SENSATIONAL INQUIRY.
WIFE CHARGED WITH MURDER. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received This Day, 12.15 a.m. LONDON, May 22. At the conclusion of the coroner’s inquiry at Colcford, Miss Beatrice Pace, aged thirty-five, was arrested as the result of the jury’s verdict and charged with the murder of her husband, Harry Pace, aged thirty-six, a Forest of Dean farmer, by arsenical poisoning. Pace died on January 10, and the police stopped the funeral. a The inquiry occupied nineteen weeks and considerable attention was focussed on the medical evidence that death was due to arsenic poisoning. The evidence of relatives suggested ill feeling between Pace and his wife. Pace’s life was insured in 1924 and he suddenly became ill in 1925, and in July 1927 following a meal he again became, suddenly ill and was admitted to hospital. He recovered and returned home and again became suddenly ill. Then on January 6he complained of sensations in the stomach and throat and died on the 10th.
His wife swooned upon hearing the verdict and shouted “I didn’t, I did’nt, I wouldn’t, I couldn’t.” Women and girls in court wept bitterly. She has five children including a baby in arks.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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