| London Stereoscopic Company Madame Dixblanc 1873 Carte de visite Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm LL/18889 Belgian murderess accused and convicted of killing her house master Maria Caroline Riel in 1872 in a drunken rage. She then fled to Paris where she was apprehended and brought back to Dover. She stood trial and earned a sentence of life in prison. She was paroled in 1893 to much public outcry.
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