Kassia St Clair

What has been slipped into this glass of beer

that Sarah had been drinking is a treatment for varicose veins.

It contains a lot of prussic acid, and this acid is what had been used to kill her.

And thoughts immediately turned to murder, particularly given the fact that a man was walking out of the property, you know, as the screams were first heard.

All the kind of contemporary reports of him say that he's dressed like a Quaker.

And in 19th century terms, that meant usually black or white or sometimes brown clothing.

He was wearing a long great coat, but he was also wearing a kind of distinctively Quaker hat.

And that meant a kind of broad brimmed hat.

This is what really catches people's attention at the time.

And that's the kind of how they perceive this man who's seen walking away from the scene of the crime and towards the station.

So the next door neighbor is a woman.

I think she's called Mrs. Chapman.

And she then calls another neighbor who sort of comes around immediately afterwards in the wake of all this, you know, this commotion.

And he is a chaplain.

And he is the one who actually physically runs after or chases after and sees him get on the train.

Rather than being completely helpless, they go to the station master's office and

And the station master uses an early system of the telegraph to telegraph ahead to the station at Paddington.

It's primarily being used in the UK by the railway system.

So it's quite useful for railways to be able to let one another know if a train's late or if there's been some kind of accident or, you know, a breakdown on lines and so on and so forth.

It really cuts down on train accidents.