Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
In the mid-19th century, quite a few high profile cases of women poisoning their husbands with arsenic shocked Victorian England and the US. It was the simplest way for women to escape a loveless or abusive marriage, and a new test for arsenic was uncovering what had earlier been an easy crime to cover up.
Stanislaus Bilansky died in 1859 after a long gastric illness, and his remains were tested for arsenic poisoning. Suspicion fell on his third wife, Ann, who Bilansky had married only the autumn before. The case became the talk of St. Paul, Minnesota, and dominated the newspapers.If the tone of the reportage is any indicator, for many spectators, the narrative wasn’t a whodunit. Guilt was all but certain. The mystery was why Ann…
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