Capital Punishment - Elizabeth Van Valkenburg convicted at the last session of the Fulton county, New York Circuit, of the the murder of her husband, by administering poison to him, suffered the extreme penalty of the law. The efforts made to effect a commutation or change of punishment in her case have entirely failed, and she was hung on the 24th instant.
Published: Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA Sat. Jan 31, 1846, First Edition, Page 2
Elizabeth van Valkenburgh poisoned her first husband by adding arsenic to his rum, because she was "provoked" by his drinking in bars. She then married John Van Valkenburgh, whom she murdered by placing arsenic in his tea, giving as reason that he "misused the children" and "we frequently quarrelled".
Because of her impaired mobility, the condemned poisoner was carried in her rocking chair to the gallows and stayed right in it for the whole procedure. They noosed her up sitting in the rocker, and dropped the platform to hang her as she rocked away in it.
(Source: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/11/guest-blogger-executedtoday.html)
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Poisoner
Number of victims: 2
Date of murder: 1833 / 1845
Date of arrest: January 22, 1846
Date of birth: July 1799
Victim profile: Her first husband / Her second husband John Van Valkenburgh
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Fulton, New York, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on January 24, 1846
Published: Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA Sat. Jan 31, 1846, First Edition, Page 2
Elizabeth van Valkenburgh poisoned her first husband by adding arsenic to his rum, because she was "provoked" by his drinking in bars. She then married John Van Valkenburgh, whom she murdered by placing arsenic in his tea, giving as reason that he "misused the children" and "we frequently quarrelled".
Because of her impaired mobility, the condemned poisoner was carried in her rocking chair to the gallows and stayed right in it for the whole procedure. They noosed her up sitting in the rocker, and dropped the platform to hang her as she rocked away in it.
(Source: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/11/guest-blogger-executedtoday.html)
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Poisoner
Number of victims: 2
Date of murder: 1833 / 1845
Date of arrest: January 22, 1846
Date of birth: July 1799
Victim profile: Her first husband / Her second husband John Van Valkenburgh
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Fulton, New York, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on January 24, 1846
Capital Punishment - Elizabeth Van Valkenburg convicted at the last session of the Fulton county, New York Circuit, of the the murder of her husband, by administering poison to him, suffered the extreme penalty of the law. The efforts made to effect a commutation or change of punishment in her case have entirely failed, and she was hung on the 24th instant.
Published: Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA Sat. Jan 31, 1846, First Edition, Page 2
Elizabeth van Valkenburgh poisoned her first husband by adding arsenic to his rum, because she was "provoked" by his drinking in bars. She then married John Van Valkenburgh, whom she murdered by placing arsenic in his tea, giving as reason that he "misused the children" and "we frequently quarrelled".
Because of her impaired mobility, the condemned poisoner was carried in her rocking chair to the gallows and stayed right in it for the whole procedure. They noosed her up sitting in the rocker, and dropped the platform to hang her as she rocked away in it.
(Source: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/11/guest-blogger-executedtoday.html)
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Poisoner
Number of victims: 2
Date of murder: 1833 / 1845
Date of arrest: January 22, 1846
Date of birth: July 1799
Victim profile: Her first husband / Her second husband John Van Valkenburgh
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Fulton, New York, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on January 24, 1846
Published: Sunbury American, Sunbury, PA Sat. Jan 31, 1846, First Edition, Page 2
Elizabeth van Valkenburgh poisoned her first husband by adding arsenic to his rum, because she was "provoked" by his drinking in bars. She then married John Van Valkenburgh, whom she murdered by placing arsenic in his tea, giving as reason that he "misused the children" and "we frequently quarrelled".
Because of her impaired mobility, the condemned poisoner was carried in her rocking chair to the gallows and stayed right in it for the whole procedure. They noosed her up sitting in the rocker, and dropped the platform to hang her as she rocked away in it.
(Source: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2014/11/guest-blogger-executedtoday.html)
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Poisoner
Number of victims: 2
Date of murder: 1833 / 1845
Date of arrest: January 22, 1846
Date of birth: July 1799
Victim profile: Her first husband / Her second husband John Van Valkenburgh
Method of murder: Poisoning (arsenic)
Location: Fulton, New York, USA
Status: Executed by hanging on January 24, 1846
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