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Ref NoDEP/SMS/1/2/6
Acc No2013/169
TitlePapers relating to the case of John Saunders
DateFeb 1913-Mar 1913
TermForensics
Description Of ItemFrom the correspondence collection of Professor Harvey Littlejohn. Letter from N D Smart informing Littlejohn that the Procurator Fiscal of Haddington will be sending him food samples for analysis, 10th February.
Letter from the Procurator Fiscal, Haddington with details of the food and the suspicion of strychnine, 10th February.
Letter from Smart informing Littlejohn that Dr Drinkwater will be helping with the analysis and of the arrest of the victim's husband, John Saunders, 17th February.
Letter from the Procurator Fiscal with further details of the food eaten by the victim, 17th February.
Letter from Smart asking for access to the samples for analysis on behalf of the accused, 19th February
Draft letter by Littlejohn, 20th February.
Letter from Smart with further samples, 26th February.
Letter from the Procurator Fiscal with further food to be analysed, 28th February.
Letter from the Procurator Fiscal with Saunders' waistcoat to be analysed, 3rd March.
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