Attempting to Poison

Attempting to Poison

This article has a paragraph that describes a crime that a man was convicted of that was very similar to what Lord Arthur Savile’s first attempted to kill his elderly relative. In which a man was sentence to death after attempted to kill a lady with a poison. It makes one wonder why Arthur then viewed poison as his best method for killing someone. When he must of known that if his attempted failed and his relative was taking ill after she ingested the poison he could have been easily convicted and sentence to death. It seems as is Arthur goes about attempting to murder people in the strangest and most inefficient ways. Even though the whole story is based on Arthur not really thinking for himself. This makes me doubt that the man in this paragraph that was convicted for attempted murder was only doing the crime as a result of the palm reader telling him he would murder somebody someday.

Nineteenth Century Collection Online

The Weekly True Sun

Sunday, May 27, 1838

British Library, London

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