The Pimlico Poisoning: Chloroform, Scandal, and Suspicion

Listen to this episode from Historical True Crime on Spotify. On New Year’s Day, 1886, Edwin Bartlett was found dead in his Pimlico home — his stomach filled with chloroform, but with no sign of how it got there. Was it murder, suicide, or something science couldn’t yet explain? Step into thePimlico Poisoning Mystery, a case that baffled Victorian doctors, scandalized London, and left one woman forever in the shadows.Source Materials:nbtfacsimile.pdft18860405-466 | The Proceedings of the Old BaileyThe Trial of Adelaide Bartlett for Murder, Held at the Central Criminal Court from Monday, April 12, to Saturday, April 17, 1886bmj00471-0054.pdfAFP937923 35..46