Dr. Cream was a McGill-trained physician who performed illegal abortions and was suspected of murder. Cream fled Canada for Chicago where he continued to perform abortions and began an affair with a young woman. He had the woman convince her older husband to take out a life insurance policy, then had her replace his medication with strychnine.
Dr. Cream was subsequently charged with the man's death and imprisoned in the Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet.
After a murder Cream would sometimes send blackmail letters to people stating he had evidence of their guilt.
Gaining an early release Cream eventually relocated in London, England where he continued his drug addition and another murderous streak. He murdered four Lambeth prostitutes a few years after the Jack the Ripper cases.
My story of Cream, entitled The Lambeth Poisoner Case, can be found in Sherlock 6.
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