Preface.
Chapter I.,  II.,  III.,  IV.,  V.,  VI.
Postscript.
Appendix.
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PRICE, 12 1-2 CENTS.
THE
LIFE AND DEATH
OF
MRS. MARIA BICKFORD,
A Beautiful Female, who was
INHUMANLY MURDERED,
In the Moral and Religious City of Boston, on thenight of the 27th of October, 1845, by
ALBERT J. TIRRELL,
Her Paramour, arrested on board the Ship Sultana,
off New Orleans, December 6th.
BY A CLERGYMAN, OF BRUNSWICK, ME.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY ALL THE
PERIODICAL DEALERS.
1845
SECOND EDITION,—REVISED.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by Silas Estabrook, in the
Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.[1]
PREFACE.

“I COME NOT TO DESTROY.”—Our Savior.
For the principal facts embodied in the following narrative, the Authoris indebted to the ill-fated female who is the subject of them. It washis lot to be the bearer of a letter to her, in the spring of 1845, froma companion of her childhood. Aware of her forlorn condition, and ofmany acts of atrocity which characterized the latter part of her erringlife, he made it his purpose to learn the history of her career, whichwas frankly communicated by her own lips.
The Author tenders his acknowledgments to the person who generouslyplaced in his hands the original letters which reveal the passion flameof her FIRST LOVE with a medical student of Brunswick, in Maine. Thecontents of these letters establish the fact that this student becameher seducer, and that he afterwards heartlessly abandoned her toremorse, and the jeers of a scoffing world. She was but fifteen years ofage at the time of writing the letters, and they evince not only muchpurity and depth of feeling, but likewise a mind endowed with raregifts.
It is not a pleasing duty to record the vicissitudes of the unfortunate.To draw aside the veil which conceals the cherished treasures, theblighted hopes, and the undying remorse of an erring soul, tracedthrough long seasons of unredeeming, rayless wo, is to perform a laborfor the benefit of the living. In this the author has striven to befaithful, i                        
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