Winky does make a cameo. Check out the reflection in Bell's eye at the very end.
I found some pretty interesting stuff regarding Alice Riley:
http://www.sonic.net/~msnyder/femvio/fem/riley.htm
Alice Riley
First woman hanged in Georgia; allowed to deliver child before
being hanged for murder of
William Wise (claimed innocence)
Irish indentured servant.
Alice Riley and Richard White were lovers. The Irish servants were
allotted to a fellow Irish landowner, William Wise.
Wise, described by historians as "an Irishman of shady character" was
so intolerable that the Georgia Trustees wanted to send him back to
Ireland before his ship even got to Savannah. But Wise made
Hutchinson Island his home. Until he was "incapacitated" soon
afterward. Records at the Georgia Historical Society don't explain
Wise's occupation or how he became disabled. Trustees allowed Wise to
take on two servants -- Riley and White.
"Wise had long hair and enjoyed having White comb it, often reclining
in bed and leaning his head over the rail for the operation," the
Historical Society's records recall. "One morning in combing Wise's
hair, White gave the handkerchief around his victim's neck a twist to
choke him, when at the same time the Riley girl brought in a bucket of
water for bathing his face and suddenly plunged his head down into the
water and drowned him, already half-choked."
White and Riley were tried and, although they declared their
innocence, were sentenced to hang. But because Riley was pregnant with
White's child, the hanging was delayed until the baby was born. On
Jan. 19, 1735, Riley was hanged in Savannah. The next day, officials
hanged White on the same scaffold.
Curiouser and curiouser.
That would be too easy right? 
