On 11 May 1876, The Daily Telegraph first brought national attention to the mystery surrounding Charles Bravo's death, denouncing the inquest as having been conducted in a "secret and unsatisfactory manner". The sensational article named some of the doctors, gave details about the dinner menu on the night of his death, and speculated that the Burgundy which he alone had drunk had been poisoned. On the advice of the Buscot Park physician and her father, for one week, Florence had her solicitor advertise a reward of £500 for anyone who could produce evidence of selling antimony to a member of the Priory household staff. At first, suspicion fell on George Griffiths, the coachman fired by Charles, who had reportedly shouted in a pub that "Mr Bravo would be dead in five months". The police found that a large quantity of tartar emetic had been sold by a chemist in Streatham to Griffiths in the summer of 1875, which he used on horses to eliminate worms and stored in the Priory stables. However, media interest in Griffiths subsided after it turned out he had moved to Kent, and was not in the area when Charles Bravo was poisoned.
