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ALLEGED MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST A WOMAN cOftNlfeH CAfek . ..' ■> ''■ , s- • .j- '• ' (w SITED PRESS ' ASBeCiAWOK—Bt ~ KtECTEIO TBLBOBAPH—COPZBIGHT.) ' (Received February 20th, 1140 va.m.) LONDON, February 25. Mrs Annie Hearn. was charged at the Police Court at Launceston, Cornwall, with murdering her sister, Mi ad Mary Everard, aged 52, also a friend, Mrs Alice Thomas.'

Mr Delvln, the prosecuting counsel, Baid that Dr. Lynch, a Home Office ' expert, was of the opinion that Miss j Everard was aldwly poisoned during seven'months before her dfeath, when Mrs Hearm was nursing and feeding her.

Mr Devlin pointed out that Mrs Hearn ahd Miss Everard in 192 a ■ went -to live At LeWannick, near Thomas's farnJ. Mr Thomas frequently Visited and took them out for drives, 'tiis 'Wife, ' though Mrs Hearii'd friend, did not visit her often, but sho, did. not object to the friendship. Mrs Hearn, in 1926, bought a tin of wGfedkilleiv containing 4000 gi'flins bf arsehic. Mr Devlin read extracts from Miss Everard's diary, beginning" in 1030) detailing her sufferings until she died in July. There weW fe* ptiated fdffirences to symptoms ' which Mr Devlin said suggested repeated dosM of arsenic. Beferring to ohe 'day 1 , ItfAy Bth, Mr Devlin said that Milss Evetard was. suddenly taken ill at'night, aiid Mrs Hearn called in a heigllbfiur, Miss Everard said to hei- that th& iHedleltttJ Was too strong. "It's poigfi'i," she added. "I had a full dose and cftn feel it creeping over me. My liftdd4 arid feet a* numbed/' PrfeVibifely, I only had part dosoft." Mr#- Hfcftra 6aid that it was emergefley medicitifi to r£lidVe Bxtrethe hbffnfittg. jtff said that-doctors would givfe Avideucd that they Would not have glvffli such medicine. The post-mortem fdVe&lfeil .77 grdins of arsetiie iti tllfi body.' It was also present in the hair,* nAils t and Bkfn, showing that it hftd been Administered over a lohg peM6d. Mr Ddviin said that ' jirs tThotiiaa filti'nded a picuic altln^' %Vith Mrs Heain and Mr Thqmal. WU CiToxed sandwiches ahd took the lop ine, df. would 9& persons ont. of.W 100, after which she was ill aqd SabsequoHlly MM Hratd cooked a meal of mutto'i for-' Mr| wlo aftjihvards diedi 1 t The post-mortem revealed that Mr* •Thomas's body contained »6j grain o£ arsenic, Mrs Heanu subsequently dis 1 appeared, and went to Torquay, -seek* ing a situation and wearing spectaclei A\hu']i she had not before worn.' Tlie hearing was adjourned. • ["A mfeßsagc from kofidtm 4t January 13th of this year, stated that Mri Annie llearn had bdes arirestcd And charged with the mfoi'der of Mtli Alice ThftMftß. Mrs limn tobjk lddging oa Novehibei- ll(h last year tha name of Antiie in a. working' class district'at TtJrqUAjr,, iind pecured a position da k <io6tgen6*W" .to' 4 family? aairied Powell , till sM 'piqiSUiS^wW^ f

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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11

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ALLEGED MURDER Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11

ALLEGED MURDER Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20172, 26 February 1931, Page 11

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