REPORTS OF TRIALS FOR MURDER BY POISONING;

BY

PRUSSIC ACID, STRYCHNIA, ANTIMONY, ARSENIC, AND ACONITIA.

INCLUDING THE

TRIALS OF TAWELL, W. PALMER, DOVE, MADELINE SMITH, Dr. PRITCHARD, SMETHURST, AND Dr. LAMSON,

WITH

CHEMICAL INTRODUCTION AND NOTES ON THE POISONS USED.

BY

G. LATHOM BROWNE,

OF THE MIDLAND CIRCUIT, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AUTHOR OF “NARRATIVES OF STATE TRIALS IN THE 19TH CENTURY,”

AND

C. G. STEWART,

SENIOR ASSISTANT IN THE LABORATORY OF ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL; ASSOCIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, DUBLIN; AND OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS.

LONDON:

STEVENS AND SONS, 119, CHANCERY LANE,

Law Publishers and Booksellers.

1883.

LONDON: BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.