The Massachusetts Borgia, Sarah Jane Robinson
[b]Date:[/b] 1881 - 1886
[b]Location:[/b] Cambridge, Massachusetts
[b]Victims:[/b] Oliver Sleeper, Moses Robinson, Lizzie Robinson, Annie Freeman, Prince Freeman, Emma Robinson, Tommy Freeman, William Robinson
[b]Cause of Death:[/b] Poisoning
[b]Accused:[/b] Sarah Jane Robinson
[quote]The Order of Pilgrim Fathers was a Massachusetts social group whose chief purpose was to provide cheap life insurance for working-class men and women. In the summer of 1886 the Order became suspicious of one of their members, Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, whose son William was on his death bed just six months after the death of her daughter Lizzie. When officers of the Order of Pilgrim Fathers expressed their concerns to the Chief of Police, they learned that Mrs. Robinson was already under investigation for the death of her nephew just a few weeks earlier. In each case the cause of death was arsenic poisoning and when the full tally of Mrs. Robinson’s poison murders was revealed, the press would dub her “The Massachusetts Borgia.”[/quote]
[url="http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/the-massachusetts-borgia.html"]http://www.murderbyg...tts-borgia.html[/url]
And a nice link to a series of historical clippings and information from the time: [url="http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarah-jane-robinson-massachusetts.html"]http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarah-jane-robinson-massachusetts.html[/url]
And a book link on the transcript of the case: [url="https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=the+massachusetts+borgia+sarah+jane+robinson&source=bl&ots=NnZXhfnbFp&sig=6Bt_J97T2r6pNmHRy3ncoOMZfmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIkdO5kNDMAhWszIMKHWldBKEQ6AEIPjAJ#v=onepage&q=the%20massachusetts%20borgia%20sarah%20jane%20robinson&f=false"]https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=the+massachusetts+borgia+sarah+jane+robinson&source=bl&ots=NnZXhfnbFp&sig=6Bt_J97T2r6pNmHRy3ncoOMZfmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIkdO5kNDMAhWszIMKHWldBKEQ6AEIPjAJ#v=onepage&q=the%20massachusetts%20borgia%20sarah%20jane%20robinson&f=false[/url]
[b]Date:[/b] 1881 - 1886
[b]Location:[/b] Cambridge, Massachusetts
[b]Victims:[/b] Oliver Sleeper, Moses Robinson, Lizzie Robinson, Annie Freeman, Prince Freeman, Emma Robinson, Tommy Freeman, William Robinson
[b]Cause of Death:[/b] Poisoning
[b]Accused:[/b] Sarah Jane Robinson
[quote]The Order of Pilgrim Fathers was a Massachusetts social group whose chief purpose was to provide cheap life insurance for working-class men and women. In the summer of 1886 the Order became suspicious of one of their members, Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, whose son William was on his death bed just six months after the death of her daughter Lizzie. When officers of the Order of Pilgrim Fathers expressed their concerns to the Chief of Police, they learned that Mrs. Robinson was already under investigation for the death of her nephew just a few weeks earlier. In each case the cause of death was arsenic poisoning and when the full tally of Mrs. Robinson’s poison murders was revealed, the press would dub her “The Massachusetts Borgia.”[/quote]
[url="http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/the-massachusetts-borgia.html"]http://www.murderbyg...tts-borgia.html[/url]
And a nice link to a series of historical clippings and information from the time: [url="http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarah-jane-robinson-massachusetts.html"]http://unknownmisandry.blogspot.com/2011/09/sarah-jane-robinson-massachusetts.html[/url]
And a book link on the transcript of the case: [url="https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=the+massachusetts+borgia+sarah+jane+robinson&source=bl&ots=NnZXhfnbFp&sig=6Bt_J97T2r6pNmHRy3ncoOMZfmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIkdO5kNDMAhWszIMKHWldBKEQ6AEIPjAJ#v=onepage&q=the%20massachusetts%20borgia%20sarah%20jane%20robinson&f=false"]https://books.google.com/books?id=5JQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=the+massachusetts+borgia+sarah+jane+robinson&source=bl&ots=NnZXhfnbFp&sig=6Bt_J97T2r6pNmHRy3ncoOMZfmg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIkdO5kNDMAhWszIMKHWldBKEQ6AEIPjAJ#v=onepage&q=the%20massachusetts%20borgia%20sarah%20jane%20robinson&f=false[/url]
