Emeline Meaker

Extensively discussed here, except that it doesn't say what she did!
Talks about all-male juries and the feminine "shield".


http://vermont-archives.org/talks/jury.html

A joint indictment was found to-day against Emeline MEAKER and Horace
MEAKER, mother and son, for the murder of Alice MEAKER at Duxbury,
Vt., in April, charging them with administering poison.

http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/NY/Monroe/1880/OCT.html 

(who was she?  Grandma?  Daughter-in-law?)