Hutchinson, Amy (1733–1750)
Hutchinson, Amy (1733–1750)
English murderer. Born on the British Isle of Ely, 1733; executed Nov 7, 1750; m. John Hutchinson.
At age 12, put to work as servant; at 16, fell in love with a local youth but married elderly John Hutchinson; made husband his ale, after which he died (c. Oct 14, 1748); moved in with lover the next day, provoking suspicions; husband's body exhumed and found to contain arsenic; tried for "petit treason" (crime regarded as more serious than straightforward murder), found guilty, and sentenced to death by burning at the stake.
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