The Trouble with Harriet - Two Murderous Tales
News of the Times Episode 398 | 1836 & 1843
 In today’s episode we look at two cases involving women named Harriet.
Our first case from 1836 involves 21-year-old unhappily married Harriet Tarver.  Harriet’s husband, Thomas, has abandoned her at least once and has only come back with some forceful parish pressure.  A bit of a do-it-yourself health enthusiast, he has taken a few tablets of his own concoction, as well as the rice pudding Harriet has left him and died shortly afterwards.  Was it his self-medication?  Or the rice pudding that had been purchased?
In our second case from 1843, Harriet Monkton has been found, poisoned, in the toilet room next ot the church which she regularly attends.  It is found that she pregnant and the initial suspicion is that she had been overcome with the shame and took matters into her own hands.  But if this is the case, where is the phial that the poison would have been contained in?  It cannot be found in the privy or on the grounds of the church anywhere.
Two murderous tales involving a troublesome, or troubled, Harriet is today’s episode.
Hosted by Robin Coles.

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