Young Wife Faces Charge of Murder

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 13

Young Wife Faces Charge of Murder

HUSBAND POISONED INQUIRY LASTS 19 WEEKS (United P.'A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) j (Australian Press Association.) j LONDON, Tuesday. j At the conclusion of a coroner’s inquiry at Coleford, Mrs. Beatrice Pace, aged 35, was arrested as the result of the jury’s verdict, and charged with the murder of her husband, Harry Pace, aged 36, a Forest Dean farmer, by arsenical poisoning. Pace died on January 10. The police stopped the funeral and the inquiry occupied 19 weeks. Considerable attention was focused on the medical evidence that death was due to arsenic poisoning. The evidence of relatives suggested ill-feeling between Pace and his wife. Pace’s life was insured in 1924, and he suddenly became ill in 1925 and. in July 1927, following a meal, he again became suddenly ill and was admitted to hospital. He recovered and returned home and again he was taken ill. Then on January 6 he complained of sensations in the stomach and throat and died on January 10. His wife swooned upon hearing the verdict and shouted, “I didn’t, I didn’t, I wouldn’t, I couldn’t.” Women and girls in the Court wept bitterly. Mrs. Pace has five children including a baby in arms.