POISON MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 187, 27 December 1912, Page 5

POISON MYSTERY.

WOMAN DENIES CONFESSION. HUNTED OUT OP LIVERPOOL. London, December 14. The poisoning mystery in connection with which Frederick Henry Seddon was executed in April last has had yet another startling development. In March last Seddon was tried at the Old Bailey for the nmrder of Eliza Mary Barrow, a well-to-do spinster, whom he was charged with having poisoned. His wife also, as an alleged accessory, was placed on trial at the same time. The man was found guilty and sentenced to death, hut in the case of the woman a verdict of acquittal was returned. About a month ago one of the Sunday papers published what purported to 'be a confession by Mrs. Stddon, in which she related how she had seen her husband administering poison to Miss Barhow. Mrs. Seddon has now sworn an affidavit denying that she ever made this confession. The woman, who has re-married since her husband's execution, has been hunted out of Liverpool, and is about to sail for Australia, Australians living in England are hoping that the Commonwealth will regard her as an undesirable immigrant, and treat her us such.

In the confession that was attributed to her by one of the London Sunday papers, Mrs. Seddon was alleged to have said that for the medicine which had been prescribed by the doctor her husband gave Miss Barrow water in which lly-papers and a white powder had been immersed. She was further represent ed as having said that when she threatened to call in the police her husband levelled a revolver at her and declared that he would blow her brains out if she dared to betray him. Airs. Seddon explained that it only for the sake of their children that she did not afterwards tell all she knew.