Marquise Brinvillier - Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas père
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they may fall to burn them. I give this as a charge upon their
conscience; all without opening the packet.' In this packet we find two parcels of sublimate. "Item, another packet sealed with six different seals, on which is a similar inscription, in which is found more sublimate, half a pound in weight. "Item, another packet sealed with six different seals, on which is a similar inscription, in which are found three parcels, one containing half an ounce of sublimate, the second 2 1/4 ozs. of Roman vitriol, and the third some calcined prepared vitriol. In the box was found a large square phial, one pint in capacity, full of a clear liquid, which was looked at by M. Moreau, the doctor; he, however, could not tell its nature until it was tested. "Item, another phial, with half a pint of clear liquid with a white sediment, about which Moreau said the same thing as before. "Item, a small earthenware pot containing two or three lumps of prepared opium. "Item, a folded paper containing two drachms of corrosive sublimate powdered. "Next, a little box containing a sort of stone known as infernal stone. "Next, a paper containing one ounce of opium. "Next, a piece of pure antimony weighing three ounces. |
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