1 January

Edwin Bartlett is found dead in the early hours; chloroform is found in his stomach.

Adelaide Bartlett Acquitted

A London grocer died on New Year's Day 1886 with liquid chloroform in his stomach and no burns in his throat. His wife was tried for murder and acquitted.

Police recover the body near the Bolshoy Petrovsky Bridge.

Rasputin Never caught

Poisoned cakes, a man who would not die, a body under the ice: the famous story comes from one of Rasputin's killers. The autopsy tells a plainer one.