Lucretia B
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Has written the counterfeit signature of
Emptied the banker's money vault and wielded the assassin's dagger.
There is no depth of meanness to which it will not stoop.
There is no cruelty at which it is appalled.
There is no warning of God that it will not dare.
Merciless, unappeasable, fiercer and wilder, it blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crushes, it dams.
It has peopled Moya Mensing and Auburn and Sing Sing.
How many railroad agents and cashiers and trustees?
Of funds, it has driven to disgrace, incarceration, and suicide.
Witness a cashier of the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia who stole one hundred and three thousand dollars to carry on his gaming practices.
Witness the forty thousand dollars stolen from a Brooklyn bank and the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars taken from a Wall Street.
Insurance company for the same purpose, these are only illustrations on a large scale of the robberies every day committed for the purpose of carrying out the designs of gamblers.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars every year leak out without observation from the merchant's till.
Into the gambling hell.
A man in London, keeping one of these gambling houses, boasted that he had ruined a nobleman a day.
But if all the saloons of this land were to speak out, they might utter a more infamous boast, for they have destroyed a thousand noblemen a year.
Notice also the effect of this crime upon domestic happiness, it hath sent its ruthless ploughshare through hundreds of families until the wife sat in rags, and the daughters were disgraced, and the sons grew up to the same infamous practices, or took a shortcut to destruction.
across the murderer's scaffold.
Home has lost all charms for the gambler.
How tame are the children's caresses and a wife's devotion to the gambler?
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