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 — John Shaqi
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
Mr. B. received a letter from her immediately after her arrival,
dated June 18, in which she says, “I am here in New Bedford, but I
want to come back. * * * * * Albert is not here. _I expect to get
killed when he does come!_ I must not stay here long.”
Tirrell immediately followed her; and the first information Mr. B.
received of their doings was contained in letters from Newport, R.
I.; one from Tirrell, in which he requested to have Mrs. B.’s trunk
sent to him, signing his name to the same, and that of “Maria,”
evidently intending to make it appear that the latter was her
signature. The other letter came from Mrs. B. by the same mail,
instructing Mr. B. not to let the trunk go out of his possession at
any rate. This is the last time he heard from them until he got a
letter dated Albany, July 2, 1844, in which she says, “I am here in
Albany, and shall go to the Springs tomorrow. We stopped in New
York at the Astor House two days.” They also stopped at the
Lorillard House, from which they were ejected, owing to their
misbehavior there.
The next letter that Mr. B. received was dated Boston, July 19, in
which she requests him to bring at the United States Hotel, some
clothing and her accordeon, and adds, “call for Mr. Hale, room No.
28. Come as soon as you get this--do not say to any one that we are
here.”
Mr B. called as requested, and in the course of conversation
informed her that some friends whom they had known at Bangor
resided at South Boston; she expressing a wish to see them; he
consented to accompany her thither. On the way she informed him
that Tirrell abused her, that she was afraid of him, and was
determined to get clear from him. It would seem that Tirrell
suspected her design, for in a short time he came with a carriage
to bring her back. The husband used every effort but force to get
her to go home. The following letter is the last communication Mr
B. received from this unfortunate woman:
BOSTON, Oct. 1845.
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