Were these toxicologists able to detect cantharidin from the vomitus?
” “No, they used very primitive methods, which could not determine the nature of the poison. The maximum they could say was that it was neither arsenic nor corrosive sublimate, the two poisons known in those times to cause severe vomiting.” “This means that de Sade and Latour must have gone scot free.” “Tarun, as we discussed in our very first meeting, in those times poisoning was considered a very grave offense, and the tendency of the authorities was to punish the suspects irrespective of the presence of evidence. The failure to detect poison did not, therefore, deter the legal authorities. Police teams were dispatched to arrest both de Sade and Latour, but they had fled. On 3 September the same year, despite the absence of both Marquis de Sade and his valet, the case was brought to trial. Both de Sade and his valet were found guilty of poisoning and sodomy. They were sentenced in absentia. The Marquis de Sade was to have his head struck off while Latour was to be hanged or strangled
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