Newspaper Extracts
Death From Eating Monkshood
March, 1859
A lamentable event occurred at Ecclesfield Hall, near Sheffield, a few days ago.
The occupiers of the hall were Mr. and Mrs. Greaves, the former of whom was 81 years of age, and his wife 76.
Mrs. Greaves prepared a salad for dinner and, unfortunately when she gathered the salad from the garden, she plucked a quantity of green leaves from a plant called monkshood.
Both her and her husband ate heartily of the salad, soon after they were seized with violent pain, and died poisoned.
