 Hope Masterton Waddell of the strangling of Mrs. Palmer at the adjacent Palmyra Estate in 1830.However the passage in Waddell's memoirs simply includes a footnote claiming that "The estate furnished scenes and characters for Dr. Moore's novel "Zeluco".The cellars and spikes used by a lady owner therefor the necks of her slaves I have seen, and also the bed on which she was found dead "one morning", having been strangled."