Slash and Dash!

Dash!

This story comes from Strange Crow blogsplop, and they've done a great tale of The

Witch of Staten Island.

New York was top, so close enough.

Yeah, you know about but can you touch them

Probs so we can do this one and I'm going to read it in my key stage one teaching voice I don't teach

key stage one for anyone is age 7 and under 5 to 7. I don't fuck with them.

So, but sometimes I do have to speak to them and I will do it like this.

So, on Christmas night in 1843, the holiday peace in Staten Island, New York

was shattered by the sound of fire alarms.

The home of sea captain George Houseman had erupted in flames.

The head of the household was away on a fishing trip, but remaining in the home were his wife

Emeline and their baby daughter, Anne Eliza.

George's sister, Mary Polly, houseman, lived across the street with her father and her teenage daughter Eliza.

In 1824, Polly married Andrew Brodine, but the marriage quickly soured, and they had been separated for many years.

When George was away, Polly would stay overnight with her sister-in-law to keep her company.

This particular night, however, she was nowhere to be found.

After the conflagration had been extinguished, some neighbours began investigating the damaged

house.

They quickly discovered a whole lot more than they had been bargaining for.

The home had evidently been ransacked with a number of valuables missing.

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