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Vermont Phœnix
Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Ludlow, Windham County, Windsor County, Vermont
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In New York, a black woman named Sarah Fullerton, jealous of her husband, poured oil of vitriol on a young mulatto servant girl's face, causing severe disfigurement and agony. Fullerton was immediately committed. A similar incident occurred in Paris years earlier.
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producing the utmost agony, and in a few minutes literally separating all the flesh from the bones. the demon who did this act was immediately committed.
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A black woman named Sarah Fullerton, in New York, jealous of her husband, went to a house in Wooster street, to the supposed cause of her trouble, a young mulatto girl, who resided there as a servant, and immediately on encountering her, took from her pocket a bottle of oil of vitriol and poured it over the girl's face.