Lizzie Crowther

Lizzie Crowther died from strychnine poisoning. An unknown person attacked her from behind and thrust the obnoxious stuff thought to be poison in to her mouth and then left her to reel home.

She lived in, Wike, near Bardsey, an isolated hamlet and rushed to her grandmother's house and told her that a man had put some nasty stuff into her mouth. She then died a few minutes later. She had left her grandmothers farm, School Lane Farm, to see her aunt at Manor House Farm 20 minutes earlier and when she returned her hair was disarranged and her shawl hanging from her shoulders. Manor House Farm was 50 yards across School Lane from her grandmother's farm.