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Emeline Meaker
Emeline Lucy Meaker (sometimes reported as Lucy Emeline Meaker) (June 1838– March 30, 1883) was the first woman who was legally executed by Vermont. In 1883, Meaker was convicted of and hanged for the murder of her husband's niece Alice near Burlington.
==The crime==
Sometime in the spring of 1879, a child welfare worker approached Meaker and her husband to ask if they would consider taking Mr. Meaker’s eight-year-old niece, Alice and her brother, Henry, into their home, as the children were living in an overcrowded orphanage.〔Hearn, Daniel Allen, ''Legal Executions in New England: A comprehensive reference, 1623–1960'' (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999) pp. 273–274.〕〔"Mrs. Lucy E. Meaker Still Claims Innocence and Reproaches the Boy Almon", ''Burlington Free Press and Times'', March 30, 1883.〕 Mr. Meaker was offered a stipend of $400 to care for Alice, and so he agreed. Emeline Meaker was not pleased with the arrangement and beat, starved, and otherwise mistreated Alice.〔〔
In 1883, Meaker decided to kill Alice, and ordered her son Almon to get a lethal dose of strychnine from an apothecary. Meaker and Almon seized Alice, placed a sack over the girl’s head, and took her to a remote area outside Burlington. When they arrived at a clearing by a stream, Almon handed the poison to his mother and she poured it into a drink which she gave to Alice. While Alice thrashed about in reaction to the strychnine poisoning, Meaker forcibly held her hand over Alice’s mouth to keep the girl from crying out, keeping it there until Alice was dead, and then Almon and his mother buried Alice’s body.〔〔
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