Dolphin - Bloody Madame LaLaurie
1834, April 10 - A fire broke out in the LaLaurie mansion (there was a ball that evening). It seems that the fire was started by two slaves who were chained to the stove where they prepared food for the masters (according to another version, it was a slave cook). They wanted to attract attention, while they themselves risked being burned alive, but their despair overcame their fear.
According to rumors, the owner of the burning mansion refused to give the keys so that the neighbors could not enter the attic where the slaves were and save them. When the door was broken open and people were able to enter the courtyard kitchen, the hair stood on end. All due to the fact that there were found chained to the floor and to the walls of the mutilated black slaves of different ages. Madame LaLaurie's slaves were terribly mutilated, some were missing limbs, and one slave had a stick sticking out of his head, with which the mistress wanted to stir his brains. The next day, the newspapers covered these terrible events in full detail.
Twelve slaves were brutally mutilated. Some of them have suffered from some kind of medical experience. There they found a man whom they wanted to transform into a woman. And the attic of the mansion, where the mistress did not want to let people in to extinguish the fire, was furnished as a medical laboratory with an auxiliary room that resembled the torture chamber of the Inquisition.
Delphine McCarthy was born into a noble and very wealthy family in 1775 in Louisiana. Her father was a native of Ireland, was engaged in the slave trade and was killed during a rebellion of black slaves in one of the American colonies. From childhood, parents instilled in their daughter a love of luxury and complete contempt for ordinary people and slaves.
1800 - Dolphin gets married for the first time. Her choice fell on the high-ranking Spanish officer Don Ramon de López Angullo. Dolphin was a beautiful and graceful girl. Her movements and manners were refined and arrogant, it was not for nothing that her appearance was noted by the Spanish queen herself, who blessed the marriage of her officer Don Ramon, and who soon received the post of consul of Spain in America. And a few years later, Don Ramon was going to head the legal proceedings in Spain, but on the way to Madrid, Don stopped in Havana, where he died suddenly.
Dolphin did not grieve for a long time, as an offer was made to her at speed by the richest slave trader Jean Blanc, who belonged to the high society of New Orleans. 1808, June - a luxurious wedding took place. Apparently, the woman adopted his cruel manner of dealing with black slaves from her second husband. Dolphin gave birth to her second husband four children, and he bought a new mansion for the family on Rue Royal 409, which the townspeople began to call "Villa Blanc". The main occupation of a married couple is balls and soire in the French manner; the whole elite of New Orleans gathered at their receptions.
It so happened that the slave trader did not stay long in this world and died in 1816. It was at this moment that the Dolphin's own cousin, Augustan de McCarthy, became mayor of New Orleans. Another admirer of the beauty is the young dentist Leonard Louis Nicolas LaLaurie, who was 10 years younger than Delphine. He had a good position in society and decent means.
Promotional video:
1825 June - Delphine becomes Madame LaLaurie. Soon, the dentist Monsieur LaLaurie buys his wife a mansion on Rue Royal 1140, having converted a room in the attic into a medical office for experiments.
This mansion was built according to the project, which was approved by Delphine LaLaurie herself. The household and all the housekeeping work were done by dark-skinned slaves, there were more than 30 of them in the mansion. And already in 1832, neighbors began to complain about the owners of the mansion for their cruel treatment of slaves.
Once the neighbors behind the high fence saw how Delphine LaLaurie and the servants were chasing after a 12-year-old black girl (for the fact that she had badly combed her mistress), whom they were finally able to drive into the mansion. But the girl still managed to escape from the hands of the sadist and, running out onto the balcony, threw herself from the 3rd floor into the courtyard. As a result of the fall, the girl received multiple fractures and injuries. Nobody tried to heal the baby. And a few days later she died of her injuries. As it turned out later, this girl was very afraid that for her offense she would be sent to the office in the attic, all the guilty slaves got there, and from where no one returned in the same form. The neighbors reported the death of a 12-year-old child to the police. However, her connections and social status helped Delphine LaLaurie get off with a $ 500 fine.
Someone was brought into the yard or the kitchen without an arm, someone without a leg, some “simply” got off with broken limbs, and some were castrated, they were such that they disappeared forever in a room in the attic. Slaves could be summoned to the attic for a minor offense It meant only one thing - terrible torture and death.
After the fire was extinguished, the police and firefighters found a girl in the mansion who lived in a 60x60 cm cage. The fiends broke her legs and arms in such a way that she looked like a crab. She could move in the same way.
Another slave had arms and legs amputated. And on her body with a scalpel scars were made in such a way that the girl's body looked like the torso of a caterpillar.
The people of New Orleans could not understand why a respected and prosperous married couple were engaged in sadism. Two days after the fire, countless mobs of poor people and dark-skinned slaves gathered outside the sinister mansion of the LaLaurie family to lynch them. Only the help of reinforced police squads and military units saved this pair of monsters from lynching with the use of their own torture.
The LaLaurys fled in a carriage, taking their savings with them. They said that Madame LaLaurie changed her name and spent the rest of her life in her native Louisiana under the false name of a simple American woman. However, there is another version: the sadist was able to get to the nearest port, and went by boat to Paris, where she did not change her habits and spent time in high French society. This version has a right to exist. At one time in the cemetery of St. Louis during its transfer they found a tombstone, where it was written: “Marie Delphine LaLaurie. 1775-1842.
The creepy mansion has changed owners several times since that time. All of them eventually refused to stay in it due to the appearance of ghosts and screams coming from the attic at night. As you can see, these are the restless souls of the victims of the bloody Dolphin LaLori.