![]() ![]() ![]() The other, Eva Mountstephen, her friend from Lucknow. One of the two guests was a 49-year-old spinster, Frances Garnett-Orme. ![]() Anyone consuming the crystallised grains of strychnine without shaking the contents ran the risk of instant cyanosis and asphyxiation. The convulsions were of a violence terrible to behold … A final lifted her from the bed, until she appeared to rest upon her head and her heels, with her body arched in an extraordinary manner.ĭuring her nursing-tenure at the Torquay War Hospital, at the time of the Great War, Christie had learned a great deal about chemicals, and conceived fabled prescription that led to Inglethorp’s death.Īccordingly, a mixture of potassium bromide added to strychnine sulfate left a precipitate of the free alkali to crystallise at the bottom of the container. Inglethorp’s death was not so different from any of Cream’s victims. ![]() Allegedly, his last words were, “I am Jack the…” Cream was executed in 1892 for the serial-strychnine-murders of women in Canada and Britain. Strychnine acquired early celebrity in the hands of Dr Thomas Neill Cream. Jack the Ripper suspect Dr Thomas Neill Cream. ![]()
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