Life and Confession of Ann Walters, the Female Murderess!!: Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, at Haverhill, N. H., May 23, 1849. To Which Is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle, Who Was Executed for Murder.Anonymous
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Life and Confession of Ann Walters, the Female Murderess!!: Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley, at Haverhill, N. H., May 23, 1849. To Which Is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle, Who Was Executed for Murder.
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Dudley, Enos G., -1849; Runkle, Mary; Walters, Ann Smith, 1812-1844
I was born a short distance from Montreal, in the year 1812 but when
I was very young, my parents removed from that place to a village in
the vicinity of Quebec, where I lived until my father was hung for
the murder of Paine. I then lived with my mother until I was sixteen
years of age, when I was married to Mr. Walters, and settled near the
neighborhood of my late residence, in the lower part of Delaware.--When
I had been married about three years, my husband’s health began to
decline, and to free myself from the trials incident to a protracted
illness, I gave him a dose of poison. I administered it through my
negro cook. I strangled to death my first and only offspring when
three days old, which was the only son nature ever furnished me
with. Afterwards, in the fall of eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
I shot a traveller who stopped for dinner on his way from Richmond,
Virginia, to New York. We robbed him of eight hundred dollars.--His
horse we afterwards sold in Baltimore for two hundred dollars. In the
beginning of February following, I and my comrades followed two slave
traders, stationed ourselves and fired upon them, and killed one of
them instantly, of which no account was ever heard. I burned to death
a negro child eighteen months old, soon after. In eighteen hundred
and forty, with my own hands I killed Isac Smith of Baltimore, on his
way home. About two months afterwards, I was accessory to the murder
of a slave trader from Wilmington, Del. on his way to Norfolk, Va. We
robbed him of four thousand dollars and a gold watch. Soon afterwards I
killed a negro boy twelve years old, whom I owned as mistress. Last of
all, we murdered Morse, the Quaker, after he had boarded three days at
the house. I am guilty of ten murders with my own hands, and accessory
to a great many others. I can confess no more. For I do not expect
forgiveness, and feel already the pains of hell.
She was seized with another fit of despair, crying out that she felt
the wrath of God punishing her. Thus she went on until she sunk back on
her pillow exhausted, and her immortal spirit winged its way to appear
before the bar of its Judge, there to answer for the dreadful deeds
committed in the body. Her death was truly heart-rending and awful,
and should serve as a warning to all those who read this account to
be prepared to meet their eternal Judge, to render such an account of
their past lives as shall be acceptable in his sight. She breathed her
last on the 25th of September, four days after trial, thus terminating
the cruel and unhappy lives of father son and daughter.
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