Cyanide Poisoning/in Fiction

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    The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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    ... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.
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