The Liverpool Poisoning Case
By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. (PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.) London, August 5. The trial of Mrs Maybrick for poisoning her husband at Liverpool, has taken an unexpected turn. The official analyst of the Home Office states that Maybrick's death waß not caused by arsenic, but Tvas the result of gusho (?) enteritis. Mrs May brick asserts she purchased the fly papers, which were found in her husband's room, for the purpose of making a face wash. The night before his death her husband implored her to give him & powder, but she refused until he declared that it would do him no harm if taken in the food. She then placed some in a tin of meat juice. Her husband was asleep when she returned, and he never tasted the contents of the tin, Mrs May brick declared she never knew the powder contained arßenic until after her husband's. - eath* ■ ■ " .■'■%■"■ - ;
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 22, 6 August 1889, Page 2
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150The Liverpool Poisoning Case Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 22, 6 August 1889, Page 2
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