[Donnall, Robert]:

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THE TRIAL OF ROBERT SAWLE DONNALL, SURGEON AND APOTHECARY, LATE OF FALMOUTH, IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, FOR THE WILFUL [sic] MURDER, BY POISON, OF MRS. ELIZABETH DOWNING, WIDOW, HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, AT ... An English provincial printing of a trial account, reporting an 1817 case of poisoning in Cornwall. Robert Sawle Donnall was accused of killing his mother-in-law by mixing arsenic into her cocoa. He was found not guilty after the maid testified to having the same drink.

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