Trial for murder by poisoning with arsenic, Berkshire Lent Assizes, 1845 : Post-mortem appearences; chemical analysis; detection of the poison as sulphuret, twenty-eight days after interment / by Alfred S. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Trial for murder by poisoning with arsenic, Berkshire Lent Assizes, 1845 : Post-mortem appearences; chemical analysis; detection of the poison as sulphuret, twenty-eight days after interment / by Alfred S. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    powder was also traced to the possession of the prisoner: this was proved to he nux vomica, which he had been in the habit of using for poisoning crows. In the defence it was urged that the symptoms observed might have depended on the worm found in the rectum; that the prisoner could have had no motive for poisoning his children; and that it was more likely, if the deceased had been poisoned, that the arsenic was administered by Carter the niece. The Jury, however, were satisfied with the evi- dence, and the prisoner was convicted, and subsequently executed.