1816; died May 14, 1905.
Mysterious resident of Troy, NY, told various stories as to her origins; was charged with the murders of Timothy Lanagan, grocery-store owner, and Catherine Lubee, whose beer she had laced with arsenic (May 1853); became famous in press as the Veiled Murderess for wearing heavy blue lace veils over her face throughout trial; found guilty, condemned to death, but had sentence commuted to life imprisonment; relocated from Sing Sing to Auburn Prison (1873) and finally to Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she died in her cell after 52 years of incarceration.
See also D. Wilson, Henrietta Robinson (1855).
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