CHARGED WITH MURDER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 May 1928, Page 11

CHARGED WITH MURDER.

WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER INQUEST. CREATED SENSATION IN COURT UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) .Received May 23, 1.45 p.m. LONDON, May 22. At the conclusion of a coroner’s inquiry at Coleford, Mrs Beatrice Pace, aged 35, was arrested as the result of the jury’s verdict and charged with the murder of her husband, Harry Pace, aged 3G, a Forest of Dean farmer by arsenical poisoning. Pace died on January 10 and the police stopped the funeral. The inquiry occupied nineteen weeks and considerable attention was focussed on the medical evidence that death was due to arsenic poison. The evidence of relatives suggested that there was ill-feeling between Pace and his wife. Pace’s life was insured in 1924 and lie suddenly became ill in 1925, and in July, 1927, following a meal he again suddenly became ill arid was admitted to a hospital. He recovered and returned home and again suddenly became ill and then on January 6 lie complained of sensations in* the stomach and throat and died on the tenth.

His wife swo-oned upon hearing the verdict, after shouting: “I didn’t! I didn’t!’l wouldn’t! I couldn’t!” Alen and girls in court Avept bitterly. She has free children, including a baby in arms. ,