The First Forensic Hanging
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The First Forensic Hanging

The Toxic Truth that Killed Mary Blandy

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eBook - ePub

The First Forensic Hanging

The Toxic Truth that Killed Mary Blandy

About this book

'For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.' This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was 'turned off' by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press.Opinions are certainly still divided on the matter of Mary's 'intention' in the poisoning of her father, and the extent to which her coercive lover, Captain William Cranstoun, was responsible for this murder by proxy. Yet Mary Blandy's trial was also notable in that it was the first time that detailed medical evidence had been presented in a court of law on a charge of murder by poisoning, and the first time that any court had accepted toxicological evidence in an arsenic poisoning case. The forensic legacy of the acceptance of Dr Anthony Addington's application of chemistry to a criminal investigation is another compelling aspect of The First Forensic Hanging.

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Information

Publisher
Pen and Sword History
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781526736192
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Author’s Notes
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 ‘A son is a son ’til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.’
  9. Chapter 2 ‘That damned villain, Cranstoun!’
  10. Chapter 3 A Fleet Wedding?
  11. Chapter 4 No Performance No Pay
  12. Chapter 5 Messengers of Death
  13. Chapter 6 Those Cursed Scotch Pebbles...
  14. Chapter 7 ‘My honour to him will prove my ruin ...’
  15. Chapter 8 Proof of the Perfect Poison
  16. Chapter 9 ‘...the whole published for the satisfaction of the publick’
  17. Chapter 10 A Very Modest Murderess
  18. Chapter 11 A Contemporary Cause Celebre
  19. Appendix Bibliography of the Blandy Case, as compiled by Mr Horace Bleackley
  20. Bibliography