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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Bodkin Adams
		John Bodkin Adams, (January 21, 1899 – July 4, 1983) was a general practitioner in Eastbourne.
		Adams replied that Morrell had wanted to die — and that it was no crime to ease the suffering of the terminally ill. He further claimed the practitioner could not possibly be held guilty for such an action.
		Adams began his medical career in the 1920s, when income tax in the United Kingdom was low.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams (999 words)

	John Bodkin Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Bodkin Adams, born January 21st 1899 in Eastbourne, England, was suspected of the murder of at least two people.
		Adams concluded it was a stroke that had killed her.
		John Bodkin Adams died on the July 4, 1983, aged eighty-four.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams (774 words)

	John Adams (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Adams (1735–1826) was the second President of the United States.
		John Adams (mayor) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
		John Adams (Blessed) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Adams_(composer) (308 words)

	Dr John Bodkin Adams - Famous Criminal - Homepage - Crime And Investigation Network
		The case of Dr John Bodkin Adams is a contentious one due to the fact that the general practitioner was never actually found guilty of murder or professional negligence.
		Adams supplied her with a cocktail of heroin and morphine to ease her discomfort, insomnia and symptoms of ‘cerebral irritation’ that was a condition of her illness.
		Adams defence had managed to prevent him being forced to appear in the witness stand and as a result no evidence from Gertrude Hullett's case, including the testimony of a nurse, was allowed to be produced in court.
	www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk /famous_criminal/78/home/1/Dr_John_Bodkin_Adams.htm (1376 words)

	A kind doctor or killer?
		Bodkin Adams had given the 50-year-old an injection of an anti-barbiturate as she lay dying.
		Bodkin Adams was going to a YMCA prize-giving on November 24, 1956, when officers swooped on his home looking for dangerous drugs.
		Bodkin Adams was later fined £2,400 and later struck of the medical register for 13 charges under the Cremation Act and for prescribed drugs offences.
	archive.theargus.co.uk /2000/3/2/194703.html (1226 words)

	Irish Medical Times
		Bodkin Adams was a big, bluff man, generous and outgoing and exuding an aura of straightforwardness and dependability.
		It was important because Bodkin Adam’s patients were, in the main, elderly and wealthy women who had chosen the salubrious atmosphere of the coastal resort of Eastbourne to end their days.
		John Bodkin Adams had the benefit of a brilliant defence counsel called Geoffrey Lawrence who demolished the prosecution when Bodkin Adams was brought to trial for the murder of a rich widow, Mrs Morell.
	www.imt.ie /displayarticle.asp?AID=10484&NS=1&CAT=18&SID=1 (881 words)

	Ockham's Razor - 23 July 2006 - The Strange Case of Dr John Bodkin Adams
		Dr Adams was a general practitioner in Eastbourne, that rather chintzy seaside resort on the south coast and home of many wealthy retirees.
		Adams later said it was not done wickedly but to smooth the cremation arrangements, adding relatives did not like delay at such times.
		Dr Adams' trial did him no harm at all, and his list was soon full of old ladies only too willing to part with their antique silver in return for a bit of concerned hand patting.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2006/1692048.htm (1938 words)

	Medical killing
		In July 1956 Adams telephoned the coroner and told him of a very peculiar case' and tried to make arrangements for a private post-mortem for one of his patients.
		Adams was treating Mrs Hullett, a rich widow, for a nervous breakdown.
		They also wanted to question Adams about his declaration on the cremation form of another deceased patient, a Mrs Morrell, that he was not a beneficiary under her will.
	www.real-crime.co.uk /Murder1/MEDICAL.HTML (1566 words)

	BBC News \| THE SHIPMAN FILES \| Worst of the worst
		Among the more elaborate murderers lies John Haigh who was branded the "acid bath vampire" after claiming to drink the blood of the six victims he disposed of in vats of acid.
		John Christie's activities around 10 Rillington Place, west London, in the 1940s, were morbidly fascinating enough to merit a toned-down film adaptation.
		Echoing Shipman's activities, Bodkin Adams was acquitted in 1953 of the murder of an elderly widow in Eastbourne.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/the_shipman_murders/the_shipman_files/1101733.stm (888 words)

	Dr. Bodkin Adams
		It transpired that a junior partner of Dr Adams, who realised that the patient was going to die, had insisted on a post mortem because he wanted to be sure that Adam's diagnoses of the patient's illness was correct.
		Dr Adams was severely reprimanded by the coroner for 'an extraordinary degree of careless treatment', but this fact was lost amid a spate of truly sensational and scandalous revelations.
		In 1967, as a direct result of the Adams case, the law was changed to curb the reporting of committal proceedings by leaving the choice of whether or not to allow the press in up to the defence.
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	TMC » Adams Bodkin John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On 18th March 1957, Eastbourne GP, Dr John Bodkin Adams, was charged with the murder of Edith Alice Morrell.
		Adams, a bachelor and teetotaler, was described as ‘fairly well to-do’, with a passion for cars.
		As far back as 1935, a patient had made Adams an executor of her will and left him £3,000, which was unsuccessfully contested by the woman’s family.
	www.themurdercompany.com /weblog/?page_id=37 (333 words)

	Independent, The (London): Letter: A doctor's innocence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sir: Jeremy Laurance's comments about Dr John Bodkin Adams give the false impression that his jury's "not guilty" verdict was perverse ("Serial killers `attracted to medical profession' ",10 May).
		This included the suggestions, repeated by Mr Laurance, that Dr Adams was responsible for the deaths of 400 patients and had received legacies from 132 of them.
		Dr Adams was caring and popular with his patients, but not a skilful physician, relying too much on addictive drugs.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010515/ai_n14396446 (339 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Stranger in Blood: The Story of Dr Bodkin Adams: Books: Pamela Cullen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dr Adams was eventually investigated, arrested and brought to trial after the suspicious death of one of his patients was brought to the Police's notice by a famous music hall actor, who was a friend of the deceased.
		Dr Adams gave no evidence at his trial at the Old Bailey in 1957 but His defence team dramatically produced evidence which destroyed the prosecution's case and he was eventually found not guilty.
		Her research presents a strong case, not only that Dr Adams was guilty as charged, but that the case against was deliberately sabotaged to protect the Government from the consequences, had he been found guilty.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Stranger-Blood-Story-Bodkin-Adams/dp/1904027199 (644 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: August 2004
		In the 1950s, the gossip in Eastbourne was that Bodkin Adams’s technique was to persuade a wealthy widow to write a will which left him her money, and then to do her in with an injection of powerful drugs.
		Bodkin Adams was eventually arrested and was prosecuted for the murder of just one rich old lady: Mrs Edith Morell.
		Bodkin Adams had been trained in the 1920s, when doctors really had very few effective remedies in their bags.
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_grumpyoldbookman_archive.html (15593 words)

	Sybille Bedford Papers, Biographical Sketch
		Bedford continued to examine the themes of her youth in her later works A Favourite of the Gods (1963), A Compass Error (1968), and Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (1989), which was nominated for the Booker Prize.
		Although she had no formal training in law, she had attended trials as leisure entertainment as a child and developed a keen interest in law.
		Her book on Dr. Adams established Bedford as an outstanding legal reporter and was followed by other books and articles on the English and European judiciary.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/bedford.bio.html (829 words)

	Guardian \| Doctors of death
		The most celebrated case of a doctor walking free from a murder charge was the sensational trial of Dr John Bodkin Adams in 1957.
		Everyone has to die sometime, so we should do what we can to "ease the passing", he argued during the Old Bailey court case in which he was accused of killing an elderly patient in order to benefit from her will.
		Dr Adams was a free man, but he could never escape notoriety.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3955186-103613,00.html (333 words)

	Adams Family Crest by Houseofnames.com
		Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: William Adam who wrote an Adam Genealogy which is now part of the American Library of Congress; John Adam landed in America in 1685; John Adam settled in the Barbados in 1680.
		"Adams Family Records: A Genealogical and Biographical History of All Branches of the Adams Family" by J. Adams, "Adams, an American Dynasty" by Francis Russell.
		In the Adams coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.familycrest_details/s.Adams/Origin.BO/sId./qx/Adams.htm (666 words)

	CHAPTER 6 NARCOTICS CONTROL IN BRITAIN AND OTHER WESTERN NATIONS
		Adams.-The Rolleston Committee, by its report of 1926, virtually established the British system through its interpretation of the Dangerous Drugs Laws of 1920- interpretation which was accepted as official and continues to be so regarded.
		John H. Walker, the British delegate to the United Nations Narcotics Commission, described the British drug problem and how it is handled to a special committee of the Canadian Senate.
		Adams, however, was tried for murder, not for selling drugs, and he was acquitted.
	www.drugtext.org /library/books/adlaw/chapter06.htm (7630 words)

	Killing the Willing ... And Others! Legal Aspects of Euthanasia and Related Topics
		In 1956 Dr John Adams was arrested and charged with the murder of an 81-year-old patient, Mrs Morrell, who had died in 1950.
		Dr Adams was a beneficiary under Mrs Morrell's will and knew that he was, yet he falsely stated in the cremation certificate that he was not a beneficiary, so far as he was aware.
		Consistent with Devlin J in Dr Adams' case, the judge stated clearly that the administration of a drug by a doctor when it is necessary to relieve pain is a proper medical practice even when the doctor knows that the drugs will themselves cause the patients' death.
	www.actrtla.org.au /euth/bookeu/smith.htm (13763 words)

	Browse Abbey, Adams, Allen, Austin, and more - James M. Dourgarian, Bookman
		H-231 in this important series, light verse by Lewis Carroll, John Donne, A. Milne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, E. White, and many others, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI.
		John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts The Shaping of a Novelist.
		This is Part II (The Trail to Moon Gate) of six parts, the issue also includes verse by William Rose Benet.
	www.jimbooks.com /a.htm (1528 words)

	Adams Coat of Arms, Family Crest from Family-crests.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A 8 x 10 inch print of the Adams Coat of Arms is ready to frame and suitable for any room or office.
		The Adams Coat of Arms shield is colorfully hand painted to an excellent standard, to give you an authentic and wonderful plaque that you will be proud to show to family and friends.
		This Adams Coat of Arms baseball cap is great for year round wear, our all-weather micro fiber caps are light weight, stylish and water resistant.
	www.family-crests.com /coat-of-arms/family-crest/a/adams-coat-of-arms-417.html (1015 words)

	The British System
		According to press accounts Dr. Adams was investigated when deaths among his patients became a public scandal.
		He was acquitted of murder, perhaps for the good reason that he may not have been guilty, perhaps again only because there were uncomprehensible lapses in the investigation of his case.
		Adams apparently made many heroin addicts, most of whom I suggest do not appear in the English addiction statistics, but in the mortality tables.
	www.druglibrary.org /special/king/caba/britishsystem.htm (4413 words)

	Grumpy Old Bookman: The art of self-publicity
		But John had realised that there is a hell of a lot of competition in the music business (as in writing) and he had decided to help himself along a bit.
		John had noticed that the small-town newspapers in England (and, I dare say, everywhere else in the world) are keen to find material to fill up the white space.
		The press release included a statement something like this: ‘John Smith is quickly acquiring a reputation as the most brilliant pianist of his generation.’ And – ahem – who, precisely, took the view that John was the most brilliant and so forth?
	grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2004/08/art-of-self-publicity.html (736 words)

	Salon \| Physicians, heal thyselves
		Coroner John Pollard revealed "the police are looking into another 130 deaths, bringing the total under investigation to 175.
		And, in the 1960s, Dr. John Bodkin Adams stood trial for murdering his patients and forging their wills, just like Shipman, and was acquitted for lack of evidence.
		He decreed in the will he forged for Kathleen Grundy that some of her money should go to an old people's home and to establish a fund for the support of women who gave birth on the anniversary of her death.
	archive.salon.com /health/feature/2000/03/23/britdocs/print.html (2263 words)

	NHS Blog Doctor: December 2005
		‘Dr John Crippen’ is a GP principal who works in a semi-urban practice somewhere north of London, just outside the M25.
		I can understand a human reaction to squalor, but there is a time and a place, and I'm not comfortable with an ambulance driver geting into eclectic "health education" of this sort with a women in labour.
		So, before you push your doctor for the next media driven fashionable treatment, pause awhile and think of leaches and bleeding; of stilboestrol for frequent mis-carriers; of surgery for the retroverted uterus; of potassium supplements with loop diuretics; of the routine use of co-trimoxazole; of insulin comas; of radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis.
	nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_nhsblogdoc_archive.html (8677 words)

	John Bodkin Adams Biography - Biography.com
		A general practitioner in Eastbourne, SE England, UK, he was tried in March 1957 for the murder of one of his patients, Edith Alice Morrell.
		Morrell had died in mysterious circumstances, following long courses of heroin and morphine prescribed by Adams, who was a beneficiary of her will.
		Although found not guilty, he was struck off the Medical Register, but reinstated in 1961.
	www.biography.com /search/article.jsp?aid=9175959 (94 words)

	Serial Killer Movies
		Adam - (1983-Made for TV) - About the 1981 murder of little Adam Walsh in Florida.
		After his Indian wife was reportedly killed by Native Americans, Johnson launched a personal war of genocide against that race from 1843 to 1878.
		He was, however, acquitted when the Crown was unsuccessful in convincing a jury of that charge beyond a reasonable doubt.
	www.thecrimeweb.com /serialkillermovies.htm (7660 words)

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