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* [[File:canada-law-book-1906-trial-of-eugene-marie-chantrelle.pdf|Download the full trial report here] (Canada Law Book Co., 1906). | * [[File:canada-law-book-1906-trial-of-eugene-marie-chantrelle.pdf|Download the full trial report here]] (Canada Law Book Co., 1906). | ||
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Eugène Marie Chantrelle (1834-1878) was a French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and taught at the private Newington Academy. He began a relationship with a pupil, Elizabeth Dyer (born 1851, 15 years old at the time). They married when she was age 16, moved in together at 81a George Street, and Elizabeth gave birth to their first child 2 months after they were married.
Eugène Marie Chantrelle murdered his wife on 2 january 1878 and was convicted for his crimes and hanged at Calton Prison in Edinburgh, Scotland. The trial is claimed to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Stevenson met Eugène Chantrelle at the home of Victor Richon (Stevenson's old French master).
Eugène Marie Chantrelle and Arthur Conan Doyle
During Autumn 1866, Arthur Conan Doyle (aged 7) attended the Newington Academy, 8 Arniston Place, Edinburgh where Eugène Marie Chantrelle taught him French.
It is possible that Conan Doyle met Elizabeth Dyer in the Academy as ther were here the same year.
Trial
- File:Canada-law-book-1906-trial-of-eugene-marie-chantrelle.pdf (Canada Law Book Co., 1906).
