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that   poisoners    have    arrived   at  a  sense   of  omnipotence。       But    if  Anna 

Zwanziger ��here I quote from Mr Philip Beaufroy Barry's essay on her in 

his Twenty Human Monsters���察 �`a day or two before the execution�察�smiled 

and said it was a fortunate thing for many people that she was to die�察�for 

had    she   lived   she  would     have   continued     to  poison    men    and   women 

indiscriminately''�察�if�察�still according to the same writer�察 �`when the arsenic 



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was found on her person after the arrest�察�she seized the packet and gloated 

over the powder�察�looking at it�察�the chronicler assures us�察�as a woman looks 

at her lover''�察�and if�察 �`when the attendants asked her how she could have 

brought   herself   calmly   to   kill   people   with   whom   she   was   livingwhose 

meals   and   amusements   she   sharedshe   replied   that   their   faces   were   so 

stupidly healthy and happy that she desired to see them change into faces 

of pain and despair��'' I will say this in no way goes to prove the woman 

criminal   to   be   more   deadly   than   the   male。    This   ghoulish   satisfaction�察�

with the conjectured feeling of omnipotence�察�is not peculiar to the woman 

poisoner。     Neill   Cream  had   it。     Armstrong   had   it。     Wainewright�察  �with 

his   reason    for  poisoning     Helen    Abercrombie``Upon          my   soul   I  don't 

know�察�unless it was that her legs were too thick''is quite on a par with 

Anna   Zwanziger。        The   supposed   sense   of   power   does   not   even   belong 

exclusively to the poisoner。         Jack the Ripper manifestly had something of 

the same idea about his use of the knife。 

     As a monster in mass murder against Mary Ann Cotton I will set you 

the   Baron   Gilles   de    Rais�察  �with   his  forty   flogged�察  �outraged�察   �obscenely 

mutilated and slain children in one of his castles alonehis total of over 

two   hundred   children   thus   foully   done   to   death。     I   will   set   you   Gilles 

against   anything      that   can  be   brought   forward   as   a   monster   in   cruelty 

among women。 

     Against      the   hypocrisy      of   Helene     Jegado     I   will   set   you    the 

sanctimonious Dr Pritchard�察�with the nauseating entry in his diary ��quoted 

by Mr Roughead�� recording the death of the wife he so cruelly murdered�此�

       March   1865�察  �18�察  �Saturday。      Died   here   at   1 A。M。    Mary   Jane�察  �my 

own   beloved   wife�察  �aged   thirty´eight   years。      No   torment   surrounded   her 

bedside   ��the   foul   liar�。�but   like   a   calm   peaceful   lamb   of   God   passed 

Minnie away。        May  God and   Jesus�察�Holy  Ghost�察�one   in three�察 �welcome 

Minnie�      �Prayer on   prayer till   mine be o'er�察�everlasting love。            Save   us�察�

Lord�察�for Thy dear Son� �

       Against the mean murders of Flanagan and Higgins I will set you Mr 

Seddon and Mr Smith of the ``brides in the bath。'' 



     �ァ�IV 



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     I   am   conscious   that   in   arguing   against   the   ``more   deadly   than   the 

male'' conception of the woman criminal I am perhaps doing my book no 

great   service。     It   might   work   for   its   greater   popularity   if   I   argued   the 

other way�察 �making   out that the   subjects I have   chosen were monsters   of 

brutality�察�with arms up to the shoulders in blood�察�that they were prodigies 

of iniquity and cunning�察�without bowels�察�steeped in hypocrisy�察�facinorous 

to a degree never surpassed or even equalled by evil men。                       It may seem 

that�察  �being   concerned   to   strip   female   crime   of   the   lurid   preeminence   so 

commonly given it�察�I have contrived beforehand to rob the ensuing pages 

of any richer savour they might have had。                But I don't�察�myself�察�think so。 

     If   these   women�察  �some   of   them�察  �are   not   greater   monsters   than   their 

male   analogues�察  �monsters   they   still   remain。         If   they   are   not�察  �others   of 

them�察  �greater   rogues   and   cheats   than   males   of   like   criminal   persuasion�察�

cheats and rogues they are beyond cavil。                The truth of the matter is that I 

loathe   the   use   of   superlatives   in   serious   works   on   crime。     I   will   read�察  �I 

promise you�察�anything decently written in a fictional way about `master' 

crooks�察   �master'   killers�察  �kings�察  �queens�察  �princes�察  �and   a   whole   peerage   of 

crime�察�knowing very well that never yet has a `master' criminal had any 

cleverness   but   what   a   novelist   gave   him。       But   in   works   on   crime   that 

pretend to seriousness I would eschew�察  �pace Mr Leonard R。 Gribble�察  �all 

`queens'   and   other   honorifics   in   application   to   the   lost   men   and   women 

with     whom     such    works     must    treat。   There     is  no   romance      in   crime。 

Romance   is   life   gilded�察  �life   idealized。      Crime   is   never   anything   but   a 

sordid business�察�demonstrably poor in reward to its practitioners。 

     But�察�sordid or not�察�crime has its human interest。                 Its practitioners are 

still   part   of   life�察  �human   beings�察  �different   from   law´abiding   humanity   by 

God´alone´knows´what freak of heredity or kink in brain convolution。                            I 

will   not   ask   the   reader�察  �as   an   excuse   for   my  book�察 �to   view  the   criminal 

with the thought attributed to John Knox�此�

     ``There�察  �but   for   the   Grace   of   God�察  �goes   ''    Because   the   phrase 

might     as   well    be   used   in   contemplation       of   John    D。   Rockefeller      or 

Augustus John or Charlie Chaplin or a man with a wooden leg。                          I do not 

ask that you should pity these women with whom I have to deal�察�still less 

that you should contemn them。                Something between the two will serve。 



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I write the book because I am interested in crime myself�察�and in the hope 

that you'll like the reading as much as I like the writing of it。 



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             II。 A FAIR NECK FOR THE 

                                  MAIDEN 



     In   her   long   history   there   can   have   been   few   mornings   upon   which 

Edinburgh had more to offer her burghers in the way of gossip and rumour 

than on that of the 1st of July�察�1600。          In this `gate' and that `gate��' as one 

may     imagine�察   �the  douce    citizens   must    have   clustered    and   broke   and 

clustered�察�like eddied foam on a spated burn。            By conjecture�察�as they have 

always been a people apt to take to the streets upon small occasion as on 

large�察�it is not unlikely that the news which was to drift into the city some 

thirty´five   days   laternamely�察  �that   an   attempt   on   the   life   of   his   Sacred 

Majesty�察�the High   and Mighty  ��and Rachitic��  Prince�察�James   the Sixth of 

Scotland�察    �had   been    made    by   the  brothers    Ruthven     in  their  castle  of 

Gowrieit is not unlikely that the first buzz of the Gowrie affair caused no 

more stir�察�for the time being at any rate�察�than the word which had come to 

those   Edinburgh   folk   that   fine   morning   of   the   first   day   in   July。 The 

busier   of   the   bodies   would   trot   from  knot   to   knot�察  �anxious   to   learn   and 

retail the latest item of fact and fancy regarding the tidings which had set 

tongues going since the early hours。           Murder�察�no less。 

     If the contemporary juridical records�察�even what is left of them�察�be a 

criterion�察   �homicide     in  all  its  oddly   named     forms    must    have   been    a 

commonplace to those couthie lieges of his Slobberiness�察�King Jamie。                     It 

is hard to believe that murder�察�qua murder�察�could have been of much more 

interest to them than the fineness of the weather。            We have it�察�however�察�on 

reasonable authority�察�that the murder of the Laird of Warriston did set the 

people of ``Auld Reekie'' finely agog。 

     John Kincaid�察�of Warriston�察�was by way of being one of Edinburgh's 

notables。     Even   at   that   time   his   family   was   considered   to   be   old。 He 

derived   from   the   Kincaids   of   Kincaid�察  �in   Stirlingshire�察  �a   family   then   in 

possession of large estates in that county and here and there about Lothian。 

His own property of Warriston lay on the outskirts of Edinburgh itself�察�just 

above a mile from Holyroodhouse。               Notable among his possessions was 

one   which   he   should�察  �from   all   accounts�察  �dearly   have   prized�察  �but   which 



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there are indications he treated with some contumely。                 This was his wife�察�

Jean   Livingstone�察  �a   singularly   beautiful   girl�察  �no   more   than   twenty´one 

years of age at the time when this story opens。                Jean�察�like her husband�察�

was a person of good station indeed。             She was a daughter of the Laird of 

Dunipace�察 �John   Livingstone�察 �and   related   through   him  and   her  mother   to 

people of high consideration in the kingdom。 

     News of the violent death of John Kincaid�察�which had taken place soon 

after    midnight�察   �came     quickly    to  the   capital。   Officers     were    at  once 

dispatched。 

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