ALLEGED POISONING.
SUPPOSED CONSPIRACY TO DE- '' FRAUD AND MURDER.
By Cable—Pmss Association—Copyright
Received 17, 12.40 a.m. (London, January 16. On December 5 Frederick Seddon, district superintendent of the London and Manchester Assurance Company, was arrested on a charge of poisoning Eliza Barrow by giving her arsenic. The body of the woman was exhumed. It is alleged that Seddon controlled the woman's property and paid her an annuity.
Mrs. Seddon has now been arrested as an accessory to the murder charge. The evidence shows that the Seddons induced Barrow to lodge with them and to give them property, including £I6OO in India stock, on consideration of Seddon paying her £3 weekly.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 17 January 1912, Page 5
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110ALLEGED POISONING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 17 January 1912, Page 5
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