Literacy Glog Update

I finished my book two months ago. It was interesting, but focused more on the law side of the trials it was describing, than the science of it all. There was very little reference to any of the characteristics of arsenic, such as the metallic taste of the compound, or the chemical makeup. On the historical value of the book, it shows not only the discrimination against what were considered loose women, but the discrimination against the lower classes in the American Victorian age. In one case, the victim came from a very poor family, and already had one child. When her sister was on the witness stand, not only was the defense attorney rude, but the prosecuting attorney was as well. When the sister began crying, a member of the community sitting in the audience reportedly began smirking. On the opposite side of the spectrum, the accused man's wife perjured herself (lied) on the stand. When she gave her testimony, the defending and prosecuting attorneys were polite, and tried to avoid making her upset, because her husband, the man accused of the murder, was the town's minister.