The Case of Elizabeth Fenning & The Poison Dumplings

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In the streets of Regency London,the young servant, Elizabeth Fenning, faced a sinister charge - attempted murder by poison. Accused of lacing her employer’s dinner with arsenic, the 21-year-old cook quickly found herself trapped in an increasingly lopsided courtroom, where any hope of the justice she had held whilst awaiting trial seemed to recede with every new witness brought to the stand. The case caused widespread public consternation and outrage that lasted months, coming close to sparking riots in the streets, as the debate raged on, that never truly ended.SOURCES Clarke, Kate (2020) Trial of Elizabeth Fenning. Mango Books, London, UK. Watkins, John (1815) The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Elizabeth Fenning. William Hone, London, UK. The Globe (1815) The Globe. Sat 25 March 1815, p4. London, UK. The Globe (1815) The Globe. Mon 27 March 1815, p4. London, UK. The Star (1815) Charge Of Poisoning Family. Tues 28 March 1815, p4. London, UK. The Globe (1815) Charge OF Poisoning A Whole Family. Fri 31 March 1815, p1. London, UK. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the streets of Regency London, the young servant Elizabeth Fenning faced a sinister charge, attempted
0:07.8	murder by poison. Accused of lacing her employer's dinner with arsenic, the 21-year-old cook quickly found herself trapped
0:16.2	in an increasingly lopsided courtroom, where any hope of the justice that she had held whilst
0:21.1	awaiting trial seemed to recede with every new witness brought to the stand.
0:26.2	The case caused widespread public consternation and outrage that lasted for months, coming close to sparking riots in the streets, as a debate raged on that
0:36.1	never truly ended.
0:38.5	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:50.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History season 8 episode 20. I'm your host Ben as always.
0:52.0	It's good to be back. Got just a little quick heads up before we start this week's episode.
0:56.7	I'm swapping hosts for the podcast. Now nothing should happen and nothing should need happening on your end, but just a quick heads up if for any reason you don't get probably the next episode when you're expecting it so in a couple of weeks from now if you don't get that episode
1:15.5	you might want to unsubscribe from the podcast and then resubscribe
1:19.7	You shouldn't need to I've swapped hosts before and it was completely seamless.
1:26.1	But I'm just putting it out there just in case it happens to anyone. But yeah, it shouldn't happen.
1:32.4	Yeah, so that's just a quick heads up I'll have a little bit more news about this
1:35.8	because things are happening but yeah a little bit more news about this in the next episode
1:41.5	but anyway yeah so that's that if you do have trouble her in the next episode. But anyway, yeah.
1:42.9	So that's that.
1:43.9	If you do have trouble, just unsubscribe and resubscribe and that should sort you out.
1:47.9	But I don't foresee anyone having any problems.
1:51.0	But yeah, anyway, let's move on then this week's episode is an
1:54.9	interesting one that one that I came across a long time ago back when I did
1:59.1	yesterday to day if anyone remembers those old episodes but yeah, I thought I'd flash it out into a full episode. So yeah, this is called The Case of Elizabeth
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