POISON IN BODIES

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 11

POISON IN BODIES

DEATH OF SCHOOLMASTER MRS BUNFIELD COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Sydney, August 30. At the Inquiry into the death of Alick Bunfield, a- schoolmaster, of Queanbeyan, whose body was exhumed, Henry Bunfield, aged 14, son of deceased, gave evidence that he opened a tin of peaches. His father served the peaches with custard, but the mother had no custard. His father became ill shortly afterwards. Harry said that he put his finger down his throat and vomited. His father said: “Did you taste anything bitter about those peaches?” Witness replied, “No.” Mrs. Bunfield, who arrived at the courthouse before the inquiry ended, declined to give evidence. She was committed for trial on a charge of having caused her husband’s death by poisoning. PEARSON DISCHARGED Sydney, August 30. When the case against Walter Rufus Pearson, charged with attempting to poison his third wife, again came before the Court the Police Prosecutor stated that he had no evidence to offer, and as Pearson’s wife would not give evidence it was no use proceeding further. Pearson was thereupon discharged.