ARSENICAL POISONING.
LANCASTER CASTLE MYSTERY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
London, September 15.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Edith Bingham, whose brother, James Bingham, keeper of Lancaster Castle, died recently from arsenical poisoning. ~i''. The ovidence showed that the woman cooked and gave her brother a beefsteak dosed with arsenic, apparently from an "Acme" weedkiller. •
It was recently stated that the bodies of Bingliam's father and two sistere were to bo exhumed. All had died within tlio last nine months, and the symptoms of the father's and one sister's illness were similar to that of James Bingham.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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100ARSENICAL POISONING. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1235, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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