In a wealthy London home, Eliza Fenning served as a housekeeper for Mr. Turner, a legal stationer. She was executed for allegedly attempting to poison him and his family by preparing arsenic-laced dumplings for the dinner table. Due to the general belief that Fenning was innocent, her trial and execution were sensational at the time.

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