A MODERN BLUEBEARD
ALLEGED WIFE-MURDERER OX TRIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlcht London, June 23. At the trial of Joseph Smith, at tho Old Bailey, Mr. Bodkin (who is prosocuting) said there was a simplo mid terribly effective way of drowning a person in a bath. If someone lifted tho legs and trunk, and the body slid down jho sloping part, there was almost immediate unconsciousness, and rapid and silent death. Miss Mundy's legs wero found against the top of tho bath. She was sixty-eight inches tall, while tho bath was forty-four inches long at tho bottom and sixty inches at tho top. [Accused is alleged to have figured as bridegropm in no fewer than six different marriages. According to the prosecution, ho murdered: Beatrice Constance Annio Mundy, at SO High Street, Heme Bay, on July 13, 1912: Alice Biirnhani, at 16 Regent Road Blackpool, on December 12, 1913; Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, at 14 Bismarck Road, Highgate, on December 18, 1914. Each of these women was found dead in a liath.]
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 9
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169A MODERN BLUEBEARD Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 25 June 1915, Page 9
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