WIFE'S BODY IN CASK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 27

WIFE'S BODY IN CASK

MURDER VERDICT AGAINST HUSBAND WOMAN NOT DROWNED Remarkable evidence was given at an inquest at Abergwili. two miles; from Carmarthen, in Wales, on a' woman found head downwards in u water cask at the back of her home. She was Mrs. Mary Davies, the SS-1 year-old wife of a market gardener. Her husband, Mr. Henry Davies.! told the court that on his return from a village nine miles away he discov- j ered the body, but was too nervous to j take it from the cask. He could not. he said, push the cask I over. “Don't you think 1 am a silly ass,”j

said the coroner, Dr. R. L. Thomas. to him. *T do not believe you.** Woman's Injuries Dr. Thomas and the jury then iu speeted the cask. On their return the i coroner said the lightest juryman ! could push the cask over with ease. Dr. Telford Martin, who conducted the post mortem, said Mrs. Davies did not die from drowning. He described injuries on her body, including abrasions on the knees, two teeth broken, and one loose. He said he had examined Mr. Henry Davies’s hands and had found fresh abrasions on the knuckle and :he back .of the hands, consistent with, striking an object like a person’s teeth. Dr. Martin said he was not prepared !to give an opinion as to the cause of death. Another witness spoke to hearing shouts of “Murder” coming from the Davies’s house. The jury returned a verdict of wii ful murder against the husband Henry Davies, who was then arrested on the coroner’s warrant.