LONDON POISONING MYSTERY.
WOM&K DENTES CONFESSION. ' LONDO"N. December 14. The poisoning mystery in connection i • wTth which Frederick Henry Seddon was executed an April last Ibas had yet another startling development. In March last Seddon was- tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of Eliza Mary Barrow, a well-to-do spinster, whom he was charged with having poisoned. His wife also, as an alleged acceeeorv, was placed on trial at the same time.' The j man was found" guilty and' sentenced to-|> death, hut in the case of the woman a I vcrdcct of acquittal was returned f About a month ago one of the Sunday ! papers puhlashed -what purported to' be ' a confession by Mrs Seddon, in wihich she related how she had seen her husband administering poison to Miss Barrow. Mrs Seddon has now sworn an affidavit . denying that 6he ever -made this con, , feseion. The woman, who, as already reported, lias 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 bhe Commonwealth will regard her as an undesirable immigrant, and treat her as such.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 305, 21 December 1912, Page 9
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