LANCASTER MYSTERY.
ETHEL BINGHAM ACQUITTED. Press Association .—Telegraph .—Copyright Received October 31, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, October 30. Ethel Bingham has been acquitted on a charge of poisoning her brother, who was keeper of Lancaster Castle. Early in September the bodies of three members of the Bingham family at Lancaster were ordered to be exhumed, as the result of disclosures at an inquest on the death of James Bingham, keeper of Lancaster Castle, from arsenical poisoning, Bingham’s father and two sisters died within nine months. The symptoms of the father’s and one sister’s illness were similar to those of the deceased. Edith Bingham, another sister, was arrested on suspicion of having caused the deaths by mixing arsenic with beefsteak which she cooked.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13520, 31 October 1911, Page 5
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121LANCASTER MYSTERY. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13520, 31 October 1911, Page 5
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