The tale of Mary Bateman, aka the Yorkshire witch: a woman who was chronically incapable of going to the store. She also never met a scam she did like or a sheet she couldn't steal.
Sources:
Catherine Curzon on Mental Floss.
Extraordinary Life and Character of Mary Bateman, the Yorkshire Witch From the Earliest Thefts of her Infancy, Through a Most Awful Course of Crimes and Murders, Till Her Execution at the New Drop, Near the Castle of York, On Monday the 20th of March 1809 (12th Edition)
Vision of Britain Through Time
Ellen Castelow on Historic UK
Kelly Buchanan on LOC.
Wikipedia. Digoxin.
National Library of Scotland.
Hull Packet via Gale Primary Sources
Murderpedia
The Lineup
On Yorkshire Magazine
Newspapers.com:
Lancaster Gazette/Leeds Mercury
Morning Chronicle
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