Celebrating One Million Hits

Last week this website celebrated a milestone with 1,000,000 hits. Some of the searches that rolled the odometer are perennial favorites --

Caril Fugate

Martha Beck

Lizzie Borden

Alice de Janze

The Lawson Family Tragedy

Deadwood history

Comments

[Holly Bracy]

Laura,

A book about Alice called "The Temptress" has just been released, written by Paul Spicer. Ca't wait to read it.

[Foose]

Backtracking through the Alice de Janze link to the CLEWS entry on her, Madame Steinheil, Mata Hari, Madame Caillaux and Madame Bassarabo -- I found a French newspaper account of the final moments of the latter's trial.

La Bassarabo was found guilty. The jury noted extenuating circumstances (although it came out in the course of the trial that, curiously, her first husband, "a Mexican called Jacques," was found shot to death). She got 20 years' hard labor.

Apparently her daughter was implicated, and Madame Bassarabo's plea to the jury, while affirming her own innocence, was to spare her daughter:

"A woman must stay young. Punish the old woman, she has had her youth. She has lost it in work, in the performance of her duty ... She is guilty because she is old ..."

The jury agreed and acquitted the daughter.

[Camille Kimball]

Congratulations on turning over 7 zeroes! I know I happily contributed a few of them!

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[Paul Drexler]

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