MURDER WILL OUT.

Northern Advocate, 19 June 1920, Page 5

MURDER WILL OUT.

VERDICT AGAINST SOLICITOR,

LONDON, June 17

A remarkable murder mystery has developed as the result of the exhumation of the body of Mabei iGreenwood, who died in June, 1919. 'The dead woman was the wife of Harold Greenwood, a solicitor of Kidwelly, Wales, and a sister of Sir Vansittart Bowater, a former Lord Mayor of London. The evidence at the inquest showed traces of arsenic in the body, though the doctor at the time of Mrs Greenwood's death certified that she had died of heart disease. A sensation was caused when a chemist gave evidence that her husband purchased two quarts of Cooper's weedicide, in 1917, containing 36 per cent, of arsenious oxide.

Thp coroner summoned the huslband to give evidence. There was no response, and the husband was then arrested and charged with murder. There was no suggestion of foul play at the time of Mrs Greenwood's death, but her husband in iSeptember last unexpectedly married a Miss Jones. Gossip started in the village, owing to the short time that his wife had been dead, and culminated in a general demand for the exhumation of Mrs 'Greenwood's body.

A verdict of willful murder aganist Greenwood was returned at the inquest which followed the exhumation of the body. A large crowd •booed 'Greenwood when, he was arrested.—A. and N.Z.