ARSENIC IN BODY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 164, 13 July 1929, Page 9

ARSENIC IN BODY.

Victim Of The Croydon Poison Mystery. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, July 12. At tlie opening of the inquest concerning the death of Mr. Edward Duff, one of the alleged victims of the Croydon poisoning case, the coroner announced that arsenic had been found in every tissue of the exhumed body. The doctor's statement revealed that four-fifths of a grain had been actually found in the body. Mr. Thomas Sidney, a brother of Mrs. Duff, said in his evidence that the couple were happily married, although he saw Mr. Duff really angry with his wife just before he went on a fishing holiday. This was unusual, because the deceased man was always good tempered. The inquest was adjourned.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, on July 2, granted an application for the exhumation of the body of Mr. Edmund Duff. The body of Mr. Duff, formerly High Commissioner for Nigeria, was exhumed from a grave in Croydon Cemetery on May 18, making the third exhumation in the same cemetery within a period of two months. Op March 21 two coffins were exhumed from a single grave; they were those of Mrs. Violet Emelia Sidney, 69, of Birdhurst Road, South Croydon, and her daughter Vera, 40, whose deaths have been the subject of separate inquiries by the Croydon coroner, Dr. H. B. Jackson, over several days. Mrs. Sidney died on March 5 and her daughter on February 14. Mr. Duff was a son-in-law of Mrs. Sidney.