POISONING OF MOTHER
BUTCHER'S SON ACCUSED. MAGISTRATES UNCONVINCED. LONDON. April 12. William Morgan, son of a Newport butcher, accused by a coroner’s jury of the murder of his mother, who died from arsenical poisoning on New Year’s Day, has been discharged by the magistrates, though he still stands committed for trial by the coroner. The inquest lasted over three weeks, and during the course of it a seventegn-year-old girl witness disappeared and another woman witness became ill in court and finished her evidence in bed. The evidence concerned the deceased’s will, and allegations that the food tasted “ salty ” and “ burning in the mouth. 111-feeling between Morgan, the husband, and his son William was also investigated. The coroner, summing up, dismissed the theories of suicide and of inadvertence in the administration of poison. He pointed out that there were three persons in residence who could have.put poison in the food. There was no reason to suspect the husband or ope of the sons. The other son, William, had made extraordinary statements, suggesting an unbalanced mind.
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Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 11
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174POISONING OF MOTHER Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 11
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