VERDICT OF MURDER
CROYDON’S POISONING MYSTERY ARSENIC IN THE BODIES (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Monday. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of murder against persons unknown in connection with the Croydon arsenic mystery, involving the death of Vera Sidney and two others. The inquests into the deaths of her mother, Mrs. Violet Sydney, and her brother-in-law, Mr. Edward Creighton Duff, are still unfinished. The body of Mr. Duff, formerly High Commissioner for Nigeria, was exhumed from a grave in Croydon Cemetery, making the third exhumation in the same cemetery within a period of two months. On March 21 two coffins were exhumed from a single grave; they were those of Mrs. Violet Emelia Sidney, 69, of Birdhurst Road, South Croydon, and her daughter, Vera, 40. Mrs. Sidney died on March 5 and her daughter on February 14. Mr. Duff was a son-in-law of Mrs. Sidney. Arsenic was found in the bodies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 728, 30 July 1929, Page 9
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