A MURDER MYSTERY

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1920, Page 1

A MURDER MYSTERY

(by Electric Xelegrapn—-Copyright, i

LONDON, June 16.

A remarkable murder mystery has developed as the result of the exhumation of the body of Mis Mabel Greenwood, who died in June) of hist yea. She was the wife of Harold Green wood, a well-known solicitor of Kidwelly, in Wales. She was a sister of Sir Vansittart Bowater, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1913-14. • The evidence at the inquest just held has shown that there was, arsenic in the body. The doctor whom Greenwood had attending his wife had at idle time of death, certified that heart disease was the cause of death. A sensation was caused at the inquest when a chemist gave evidence that the husband had purchased from him two quarts of weedicide in 1917 containig 36 per cent of arsenous oxide.

The Coroner summoned the husband to give evidence. As there was no response the husband was then arrested and was charged with murder. There had been no suggestion of foul play at- the time of death, but the bus band in September, unexpectedly lfiarried a Miss Jones. Then gossip started in the village, owing to the short time that the- first wife had been dead when ho mapped , again. The gossip culminated in a. general demand for file exhumation of the body.

A verdict of wilful murder waj> returned against Greenwood. A large crowd “booed” him when he was arrested.