Court Cases: The Murder Of Daniel Stott

young woman, 33 year old Mrs. Julia Stott, from Belvidere Illinois, and murdered her husband, Daniel Stott. A 61 year old station agent with the North-Eastern Railway, when he became suspicious of the affair. Stott had sought treatment from Cream for his Epilepsy. Cream laced his pills with strychnine. Mr Stott died 14 June 1881. Fearing he would be apprehended he wrote to the coroner, and accused the chemist of adding strychnine to his formula. The sceptical coroner gave a sample of the prescription to a dog. Within fifteen minutes the dog was dead. The body of Mr Stott, was exhumed and a warrant issued for Cream's arrest. He fled to Belle Riviere, Ontario Canada, where he was captured 27 July 1881. Cream finally faced justice, and was sentenced

The article then went on to claim that Sun reporters had discovered the fate of Jack the Ripper:

'He was first brought to imprisonment on the charge of being simply a dangerous lunatic. And the evidence of his lunacy hopeless, abysmal and loathsome - was so palpable that he was not permitted even to plead. In the brief of the counsel who prosecuted, in the instructions of the solicitor who defended, there was the same statement - that he was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. In the case of both the one and the other, the very mention of this or any other dark suspicion was precluded; for, unable to plead, the wretched creature in the dock was saved from all indictment; was spared the necessity of all defence. He was sent forthwith to the living tomb of a lunatic asylum, and there he might have passed to death without mention of his terrible secret if a chance clue had not put a representative of The Sun on the track. The clue thus accidentally obtained has been followed up by months of patient investigation, and has been thoroughly sifted. Today we lay before the world a story