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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Conclusion of a Poisoning trial. (search)
this document was found upon his person, and although without signature, was evidently in Richardson's hand-writing.--It took the accused and their counsel completely by surprise. "The verdict gives Richardson a home in the State Prison for life. The fact of Mrs. Healey being a woman in feeble health may have worked upon the sympathies of the jury, and contributed in a measure to her acquittal.--Again, there was no evidence that she had purchased strychnine on or near the time of the death of her husband, although she had threatened to put him out of the way, at different times, if he did not stop drinking. "The trial has been conducted with a great deal of ability on both sides. In some respects it is the most important murder trial ever held in this country, and it is similar in importance to the great Palmer case, tried in England. It is the first strychnine case in New England, or at least the first in which the testimony of chemical experts has been depended upon."