Chapter C

On or about Christmas Day, 1833, there may be found in _The Times_ newspaper a notice of the death of a man, who, after leading a dissolute life, ended his days in the workhouse of some town either in Suffolk or Essex. On his death-bed he confessed that he was the brother of the law-stationer, and that he had put the poison into the pudding, by the eating of which his brother and family died, and for which crime Eliza Fenning had suffered innocently.

F. HH.

With reference to the inquirer respecting Elizabeth Fenning, I would remark, that I well remember that it was inserted in a provincial paper, many years ago, that Turner, in whose family the poisoning took place, had confessed before his death that he himself was the guilty person. My impression is, that it was inserted in an Ipswich newspaper. There was great excitement in London at the time of Eliza Fenning's execution, and the house of Turner had to be protected from the fury of the populace. Mr. Hone had several pamphlets at his shop window on the circumstance. I have heard Mr. Richard Taylor say she was the last person condemned by Sir John Sylvester.