Execution Tales Chapters 13-17
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13: Alexandria James
Alexandria James, newly arrived from Cardiff Wales, stepped into the interview room & immediately Jane’s stomach began to flutter with excitement. She was a lovely 25 year old brunette with large brown eyes, delicious features, a clear complexion & a slender but shapely figure. Alexandria was dressed in her best white blouse, blue hat & jacket, black skirt, stockings & leather shoes The Welsh girl was a trained secretary with no family left back home. Jane also established that no-one had been awaiting her arrival in America. Managing to contain her growing excitement she excused herself from the interview for a couple of minutes.
Mrs Edwards went to the office she shared with her husband closed the door & leaned against it. Josiah looked up from his desk quizzically & Jane said, “I think I have our Bathsheba Spooner in the interview room”. Mr Edwards smiles delightedly “Finally, about time. Let us get to work.”. Mrs Edwards returns to the interview room & tells Alexandria. “We think that we have the perfect position for a young lady of your abilities. Can you please give me the address of the hotel you are staying at & I will collect you at 10 am tomorrow & take you to meet your new prospective employer. I would also suggest that you book out of your hotel as I know of much more suitable lodgings for you. A delighted Miss James agreed immediately
The next morning Jane, wearing a hat & veil & Alexandria, again wearing her best clothes accompanied by her luggage, set off from the Welsh girl’s former hotel in a horse drawn carriage driven by Mrs Edwards. On arrival at Mr & Mrs Edwards house Jane ushers the unsuspecting young woman into the drawing room. Josiah comes up behind her & suddenly puts a rag soaked with chloroform over her mouth & nose, Alexandria puts up a brief struggle & then collapses unconscious into Mr Edwards’s arms.
In the cellar Jane brings Alexandria round using smelling salts. The Welsh girl’s head begins to clear & she became aware that she was seated in a chair with her hands tied behind her back. She looks around her & is stunned to see a wooden beam with a roped noose hanging from it & two ladders resting against it, a small gallows, a wooden pole with an iron collar at the top & a stool at the bottom & a wooden armchair with a short pole sticking up from the back rest & leather straps hanging from the pole & the arm rests & at the bottom of the back rest. Alexandria looks at Jane & Josiah who are both standing smiling at her & mumbles “Where am I? Why have you brought me here?”
Josiah replies “My dear Miss James. Where you are doesn’t matter. All you need to know is that we intend to hang you by the neck until you are dead.” Alexandria looks at Josiah stunned. She gasps “But why?”. Jane replies “Because Alexandria we want to”. With that Josiah goes to the doomed girl lifts her out of the chair & over his shoulder. Alexandria struggles, screams & kicks futilely as Josiah walks to the ladder resting on the front of the wooden beam & starts to climb it. At the same time his wife mounts the other ladder. When they reach the top Jane slips the noose around Alexandria’s neck & Josiah carefully takes the wailing girl from his shoulders & places her on the ladder. Mr & Mrs Edwards then climb down & look up at the terrified young woman. They are both already very turned on, Josiah especially has been thoroughly stimulated by the feel of the struggling Welsh girl’s body against him.
For their first venture into murder they had decided to base the killing on the hanging of Bathsheba Spooner which Jane had first come across almost fifteen years ago in the newspaper article that had originally awakened her interest in female executions
Jane & Josiah take a minute to compose themselves & Josiah takes his first photograph of the terrified girl using his recently purchased, newly available & expensive camera.
Mr & Mrs Edwards then take hold of the ladder. They slowly begin to twist it to the side. Alexandria screams even louder when she realises what they are doing & desperately tries to keep her feet on the rungs of the ladder. The Edwards continue to turn the ladder until the despairing girl is dislodged & swings in the air supported only by the rope around her neck. Jane & Josiah look up & watch mesmerised as Alexandria begins to dance. Her threshing legs raise her skirt so high that the transfixed killers can see all the way up past her pumping stocking covered thighs, her stocking tops & the line of bare skin above them to her white underwear.
Josiah continues to take pictures of the doomed girl’s death throes
Her breasts heave as she tries to breathe, eyes bulging from a darkening face, tongue beginning to emerge from her gaping, gasping mouth. Her body shudders & shakes as she struggles on the mercilessly strangling rope. Much to the delight of Jane & Josiah Alexandria takes over ten minutes to die, due to Jane’s careful placing of the hangman’s knot in the noose at the back of her neck & the fact that she had been given virtually no drop when she was forced off the ladder
As soon as the girl swings dead on the rope after taking his last photograph Mr Edwards picks up his wife & carries her to the bed they have placed in the cellar for exactly this reason & they engage in the most frenzied & intense fucking that they have enjoyed for some months.
They then cut the body down & dispose of it in the pre-prepared section of the cellar. The already loosened floor flagstones are lifted revealing a grave which has been dug down to a depth of three feet. The Welsh girl’s remains are placed in it & the body is covered in limescale followed by soil. The flagstones are replaced.
Jane & Josiah go upstairs, sit down & carefully go through the abduction of Alexandria James, asking themselves if they have left any loose ends. As no record was kept of her original visit to the employment agency Mr & Mrs Edwards are sure that the Welsh girl has vanished without trace & no-one will be coming looking for her
14: Serial Killing is Such Fun
The next victim was a twenty four year nurse, Rose McKenna, from Dublin & like Alexandria she was very attractive. The Edwards lured Rose to their house in an identical manner as they had the Welsh girl. The model for Rose’s murder was that of Lavina Fisher, whose execution was described in the same article as Bathsheba Spooners. They even dressed poor Rose in a white wedding type dress when she was out cold similar to the one Lavinia had worn to her hanging.
As it was impractical to get a horse down into the basement, Jane & Josiah improvised by standing the terrified Irish girl on a table, noosed under the wooden beam, with her hands tied. To mimic the movement of Lavinia’s horse drawn cart they slowly pushed & pulled the table from under Rose’s feet until she was hanging free, her feet desperately searching for support to relieve the pressure of the rope around her neck.
When discussing it afterwards, once they had satiated their inflamed lusts, Mr & Mrs Edwards agreed that the Irish nurse’s vigorous performance on the gallows had been marginally more impressive than the Welsh secretary’s. Pictures of Rose’s hanging on the rope joined those of Aleaxandria in Jane’s album & her body too disappeared under the cellar flagstones
And so it continued at the rate of one murder on average every two weeks. Young women & girls of several nationalities were hanged in various ways. Some struggled on the beam in the cellar like Ella Watson, Cattle Kate, Kit Brandon, Chipita Rodriguez & Amy Spain had on ropes swinging from trees, several danced on the gallows like Anne Bilansky, Scarlett Fawcett Majors, Mrs Surrat, Marie Manning, Susan Ebeerhart, Mary Rogers, & Melinda, the English harem girl & a couple were hoisted up by their necks in the same way as Herat the Arab teenager.
Jane & Josiah managed to recreate the executions of Roxalana Druse & Bridget Durgan by putting a heavy anvil on the cart they had used in their recreation of the hanging of Lavinia Fisher, tying the loose end of the rope to it & pushing it off the wooden vehicle. The young blonde German girl they had selected for this particular method of hanging had struggled most beautifully providing Mr & Edwards with most stimulating views up her grey skirt as she danced just below the wooden beam in the cellar
Taking their cue from the Arabian executions they had seen Jane & Josiah garrotted young female immigrants from Spain or Latin America either by slowly throttling them in the garrotting chair like Selena, the Spanish harem girl, or on the strangling stool in the same manner as Conchita Esetfan & Marisol Gonzalez
No matter the method of killing used each victim’s suffering was protracted & agonised, they were photographed before, during & afterwards & the bodies all ended up under the cellar floor
The one type of execution they agreed they would not repeat was the beheading of a young French woman. Josiah had used his old military sword & while the terrified pleading & struggling of the victim was gratifying it was over far too quickly & had resulted in a bloody mess that had to be cleaned up
15: Variety is the Spice of Life
After 9 months Mr & Mrs Edwards agreed that they wanted to introduce a new element into their murders to spice them up. Jane realised what she wanted them to do when she read about the execution of errant Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome. The Romans believed that it was a sin against the Gods to execute a virgin & so the executioners always raped such condemned prisoners before strangling them.
When she first discussed it with Josiah he had asked if she wouldn’t mind watching him screw another female. Jane had replied. “No My Dear. To me they are mere playthings for our amusement that will very soon just be dead meat.”
The first murder where Josiah raped the girl before she was hanged, while stimulating, would have been even better if they could have got the doomed girl to respond sexually as she was fucked. The young Danish girl had been paralysed with terror & had just lain there as Josiah pounded his cock in & out of her dry pussy.
Even though she hadn’t practiced for a couple of years Jane was still a registered MD. She did some research & then wrote a prescription in Josiah’s name for a new stimulant that apparently significantly enhanced the sensations felt by the body. It had been developed to treat diseases of the nervous system but Doctor Edwards had another use for it
The next victim is a Polish waitress named Saskia & when she recovers from the chloroform, as usual Jane & Josiah inform her of her fate. As ever the doomed girl, tied to a seat, screams in terror & begs for her life. Josiah grabs her head & forces her mouth open while Jane pours quite a large dose of the stimulant down their prisoner’s throat.
They then wait for fifteen minutes for the drug to take effect. Josiah then goes & stands behind the girl, reaches down & gently begins to rub her breasts through her clothes. Initially Saskia protests but then Josiah feels her nipples slowly harden & despite her fear the girl starts to moan softly. Mr & Mrs Edwards exchange glances & smile at each other, it appears to be working. After a couple of minutes Josiah places his hands inside Saskia’s blouse & starts to directly massage her breasts. She lets out a little gasp & begins to squirm slightly in her seat.
Josiah comes round to the front of the seated girl & slowly pushes her skirt up her legs till it rests above her thighs. Saskia tries to resist, but it is a token gesture. Josiah puts his hand on her linen covered crotch & begins to rub her pussy through her underwear. The Polish girl’s legs involuntarily begin to drift apart. Mr Edwards pulls down her pants & thrusts his fingers into her now quite moist pussy. Once Saskia’s hips begin to move in response to his thrusting fingers he suddenly pulls them out of her pussy. Jane & Josiah lift her from the seat & carry her to the bed. They untie her wrists & then secure them with cuffs to the headboard. Josiah is swiftly on top of her his throbbing erection plunging in & out of Saskia’s by now very slippery & glistening pussy. The girl’s hips buck & she wraps her legs round Josiah’s waist
Jane sits watching marvelling at the girl’s arousal, despite her predicament. She pushes her hand inside the waistband of her skirt & begins to rub herself. She is turned on, not just by the scene in front of her, but also by the knowledge that the drug they have given Saskia enhances all sensations, not just sexual pleasure, but also pain. She can’t wait to see the effect it has on someone slowly strangling to death on a rope
Josiah’s seed spurts into Saskia & she cries out as she experiences the most intense orgasm of her young life. Unfortunately for her it will also be her last
Saskia’s subsequent performance on the gallows Jane & Josiah later agreed was amongst the best they had seen. Her obvious excruciating agony was truly exquisite to see. Josiah did the best he could to capture it with his camera. Mr & Mrs Edwards post killing fucking proved to be back to its best for both of them
16: Charity Begins at Home
Over the next three months another six immigrant young women were abducted, drugged, raped & killed. On the anniversary of their first murder, that of Alexandria James, Jane & Josiah sat at their dining table going through their now quite full photo album, recalling especially thrilling moments in the deaths of the twenty six female victims buried under the cellar floor. They discussed what more they could do to enhance their enjoyment of the killings.
It was Josiah who came up with the initial idea for the next step on what they were beginning to regard as their journey to ultimate sexual fulfilment, “Jane I can tell you that not one of those girls I fucked was a virgin. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get hold of someone who was truly “Intact?”. His wife replied, “I concur wholeheartedly my love, however I think we are unlikely to be able to do so if we continue to limit our search for suitable candidates to the Employment Agency. By definition those young women whom we source via the Agency have the maturity, gumption & ambition, despite their relative youth, to seek a new life in America. Inevitably it seems to me that they will have had some sexual experiences before they come to us. We need to work out a safe way of obtaining 16 year old girls who are already here”
Josiah thought for a moment & then clapped his hands in what the couple called later his “Eureka Moment”. He exclaimed, “ I think I’ve got it Jane – charity!”. What do you mean Josiah?” His wife replied. Her husband continued. “The Agency is making good money, I still have a fair amount of my inheritance left & I’m sure we could obtain significant donations from our social circle & network of work contacts We establish a home for indigent young adolescent girls, we select them, clean them up, feed them for a period of time, give them some degree of education & then find jobs for most of them through the Agency. We can then choose the ones we want to bring here. What do you think?”. Jane smiled as she replied, “I think you are a genius Mr Edwards”
Six months later the “Edwards Refuge for Girls” was open & fully populated with twenty girls who had just turned 16. It was funded by a combination of the Edwards money & charitable donations. The building itself used to be a medium sized hotel that had gone bust & it was quite close to the Employment Agency. Jane devoted all of her time to the Refuge while Josiah kept the business going. Mrs Edwards had sourced the girls by contacting the authorities & major charities stipulating that she could take up to twenty at a time, the three conditions she imposed was that they had to be orphans with no immediate family, that they were of reasonable intelligence so that could benefit from the education provided by the Refuge & finally that they were still virgins. The authorities had queried the last stipulation however they had accepted Jane’s explanation that this was evidence of good moral character. The last condition she kept to herself, that they had to be pretty
Jane interviewed about seventy potential candidates until she had the twenty girls she wanted. She designed the students uniforms herself, blue skirts & jackets, white blouses, small sailor type blue & white hats & black leather shoes. She decided that stockings weren’t appropriate for girls of that age & took an especial interest in the underwear they would be provided with, white foundation tops & very brief white pants
Over the next three months Jane & Josiah continued to drug rape & murder newly arrived immigrants though the frequency tailed off to about one a month. By the time the first girls were ready to graduate from the Refuge twenty nine bodies were mouldering away under the flagstones in the Edwards cellar
Jane’s anticipation grew as each day she watched her charges in the Refuge. Because it was an all-female environment the girls would often disport themselves in a less than modest manner. Mrs Edwards would often suck in her breathe as she caught a brief tantalising glimpse of white pants under blue skirts as they ran about or carried on as youngsters of that age inevitably do. In these moments she would imagine the forthcoming sight of two slender legs desperately thrashing away, kicking up the blue skirt exposing white pants, which she had decided to refer to privately as panties, as they danced with nothing beneath their feet but empty air. She would clench her fists as she felt her groin begin to moisten as she pictured the desperate struggling, the gagging & gasping until the victim swayed still & silent
The first three girls were ready to leave the refuge in late November 1870. They were told that they were going to different New York hotels as waitresses however one would never arrive. Jane’s selected victim was a lovely young black girl named Louisa. Perhaps because of her colour she hadn’t established any close friendships with the other students at the Refuge &. Mrs Edwards was confident that no-one would come looking for Louisa after she had left
Jane & Josiah followed their now well practised routine, which now included taking some of the stimulant themselves before they forced it down the throats of their victims. When it got to the stage when Josiah was starting to fuck the squirming, panting black girl underneath him, he roared in delight as his rock hard cock burst Louisa’s hymen. Once Josiah had satiated himself they hanged the screaming struggling sobbing, pleading girl on the gallows taking care as usual to give her no drop.
Louisa struggled furiously as the noose cut into her neck, her body thrashed as she fought gasping for air, her head bobbed back & forth trying to find relief from the noose, her legs kicked up above her waist several times showing the white panties under the flying blue skirt as Jane had visualised. The rope swayed crazily as the dying girl swung back & forth like a demented pendulum. After five minutes her movements slowed, her arms went limp, her kicking subsided to slight reflex twitching of her feet & finally her head slumped forward. She was dead
Mr & Mrs Edwards, their lust intensified by the drug, rushed to the bed & started to fuck. They both come almost immediately & after half an hour they orgasmed again this time after a more languid & controlled coupling
The pictures of Louisa’s killing join the images of the other twenty nine victims in the Edwards photo album & her body is consigned to beneath the cellar floor next to the bodies of the others
Over the next eighteen months Jane & Josiah’ constant search for new victims focused more & more on the Refuge. They were now very selective of the young women who came to them through the Agency, only the most beautiful interested them, the younger the better & during this period a further six young female immigrants ended up interred under the cellar floor. Typically two girls “Graduated” from the Refuge each month & almost always Jane & Josiah would murder one of them. The need to kill, increasingly fuelled by their growing craving for the stimulant drug, was beginning to cloud their judgement & their behaviour became increasingly reckless. By the spring of 1872 the number of bodies buried under the Edwards house had increased to fifty four
17: Things Begin to Unravel
To minimise the chances of them getting together after they had left the Refuge Jane never told the girls who left where they were headed until she had taken them there. Totally by accident two former Refuge students, April Jones & Beth Slade, who were working as chamber maids at two different New York hotels, bumped into each other on April 10th 1872. They were delighted to see each other again & decided to try & track down other girls they had known at the Refuge.
April & Beth returned to the Refuge & were shown into Doctor Edwards’s office. Jane put on a good show of being pleased to see them even though this was far from the case. The girls asked if Jane could possibly tell them where certain of their friends had gone to work after leaving so that they could look them up. Jane sighed & told them that unfortunately she wasn’t allowed to as that information could only be given to family members. This was to try & ensure that nothing that may have happened in the students’ often troublesome lives before they had entered the Refuge could come back to interfere with, & perhaps mar, their new lives. While disappointed April & Beth accepted Jane’s explanation shook hands with her as she wished them well & left the office
When Jane discussed the girls visit with Josiah that evening her husband told her not to worry & forget it. Doctor Edwards however could not get rid of the slight feeling of unease she had had since her meeting with the two former Refuge students
April & Beth were quite determined in their quest to find other former Refuge girls. They put up notices in hostels for young women in the area & in the cafes & bars that their age group tended to frequent. Within a week the number of former Refuge students that were in touch with each other had grown to six, after two weeks the number was ten. All of them agreed that it would a really good idea to start a former Refuge students association to help support girls when they first left the Refuge as without exception the girls had found the first few weeks out in the world on their own difficult. April & Beth sat down & worked out that given the Refuge had been operating for almost a year & a half & that two or three girls left every month the number of former Refuge students currently working in & around New York should be somewhere between thirty five & fifty. They decided that they would make every effort to try & contact them all to let them know that they weren’t totally alone in the world
The discussion then turned to how they would ensure they contacted girls when they first left the Refuge. The solution was simple they would follow Doctor Edwards as she left with the girls & when they had discovered where the girls were going to be working they would approach them after they had arrived.
On May 1st 1872 April & Beth, who had both taken the day off work saying they were unwell, waited round the corner from the Refuge. They knew that Doctor Edwards normally left in her horse drawn carriage with the departing students at approximately 10 am on the first day of the month. Being a lady of routine this is exactly what Jane did, accompanied by two nervous but excited sixteen year old girls looking very smart in their Refuge uniforms. The girls had no difficulty in keeping up with the Doctor’s carriage as it navigated its way through the busy city streets.
After fifteen minutes the carriage arrived at its first destination, a middle sized hotel in quite a respectable district. Jane & one of the girls got down from the carriage & went into the hotel. After five minutes Doctor Edwards came back out alone & got back in the carriage. Having taken careful note of the name of the hotel & its address April & Beth set off in pursuit. As they walked quickly past the hotel entrance the newly arrived Refuge girl emerged from the building having been directed to an entrance at the back of the building. April made a quick decision & told Beth to stay & make herself known to the girl while she would continue to follow Doctor Edwards’s carriage. However she had to give up after a mile or so as the carriage neared the city boundary & sped up as the traffic thinned..
The outcome was identical on June 1st 1872. One girl contacted by Beth & one disappearing down the road out of New York in Doctor Edwards carriage rapidly pulling away from a despairing & exhausted April. By now the number of ex Refuge girls in contact had risen to eighteen & they all agreed to contribute from their meagre wages towards hiring a horse drawn carriage to follow Doctor Edwards & her charges on July 1st 1872. April & Beth didn’t want to take any more time of work so two other girls, Therese & Yvonne who happened to be free on the 1st of July took their places. The carriage driver had been initially dubious when he saw the ages of his hirers but when they showed him the money he was quite happy to follow their instructions of, “Follow that carriage – but not too close”, as they pointed at the carriage waiting outside the Refuge.
When Doctor Edwards drew up outside yet another hotel & went in with one of the two girls in the carriage Therese & Yvonne waited until she came back out on her own & climbed back into her carriage. Yvonne then left the carriage & went into the hotel intent on making contact with the Refuge girl who had just been dropped off .
Therese’s carriage continued to track Jane’s as it left the hotel & headed out to the city boundary. The driver asked whether she was sure she wanted to continue as this looked as if it was going to be quite expensive. The girl gave him her purse & told him to take her as far as the money she had would allow provided he could still return her to the city. His curiosity aroused the driver, who was a thoroughly decent fellow, asked what this was all about. Therese told him the full story of the Refuge & what they were trying to do. On hearing this the driver gave her the purse back & said they would go as far it took & she could settle up later.
When Jane’s carriage turned into the driveway leading to the house Therese asked the driver to pull over as she considered what to do next. She asked him where they were & wrote down the address he gave her. From her time in the Refuge she realised that they were sitting outside Mr & Mrs Edwards’s house. Therese had always found Doctor & Mr Edwards, the few times she had met him, to be very kind & considerate. Having come all this way she decided to take the bull by the horns, present herself to the Edwards & tell them why she was there.
She asked the driver to enter the Edwards driveway & when they arrived at the house she requested that he wait. Therese nervously got down from the carriage went across & pulled a cord hanging from a bell. After a minute a somewhat flustered Josiah answered the door. He asked if she would mind waiting a minute, shut the door & went back inside. All he said to his wife was, “Follow my lead”, he lifted up the comatose, already chloroformed newly arrived Refuge girl, & carried her into the room next door.
Josiah took a deep breath to compose himself & returned to the front door. He opened it & said, “My dear girl how can I help?”. Therese stumblingly started to explain who she was why she was there. Josiah immediately sensing danger stopped her & invited her in. Jane recognised Therese & walked across to the girl & gave her a hug. The first question Mr Edwards asked was “But how did you get here Therese?”. The girl explained & straight away Josiah went outside & spoke to the hire carriage driver, “My dear chap I hear you have had a long trek, please come in & have a drink before you take the young lady back to the city”. The driver replied. “Well sir that is awfully decent of you. Don’t mind if I do”.
Jane & Josiah sat & listened as Therese told her story. Jane sat back & said after she had finished, “I must say Therese the idea of a former students association is an excellent one. I wish I had thought of it. Would you excuse us for a minute my dear”
With that Mr & Mrs Edwards retired to the kitchen to confer. Jane, always the leader in a crisis, was clear on what must be done, “They both have to die Josiah. Go & get your gun & give it to me. I will shoot the driver in the back of the head & you chloroform the girl”. Josiah nodded in agreement, & went & got his old service revolver, which he regularly checked, loaded it, & gave it to his wife.
The Edwards returned to the room & Jane went & stood behind the carriage driver who was happily enjoying a large whisky, took out the gun & blew his brains out . At the same time Josiah chloroformed Therese. Two hours later three more bodies were being buried under the cellar floor. This brought the total to fifty seven with the carriage driver having the distinction of the first male to be interred under the house. The horse drawn hire carriage provided a different kind of challenge. Mr & Mrs Edwards concluded that killing & burying the horse would be totally impractical so they detached it from the carriage & took the animal to an outhouse until they decided how to dispose of it. They moved the wooden carriage to the back of the house & burnt it
A week later April, Beth & Yvonne sat down & discussed what they should do about Therese’s disappearance. Yvonne had checked at the hotel where her friend worked & was told that Therese hadn’t returned after her day off the previous week. They resolved that they should tell the police
Nothing more would probably have happened if it wasn’t for the fact that the police officer who took the girls’ statements was aware that the driver of a hire carriage had also been gone missing at round about the same time as the Refuge girl. He didn’t share this with the three girls at the time however he immediately reported it to the detective investigating the disappearance of the carriage driver.
The initial hypothesis of the police was that the driver had sexually assaulted Therese & then probably killed her before running away. The main evidence countering this interpretation of events was the apparent excellent character of the driver. He was a family man & regular church goer & no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wife was distraught at his disappearance. The only further development in the case that month was the retrieval of the horse which had been pulling the carriage. It was found wandering about just outside the city & was identified through it’s distinctive markings by the hire company
Mr & Mrs Edwards waited nervously to see what would happen next. Much to their relief nothing did. They decided to suspend their murderous activities for a couple of months & the girls who left at the start of August & September arrived at their new places of employment safely. The one other precaution that they took was Josiah, driving a second carriage, wearing a hat & muffler, followed the former Refuge girls who were tracking his wife each time. After Therese’s disappearance it appeared that the girls had reverted to walking when trailing Jane’s carriage.
Alexandria James, newly arrived from Cardiff Wales, stepped into the interview room & immediately Jane’s stomach began to flutter with excitement. She was a lovely 25 year old brunette with large brown eyes, delicious features, a clear complexion & a slender but shapely figure. Alexandria was dressed in her best white blouse, blue hat & jacket, black skirt, stockings & leather shoes The Welsh girl was a trained secretary with no family left back home. Jane also established that no-one had been awaiting her arrival in America. Managing to contain her growing excitement she excused herself from the interview for a couple of minutes.
Mrs Edwards went to the office she shared with her husband closed the door & leaned against it. Josiah looked up from his desk quizzically & Jane said, “I think I have our Bathsheba Spooner in the interview room”. Mr Edwards smiles delightedly “Finally, about time. Let us get to work.”. Mrs Edwards returns to the interview room & tells Alexandria. “We think that we have the perfect position for a young lady of your abilities. Can you please give me the address of the hotel you are staying at & I will collect you at 10 am tomorrow & take you to meet your new prospective employer. I would also suggest that you book out of your hotel as I know of much more suitable lodgings for you. A delighted Miss James agreed immediately
The next morning Jane, wearing a hat & veil & Alexandria, again wearing her best clothes accompanied by her luggage, set off from the Welsh girl’s former hotel in a horse drawn carriage driven by Mrs Edwards. On arrival at Mr & Mrs Edwards house Jane ushers the unsuspecting young woman into the drawing room. Josiah comes up behind her & suddenly puts a rag soaked with chloroform over her mouth & nose, Alexandria puts up a brief struggle & then collapses unconscious into Mr Edwards’s arms.
In the cellar Jane brings Alexandria round using smelling salts. The Welsh girl’s head begins to clear & she became aware that she was seated in a chair with her hands tied behind her back. She looks around her & is stunned to see a wooden beam with a roped noose hanging from it & two ladders resting against it, a small gallows, a wooden pole with an iron collar at the top & a stool at the bottom & a wooden armchair with a short pole sticking up from the back rest & leather straps hanging from the pole & the arm rests & at the bottom of the back rest. Alexandria looks at Jane & Josiah who are both standing smiling at her & mumbles “Where am I? Why have you brought me here?”
Josiah replies “My dear Miss James. Where you are doesn’t matter. All you need to know is that we intend to hang you by the neck until you are dead.” Alexandria looks at Josiah stunned. She gasps “But why?”. Jane replies “Because Alexandria we want to”. With that Josiah goes to the doomed girl lifts her out of the chair & over his shoulder. Alexandria struggles, screams & kicks futilely as Josiah walks to the ladder resting on the front of the wooden beam & starts to climb it. At the same time his wife mounts the other ladder. When they reach the top Jane slips the noose around Alexandria’s neck & Josiah carefully takes the wailing girl from his shoulders & places her on the ladder. Mr & Mrs Edwards then climb down & look up at the terrified young woman. They are both already very turned on, Josiah especially has been thoroughly stimulated by the feel of the struggling Welsh girl’s body against him.
For their first venture into murder they had decided to base the killing on the hanging of Bathsheba Spooner which Jane had first come across almost fifteen years ago in the newspaper article that had originally awakened her interest in female executions
Jane & Josiah take a minute to compose themselves & Josiah takes his first photograph of the terrified girl using his recently purchased, newly available & expensive camera.
Mr & Mrs Edwards then take hold of the ladder. They slowly begin to twist it to the side. Alexandria screams even louder when she realises what they are doing & desperately tries to keep her feet on the rungs of the ladder. The Edwards continue to turn the ladder until the despairing girl is dislodged & swings in the air supported only by the rope around her neck. Jane & Josiah look up & watch mesmerised as Alexandria begins to dance. Her threshing legs raise her skirt so high that the transfixed killers can see all the way up past her pumping stocking covered thighs, her stocking tops & the line of bare skin above them to her white underwear.
Josiah continues to take pictures of the doomed girl’s death throes
Her breasts heave as she tries to breathe, eyes bulging from a darkening face, tongue beginning to emerge from her gaping, gasping mouth. Her body shudders & shakes as she struggles on the mercilessly strangling rope. Much to the delight of Jane & Josiah Alexandria takes over ten minutes to die, due to Jane’s careful placing of the hangman’s knot in the noose at the back of her neck & the fact that she had been given virtually no drop when she was forced off the ladder
As soon as the girl swings dead on the rope after taking his last photograph Mr Edwards picks up his wife & carries her to the bed they have placed in the cellar for exactly this reason & they engage in the most frenzied & intense fucking that they have enjoyed for some months.
They then cut the body down & dispose of it in the pre-prepared section of the cellar. The already loosened floor flagstones are lifted revealing a grave which has been dug down to a depth of three feet. The Welsh girl’s remains are placed in it & the body is covered in limescale followed by soil. The flagstones are replaced.
Jane & Josiah go upstairs, sit down & carefully go through the abduction of Alexandria James, asking themselves if they have left any loose ends. As no record was kept of her original visit to the employment agency Mr & Mrs Edwards are sure that the Welsh girl has vanished without trace & no-one will be coming looking for her
14: Serial Killing is Such Fun
The next victim was a twenty four year nurse, Rose McKenna, from Dublin & like Alexandria she was very attractive. The Edwards lured Rose to their house in an identical manner as they had the Welsh girl. The model for Rose’s murder was that of Lavina Fisher, whose execution was described in the same article as Bathsheba Spooners. They even dressed poor Rose in a white wedding type dress when she was out cold similar to the one Lavinia had worn to her hanging.
As it was impractical to get a horse down into the basement, Jane & Josiah improvised by standing the terrified Irish girl on a table, noosed under the wooden beam, with her hands tied. To mimic the movement of Lavinia’s horse drawn cart they slowly pushed & pulled the table from under Rose’s feet until she was hanging free, her feet desperately searching for support to relieve the pressure of the rope around her neck.
When discussing it afterwards, once they had satiated their inflamed lusts, Mr & Mrs Edwards agreed that the Irish nurse’s vigorous performance on the gallows had been marginally more impressive than the Welsh secretary’s. Pictures of Rose’s hanging on the rope joined those of Aleaxandria in Jane’s album & her body too disappeared under the cellar flagstones
And so it continued at the rate of one murder on average every two weeks. Young women & girls of several nationalities were hanged in various ways. Some struggled on the beam in the cellar like Ella Watson, Cattle Kate, Kit Brandon, Chipita Rodriguez & Amy Spain had on ropes swinging from trees, several danced on the gallows like Anne Bilansky, Scarlett Fawcett Majors, Mrs Surrat, Marie Manning, Susan Ebeerhart, Mary Rogers, & Melinda, the English harem girl & a couple were hoisted up by their necks in the same way as Herat the Arab teenager.
Jane & Josiah managed to recreate the executions of Roxalana Druse & Bridget Durgan by putting a heavy anvil on the cart they had used in their recreation of the hanging of Lavinia Fisher, tying the loose end of the rope to it & pushing it off the wooden vehicle. The young blonde German girl they had selected for this particular method of hanging had struggled most beautifully providing Mr & Edwards with most stimulating views up her grey skirt as she danced just below the wooden beam in the cellar
Taking their cue from the Arabian executions they had seen Jane & Josiah garrotted young female immigrants from Spain or Latin America either by slowly throttling them in the garrotting chair like Selena, the Spanish harem girl, or on the strangling stool in the same manner as Conchita Esetfan & Marisol Gonzalez
No matter the method of killing used each victim’s suffering was protracted & agonised, they were photographed before, during & afterwards & the bodies all ended up under the cellar floor
The one type of execution they agreed they would not repeat was the beheading of a young French woman. Josiah had used his old military sword & while the terrified pleading & struggling of the victim was gratifying it was over far too quickly & had resulted in a bloody mess that had to be cleaned up
15: Variety is the Spice of Life
After 9 months Mr & Mrs Edwards agreed that they wanted to introduce a new element into their murders to spice them up. Jane realised what she wanted them to do when she read about the execution of errant Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome. The Romans believed that it was a sin against the Gods to execute a virgin & so the executioners always raped such condemned prisoners before strangling them.
When she first discussed it with Josiah he had asked if she wouldn’t mind watching him screw another female. Jane had replied. “No My Dear. To me they are mere playthings for our amusement that will very soon just be dead meat.”
The first murder where Josiah raped the girl before she was hanged, while stimulating, would have been even better if they could have got the doomed girl to respond sexually as she was fucked. The young Danish girl had been paralysed with terror & had just lain there as Josiah pounded his cock in & out of her dry pussy.
Even though she hadn’t practiced for a couple of years Jane was still a registered MD. She did some research & then wrote a prescription in Josiah’s name for a new stimulant that apparently significantly enhanced the sensations felt by the body. It had been developed to treat diseases of the nervous system but Doctor Edwards had another use for it
The next victim is a Polish waitress named Saskia & when she recovers from the chloroform, as usual Jane & Josiah inform her of her fate. As ever the doomed girl, tied to a seat, screams in terror & begs for her life. Josiah grabs her head & forces her mouth open while Jane pours quite a large dose of the stimulant down their prisoner’s throat.
They then wait for fifteen minutes for the drug to take effect. Josiah then goes & stands behind the girl, reaches down & gently begins to rub her breasts through her clothes. Initially Saskia protests but then Josiah feels her nipples slowly harden & despite her fear the girl starts to moan softly. Mr & Mrs Edwards exchange glances & smile at each other, it appears to be working. After a couple of minutes Josiah places his hands inside Saskia’s blouse & starts to directly massage her breasts. She lets out a little gasp & begins to squirm slightly in her seat.
Josiah comes round to the front of the seated girl & slowly pushes her skirt up her legs till it rests above her thighs. Saskia tries to resist, but it is a token gesture. Josiah puts his hand on her linen covered crotch & begins to rub her pussy through her underwear. The Polish girl’s legs involuntarily begin to drift apart. Mr Edwards pulls down her pants & thrusts his fingers into her now quite moist pussy. Once Saskia’s hips begin to move in response to his thrusting fingers he suddenly pulls them out of her pussy. Jane & Josiah lift her from the seat & carry her to the bed. They untie her wrists & then secure them with cuffs to the headboard. Josiah is swiftly on top of her his throbbing erection plunging in & out of Saskia’s by now very slippery & glistening pussy. The girl’s hips buck & she wraps her legs round Josiah’s waist
Jane sits watching marvelling at the girl’s arousal, despite her predicament. She pushes her hand inside the waistband of her skirt & begins to rub herself. She is turned on, not just by the scene in front of her, but also by the knowledge that the drug they have given Saskia enhances all sensations, not just sexual pleasure, but also pain. She can’t wait to see the effect it has on someone slowly strangling to death on a rope
Josiah’s seed spurts into Saskia & she cries out as she experiences the most intense orgasm of her young life. Unfortunately for her it will also be her last
Saskia’s subsequent performance on the gallows Jane & Josiah later agreed was amongst the best they had seen. Her obvious excruciating agony was truly exquisite to see. Josiah did the best he could to capture it with his camera. Mr & Mrs Edwards post killing fucking proved to be back to its best for both of them
16: Charity Begins at Home
Over the next three months another six immigrant young women were abducted, drugged, raped & killed. On the anniversary of their first murder, that of Alexandria James, Jane & Josiah sat at their dining table going through their now quite full photo album, recalling especially thrilling moments in the deaths of the twenty six female victims buried under the cellar floor. They discussed what more they could do to enhance their enjoyment of the killings.
It was Josiah who came up with the initial idea for the next step on what they were beginning to regard as their journey to ultimate sexual fulfilment, “Jane I can tell you that not one of those girls I fucked was a virgin. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get hold of someone who was truly “Intact?”. His wife replied, “I concur wholeheartedly my love, however I think we are unlikely to be able to do so if we continue to limit our search for suitable candidates to the Employment Agency. By definition those young women whom we source via the Agency have the maturity, gumption & ambition, despite their relative youth, to seek a new life in America. Inevitably it seems to me that they will have had some sexual experiences before they come to us. We need to work out a safe way of obtaining 16 year old girls who are already here”
Josiah thought for a moment & then clapped his hands in what the couple called later his “Eureka Moment”. He exclaimed, “ I think I’ve got it Jane – charity!”. What do you mean Josiah?” His wife replied. Her husband continued. “The Agency is making good money, I still have a fair amount of my inheritance left & I’m sure we could obtain significant donations from our social circle & network of work contacts We establish a home for indigent young adolescent girls, we select them, clean them up, feed them for a period of time, give them some degree of education & then find jobs for most of them through the Agency. We can then choose the ones we want to bring here. What do you think?”. Jane smiled as she replied, “I think you are a genius Mr Edwards”
Six months later the “Edwards Refuge for Girls” was open & fully populated with twenty girls who had just turned 16. It was funded by a combination of the Edwards money & charitable donations. The building itself used to be a medium sized hotel that had gone bust & it was quite close to the Employment Agency. Jane devoted all of her time to the Refuge while Josiah kept the business going. Mrs Edwards had sourced the girls by contacting the authorities & major charities stipulating that she could take up to twenty at a time, the three conditions she imposed was that they had to be orphans with no immediate family, that they were of reasonable intelligence so that could benefit from the education provided by the Refuge & finally that they were still virgins. The authorities had queried the last stipulation however they had accepted Jane’s explanation that this was evidence of good moral character. The last condition she kept to herself, that they had to be pretty
Jane interviewed about seventy potential candidates until she had the twenty girls she wanted. She designed the students uniforms herself, blue skirts & jackets, white blouses, small sailor type blue & white hats & black leather shoes. She decided that stockings weren’t appropriate for girls of that age & took an especial interest in the underwear they would be provided with, white foundation tops & very brief white pants
Over the next three months Jane & Josiah continued to drug rape & murder newly arrived immigrants though the frequency tailed off to about one a month. By the time the first girls were ready to graduate from the Refuge twenty nine bodies were mouldering away under the flagstones in the Edwards cellar
Jane’s anticipation grew as each day she watched her charges in the Refuge. Because it was an all-female environment the girls would often disport themselves in a less than modest manner. Mrs Edwards would often suck in her breathe as she caught a brief tantalising glimpse of white pants under blue skirts as they ran about or carried on as youngsters of that age inevitably do. In these moments she would imagine the forthcoming sight of two slender legs desperately thrashing away, kicking up the blue skirt exposing white pants, which she had decided to refer to privately as panties, as they danced with nothing beneath their feet but empty air. She would clench her fists as she felt her groin begin to moisten as she pictured the desperate struggling, the gagging & gasping until the victim swayed still & silent
The first three girls were ready to leave the refuge in late November 1870. They were told that they were going to different New York hotels as waitresses however one would never arrive. Jane’s selected victim was a lovely young black girl named Louisa. Perhaps because of her colour she hadn’t established any close friendships with the other students at the Refuge &. Mrs Edwards was confident that no-one would come looking for Louisa after she had left
Jane & Josiah followed their now well practised routine, which now included taking some of the stimulant themselves before they forced it down the throats of their victims. When it got to the stage when Josiah was starting to fuck the squirming, panting black girl underneath him, he roared in delight as his rock hard cock burst Louisa’s hymen. Once Josiah had satiated himself they hanged the screaming struggling sobbing, pleading girl on the gallows taking care as usual to give her no drop.
Louisa struggled furiously as the noose cut into her neck, her body thrashed as she fought gasping for air, her head bobbed back & forth trying to find relief from the noose, her legs kicked up above her waist several times showing the white panties under the flying blue skirt as Jane had visualised. The rope swayed crazily as the dying girl swung back & forth like a demented pendulum. After five minutes her movements slowed, her arms went limp, her kicking subsided to slight reflex twitching of her feet & finally her head slumped forward. She was dead
Mr & Mrs Edwards, their lust intensified by the drug, rushed to the bed & started to fuck. They both come almost immediately & after half an hour they orgasmed again this time after a more languid & controlled coupling
The pictures of Louisa’s killing join the images of the other twenty nine victims in the Edwards photo album & her body is consigned to beneath the cellar floor next to the bodies of the others
Over the next eighteen months Jane & Josiah’ constant search for new victims focused more & more on the Refuge. They were now very selective of the young women who came to them through the Agency, only the most beautiful interested them, the younger the better & during this period a further six young female immigrants ended up interred under the cellar floor. Typically two girls “Graduated” from the Refuge each month & almost always Jane & Josiah would murder one of them. The need to kill, increasingly fuelled by their growing craving for the stimulant drug, was beginning to cloud their judgement & their behaviour became increasingly reckless. By the spring of 1872 the number of bodies buried under the Edwards house had increased to fifty four
17: Things Begin to Unravel
To minimise the chances of them getting together after they had left the Refuge Jane never told the girls who left where they were headed until she had taken them there. Totally by accident two former Refuge students, April Jones & Beth Slade, who were working as chamber maids at two different New York hotels, bumped into each other on April 10th 1872. They were delighted to see each other again & decided to try & track down other girls they had known at the Refuge.
April & Beth returned to the Refuge & were shown into Doctor Edwards’s office. Jane put on a good show of being pleased to see them even though this was far from the case. The girls asked if Jane could possibly tell them where certain of their friends had gone to work after leaving so that they could look them up. Jane sighed & told them that unfortunately she wasn’t allowed to as that information could only be given to family members. This was to try & ensure that nothing that may have happened in the students’ often troublesome lives before they had entered the Refuge could come back to interfere with, & perhaps mar, their new lives. While disappointed April & Beth accepted Jane’s explanation shook hands with her as she wished them well & left the office
When Jane discussed the girls visit with Josiah that evening her husband told her not to worry & forget it. Doctor Edwards however could not get rid of the slight feeling of unease she had had since her meeting with the two former Refuge students
April & Beth were quite determined in their quest to find other former Refuge girls. They put up notices in hostels for young women in the area & in the cafes & bars that their age group tended to frequent. Within a week the number of former Refuge students that were in touch with each other had grown to six, after two weeks the number was ten. All of them agreed that it would a really good idea to start a former Refuge students association to help support girls when they first left the Refuge as without exception the girls had found the first few weeks out in the world on their own difficult. April & Beth sat down & worked out that given the Refuge had been operating for almost a year & a half & that two or three girls left every month the number of former Refuge students currently working in & around New York should be somewhere between thirty five & fifty. They decided that they would make every effort to try & contact them all to let them know that they weren’t totally alone in the world
The discussion then turned to how they would ensure they contacted girls when they first left the Refuge. The solution was simple they would follow Doctor Edwards as she left with the girls & when they had discovered where the girls were going to be working they would approach them after they had arrived.
On May 1st 1872 April & Beth, who had both taken the day off work saying they were unwell, waited round the corner from the Refuge. They knew that Doctor Edwards normally left in her horse drawn carriage with the departing students at approximately 10 am on the first day of the month. Being a lady of routine this is exactly what Jane did, accompanied by two nervous but excited sixteen year old girls looking very smart in their Refuge uniforms. The girls had no difficulty in keeping up with the Doctor’s carriage as it navigated its way through the busy city streets.
After fifteen minutes the carriage arrived at its first destination, a middle sized hotel in quite a respectable district. Jane & one of the girls got down from the carriage & went into the hotel. After five minutes Doctor Edwards came back out alone & got back in the carriage. Having taken careful note of the name of the hotel & its address April & Beth set off in pursuit. As they walked quickly past the hotel entrance the newly arrived Refuge girl emerged from the building having been directed to an entrance at the back of the building. April made a quick decision & told Beth to stay & make herself known to the girl while she would continue to follow Doctor Edwards’s carriage. However she had to give up after a mile or so as the carriage neared the city boundary & sped up as the traffic thinned..
The outcome was identical on June 1st 1872. One girl contacted by Beth & one disappearing down the road out of New York in Doctor Edwards carriage rapidly pulling away from a despairing & exhausted April. By now the number of ex Refuge girls in contact had risen to eighteen & they all agreed to contribute from their meagre wages towards hiring a horse drawn carriage to follow Doctor Edwards & her charges on July 1st 1872. April & Beth didn’t want to take any more time of work so two other girls, Therese & Yvonne who happened to be free on the 1st of July took their places. The carriage driver had been initially dubious when he saw the ages of his hirers but when they showed him the money he was quite happy to follow their instructions of, “Follow that carriage – but not too close”, as they pointed at the carriage waiting outside the Refuge.
When Doctor Edwards drew up outside yet another hotel & went in with one of the two girls in the carriage Therese & Yvonne waited until she came back out on her own & climbed back into her carriage. Yvonne then left the carriage & went into the hotel intent on making contact with the Refuge girl who had just been dropped off .
Therese’s carriage continued to track Jane’s as it left the hotel & headed out to the city boundary. The driver asked whether she was sure she wanted to continue as this looked as if it was going to be quite expensive. The girl gave him her purse & told him to take her as far as the money she had would allow provided he could still return her to the city. His curiosity aroused the driver, who was a thoroughly decent fellow, asked what this was all about. Therese told him the full story of the Refuge & what they were trying to do. On hearing this the driver gave her the purse back & said they would go as far it took & she could settle up later.
When Jane’s carriage turned into the driveway leading to the house Therese asked the driver to pull over as she considered what to do next. She asked him where they were & wrote down the address he gave her. From her time in the Refuge she realised that they were sitting outside Mr & Mrs Edwards’s house. Therese had always found Doctor & Mr Edwards, the few times she had met him, to be very kind & considerate. Having come all this way she decided to take the bull by the horns, present herself to the Edwards & tell them why she was there.
She asked the driver to enter the Edwards driveway & when they arrived at the house she requested that he wait. Therese nervously got down from the carriage went across & pulled a cord hanging from a bell. After a minute a somewhat flustered Josiah answered the door. He asked if she would mind waiting a minute, shut the door & went back inside. All he said to his wife was, “Follow my lead”, he lifted up the comatose, already chloroformed newly arrived Refuge girl, & carried her into the room next door.
Josiah took a deep breath to compose himself & returned to the front door. He opened it & said, “My dear girl how can I help?”. Therese stumblingly started to explain who she was why she was there. Josiah immediately sensing danger stopped her & invited her in. Jane recognised Therese & walked across to the girl & gave her a hug. The first question Mr Edwards asked was “But how did you get here Therese?”. The girl explained & straight away Josiah went outside & spoke to the hire carriage driver, “My dear chap I hear you have had a long trek, please come in & have a drink before you take the young lady back to the city”. The driver replied. “Well sir that is awfully decent of you. Don’t mind if I do”.
Jane & Josiah sat & listened as Therese told her story. Jane sat back & said after she had finished, “I must say Therese the idea of a former students association is an excellent one. I wish I had thought of it. Would you excuse us for a minute my dear”
With that Mr & Mrs Edwards retired to the kitchen to confer. Jane, always the leader in a crisis, was clear on what must be done, “They both have to die Josiah. Go & get your gun & give it to me. I will shoot the driver in the back of the head & you chloroform the girl”. Josiah nodded in agreement, & went & got his old service revolver, which he regularly checked, loaded it, & gave it to his wife.
The Edwards returned to the room & Jane went & stood behind the carriage driver who was happily enjoying a large whisky, took out the gun & blew his brains out . At the same time Josiah chloroformed Therese. Two hours later three more bodies were being buried under the cellar floor. This brought the total to fifty seven with the carriage driver having the distinction of the first male to be interred under the house. The horse drawn hire carriage provided a different kind of challenge. Mr & Mrs Edwards concluded that killing & burying the horse would be totally impractical so they detached it from the carriage & took the animal to an outhouse until they decided how to dispose of it. They moved the wooden carriage to the back of the house & burnt it
A week later April, Beth & Yvonne sat down & discussed what they should do about Therese’s disappearance. Yvonne had checked at the hotel where her friend worked & was told that Therese hadn’t returned after her day off the previous week. They resolved that they should tell the police
Nothing more would probably have happened if it wasn’t for the fact that the police officer who took the girls’ statements was aware that the driver of a hire carriage had also been gone missing at round about the same time as the Refuge girl. He didn’t share this with the three girls at the time however he immediately reported it to the detective investigating the disappearance of the carriage driver.
The initial hypothesis of the police was that the driver had sexually assaulted Therese & then probably killed her before running away. The main evidence countering this interpretation of events was the apparent excellent character of the driver. He was a family man & regular church goer & no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wife was distraught at his disappearance. The only further development in the case that month was the retrieval of the horse which had been pulling the carriage. It was found wandering about just outside the city & was identified through it’s distinctive markings by the hire company
Mr & Mrs Edwards waited nervously to see what would happen next. Much to their relief nothing did. They decided to suspend their murderous activities for a couple of months & the girls who left at the start of August & September arrived at their new places of employment safely. The one other precaution that they took was Josiah, driving a second carriage, wearing a hat & muffler, followed the former Refuge girls who were tracking his wife each time. After Therese’s disappearance it appeared that the girls had reverted to walking when trailing Jane’s carriage.
This is awesome pulp fiction. The drug and the frenzy seem so proper to the era...so steampunk...this story is a great one
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