WIFE A MURDERESS
POISON IN FAMILY’S FOOD.
“You ’ cannot find a doctor. I have poisoned the lot of you.” Mrs Olive Grover said this after giving her husband, her parents and her three-year-old daughter bread and butter for tea. And with this quotation, at a Newick, Sussex, inquest, Cecil Grover, a railway signalman, branded his wife a murderess. The bread and butter had been treated with strychnine. Mrs Grover and her 70-year-old father, Harry Pitcher, were dead a few 'minutes later, and Mr Grover and Mrs Pitcher were seriously ill. Baby Arnie Grover was also ill, but not so seriously.
The jury’s verdict was that Mr Pitcher was murdered by his daughter, who took her own life while her’ mind was unbalanced. The coroner. Dr. E. F. Hoare, commented: “It was evidently intended to be a mass murder.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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138WIFE A MURDERESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1942, Page 4
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