Alice Maud Hartley

She came to the United States and married a silver prospector and miner named Henry Hartley in the Meadow Lake district of Nevada County, California in 1886.

[1] She told investigators and testified in court that she was approached by Senator Murray D. Foley, the bank president, who visited her in her studio and insisted that she drink some liquor with him, drugged brandy and benedictine, she said.

[3][4] She testified that Foley knocked at her door "several times on different nights afterward," and on February 25 she went into her room to find him inside.

[6] Mrs. Hartley was indicted by the Washoe County grand jury in August 1894[7] and went on trial the next month before an overflowing crowd of spectators.

On June 18 she and the baby were taken to the state prison in Carson City, where they were assigned to two adjoining rooms and she was given the privileges of a trusty.

A jury reported it stood 8 to 4 in favor of Mrs. Hartley, but could not reach a valid agreement, and the case was headed for a retrial when news came that the little boy had died of scarlet fever.

[16] Alice Maud Hartley and William S. Bonnifield of Winnemucca, Nevada, were married in San Francisco on January 4, 1899.