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circumstances and the defense used this by claiming that she had been led to her crime blinded by love. She was sentenced to four years in prison in 1839. After her prison time she became a seamster and married four times in
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to the dislike of both her family and employer, and who followed him dressed as a man when he left the town with his regiment to enlist in order to be near him. On her way there, she was arrested for theft and exposed. The case attracted great attention in contemporary Dutch press for its romantic
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