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Excerpt from Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley: Containing Details of His Conduct as School-Boy, Medical-Student, Racing-Man, and Poisoner; With Original Letters of William and Anne Palmer, and Other Authentic Documents William palmer, the Poisoner, has passed by a terrible and opprobrious death to the bar of a more awful tribunal, and to the presence of a mightier audience than that before which he publicly stood for so many days in London. For what other deeds he has to be there arraigned we shall never know in this world. Enough, however, has been proved, to the satisfaction of all thinking minds, to consign him to a 'doom which could not have been aggravated on ear...
In 1856, Dr. William Palmer made history when he was hanged for poisoning his best friend. It was not only the first trial involving strychnine, but the first that was moved because of the extensive publicity it received in the new penny newspapers that were exploding in popularity. In 1925, George Fletcher published his lifetime’s research on the case. Drawing on his family’s ties to the area, he visited Staffordshire repeatedly over several decades. He interviewed many of the people connected with the case and collected their stories and observations. His biography of Palmer was the first to feature new information about him, his murders, and the controversies surrounding his trial. Th...
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This work presents an accurate account of the trial of the Rugeley Poisoner, William Palmer. He was an English doctor found guilty of murder in one of the most infamous cases of the 19th century, the 1855 murder of his friend John Cook.