CRIME: The Cat Woman

The little cottage was silent. Neighbor Conkrite, getting no answer to his knocking, finally pushed open the door and walked in. Cats brushed against his legs, ran like shadows through the dilapidated room, crouched and stared at him, with soundless mews. Crumpled on a bed lay their mistress, the old woman known around South Kent, Conn, as Mrs. Florence Chandler, the "cat woman." She was dead.

To Victorian England, 50 years ago, she had been better known as Florence May-brick. Convicted of poisoning her husband, she had been the principal in a...

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