POISON MYSTERY.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 132, 3 December 1906, Page 3

POISON MYSTERY.

i WOMAN ACCUSED OF MURDERING HER HUSBAND. '> Mrs Elizabeth Taylor was brought • before the Magistrate at Watford > Petty Sessions tecently anJ charged with the murder of her husband by > administering poison She was > committed for trial at the Herts As- > sizes in November. 1 Her husband died on June 3rd last. It was stated in evidence that Mrs ; Taylor developed the habit of excessive drinking to such an extent that her mind was- unbalanced. ' She was sent to an asylum in January ' last and remained there for a month. • When she returned home she ' threatened her husband frequently. He became ill early in June, and Mrs - Taylor nursed him. He complained 1 that the unedicines she gave him > burned his throat, and made him L feel worse. During her husband's * illness Mrs Taylor said more than - once : "I could forgive my husband everything except putting me in •. the asylum." The doctors removed Taylor to the 1 hospital, where he ceased to com- - plain of his medicines, but he died a * week after his admission. Mrs Taylor attempted suicide four days be- ' fore his death by taking spirits of - salt. ' Medical officers from the hospital 1 attributed Taylor's death to an irritant poison, but stated that diluted 3 spirits of salt administered with food 5 and medicines would not produce - the symptoms observed before death > or at the post-mortem examination. The symptoms described could be | caused by arsenic. I The police found a bottle containing arsenic, as well as one labelled r "spirits of salt" in Taylor's house. > Mrs Taylor, who was not representr ed by counsel ,asked the witnesses 7 no questions, but declared that she i wasinnocent^^^^^^^^^"^^^