Individual Details

Death

Op 3 Januarie 1714 het Marie Mouton en haar minnaar, die slaaf Titus van Bengal, haar man vermoor - met behulp van 'n ander slaaf, Fortuin van Angola.

Hulle het sy liggaam in 'n vlakvark se gat gestop, maar sy liggaam is ontdek nadat ander diere dit opgegrawe het.

Al drie is ter dood veroordeel vir hul aandeel in Franz Joosten se moord.

Die volgende teks is uit HCV Leibbrandt se Precis: Journal, 1699-1732:

September 1:
Maria Mouton, of Middelburg in Zealand, 24 years old, murders her husband with the assistance of her paramour the slave Titus of Bengal. She is sentences to be half strangled, after that to be scorched, and after that strangled unto death.

Titus to be empaled and to remain so, until death. After that his head and right hand are to be cut off and fixed on a pole, beyond the limits of his late master's property. Fortuin, an accomplice, is also to have his right hand cut off, and without receiving the coup de grace, is to be broken on the wheel. After that his head is to be cut off, and with his hand placed on a pole, together with the head and hand of Titus. After that the bodies are to be taken to the outside place of execution, and there left exposed to the air and vultures. The property of the woman is to be divided as follows: - A half of the half for the plaintiff, and the other half for the Orphan Chamber. Costs beforehand to be deducted.

September 3.
The slave Titus, above mentioned, died about midday, having lived in his misery about 48 hours; something horrible to think of, to say nothing of personally beholding the misery. It is said that 4 hours after his empalement he received a bottle of arrack from which he drank freely and heartily.

When advised not to take too much, lest he should get drunk, he answered that it did not matter, as he sat fast enough, and that there was no fear of his falling.

It is true that whilst sitting in that deplorable state, he often joked, and scoffingly said that he would never again believe a woman.

A way of dying, lauded by the Romans, but damnable among the Christians.