[1] The alternate version, more prominently upheld, depicts Belle to be the daughter of Irish Catholic parents in Baltimore.

[1][5] In December 1849, the couple moved to Sacramento, California and, while there, Belle helped fund Charles's high-stakes gambling.

[citation needed] Reverend William Taylor recounts the parlor house as being furnished with redwood, velvet, silk, demask, beautiful paintings and playing pianoforte, harp and melodeon.

[1] Even after an expensive legal battle and the lynching of her husband, Belle continued to run her brothel.

[11] Richardson's wife complained to the manager that the Coras were seated in the same balcony as she was, as she felt that area should be reserved for more respectable guests.

[15] Protests and lynch mobs erupted after the murder, so Mayor James Van Ness placed Charles under a higher security accommodation for his own safety.

[15][19] Belle funded several attorneys to represent Charles Cora including Edward Dickinson Baker and James A.

[20] Belle paid Edward Dickinson Baker $15,000 of his $30,000 retainer in gold and sent meals to Charles Cora while he was in jail.

[23] On 1856 May 18, in Sacramento, Governor Johnson, in response,[19] appointed William Tecumseh Sherman as the Major-General commanding of the San Francisco division of the California State Militia.

[citation needed] For fear of escape, 3,000 men and two field pieces led Charles to his execution,[15] at the committee's headquarters at 41 Sacramento Street in front of a crowd of 20,000.

In 1916, the San Francisco Bulletin published a serial on Cora by Pauline Jacobson and, as a result, Belle was disinterred and reburied with Charles beneath a common headstone at the Mission Dolores Cemetery.

[1] In the book Arresting Dress, the author Clare Sears opines that Cora inspires female financial agency and the use of sex for empowerment.