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NJ Governor Phil Murphy announces that he is convening the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission created by the Legislature, to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the state’s criminal justice system on Sunday, February 11th, 2018. Carol McKenna/OIT/Governor’s Office.
Former Peruvian president (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori waves upon his arrival at the Supreme Court's Special Court 11 December, 2007 in Lima. Fujimori was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for ordering an illegal search of an apartment belonging to the wife of his corrupt spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos in November 2000. On Wednesday, Fujimori is scheduled to be back in court for the continuation of the separate trial, in which he is accused of ordering a death squad to kill 25 suspected rebel sympathisers in the early 1990s, the kidnapping of an opposition journalist and a businessman, and several counts of corruption. AFP PHOTO/Eitan ABRAMOVICH (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images)
Friday October 26, 2012
BRATTLEBORO -- Former Brattleboro Food Co-op employee Richard Gagnon pleaded guilty Friday to killing fellow co-op employee Michael Martin last year and was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Gagnon had pleaded not guilty and was facing first degree murder charges.
He was scheduled to go to trial early next year for the killing but reached a plea deal with the state last week.
The former co-op beer and wine manager pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life.
He received a sentence of 17 years, with time served to include the year and almost three months that he has already spent in prison.
Gagnon, who was 59 years old at the time of slaying, could be released from prison in 2028 when he is 76 years old.
Gagnon was wearing shackles and appeared distraught and gaunt when he walked in to the Windham County Superior Court, which was packed with members of Martin's family as well as with his own family members and friends.
After pleading guilty and receiving his sentence Gagnon apologized to the Martin family and said Michael Martin did not deserve to die.
"I was a good man for 59 years. I respected all life and I never hurt anybody," he said to Judge David Suntag in a barely audible voice.
"But I broke down and I felt like my life was coming to an end. The gun was supposed to be for me but instead I used it on Michael. I can never take it back. It is never going to get better. It is never going to go away."
Gagnon worked at the Brattleboro Food Co-op for 20 years and tensions between him and Martin intensified in the days leading up to the killing.
According to court records, Martin, who was Gagnon's superior, had given Gagnon unfavorable evaluations and on the Friday before the shooting Martin suggested that Gagnon take a severance package and leave the co-op.
In court Friday Windham County Deputy State's Attorney David Gartenstein said Gagnon told a psychiatrist that during the following weekend he descended into a vortex of despair.
Gagnon told a psychiatrist that he contemplated suicide and tried to kill his wife that weekend, Gartenstein said.
The following Monday Gagnon called in sick.
On Tuesday, Aug. 9, just after 8 a.m., he shot Martin in the head with a semiautomatic handgun and killed him while he was at his desk.
In explaining the state's decision to accept a plea deal, Gartenstein said Gagnon's eventual sentence would have not likely been much different.
Gartenstein said the trial would be a "burden on the community" and he wondered what more would be gained by having co-op employees, Martin family members and others testify.
He also said that some of Martin's family members did not support the deal and thought Gagnon should go to trial for first degree murder and spend the rest of his life in prison.
Before Gagnon was sentenced a number of Martin's children and family members gave emotional statements about the killing.
Cathy Fisk, Martin's sister, said 17 years was not enough time and she said Gagnon should spend the rest of his life in prison for what he did.
"Only a cold-blooded murderer would shoot a man in the back of the head," she said. "You are getting away with murder. I hope you are never free from the guilt."
Martin's other sister Jo Ann Berno said it was impossible to understand what Gagnon did that August morning.
She said that while she could not forgive him, she did have compassion for Gagnon's family, though she said she will fight to make sure Gagnon serves out his complete sentence.
"There is a deep sadness and emptiness that I feel on a daily basis. Our hearts have been broken," Berno said. "We will attend every parole hearing and make sure you are not released. The pain will never end for us."
Leah Martin, Michael Martin's daughter, said she did not want to see her father's killer, but said she came to honor him.
"I cry every day. The suffering is endless," she said. "Seventeen years is not enough. What you did is unforgivable."
And Ella Martin, another of his daughters, said Gagnon ripped apart her life.
Ella Martin said her father had been her sole parent after her parents divorced and she said Gagnon took away "the only man in my life who I trusted whole heartedly."
Sentencing of Paul Manafort in Virginia, by Judge Ellis. Reporters run out with news, but it isn't yet news of the sentencing term.
Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.
NJ Governor Phil Murphy announces that he is convening the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission created by the Legislature, to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the state’s criminal justice system on Sunday, February 11th, 2018. Carol McKenna/OIT/Governor’s Office.
NJ Governor Phil Murphy announces that he is convening the Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission created by the Legislature, to examine racial and ethnic disparities in the state’s criminal justice system on Sunday, February 11th, 2018. Carol McKenna/OIT/Governor’s Office.
I came up with this idea just as I was falling asleep the other night. After that I couldn't get back to sleep because it was all I could think about! I made the background and sign last night for today's photoshoot.
A Rethink Autism therapist teaching the Academic lesson 'Reading Sentences' using flash cards and a token board.
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A Chinese man who set his ex-wife on fire as she livestreamed to her online followers was sentenced to death on Thursday, concluding a murder case that received nationwide notoriety.
The victim, 30-year-old Lhamo, was a farmer and livestreamer in a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in southwestern Sichuan province. She was streaming a video of herself last September when a man burst in, poured gasoline on her and set her on fire. She died two weeks later.
Her ex-husband, Tang Lu, was arrested soon after. On Thursday in court, he was found guilty of homicide, sentenced to death and ordered to pay compensation, according to state-run broadcaster CCTV.
The court found his crime "was extremely cruel" and "deserves severe punishment," CCTV reported.
Tang had a history of physical abuse toward Lhamo, reportedly beating her many times before they divorced in June 2020, according to CCTV. In the following months, he repeatedly sought her out and asked to remarry, but was turned away -- leading to the murder.
The case was widely covered in national and international media, drawing attention for the gruesome nature of Lhamo's death -- as well as raising discussion on the larger problems surrounding women and violence in China. On Chinese social media, there was heated debate over how the country's legal system often fails to protect victims while easily pardoning perpetrators of abuse.
Heavy "finish the job" figther, more pics later !
Inspired a little by the Steppenwulf01 (peterlmorris)
Joshua Tree, CA - In December, former San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy Brian Derryberry was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison for sex crimes committed against female inmates at Morongo Basin Jail. t.co/MMh8RaX2yT (via Twitter twitter.com/LegalHerald/status/1082407803661238274)
A Doha Criminal Court has sentenced in absentia a Kenyan maid to one year in jail for stealing her employer’s jewellery, local Arabic daily Arrayah has reported.
The maid’s employer, a lady, had deported her earlier as she did not find her trustworthy. But later she saw the ...
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Police officer with students and civil rights attorneys, March 28, 1960. Photo by Jimmy Ellis, The Tennessean.
Jorge Luis Jimenez of Chicago, shown in a November 1954 photograph, was a Puerto Rican Nationalist Party member accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.
Luis Jimenez was sentenced in 1954 to six years in prison for sedition.
Sedition trial:
Following the wounding of five U.S. Representatives in the Capitol building March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalists who opened fire on them from a visitor gallery, the U.S. government began a series of mass arrests that resulted in two conspiracy trials 1954-55. A third trial took place in Puerto Rico.
The four participants in the shooting—Delores Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores Rodriguez and Andres Figueroa Cordero—were quickly arrested and convicted in the attack with sentences varying from 16 years to 75 years in jail.
But the federal government went further, convening three different grand juries, summoning 91 Puerto Ricans and bringing indictments against 17 members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party for “seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force.”
The four charged in the shootings were also among the 17 charged with conspiracy.
The indictment alleged that the defendants were “active members, leaders, officers or persons in control of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, which is charged to be an organization dedicated to bringing about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force of violence or armed revolution.”
In effect, the government was using the same strategy it was using to break up the U.S. Communist Party during that period. If you were an active member of the Nationalist Party, you were guilty even if you committed no illegal acts yourself.
Four of those charged turned state’s evidence and gave testimony against the other defendants.
At the first month-long trial in October 1954, much of the evidence against the group consisted of testimony by police or informers of speeches given by Nationalist Party leaders who had used slogans like, “Throw the Yankees out at pistol point,” “give your life and property for independence,” and saying that President Harry Truman “could be hanged in a place in San Juan.”
Many of the speeches dated prior to the 1950 attempted armed revolution in Puerto Rico by the Nationalist Party that was defeated and for which many party members were jailed in Puerto Rico.
Defense attorney Conrad J. Lynn charged the government sought “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Julio Pinto Gandia, a defendant who was acting as his own counsel and was the alleged leader of the group in the U.S., told the court that the party, founded in 1922, was not “a band of terrorists” and that any violent actions arose out of individual “despair.”
The most sensational specific testimony came from one of those indicted who turned state’s evidence--Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, brother of Delores Lolita Lebron who was the leader of the four shooters.
Lebron Sotomayor testified that Pinto Gandia told him there would be attacks on Congress, President Dwight Eisenhower and the Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner in Washington, but could not say how the plans would be carried out.
Other specific testimony involved another of those indicted who turned state’s evidence. Angle Luis Medina testified he had purchased a number of pistols and three carbines in Chicago at the direction of a party leader who told him “to be ready in case of a revolution” to free Puerto Rico.
The evidence against most of the defendants committing any specific illegal act was thin.
U.S. Attorney J. Edward Lumbard summed up the case saying that the Nationalist Party had supplied the pistols used in the U.S. Capitol shooting and a 1950 attempt to assassinate President Harry Truman and that each of the 13 defendants had their “moral fingerprints on the guns” used.
Lumbard further told the jury that the government did not have to prove that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government—only that they had conspired to overthrow the authority of the United States in Puerto Rico.
The defense called five witnesses to testify that the Nationalist Party did not advocate overthrow of the U.S. government and only sought total independence for Puerto Rico.
Lynn told the jury that the government was trying “proscription of a dissenting political group because of its ideas.”
Pinto Gandia had earlier sought dismissal of the indictments against the four shooters as double jeopardy and because the government, “intended to bring the guilt of the four defendants upon the other defendants by association or inference.”
He added, “it is not a crime to preach and work for the freedom of a nation and that membership in the Nationalist Party itself did not indicate anyone was part of a conspiracy.
The jury deliberated only a few hours before finding all the defendants guilty.
Two weeks after the verdicts, more arrests took place and a second trial scheduled.
The trial of 11 other Nationalists took place February-March 1955 and followed the same lines as the first trial, except that Lebron Sotomayer gave additional details to his earlier testimony.
Ten of the 11 were found guilty. Serafin Colon Olivera, 28 of New York, was acquitted. Testimony had indicated he was a Nationalist Party member in 1949 and attended a Nationalist dance in 1953.
Those found guilty in the two trials received sentences ranging from 18 months to six years in prison. Appeals failed.
In Puerto Rico, Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos hailed the attack as “sublime heroism.” The governor revoked a previous pardon of the party leader and he was arrested after a shootout and imprisoned.
Charges were placed against 15 party members on the island, however 12 were acquitted at trial in late 1954. The three found guilty were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3-10 years.
Albizu Campos’ health suffered badly in prison where he suffered a stroke in 1956 that left him unable to talk or walk. He was pardoned in 1964, but died a few months afterward.
The Nationalist Party was all but dead as a result of the U.S. trials and by suppression by authorities in Puerto Rico, although it continues to exist today.
First trial sedition trial in 1954:
Jorge Luis Jimenez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Manuel Rabago Torres, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Rosa Collazo, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Bernardo Lebron, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Juan Francisco Medina, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Armando Diaz Matos, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Julio Pinto Gandia, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Carmelo Alvarez Roman, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Jose Antonio Otero Otero, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Andress Figueroa Cordero, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Dolores Lolita Lebron, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Irvin Flores Rodriguez, one of 4 convicted shooters, sentenced to additional six years imprisonment
Second trial in 1955:
Juan Hernandez Valle, Puerto Rico, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Maximino Pedraza Martinez, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Santiago Gonzalez Castro, sentenced to six years imprisonment
Esteban Quinones Escute, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Angel Luis Arzola Velez, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Antonio Herrera Moreno, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Carmen Dolores Otero Torresola, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Pedro Aviles, sentenced to four years imprisonment
Julio Flores Medina, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Miguel Vargas Nieves, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
Those who turned state’s evidence:
Gonzalo Lebron Sotomayor, suspended sentence
Francisco Cortez Ruiz, suspended sentence
Carlos Aulet, suspended sentence
Angel Luis Medina, suspended sentence
Acquitted at May 1955 trial:
Serafin Colon Olivera
For more information and related images to the 1954-55 conspiracy trials of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, see flic.kr/s/aHskRMRawC
For more information and related images to the 1950 attempted assassination of President Truman and the 1954 wounding of five U.S. Representatives, see flic.kr/s/aHskghBC71
The photographer is unknown. The photo is believed to be a mugshot. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Irish Penal Reform Trust Open Forum 2010: 'Exploding Prisoner Numbers'. Main contributing guest speakers included Tom O'Malley NUI Galway; Inspector of Prisons, Judge Michael Reilly (Chairperson); Dr Mary Rogan, IPRT; Vivian Geiran, Director of Operations, The Probation Service; Louis Harkin, Assistant Commissioner, An Garda Síochána. Photo by Derek Speirs.
Mrs. John Bigelow was born Jane Tunis Poultney in Baltimore, Maryland in January, 1829. The Poultneys were a prominent and wealthy Quaker family, and Jane's father had amassed a fortune in banking, but in 1837 he was charged and convicted of manipulations which had closed The Bank of Maryland and led to a financial panic wherein thousands of people lost their life savings. The angry citizens of Baltimore rioted for seven straight nights, burning and looting the homes of those who were felt by the crowds to be responsible. Evan Poultney had published a pamphlet denying any guilt and explaining his side of the story, which was twice contradicted by his banking partners, but his story was evidently believed to some extent by the people of Baltimore, and later examinations of the evidence have suggested he may well have been completely innocent of wrongdoing, a pawn of his manipulative partners. Unlike his partners, Poultney did not flee the city when the riots started, and when the angry mob showed up at his family home, he spoke honestly and was able to convince them not to destroy the place. Still, as one of the the bank's officers, Evan Poultney was found guilty and sentenced to pay back enormous amounts of money, leaving his family somewhat disgraced and their fortunes significantly diminished. Poultney died a short time later. His widow and daughter soon moved to New York to live with a relative.
At a dancing party on Long Island the young and already popular Miss Poultney, a favorite of the wife of the city's then mayor, was introduced to 30 year old John Bigelow, a tall, intellectual and handsome attorney and writer who was easily rising in New York at the time. Not prone to being overly romantic, Bigelow first wooed his new love interest with the gift of two gallons of turtle soup left over from a cruise he had taken. Apparently the gift was well received. The couple was married within a matter of four months. John Bigelow wrote of his bride, "She was a woman of notable beauty and social charm. Her family deemed our courtship rather brief, but there seemed to be no occasion, on my part at least, for prolonging it." And later, years after her death (obviously still not relying on oversentimentality),
"What I owed to her, besides the children who have been the principal joy and comfort of my life, I could not, nor would I if I could, express in words. It is due to her memory, however, if I say anything, to express my conviction that without her my career in the world would not only have been very different from what it was, but far less satisfactory to myself and to others."
By all accounts, Jane Poultney Bigelow (always known to friends and family as "Jenny") was greatly devoted to her husband and children and they to her, yet she always remained quite independent. She was highly intelligent, known as a talented raconteuse, and had a unique, eccentric personality. One newspaper described her as "a force in Parisian life, who enjoyed the attention and esteem of a woman, vivacious, witty, and intellectually vigorous". When her husband was posted to Berlin, it was reported that Mrs. Bigelow’s staunch insistence on the superior quality of American pork (which was banned in Germany), led Bismarck to describe her as one of the brightest women he had ever met, and forced eight Royal auditors to admit that American pork was ‘good enough for anybody’. Oscar Browning, the author and educator who befriended the couple in Berlin, called Mrs. Bigelow an unconventional, warm hearted, delightful woman whose kindness he would never forget, and he noted that she was regarded as "quite the leader of foreign society" who was courted by the most distinguished people in Berlin. To Mrs. Henry Adams, she was "our erratic friend," to Julia Ward Howe, she was "the great woman," and her husband once described her behavior at a dinner with Charles Dickens as "audacious," but most people generally seemed to find her charming, brilliant and funny, if occasionally trying. Society writers noted that despite her independent nature and unusual habits, Mrs. Bigelow was not only tolerated but actively courted by Society and was welcomed into the oldest homes of both America and Europe. In New York, Paris and Berlin, Mrs. Bigelow was always considered a favorite hostess, particularly among folks from the literary or artistic worlds. She occasionally wrote some prose of her own and published a few works under the name Jenny P. Bigelow. When Oscar Wilde visited New York, Mrs. Bigelow was one of the chosen few to host a dinner party in his honor, and the New York times later reported that Wilde was seen riding in a carriage with Mrs. Bigelow at West Point. Wilde later dedicated a poem "to my friend Mrs. John Bigelow. Walt Whitman, Wilkie Collins, and William Thackeray were all entertained and charmed by her. A brief article from 1877 described her thus, "Mrs. John Bigelow, who would have been a leading lady at the White House if Tllden had come in, entertained the Grand Duke in her private box. She is a most gifted woman, speaks fluently in several languages, and has that gracious empressement of manner so peculiarly the characteristic of foreigners. Her dress of pale green satin was cut decollete with short sleeves, relieved by point lace; her Jewels were numerous and of great size and luster. Among other guests of note in her box, in addition to the royal party, were Aritarclile Bey, the Turkish minister; Baron Blanc, Mr. Borges, M. Bodisco, the Russian consul general;
Count and Countess Pollom, and Dr. Charles Young of England."
The following descriptions are taken from the book "Time and Travel" by H.R. Haweis, an English clergyman and writer who had socialized with the Bigelows in New York as well as Europe. Reverend Haweis was criticized by some New York newspapers for what he wrote about the late Mrs. Bigelow. Some of his stories are not terribly flattering and some feel a bit exaggerated to me, but it seems he actually admired the lady and probably never intended any insult.
"No one who ever met Mrs. John Bigelow of New York was likely to forget her. Even as she aged, she always retained the marks of that brilliant beauty that dazzled the court circles at Paris and Berlin during her early visits, where her unconventional sincerities alternately alarmed and amused the old world aristocracies, her wit and her personal fascination always saving her so as by fire, though it was said the Emperor never forgave her for sending her servants to the Imperial box at the opera, which he had placed at her disposal. And no one in any corner of the globe ever got the better of Mrs. John Bigelow; she remained to the day of her death a sort of social enigma and wonder. She delighted in extricating herself from almost impossible situations; and often when she had duped everyone into supposing her a negligible quantity, she would suddenly turn the tables on the company and then laugh in the most genial and forgiving manner at their discomfiture.
She first came over to England on the Duke of Sutherland's yacht. She went to Court and nearly slapped the Prince of Wales on the back. She chaffed the Prince Imperial, afterwards the Emperor Frederick, and rallied him on the old Berlin days when her beauty and singular bonhomie and unconventionality had made the solemn Germans sit up and stare with bewildered amusement at her ways and her wit. One day she would dress quite shabbily, the next in heavy velvet or satin, and always carried about a large carpetbag, opening it everywhere; string, pomatum, slippers, curios, handkerchiefs and I don't know not what besides fell out and were bundled back in again. Mrs. Bigelow was always late; she had no sense of time and forgot half her engagements, or pretended to. Mrs. Bigelow was a person not to be analyzed. She got the entree wherever she meant to; from the court to the kitchen, and was quite as much at home with a queen as with a cook. There was no one to whom she could not tell something about their own business which they did not know before; no one she could not advise pithily and often wisely. She read off people, took their measure, and giggled or cried with them. A mixed, stilted, prejudiced company were like a pack of children in her hands in a quarter of an hour. She did not wait to be chosen - she just chose which of the company she wanted to talk to, and it seemed at last as if everyone was just waiting for his or her turn to walk and talk with Mrs. John Bigelow. Genius, of course, is interesting, but it is (diplomatically) embarrassing; and it has been rumored that the American Embassy in London would have been open to John Bigelow had it not been for the eccentricities of this most fascinating but somewhat embarrassing lady."
The Reverend no doubt meant to slyly apply a slight tinge of scandal by mentioning Mrs. Bigelow's escort to London, the Duke of Sutherland. In fact the Bigelows had met the duke already, but during his first trip to New York in 1882, the duke arrived on his gorgeous yacht with a group of friends including Mrs. Blair, the duke's oft-discussed mistress. Society was in a quandary as to whether it was appropriate to have a dinner or party for a high ranking English nobleman who openly travelled with his mistress. Mrs. Bigelow not only entertained the Duke and his mistress, she became a good friend of Mrs. Blair. During some ensuing summer Mr. Bigelow planned to go to London to join his wife, who was already staying there in the home of the notorious Mrs. Blair. He wrote to his wife, pointing out that he could not possibly be seen visiting that house, as it just wouldn't be proper. I don't know how that turned out, but Mrs Bigelow didn't always do proper. She was evidently drawn to intelligent and artistic people, and she prized individuality. Mrs Bigelow seems to have gotten along with the somewhat cantankerous socialite Mrs Paran Stevens, who was said to be either loved of hated by New Yorkers. Another friend was the slightly notorious Mrs. Hicks-Lord, a.k.a. "the Duchess of Washington Square," the thrice widowed socialite who lived in a sort of treasure house and owned what was said to be the most valuable jewelry collection in the city. Mrs. Hicks-Lord's party guests were always diverse. She managed her own businesses and was unusually generous. The lifetime salary bequeathed to her maid reportedly made the former servant "the wealthiest colored woman in New York". Mrs. Bigelow was also friendly with another somewhat notorious woman, Mrs. Fortescue. The name was a pseudonym. Actually named Minnie O'Shea, Mrs. Fortescue was the mistress of Robert B. Roosevelt, an uncle of Teddy Roosevelt, a politician, businessman, writer, conservationist and sometime poet. Roosevelt had audaciously set up Mrs. Fortescue in a townhouse on the same block where his wife and family lived, and everyone in New York knew it. After his wife's death, Roosevelt did marry her and legally adopt their children. Another good friend of Mrs. Bigelow's was a great character by the name of Mrs. Ayer, the very wealthy widow of a patent medicine manufacturer from Chicago who moved to New York to establish herself, but was more or less rejected by Society. Mrs. Ayer was known "for her splendid toilets" and wore different colored wigs each day, depending on her mood. She was often covered in ostentatious jewels as well. Some New Yorkers mocked her, but Mrs. Bigelow found her fun and clever. The Bigelows took her to Washington and then to Europe to introduce her around. She was briefly engaged to a cousin of the Russian Tzar. Although she didn't marry, she found a new home in France, where she was more accepted, and she spent the rest of her life in a castle outside Paris. Of course this gave Mrs. Bigelow a place to stay when she was in France too. I found an article about the two friends attending church in Vichy one summer. The judgmental headline read "Two Conspicuous Women" and solely consisted of a critique of their allegedly "too-colorful" outfits.
I'm not really sure why Reverend Haweis saw Mrs. Bigelow as "embarassing". She did not always suffer fools gladly, but I never found any hint of a feud between her and anyone in Europe. She seems to have been very well liked there. There were a few American women who didn't exactly love her though. One was Julia Kean Fish, the wealthy wife of Governor Hamilton Fish. John Bigelow and his political ally William Seward came out publicly against Fish when he was first suggested for the role of US Secretary of State, although they later admitted he did his job well. Mrs. Fish was described as irreproachable and dignified. One night the Fishes and Bigelows were leaving some event at the same time, and another guest offered to drive them all home in his carriage, so they all piled in. Apparently Mrs. Fish was very unhappy that she had to share a carriage with these other people, and she would not stop loudly complaining about her dress getting wrinkled because there were too many people in the carriage. Eventually Mrs. Bigelow had had enough and told Mrs. Fish she should just be grateful that they had a ride. She almost immediately apologized for her tone, though, so apparently she had really snapped at Mrs. Fish. On another similar occasion the two couples were leaving some event late at night and Mr. Bigelow called for a carriage. When the carriage arrived, the Fishes immediately jumped in. Mr. Bigelow explained that he had called for that carriage, but the Fishes would not exit. Mr. Bigelow held the horse's reins and wouldn't let go until a policeman showed up. The cop asked the Fishes to get out and the Bigelows went home. There doesn't appear to have been much shared social activity between the couples after that, but in Germany Mrs Bigelow became very friendly with the wife of Nicholas Fish, the couple's oldest son, who held a diplomatic post in Berlin at the same time Bigelow did. Unfortunately Nicholas Fish was a hopeless alcoholic who ended up dying violently in some dive bar in Manhattan, and there was bad blood between the various Fish family members afterward. Another American woman who seems to have been sort of an "enemy" to Mrs. Bigelow was Annie Adams Fields, the Boston wife of James Fields, the American publisher for Charles Dickens. Annie Fields seems to have hated Mrs. Bigelow from the moment they met in London. Mrs. Fields clearly adored Dickens, spent time at his home in England, and seemed to feel he could do no wrong. The Bigelows and the Fields both attended a small dinner party in the home of William Thackery in 1860, and Mrs. Dickens was a guest too. In her diary Mrs. Fields called Mrs. Bigelow "loud" and said she was the type that gave Americans a bad name. In her own diary Mrs Bigelow wrote of her new friendship with Thackeray's daughter. Eight years later when the Bigelows visited the Fields and Charles Dickens in Boston, it became obvious that Mrs Fields' feelings had not softened. On that night, in her diary, she expressed the opinion that "poor Mr. Bigelow" was unfitly married, and she refered to Mrs. Bigelow as "such an incubus". She and Dickens seem to have had fun trashing Mrs. Bigelow when she wasn't around. I'm not really sure why. If Mrs. Bigelow knew how much Mrs. Fields disliked her, which I suspect she did, she didn't mention it.
Another popular story about Mrs. Bigelow involved her meeting with "Ouida" the pseudonym used by the English novelist Maria Louise de la Ramée who presided over an elaborate villa outside Florence, Italy. The following is from an 1887 newspaper article.
"When Mrs. John Bigelow was in Florence she desired to see Ouida. With Mrs. Bigelow to desire to do a thing is but one step from doing it. She therefore drove to Ouida's villa, and presented herself in her usual emphatic way at the door. She was shown into a reception room, and in a loud voice said to the valet - "Will you tell Mddle. de la Ramee that Mrs. John Bigelow of New York would like to speak with her? Hardly had the message been given when a voice from the next room was heard in tones especially loud in reply - "Tell Mrs. John Bigelow of New York that I don't want to see her or any other American; I don't like them." Mrs. Bigelow rose and answered the invisible lady of the house with "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Americans are the only fools that read your nasty books anyway." In another moment the two well-matched women were face to face, and within half an hour the novelist was urging her American caller to become a guest. "Do come and stay a month with me," she urged, "I should so enjoy studying your character." "It would do you good," was Mrs. Bigelow's quick response, "you don't seem to have known any decent women."
Mrs. Bigelow suffered a slow, painful death from Brights Disease, finally passing away in February of 1889. The New York Times reported her illness, but she sent a letter to the editor denying that there was anything wrong with her, perhaps unsurprisingly. The New York papers reporting on her funeral noted that it was thronged with people from all walks of life, including the Vice President, the Mayor, businessmen, artists, actors, socialites, military, professors, clergymen, animal rights activists and servants. Her social circle must have been enormous.
Mrs. Bigelow was buried in the Bigelow family plot in Peacedale Cemetery.
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I thought I'd add this. It's from a Rochester, NY newspaper and was written long after Mrs. Bigelow's death, but the writer clearly knew his subject and had an interesting take on her unusual personality.
"Once more going the rounds of the press, the Chronicler finds the old story about how "the mother of Poultney Bigelow "the schoolmate of the German Emporer" once sent her servants to occupy the French Imperial box, which had been placed at her disposal for the evening by Napoleon III at the Opera in Paris. The story is old and hardly worth retelling, for everybody who is at all familiar of the current gossip of New York Society twenty odd years ago knows a dozen better stories about the unconventional and independent doings of "the mother of Poultney Bigelow, the schoolmate of the German Emporer.". The Chronicler is moved to refer to the old story solely to the astoundingly banal description selected by the story's latest narrator whose evident total incapability of the crime of "lese majesty" should make him an ideal German subject as best fitted to particularize one of the most conspicuous, celebrated and memorable social figures of her time as if the fact that one of her sons, in his boyhood, happened to be the playmate of a Hohenzollern youngster, who has succeeded to the German throne, was her principal, if not her sole distinction. The dominant trait of that brilliant, audacious and independent woman, at once social queen and social rebel, Mrs. John Bigelow, as Society knew her, was her utter contempt for snobbery, or anything that struck her as the savoring of snobbery. She ranked herself and those she met, in Europe and America, solely by virtue of their individuality, and she justly rated her own individuality high. She cared less than nothing for the rank, wealth, fashion, ceremonies and etiquette that the world over which she queened held venerable. She claimed and held pre-eminence over it solely by virtue of her own personality. She was a woman of blameless life and not a fool. Therefore she was entitled to meet any woman in the world on terms of at least equality, and therefore she was, by divine right, entitled to the respect and chivalric deference and the service of every man, be he emperor, statesman, warrior, her son or husband, acquaintance or passing stranger, whom chance brought near her throne of womanhood. There was something admirable in her theory, but there are not many women so circumstanced and personally qualified that they could practically live up to it as consistently, as comfortably, as absolutely immune from snubs, as did brilliant, forceful and dominating Mrs. John Bigelow.
Herein lies the probable explanation of those eccentric doings of hers that form the basis for those thousand and one tales, true and false, of which she was the heroine, that used to furnish New York Society with an unfailing fount of small talk. When the Emporer of France placed his opera box at the disposal of the wife of the American minister to France, he was merely honoring himself as a gentleman by a polite attention to a lady. He could not, of course, be accused of such a "gaucherie" as imagining that, by so doing, he was placing her under any obligation as to the use of the box, or otherwise. If, despite herself, she felt especially gratified by this attention by an emperor, all the more reason she should vindicate her theory to herself and the world, by sending her servants to occupy the box. In her later years she carried this theory very far. She seemed to be lying in wait for opportunities to practically protest against anything that appeared to her an assumption of artificial superiority - to turn and tend the most harmless "convenance". There were indications that her scorn of affectation may eventually have become something of an affectation of her own later in life. The social function at which a fresh toilet and the best gloves were especially in order was the social function at which Mrs. John Bigelow was most apt to appear at her dowdiest with no gloves at all or with gloves long past their prime. The more distinguished her hostess and the more brilliant and crowded the reception over which that hostess was presiding, the more likely was Mrs. John Bigelow to adopt some extraordinary means, such as insisting upon disarranging and rearranging that hostess's coiffure in the face of the assembled multitude, for reminding the hostess and the company that this "grand dame" was only a woman after all. The more distinguished the company she might invite to dine with her at her country house at Highland Falls, the more certain she was to "forget all about it" and regale her guests on cold boiled mutton. The time her friend, a distinguished General, Commandant of West Point, issued forth from his quarters with unusual pomp and circumstance, to preside over some notably important military ceremony of graduation week "on the plain" was the time that Mrs. John Bigelow would ask the officer to hold her horse for her while she stepped out of her phaeton to chat with some distinguished member of the Board of Visitors. What time her son, then a tactical officer at "The Point" was receiving the report of the cadet adjutant at evening parade, in all the bravery of full cavalry uniform and all the inflexibility of dignity required, according to the regulations and traditions of the army, by that occasion, was the time he had most to dread public proclamations by his mother that, in her view, this imposing military statue in army blue and cavalry yellow, was merely a quite unimpressive boy of hers and that she wanted him to drive home with her to supper or something of that kind.
The Chronicler has in mind how completely the "whirligig of time" has brought "in his revenge's" on this independent lady, who all her life was persistently and determinedly blind to reflected luster from any source and would have none of it for herself, but is now, it appears, deemed indescernible except by the doubly reflected luster of a very cheap, feeble and snobbish glory. Mrs. Bigelow was undoubtedly proud of her husband's ability and reputation, of his achievements in journalism, in literature, in diplomacy, in the high esteem in which he was held by all men. But she set them altogether aside from herself. She would not be thought of, and never was thought of as "the wife of the Honorable John Bigelow". Indeed it was rather the other way around. She was fond of her children and proud of their legitimate claims to distinction. But she would never submit to be distinguished by any distinction of theirs. The Chronicler shudders endeavoring to adequately imagine what would have happened to one who might have been so superfluous as to have referred to her in her presence as "the mother of the well-known writer Poultney Bigelow," or "the mother of that clever Miss Grace Bigelow, who translated Count Moltke's , "Letters from Russia," or even as "the mother of that gallant cavalry officer, Captain John Bigelow U.S.A. who, falling on the slope of San Juan Hill with four Mauser bullets in him, waved away his faithful colored troopers who paused to help him, crying to them "Never mind me! Go on. You're needed up there!"
And now, helpless and silent, she must leave unrebuked the poor snob who, dazzled by cheap glitter "made in Germany" past perception of her real claims, personal and family, to "memorableness" thinks to honor her to the world as "the mother of the man who used to know the German Emperor". In truth the force of snobbery could scarcely further go. It is enough to make Mrs. Bigelow turn in her grave."
5 de outubro Shalom Pentecostal Church Burlington NJ Pastor Carlos Alencar
On Sept 12, 2013; Pereira was found guilty of rape, he received a sentence of 15 years.
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Para mas informação:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G06PuZ-q1To
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“Pastor Marcos, que não é pastor, é homem de confiança do Marcinho com a sociedade, já matou pessoas com o Marcinho. Ele lava o dinheiro do Marcinho" noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/policia/,0ee8c4cf29942410Vgn...
It is rather unusual for a photographer, to be able to take photos of his assassin, before he is killed; or for that matter, for a photographer to take a series of photographs of the individual who later on, would place a murder contract on the photographer.
That is exactly the case with this photo series.
On Oct. 2009, I did a series of photos and videos of Brazilian Pastor, Marcos Pereira da Silva, who appears on most of the photos of this series, while he visited the NY-NJ Region in Oct., 2009.
Soon after, I decided to stop doing this work, because of many illegalities witnessed of Pereira da Silva.
Months later and until the present, Pereira da Silva, did place a murder contract on Branko, because of the information that Branko had acquired of Pereira's wrongdoings.
During the beginning of March 2012, several people have denounced Pereira da Silva in Brazil.
The charges are for child brutality, rape, killings, placing murder contracts on other individuals, etc.
One of his denouncers has called him, "one of the biggest criminal minds of Rio de Janeiro", and I, by my own experience, happen to agree.
On May 7 2013, Pastor Marcos Pereira, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
He is indicted for several rapes, some minors. He is also being investigated for Money Laundering for Drug Cartels, Conspiracy to commit several murders.
Several killers contracted by Pereira, continue trying to kill Branko to this date.
The FBI, Newark Police and Newark's US District Attorney's Office have done a Cover up of Pereira's Case in the US.
Branko
Esta serie fotografica, feita por Branko, do Pr. Marcos Pereira da Silva, foi feita na area de NY-NJ, em uma visita de Pereira da Silva aos USA, na area de NY-NJ em Out. 2009.
Depois de poucos dias, decidi suspender esta serie fotografica, porque descobri informação de Pereira da Silva, sobre ele fazer lavagem de dinheiro para narcotraficantes no Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Por causa disto, Pereira da Silva tem pago assassinos para me matar, desde o començo de 2010 ate o presente.
Recentemente, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; no mes de Março 2012, tem aparecido muitas denuncias contra Pereira da Silva, por estupro, violencia infantil, ameaça de morte.
Em Março 7 2013, Marcos Pereira foi preso por varios estupros, incluindo menores. Tambem tem uma investigação de Pereira fazer lavagem de dinheiro para traficantes, conspiração de Pereira em varios assassinatos.
Varios assassinos contratados por Pereira, continuam querendo matar Branko ate a presente data.
O FBI, Policia de Newark e o esritorio do Promotor do Governo nos US em Newark, tem feito um encobertamento do crimes de Pereira nos US e os atentados de assassinato de Pereira em contra de Branko nos US
Branko