Excerpt from The Poison Fiend!: Life, Crimes, and Conviction of Lydia Sherman, (the Modern Lucretia Borgia, ) Recently Tried in the New Haven, Conn., For Poisoning Three Husbands and Eight of Her ChildrenNelson H. Sherman was a skilled mechanic and a man much loved for his genial spirits. Indeed his greatest fault was too much generosity. A little more than a year and a half ago his wife died, leaving him with four children, the eldest, a son named Nelson, aged seventeen, a daughter Addie, aged fourteen, another boy, Nattie, aged four years, and an infant five months old.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.