A MURDER MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 July 1920, Page 5

A MURDER MYSTERY.

A WIFE'S STRANGE DEATH. THE HUSBAND ON TRIAL. ; By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received July 2, 8 p.m. London, J'ufy 1. The prosecution, outlining the case against Greenwood, charged with poisoning his wife at Kidwelly, Wales, said the evidence would show that Greenwood bought a poisonous weed killer in May, 1919, going as far afield as Edinburgh for it.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received July 2, 10.55 p.m. London, July 1. The prosecution suggests in the Kidwelly case that arsenic was administered in a glass of wine at luncheon on the day Mrs. Greenwood died. Greenwood's gardener deposed that the weed Itiller was not used in the garden.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [A remarkable murder mystery developed in Wales last month 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 1914. At "the inquest a sensation was caused when a chemist gave evidence that the husband purchased two quarts of weedicide in 1917, containing 36 per cent, araenious oxide. 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.]