FARMER’S DEMISE

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1928, Page 6

FARMER’S DEMISE

WIFE UNDER SUSPICION.

MURDER CHARGE PREFERRED.

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 1,35 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. At the conclusion of the coroner’s inquiry at Coleford, Mrs Beatrice Pace, aged 35, was arrested as a result of the jury’s verdict and charged with the murder of her husband, Harry Pace, aged 3(5 years, a Forest of Dean fanner, by arsenical poisoning.

Pace died on January 10, The police stopped the funeral. The inquiry has occupied 19 weeks. Considerable attention was focussed on medical evidence that death was' due to arsenical poisoning. The evidence of relatives suggested ill-feeling between Pace and his wife. Facets’life was insured in 192-1. He suddenly became ill in 1925, and in July, 1927, following on a meal he was again' taken ill and admitted to hospital. He recovered and returned home, and once more had a sudden seizure. .Then, on January (», he complained of sensations in the stomach and throat.

The wife swooned upon henring the verdict and shouted; “I didn’t!' I didn’t! 1 wouldn’t! I couldn’t!”

Women and girls in court wept bitterly. Mrs Pace has five children, including a baby in. arm*.