"...we should pass over all biographies of 'the good and the great,' while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows."
~Edgar Allan Poe

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

These brief news stories contain all the information we have about the premature burial--one almost has to call it "murder"--of Frances Burke in 1892. Perhaps I have an unusually suspicious nature, but is anyone else sensing something deeply sinister about the haste with which this young "heiress" was put six feet under?






There seem to have been no follow-up stories giving the results of this "investigation" into Burke's burial.  And, no, we never got an explanation of how her coffin came to be filled with water...
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  1. Mary Lindsey / Marissa ClarkeApril 17, 2013 at 5:56 AM

    Oh, my god.

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    1. UndineApril 17, 2013 at 5:58 AM

      Indeed.

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    2. AnonymousApril 17, 2013 at 7:54 PM

      It happens every other day in India.. its called GIRL INFANTICIDE.

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  2. UnknownOctober 13, 2020 at 9:34 PM

    I find it suspicious that an ill sixteen-year-old was sitting on her father’s lap, that he laughed at the idea that she might be alive, and that he was the force behind burying her.

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