MURDER MYSTERY

Taranaki Daily News, 18 June 1920, Page 5

MURDER MYSTERY

A YEAR-OLD TRAQEDY. EXHUMATION revelations. By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 17, 8.10 p.m. London, June 16. A remarkable nuyrder mystery 7ias developed as a result of the exhumation of the body of Mabel Greenwood, who died in June last year. She was the wife of Harold Greenwood, a solicitor of Kidwelly, Wales, and a sister of Sir Vansittart Bowater, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1913 and 14)14.

The evidence at the inquest showed arsenic in the body, though a doctor at the time of death, certified to heart disease.

A sensation was caused when a chemist gave evidence that the husband purchased two quarts of weedicide in 1917, containing 36 per cent, ansenious oxide. The coroner summoned the husband to give evidence, but as there wa_s no response the husband was arrested' and charged with murder.

There was no suggestion of foul play at the time of death, but the husband in September unexpectedly married a Miss Jones. Gossip started in the village owing to the short time the wife had been dead, and culminated in a general demand for exhumation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

Received June 17, 9.5 p.m. London, June 16. At the Kidwelly inquest a vordict of wilful murder was returned against Greenwood. A large crowd booed him when he was arrested.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.