lance, London, fred Duke, Gols Two at least of the murder cases! this book are old Jenough not to have called for special attention at this late date, their revival is not without some!
terest. Chiefly because they ded with the majority of the arsenic murder eases which the writer hi [chosen to discuss. It is an astonishing fact that though the use of one form or other of arsenic at a deadly poison has been' known' for. some. hundreds of years, and that its defection is probably "one. of the easiest Known to scientists, there are people who will still use this clumsy method of killing. Indeed it would seem that if there ever are! Jany successful murders by. arsenic they must have succeeded by reuse lof circumstances calculated to lead the medical practitioner in. charge of the before death. Though, perhaps, the symptoms acc sell enough known to place any doc: for upon inquiry, he must find. himself he bet indicating sup! ing, when no such 1 ring, he might do considerable [wrong to his clients on the one hand Jand to himself on the other. In the lease entitled "A Medical Miscreant™ it is clear from the evidence which presented that the man eventually hanged for his misdeed would have semmetly succeeded hat Te not ben within what was then'a scandalously for ihis anxiety to get_remarie ort in of hig "wits death was brought to the noose ad not been Zor that hic closed. In second case, would probably never have been Harold Greenwood was found not! rll warden Ween is some possibility that had the Prectloner sessing Mee ment to the judge when ry, hated up "a state, acquitting Rim, which was not made publi:
the defendant's death:
We are satisfied on the evidence in this case that a dangerous dass of Arsenic "was administered to" Greenwood on. Sunday, 13th "Tacc, 2018, but we are net eatisted tint this astonishing rider public, Obviously they could never have returned a verdict of guilty, because jon their own finding in the first Paragraph all they could have done was to find that somebody had adistered a dangerous dose—ani that might not have been fatal, The third trial in which arsenic was alleged to have played a fatal part, was that in which a Mes, Hearn' was accused of murdering, women in Cornwall "by that} agency. "The presence of arsenic in ial of Cornwall and" inthe ies im exhumation, appears to, sie tree dance pop the a the elreamatsnces "had. very Title for the prosecution, joey
option but to return a verdict ae: quitting the prisoners Tt Was Point. Jed out by these conducting the post. rpotem thatthe guanity of arena in the sell was suficent to the event at some dust entering the Jars con taining the organs taken away, pinch of earth on the body would
calestations, halo been suflient to vital The other three cases deal with murder by violence. The "case William Herbert Wallace, charger with battering his wife to death, who [secured an acquittal on appeal, involved the defence of an alibi about, which there were "many peculiar Featares. The writer's "description of the case as "The Perfect Murder"
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