Trial of Dr. Pritchard (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Trial of Dr. Pritchard In the notable series of evil and forbidding portraits which forms our national picture-gallery of crime, the sinister presentment of Dr. Pritchard is entitled to an eminent place. Comprehensive as that collection, unhappily, is, it exhibits no more infamous example of unfeeling cruelty, masked by crafty dissimulation, in the relentless pursuit of a deadly purpose. The secret poisoner is the most dangerous of malefactors; and he is specially to be dreaded when, as here, he prosecutes his subtle design in the two-fold disguise of loving relative and assiduous physician. The relation that existed between the perpetrator and his hapless victims - the one his wife, the other her mother -the affectionate terms upon which they lived; the terrible suffering, which, in the case of the former, it was part of his nefarious scheme to produce and continue during long and painful weeks; and the fact that these two confiding women, in their dire necessity, relied for help upon the very hand that was mercilessly raised against their lives, combine to make this offence one of the blackest recorded in the annals of crime. The case of Dr. Pritchard, while lacking those elements of romance and mystery which give to that of Madeleine Smith its unique attraction, affords a psychological problem of much interest, and presents many curious and striking features to the student of criminal anthropology. No other trial of the period - excepting the celebrated Rugeley case, with which it has many points in common, suggesting that Pritchard had studied and improved upon the experience of Palmer - excited more widespread attention, not only among members of the medical profession, but also of the general public throughout the United Kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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