Arsenic, Bonnets and Betrayal: The 1869 Dudley Poisoning of Joseph Oliver News of the Times | Episode 559 | 1869 It began, as so many Victorian poisonings did, with an ordinary cup of milk and a sudden sickness. In the quiet town of Hart’s Hill near Birmingham, Joseph Oliver — a healthy, hard‑working boilermaker — fell violently ill in the spring of 1869. Within weeks he was dead, and his young wife, Fanny Frances Oliver, was weeping at his funeral. But behind closed doors, something f...
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