Early in 1830 Mrs. Mary Delphine and her third husband, Doctor Leonard Lewis, bought the large house in 1140 Royal Street. Upon her move, Mary began to furnish the house with the finest furniture, utensils, gold and silver plates and original paintings of the most famous artists. But behind all this Mary was hiding the other face of a terrible woman who is not compassionate ....
Mary Delphine was born around 1775 in New Orleans after her father, Prathelmi Lewis McCarty, moved there from Ireland in 1730. Her mother, Mary Jane, known as the Widow Waked because Mary's father was her second husband was loved among the people. Mary's family were prominent members of the White New Orleans community and her cousin Augustine de McCarty was mayor of New Orleans from 1815 to 1820. On June 11, 1800, Mary married her first husband, Don Ramon Lopez de, a high-ranking Spanish officer at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. In 1804, her husband became Consul General of Spain in Louisiana. In the same year, Delphin and Don Ramon traveled to Spain. However, Ramon never arrived there because of his death in Havana on his way to Madrid. During the trip, Mary Delphine was born to her daughter, Mary Burgia, and returned to New Orleans. In June 1808, Mary Delphine married Jean Blancy, a prominent banker, trader, lawyer and legislator. When he married, Blancky bought a house at 409 Royal Street in New Orleans for his new family and later became known as Villa Blancie. Four girls from her husband Blancie "Marie-Louise Pauline, Louise Marie-Laure, Marie-Louise Jean, and Jean-Pierre Pauline." Blancie died in 1816. Mary Delphine married her third husband, the physician Leonard Luis Nicola Lalori, who was much younger than her marriage on 25 June 1825. Exactly 1831 years later the couple bought a property in 1140 Royal Street, Three-storey palace and the purchase of four slaves.
Torture Room:
On April 10, 1834, a fire broke out in the Mary Delphin Palace. The fire led to the discovery of a torture room where slaves were brutally tortured for long periods by their master Mary Delphin. During the fire, Mary was busy moving her valuables out of the house and neighbors helped her. But they soon noticed that there were no Mary's servants and wondered how they would not help their mistress and where they all went and when they knew of their house arrest they appealed to Mary to release them or at least give them The key was to get them out but she refused completely. Then Mary ignored them and rushed into the house and smashed the doors. Inside they first found a 70-year-old black woman who had been hung in the kitchen during the fire because she had been stabbed earlier by her mistress Mary Which did not bother to unravel the restraints of Heb And freed her because she was busy saving her luxury furniture. The woman later revealed that she had set the fire on fire so that she could kill herself and escape the torment she was always subjected to. The woman then led them to a room in the upper house where a large group of slaves were found. They were subjected to various kinds of torture, of which seven were men with iron bands around their necks. Their legs were also made of iron bracelets connected with chains attached to the ground and walls.
Torture Room:
The nails inside his body and some of them locked in cages of small animals and some of them skinned in a room called the torture room. The situation of the slaves was all very bad because of the great number of torture and the lack of food. The wounds and the deformities covered large patches of their bodies, but the torture of the slaves was not strange at the time. On the contrary, the treatment of the slaves was sadistic and brutal, known among the rich classes of society. Outside the jurisdiction of the police, which were also white. Marie knew her mistreatment of the slaves. In 1833, Mary Delphine chased a little girl of slaves with a whip until the girl fell from the roof of the house and died. Her husband tried to cover up the incident but the police found the girl's body hidden in a well. Mary was fined and ordered to sell all her slaves. But succeeded in evading the punishment with the help of relatives and friends who secretly bought slaves to her and were returned to the palace where she continued to torture them until the night of the fire in April 1834. Perhaps the reason for Marie's hatred of the slaves and treating them in this way is what was narrated about her mother's death Her uncle was killed by a slave and her family was severely damaged by the slave revolution in 1811. With the discovery of the torture of the slaves in Mary's house, a wave of anger spread among all the blacks and sympathizers, gathered at the door of the house demanding the trial of Mary and her family But the authorities did not yield to their demands as well She tried to stop her and ran behind her car. But they could not keep up with the speed of the horse. Mary fled in front of everyone. It was not clear exactly where Mary went. He says she boarded a ship sailed to Mandeville, there are also those who say she headed to Covington and stayed there for 10 days. While others claim that she made her way to New York and then to Paris and with no certainty where Mary went, it remains another mystery among many of the mysteries surrounding Mary Delphine ...!
During the fire and the interest of the press in the house of Laurie, everyone was unaware of the third order of her doctor, Leonard Luis Nicola Lalori. He was not present during the fire, and before that there were those who testified that they had not seen him before the accident. They did not know where he went. He said that he had found another grave that was similar to the fate of his wife's slaves. Concerns about this were caused by the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of her first and second husband. Some of the doubts were the finding of a cracked copper tomb at the St. Louis cemetery in Paris, France, Marie Delphin died in Paris on 7D In 1842, "but according to the archives of the official papers in Paris, Marie died on December 7, 1849 and did not mention anything about her husband if he had been right to them, as it was said, because it was not buried near or at least because there are no papers of his own in the archive He found to his wife and some wondered whether the disappearance of the doctor Leonardo is related to the accusation that was directed against him, which was that the doctor is the one who held the slaves and tortured for the conduct of some medical experiments a number of people testified that the doctor Leonardo was not friendly or loved among his acquaintances So one of the neighbors was working as a judge when he asked the doctor "Some people would be better off staying at home rather than going to the homes of others to get the rules and interfere in their work," he said.
Ghosts Location:
Many of the stories about the ghost of some of the slaves in the house and one of the most famous ghosts seen is the ghost of the little brown girl killed by Mary, there is also a white ghost was seen several times and it is said that this ghost is the doctor Leonardo Marie's husband and explained the reason why the ghost Is that he was probably killed inside his home and by his wife ....
