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Mary Sweeny, also known by the first names Maria, Marie, Marion, Mollie, Margaret, Harriet, Anna, Annie or Kit, and by the last names Sweeney, Ricks, Rix, Kelley, Beece, O'Brien, Haley and Anderson, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] was an American woman known as "the Window Smasher" because of her mania for breaking glass windows across Wisconsin and ...
May 6, 2013 · The Handsome Family's song "Woodpecker" tells the true story of Mary Sweeney, a woman who lived in the late 19th century and was known as the Wisconsin Window Smasher for her compulsive...
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Mary Sweeny, also known by the first names Maria, Marie, Marion, Mollie, Margaret, Harriet, Anna, Annie or Kit, and by the last names Sweeney, Ricks, Rix, Kelley, Beece, O'Brien, Haley and Anderson, was an American woman known as "the Window Smasher" because of her mania for breaking glass windows across Wisconsin and neighbouring states during ...
Mary Sweeney was a well-educated, middle-classed mom with a penchant for destruction. In the 1890’s, after a head injury, Mary began having manic episodes. S...
Charismatic figures emerge to grab their own headline space: Mary Sweeney, the Wisconsin Window Smasher, and opera singer Pauline L'Allemand, once the lead in Delibes' opera Lakmé, now...
Mary Sweeny, the window smasher, arrived in Marinette Monday . night and was1 given shelter at the county Jall. She was sent from West Bend, Wis., to Menominee, Mich., and from there was sent here. She was recently released from the Minnesota state asylum and then turned upon Wisconsin.
Videos. View Transcript. Mary Sweeney nicknamed The Window Smasher gained notoriety for her frenzied glass breaking escapades across Wisconsin in neighboring states during the 18 nineties. Her window breaking sprees were attributed to alcoholism and a vendetta against medical practitioners.
