The Cornish Bird

21. Sarah Polgrean - the life & death of a ”murderess”


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Sarah Polgrean was hung outside Bodmin Jail in August 1820 for poisoning her husband, but what exactly were the circumstances leading to his death and should she have been executed given the flimsy evidence against her or was her conviction more of a 19th century witch hunt?

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