Age: 46
Sex: female
Date: 1 Dec 1906
Place: New Road, Gravesend, Kent
Louisa Merritt died from arsenical poisoning.
Analysis of her stomach by a Home Office analyst found that she had the presence of 4.5 grains of arsenic in her body. It was noted that two grains were generally a fatal dose.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Gravesend Reporter, North Kent and South Essex Advertiser - Saturday 05 January 1907
see Unsolved 1906
