Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[Veronica]

    I've got a riddle concerning 'Harriet Lane'.
Anniversary-Lavinia-Wainwright-Harriet Lane and Lea; to what part of history do I refer too?
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L Verge you are warm by thinking of the second sea battle of Galveston, which occurred on New Years Day 1863, but I have cheated a bit.

Answer; Thirteen years later after the sea battle of Galveston, in UK London, there was a Whitechapel mystery also known as the 'Anniversary murder'.
The Wainwright brothers were involved in the murder of one Harriet Lane (as she was named in the newspapers). Henry Wainwright had met her at the River Lea.
At the first site, it looks like a case of 'overkill', two bullets were found in her skull and one was found in her hair bun. The shots were heard by three workmen and her time of death was pinned on September 11th, 1874. In 1875, 11th of September Henry and Alice Day, a ballet dancer, was arrested they were in the possession of the remains of the victim, known to be Harriet Louise Lane, which was exported to an Elizabethan former Inn 'Hen & Chickens in Southwark.
The body was chopped-up in 1875 but her hands were chopped at an earlier date possible in 1874.
The chemical of Chloride of Lime was wrongly used and instead of destroying, it conserved the remains including her tongue that was mummified.

Place next to it Jonothan Thomas Scharf's text from. 'History of the Confederate States Navy' page 507 the three bullets found with the Whitechapel victim Harriet Lane ties-up with the information of Scharf and I quote, 'The Bayou City was the first to open fire on the Lane with her thirty-two-pound rifled gun. Several shots were fired -the second striking her behind the wheel, knocking a large hole in her. As he fired again, Cap. Weir called out, "Well, here goes for a New Year's present!" and the gun exploded, killing him instantly.'
The vessel 'Harriet Lane' became ' Lavinia' a blockade runner (Scharf wrote 'The Lane')
Now there is still a matter of the chopped hands and mummified tongue of the victim known as Harriet Louisa Lane.
In Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus' the daughter of this Roman General 'Lavinia' was ravished by two men (brothers). After their deed, they chopped her hands preventing her from writing down their names and removed her tongue to silence her.
Lavinia was able to inform her father of what had happened to her through a book of 'Ovid's Metamorphosis' her father was shocked and uttered the words, "Junius Brutus swear for the rape of Lucrese!"
Ovid's Metamorphosis was translated by the poet William Congreve. The Whitechapel killer silenced the victim through death, hence the mummified tongue.
Harriet's father worked at the Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey, the mill was closely linked with the inventor of the Congreve Rockets, used in the Battle of Waterloo and the attack of Maryland Baltimore.
Interesting is that the Lord Chief-Justice of England was Sir James Alexander Cockburn, his uncle was the Admiral of the fleet George Cockburn the one that had escorted Napoleon I to Saint Helena, he had also ordered the burning of Washington DC.

If it comes to Junius Brutus Booth, Professor Stephen M. Archer in ' Junius Brutus Booth Theatrical Prometheus wrote that Junius was on stage with the child actress Louisa Lane (see page 110, 111, 158)
Most information I have gathered from H.B. Irving 'Trial of the Wainwrights'.
George Cockburn was also the person that held Francis Scott Key on board the ship and witnessed the use of the Congreve Rockets at the attack of Fort McHenry and wrote his poem 'The red Spangled Banner'.
A niece of Mr. Key was married to John Surratt and the mother of the latter was born in America at a place called 'Waterloo'.

Well was this not a good riddle?