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Stafford Assizes Hear Arsenic Murder and Odd Will Case
At Stafford Assizes William Chadwick a 23 year old potter was found guilty of murder by arsenic poisoning of Samuel Tunnicliffe the seventy year old grandfather of his wife. The trial covered expert poisoning methods and a disputed will Bainbrigge v Bainbrigge lasted five days over a 1818 will challenging Denise trust and Marianne the granddaughter joined by a coachman and farmer relics. In Newcastle Patrick Forbes was convicted of wilful murder of his wife Bridget Forbes, a drunken hawker, ending with a death sentence and a daughter's hysterics in court.
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Stafford Assizes
William Chadwick
Samuel Tunnicliffe
Tunnicliffe
Chadwick
Williams
Bainbrigge
Court of Chancery
Thomas Bainbrigge
Derbyshire
Werwickshire
Staffordshire
Sherwood Forest
Marianne
Arnold
Bainbridge
Derby
Blair
Uttoxeter
Mr. Blair
Newcastle
Patrick Forbes
Bridget Forbes
Otter