The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-11
A QUEER POISON CASE.
MYSTERIOUS POISONING OF
CHARLES BRAVO.
1t Is Recalled by the Several Cases
which Are Now Occupying Public
AttentiOn-Has Aroused All of Europe
The Cox Case.

The three or four poisoning cases
winch have recently occurred, each of
them possessing certain Characters
tics which have been considered suffi-
Client to cause them to be admitted in
10 the charmed circle of mysteries, re-
call one as striking in its way which
aroused widespread interest in Eng
land some twenty years ago, and has
since spread to all parts of the world.
In the spring of year in the early
seventies one morning London was in
expressibly shocked at reading in the
papers of the death, under suspicious
circumstances, Of Charles T. Bravo,
one of the most popular Of the young
and rising barristers practicing in the
metropolis. The shock was intensi-
fed from the fact that the dead bar
listers young and exceedingly beauti-
ful wife had been arrested, accused Of
the crime Of poisoning her husband by
the systematic administration of ar
senic, at first in small and finally in
overwhelmingly large doses, with ulti-
mately fatal results. The case became
doubly and trebly interesting and SEN
sational when it transpired that the
dosing with arsenic had been going on
for some eight months, and dated from
the time when Mrs. Bravo made the
acquaintance Of Dr. Gully, the pro-
prietor Of hydropathic establishment
at Bath, and another at Malvern. It
appeared that Mr.. Bravo, who suffered
from some lung complaint, had gone to
Bath with his wife for his health, and
that they had stayed at DR.. Gully's
establishment for treatment. It fur
Their turned out that. whereas the cli-
mate Of Bath was admirably suited to
the constitution of Mr.. Bravo, it did
not suit that of the lady. At the sug-
gestion, therefore, Of DR.. Gully, she re-
moved her trunks to his establishment
at Malvern, leaving her husband at
Bath in charge Of the matron, a Mrs.
Cox.
From this time on Mrs. Bravo be-
gan to exhibit signs Of Querulousness
with her husband, and a somewhat in
ordinate fondness for alcoholic stimu-
lants. When they returned, after
about six weeks absence, to their
home at BALKAN, a suburb of London,
afterward obtaining more criminal re-
nown by becoming the habitation of
the VIGOROUSLY infamous burglar, MUIR
derer, violin virtuoso, Charles Peace,
family Jars became frequent.
The Braves moved in the best soci-
ETY., and. being quite wealthy, kept
their horses and carriages as stylish
people should. Indeed, both were good
riders, and Mrs. Bravo was a splendid
horsewoman. 1t is upon this fact that
a good deal OF the evidence Of poison
ing turned, and which eventually form
ed the loophole by which she escaped
the fate Of a possibly, If not probably,
much less guilty woman, Mrs. May
brick.
She developed a sudden and uncon-
trollable desire to see the coats of her
horses more glossy and shiny than her
grooms with cuTTycombs and brushes
could make them. She had learned
from DR.. Gully, who was a Yorkshire
man, and, therefore, we'll acquainted
with every dodge known to the horsey
fraternity, that arsenic was an excel
lent thing to improve a horses coat.
AS a consequence arsenic was bought
and administered with excellent erect
upon the horses. But, somehow, or
another, it was also administered to
Mr.. Bravo, with an effect that was not
quite so satisfactory-at least to him.
He died. And then the story came
out.
Mrs. Bravo had undoubtedly been
carrying on a very intimate relation
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