CHARGE OF MURDER.
A WOMAN ACQUITTED. (UKITEB PnBSS ASSOCIATION-** ELECTBIO 1 TEI.EOBAPH-COPYBIOHT.) LONDON, June 23. ■Mrs-Annie Hearn, who collapsed m the dock after the judge's 4J hours' summing-up at the end of her trial for the alleged murder of Mrs Thomas, by arsenic poisoning, waited 54 minutes while the jury considered its verdict which was not guilty of the murder of Mrs Thomas. . , His Honour directed that an indictment in connexion with Everard be abandoned, and Mrs Hearn was discharged. Two thousand outside the court awaited the verdict.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 9
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CHARGE OF MURDER.
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 9
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