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ring. Knowing full well she would accuse him, he claims she would have liked it given the history, considering all the plants in her greenhouse were poisons, not common knowledge. At this point as the judge was threatening to use his position and her testimony to destroy the count, he pressed an electronic switch forcing the needle to extend into her other hand. The poison is revealed to be a rare neurotoxin, designed to keep the wife alive for the trial but too insane to testify, leaving her to be a burden for her husband whose career was now finished.
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has an Asian adaptation in which the count persues his revenge against the judge through his wife. Using seduction, in her greenhouse with many toxic species, he gifts her such a ring with a hollow spring loaded needle. Once her poisoning is revealed he lets slip that the lady of the house has such a
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of the wearer in order to preclude capture or torture. People more commonly died from suicide rather than murder caused by the poison ring. The purpose of the compartment in the ring was not only limited to poison. Rings with such compartments were long before used for other reasons, before, during,
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