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. This latest
book by Malcolm Moyes on nineteenth-century Lincolnshire poison
trials is a comprehensive examination of the circumstantial
evidence against the women, which was often constructed from
unsavoury rumours, village gossip and downright lies. It is also a
critical analysis of the varied key factors which probably led to
the acquittal of the women, despite all the odds. Whilst all three
women were saved from the hangman's noose, the final verdict of the
jury may still leave the modern reader with some doubts and
question marks concerning the innocence of the women, as it did
with a number of contemporary commentators on the cases. Malcolm
Moyes is the author of By Force of Circumstances: the Lefley Case
Reopened and Attired in Deepest Mourning - Eliza Joyce, Mary Ann
Milner and Priscilla Biggadike, both published by Troubador.
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