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...ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower of splintered glass panes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Friend of Ghosts | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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