23 March

L'Angelier dies at his lodgings in the early morning; arsenic is found at the post-mortem.

Madeleine Smith Acquitted

A Glasgow architect's daughter, a secret lover, his bundle of letters and three purchases of arsenic. In 1857 the jury said: not proven.

Smith is formally charged with the three murders.

George Joseph Smith Executed

Three newly married women drowned in small baths in three towns. A grieving father's newspaper cutting exposed the bigamist behind all of them.