ATTEMPT TO POISON A FAMILY
We regret to have to lay before our readers the following particulars of
a most diabolical attempt to poison a whole family:—The wife of a person
named Robinson, a weaver, who keeps a beer house at Desborough, purchased
some flour from a respectable baker at Desborough in the course of last
week. A pudding was made of the flour, of which the whole family partook
without experiencing any ill effects from it. On Thursday week Mrs. Robinson
again made a pudding and a pie. The family (six in number), and a female
named Bugby, who was washing there, partook of it, and shortly afterwards
they were all seized with vomiting. A medical gentleman was sent for, and it
was ascertained that they must have taken poison. The remainder of the pie
was taken possession of by the medical attendant, for the purpose of being
analysed. Considerable mystery at present envelopes the transaction.—Northampton
Herald.
Morning Post,
Tuesday 11 August 1840
The Robinson family, based on the number of people,
appears to have been that of
Jonathan and
Lucy.