Mary Lefley was the last woman to be executed in Lincoln, arraigned for the alleged brutal poisoning of her husband in 1884 with enough arsenic to kill... Læs mere
Between 1844 and 1868, three women were tried and found guilty of the brutal murder of members of their family by poison at the Lincoln Assizes.
Jane Bell of Laceby, Elizabeth Dodds of Wrangle and Ellen Green of Fishtoft were three Lincolnshire women put on trial between 1845 and 1875 for killing their husbands with large quantities of arsenic, but were judged to be innocent of the crime.
Lucy Ann Buxton, Emma Wade and Selina Stanhope were three women residing in different parts of the county of Lincolnshire in the second half of the nineteenth-century:
The nineteenth century saw the growth of commercially available solutions for dealing with the problem of domestic infestation by mice and rats.... Læs mere