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Jun 12, 1845 - Poisoning at Carlisle |
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The Times -
1841 - 1850
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Page 1 of 4 THE GRAHAM POISONING CASE
The Times, 12 June 1845 (page 8, column E)
POISONING CASE AT CARLISLE.
John GRAHAM, the person who, on Monday last, was apprehended and lodged in Carlisle Gaol, having been suspected of poisoning his aged father, Mr. John GRAHAM, of Grinsdale, near Carlisle, on the 15th ult., is now also suspected of poisoning his own wife, who died very suddenly about six months ago. This report having been communicated to the coroner, Mr. W. CARRICK, that gentleman granted his warrant, authorizing the exhumation of Mrs. GRAHAM. The disinterment took place on Sunday last, and, notwithstanding that Mrs. GRAHAM had been so long buried, decomposition had made but little progress. An inquest was being held on the body on Tuesday before the same coroner. From the evidence adduced, and the reports of the medical gentlemen who made the post mortem examination, and also an analyzation of the internal parts of the body, there can be little or no doubt but that Mrs. GRAHAM died from the effects of some mineral poison. GRAHAM, we understand, since his confinement in Carlisle Gaol, has manifested symptoms of great uneasiness, and when he was apprehended he was found walking on the banks of the Carlisle Canal, and it is strongly suspected that he intended to drown himself.
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