The Life and Death of Mrs. Maria Bickford: A beautiful female, who was inhumanly murdered, in the moral and religious city of Boston, on the night of the 27th of October, 1845, by Albert J. Tirrell, her paramour, arrested on board the Ship Sultana, off New Orleans, December 6thClergyman of Brunswick, Me.
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The Life and Death of Mrs. Maria Bickford: A beautiful female, who was inhumanly murdered, in the moral and religious city of Boston, on the night of the 27th of October, 1845, by Albert J. Tirrell, her paramour, arrested on board the Ship Sultana, off New Orleans, December 6th
Clergyman of Brunswick, Me.
Bickford, Mary Ann, 1824-1845; Murder -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Tirrell, Albert John, 1824-1880
There was nothing found upon his person but a revolving pistol,
with every barrel loaded and capped. His trunk contained nothing at
all. On the way up he endeavored to jump overboard, but was
prevented by the officers.
Since his arrival in the city he has maintained the most gloomy
silence, scarcely answering the officers who have occasion to
address him, and passing the whole of the day in a lethargic state.
There is no little doubt, from his conduct since his arrest, that
he will snatch the very first opportunity to commit suicide, that
the officers are continually compelled to watch him, or to put him
under such restraint that it would be impossible for him to destroy
himself.--_New Orleans Picayune._
APPENDIX.
THE LATEST HISTORY OF MRS. BICKFORD AND TIRRELL.
So many and conflicting accounts of these persons, and of their
characters and deeds, have appeared in the newspapers, of late,
that there is little or no reliance to be placed upon them. We
cannot see, for the life of us, what gain or credit will accrue to
the press by the wholesale coinage of falsehood and
misrepresentation respecting these individuals. An indignant public
may yet hold them responsible for these heartless impositions on
their credulity. The following, from the Boston Post, though full
of errors, contains some particulars, additional to those stated in
the preceding pages:
Mrs. B. was born in Bath, Me., but her parents removed to Bangor
when she was quite young. At the age of fifteen she was employed in
a family as a domestic, and about this period received the
addresses of a young seafaring man, named Sandford. Her mother did
not think favorably of him, and caused the connection to be
promptly broken off. Subsequently Mary became acquainted with Mr.
Bickford, and they were married in 1839. Her maiden name was Mary
Ann Dunn. Her father has been dead several years, and her mother
now resides in Guilford, Me.
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