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...sinister was afoot. She confided in a friend of the Maybricks, who telegraphed to Brother Michael Maybrick, a London songwriter: "COME AT ONCE; STRANGE THINGS GOING ON HERE." The nurse's suspicions had been aroused by the sight of Florrie Maybrick soaking flypapers in water. The flypapers contained arsenic. Through the servants' quarters crept the horrified conviction that Florrie was poisoning her husband. In the parlor, Brothers Michael and Edwin whispered together, looked askance at the sister-in-law they had never accepted...
When she came back she ordered the nurse to get some ice, and placed the bottle on a washstand. (When chemists later analyzed the meat juice, they found that it contained half a grain of arsenic.) Two nights later Maybrick died. Florrie was arrested. In gloomy Walton Gaol, Florrie sank to the stone floor, crying, "Oh, my God, help me," and fainted...
When "typhoid" took Lyda's fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, insurance companies grew suspicious. She had been named beneficiary in all her husbands' policies. An examination of Meyer's stomach revealed a quantity of arsenic which, officials said, had probably been extracted from flypaper. Police went looking for Lyda. She had left town...
...Arsenic and Old Lace. The merry-macabre carryings-on of two nice old ladies with a weakness for adding a lethal dash to their elderberry wine...
...simply evah so swank," gushed Gurdon Wattles, more seigne than ever in a six-button flowered damask coat with kerchief to match, at a pre-Sheridan punch yesterday in honor of the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace...