The Adventuress. Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
The Adventuress. Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age By Virginia A. McConnell
2013 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 160635034X | EPUB | 1 MB
2013 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 160635034X | EPUB | 1 MB
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old. Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James Wallace, Minnie was a natural beauty and attended convent school where she learned social graces and how to play the piano. After the divorce of her parents, she was raised in multiple boardinghouses owned by her mother, and at one of them, met her first husband, James Reeves Walkup. At sixteen, she married Walkup, a forty-nine-year-old successful businessman and acting mayor of Emporia, Kansas. One month later, Walkup died from arsenic poisoning and his young wife was accused of murdering him. Her trial became one of the most sensational cases in Kansas history and was covered by reporters across the nation. The Adventuress details Minnie Walkup's remarkable life and criminal activities. Using newspaper articles, census and probate records,...
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