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Execution broadside.- arsenic poisoning.- Account of (An) the Trial and Execution of John Smith, who was Executed on the New Drop at Lincoln Castle ... for poisoning Sarah Arrowsmith of Alford, printed broadside, woodcut illustration at head, crude printing with smudges and occasionally obscured letters, creases, light soiling and spotting, laid down on paper, c.370 x 235 mm., Nottingham, printed from the Lincoln copy by Ordoyno, [c.1824].*** Rare. Seemingly unrecorded. The tale of a man who poisoned flour with arsenic, and gave the flour to his unwitting partner who baked it into cakes. The cakes were shared with her siblings, daughter and neighbours, poisoning them all, though the broadside intimates that only the partner, Sarah Arrowsmith and her unborn child died.
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Execution broadside.- arsenic poisoning.- Account of (An) the Trial and Execution of John Smith ...
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