Katherine Watson, Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and their Victims
In October 1848 the great moral entrepreneur Edwin Chadwick wrote an alarming letter to Sir George Grey, then home secretary:My researches have opened to me at times, horrible revelations.I am compelled to believe that murders escape much more frequently than is supposed. I was told by undertakers...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | In October 1848 the great moral entrepreneur Edwin Chadwick wrote an alarming letter to Sir George Grey, then home secretary:My researches have opened to me at times, horrible revelations.I am compelled to believe that murders escape much more frequently than is supposed. I was told by undertakers of a large practice whom I examined, that they every now and then closed the coffin lids on the corpses of adult persons whom they had strong reason to suspect from the appearance of the corpse, an... |
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