Song of the St. George Murder.

 

A Song Written in Memory of

The St. George Murder.

(excerpt)

In St. George, Me., as you shall hear,
It proves to be the fatal year -
That Mrs. Meservey, in the prime of life.
By a murderer's hand has lost her life.
...
Nathan Hart is the murderer's name,
Father and husband think of the shame,
Did he forget all woman kind,
Seek like a beast some prey to find?
...
God in His written book doth say, 
"With sin He's angry every day."
And if you covet what is wrong,
O, think of Hart at Thomaston.

This song about the 1877 murder of Mrs. Sarah Meservey in Tenant's Harbor, a village in the town of St. George, Maine, names Nathan Hart as the killer and justifies his life sentence in Thomaston Prison. Not everyone agreed that Hart was guilty. An 1882 book entitled The True Story of the Hart-Meservey Murder Trial claimed that Nathan Hart was railroaded.

Read the full story here: The Hart-Meserver Murder.