Dr. Pritchard in 1864 purchased some poisons as his wife was standing in his way – he wanted to marry one of his servant-girls. He had a problem as this servant was pregnant. His wife suddenly became very ill and his mother-in-law came to look after her. Quite suddenly his mother-in-law died in his house, and her daughter, his wife, a few weeks later. They were both found to have been poisoned. Pritchard was hanged in 1865, the last man to be executed in public in Scotland. A crowd of 100,000 watched the execution.

When archiving the Edinburgh court house where Dr. Pritchard was held during the trial, some of the original evidence was uncovered from the case. Vials with traces of the poisons arsenic, cyanide and antimony were kept in a wooden box with mounted photographs of the diabolical Dr. Pritchard’s victims. His wife Mary Jane Pritchard, mother-in-law Jane Taylor and possible mistress and accomplice Elizabeth McGrain. Inside the sample vials (now mostly safe from the poison – just don’t lick them!) Are now parchments with the poisons listed on them.

The lower drawer of the box was empty at first… then someone asked whilst examining the macabre antique – “I wonder who he enjoyed poisoning the most?” A strange question i know, but what happened next stunned the archivists….

A parchment appeared in the lower drawer with the name of a victim and the poison that was used!

We have a new version called H H Holmes  Poison Box
The Changes are:

In the lower drawer with the photo and name of the victim a Gold ring will appear.
The back of the photo is the Guest number that works with the HH Holmes book test
You now can have a prediction with the two victims that were not chosen both have information on the back including one a necklace and the other earrings.
Completely electronic~ A receiver that has three color led’s one for each choice.

Here is what you receive :

• 9 4 step aged Photo cards with name, guest number and poison used.
• 3 Photo lockets
• 3 Gold Rings
• Receiver
• 3 aged Poison bottles
• Made by hand wooden box
• Instructions
• Setup Video

The Spectator is shown a wooden box owned by HH Holmes…
The Box is shown to contain three bottles of different poison, Three different photo lockets and the lower drawer is shown to be empty.
The performer turns around and the spectator freely chooses one of three poisons then chooses one of three photo lockets.

Upon turning around the performer has an envelop that contains two photo cards and explains both photo cads and the information on there back.

But where is the third photo card?

You guess it in the lower drawer, but upon the spectator opening the drawer a gold ring along with it is found.