The case of Eliza Fenning who was convicted of attempting to poison the family of Mr. Turner by mixing arsenic in yeast dumplings : containing her trial, and the particulars of her execution, including ... several affecting letters written a short time previous to her execution / [Anon].

  • Fenning, Elizabeth, 1792 or 1793-1815.
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[1815?]
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Credit: The case of Eliza Fenning who was convicted of attempting to poison the family of Mr. Turner by mixing arsenic in yeast dumplings : containing her trial, and the particulars of her execution, including ... several affecting letters written a short time previous to her execution / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an inclination to be, sick ; I then fell a strong heat across my chest; I was extremely sick. Q. Did it produce any swelling in you ?—A. I was Ex- actly as my father and wife was, sick and stronger symp- toms; I had eaten a dumpling and a half. Q. Were your symptoms any other but such as would be produced by poison ?— A. I should presume so. We were all taken in the same way, and pretty near the same tmie. SARAH PEER worn. I am house-maid toTfflfr^Turner; I have lived in the family nearelcven months. Q. Do you remember the circumstance of warning being given to the prisoner some time after she came ?— A. 1 do, sir; after that I heard her say she should not lijce Mr. and Mrs. Robert JjjHm, Q. On trie morning of the 21 st of March, dicl you go ^ y^ ^jC cJCC for anv milk t—A. Yes; that was after two, after 1 had- V^^ <>7 _ had my dinner; I eat beef steak-pie lor my dinner; I never eat any of trie dutafplings ; the same flour was'useTj^Kjfef for the^^usroTTne^pie as the dumplings. . Q. Had you any concern whatever in* making the dough, for the dumpTings?—~A. No, sir; nor the saucej I was not in the kitcnerT when the dough was made; l had permission ot my m^tress to go out that afternoon.: when I had taken the dumplings up I went directly;. Q. To Mr. Orlebar Turner* Did you keep this arsenic to poison the mice that infested the office?—A. Yes ; it was only to be used in the office. WILLIAM TIUSSELTON sworn. I took the prisoner into custody on the 23d of March. I asked her whether she suspected there was any thing jrT' foe flour! SHe~saidT sEe -had made a beef steak pie that day witn the same flour she had made the dumpTingsj she said she thought it was in the yeast, she saw a red sedi- ment at the bottom of the yeast alter she had used it.
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