| Title | Envelope inscribed "For John M Laws. It is now 1889 and poor John is no better and does not seem likely to recover his mind so this may be opened by my son Edward Laws after my death. Mary Laws", containing a letter to John M Laws dated 18 April 1885 concerning her refusal to admit her son Robert into her house. She recounts how Robert (despite being married) flirted with the parlour maid, begged his mother to provide him & his wife with lunch each day and systematically tried to poison his mother with arsenic. The letter contains evidence from the chemist who analysed the liquid and the names of the witnesses - Charles Mathias [of Waterwynch], Edith Mathias, Mary Fell & Meggy Davies. |