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GREAT HISTORICAL CURIOSITY - IRON GIBBET OF OLDEN TIMES, and thrown aside by the progress of civilization during the last century ; one of these public death-instruments found in Point Leux [sic], Canada East, in the course of May last, had been used under the Government of Sir G. Murray, first Governor of Canada, after its capitulation, in the year 1763, for the execution of a female who had murdered three successive husbands. It will be exhibited during a few days, at No 252 Broadway, 2d floor, room No 11, from 8 A. M., to 9 P. M., where historical details of her criminal life may be procured. au26 3t*

English: Advertisement - Exhibition of the iron gibbet of Marie-Josephte Corriveau in New York in August 1851, New York Daily Tribune, 26 August 1851, p. 1, col. 6
Français : Publicité annonçant l'exposition du gibet de fer de Marie-Josephte Corriveau à New York en août 1851, parue dans le New York Daily Tribune, 26 août 1851, p. 1, 6e colonne
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Source New-York Daily Tribune. (New-York [N.Y.]), 26 Aug. 1851. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
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GREAT HISTORICAL CURIOSITY - IRON GIBBET OF OLDEN TIMES, and thrown aside by the progress of civilization during the last century ; one of these public death-instruments found in Point Leux [sic], Canada East, in the course of May last, had been used under the Government of Sir G. Murray, first Governor of Canada, after its capitulation, in the year 1763, for the execution of a female who had murdered three successive husbands. It will be exhibited during a few days, at No 252 Broadway, 2d floor, room No 11, from 8 A. M., to 9 P. M., where historical details of her criminal life may be procured.

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