Murder & homicide · 1876 · Victorian

Murder of Charles Bravo

In 1876 barrister Charles Bravo died of antimony poisoning at his home in Balham after four days of agony. His wife Florence and the household physician were suspected but no one was convicted; the case remains one of Victorian England's most famous poisoning mysteries.

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