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The Note That Stopped a Cremation: Nurse, Morphine, Forged Will
The Note That Stopped a Cremation: Nurse, Morphine, Forged Will
A single handwritten note halted a cremation and exposed a tangled web of false titles, a forged will, and a cache of morphine in an interwar nursing home; who really spoke for Ada Baguley, and why was a document sworn to her wishes convincing enough to almost let a body be cremated without question? The Medical Officer for Health's suspicion of that note led to a post-mortem that turned a routine death into one of the most disturbing medical-legal cases of 1935.
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at 32 Devon Drive…
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