Leah Atkinson and her illegitimate daughter, Betty [b 1845], lived in a lodging-house at Portland Street, Range Bank, Halifax.
Betty had been ill for almost a year with a disease of the chest and lungs. On 12th June 1856, Leah went to Benjamin Wood's shop to buy laudanum which she gave to the child to cure her. Betty died the next day.
Suspicions were aroused, and the body was exhumed. Leah was accused of poisoning the child with laudanum.
At the Inquest, the Jury returned a verdict that the child died from natural causes
This is discussed in the book Halifax Murders
This is discussed in the book Halifax Murders
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