The Cambridge Pudding Mystery: The Suspected Poisoning of Henry Day | True Crime 1871

Today we travel to Cambridge in the summer of 1871, where a young labourer collapsed after his morning meal and died within hours.

The symptoms pointed unmistakably to poison.

The chemistry insisted there was none.

And between the two, a newly married wife found herself facing the full weight of public suspicion.

This is the story of Henry Day — a sudden death that baffled doctors, divided neighbours, and revealed just how uncertain early forensic science could be.

A case of meat pudding, mixed evidence, and a courtroom struggling to make sense of answers that simply refused to align.

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