THE TRIPLE MURDER CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 148, 24 June 1915, Page 8

THE TRIPLE MURDER CHARGE

BRIDES DROWNED IN A BATH. (By Telcjraph.—fress Association.— Copyright.) (Received Juhe 24, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON; 23rd June. At the trial of Joseph Smith, at the Old Bailey, Mr. Bodkm (who is prosecuting) said there was a simple and ter ribly effective way of drowning a person in a bath. If someone lifted the legs and trunk, and, the body slid down the sloping part, there was almost immedi I.1 '. ate unconsciousness, and rapid and silent death. Miss Mundy's legs were found against the top of the bath. She was sixty -eight inches tall, while the bath was forty-four inches long at the bottom and sixty inches at the top. [Accused is alleged to have figured ,as bridegroom in no fewer than six different marriages, and, according to j the prosecution, he murdered : Beatrice Constance Annie Mutidy, at' 80, Highstreet, Home Bay, on 13th July, 1912; 1 Alice Burnham, at 16, Regeht-rbad, Blackpool, on 12th December, 1913 5 Margaret Elizabeth Lofty, at 14, Bis-marck-road, Highgate, on IBHI December, 1914. Each of these women was found dead in a bath.]