Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson.

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
1899
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Credit: Poison romance and poison mysteries / by C.J.S. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to have yielded to her request, and obtained three different lots of chloroform, in all six ounces, from various chemists, giving the reason, that he required it for taking out grease spots, and placed it all together in one bottle. Two days after he met Mrs. Bartlett on the Embank- ment, and handed her the chloroform. During his illness, Mr. Bartlett had slept on a camp bedstead in the front drawing-room, his wife occupying a sofa in the same room. On December 31st he was apparently quite well again, and about half-past ten o’clock in the evening, Mrs. Bartlett told the servant she required nothing else and retired with her husband for the night. At four o’clock in the morning the house was aroused by Mrs. Bartlett, and it was discovered her husband was dead in bed. The statement made by the lady was, that when her husband had settled for the night she sat down at the foot of the bed ; that her hand was
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