The Balham Mystery The Balham Mystery: or, the “Bravo” poisoning case. Charles Bravo was a British lawyer who was fatally poisoned with antimony in 1876. The case is still sensational, notorious and unresolved. The case is also known as The Charles Bravo Murder and the Murder at the Priory. It was an unsolved crime committed within an elite Victorian household at The Priory, a landmark house in Balham, London. Charles Delaunay Turner Bravo London : Goubaud & Son c. 1876 BRA [folio]