MURDER CHARGE
POISON FOB A HUSBAND (By Electric Telegraph.---Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z- Cable Association.) LONDON, N„v. 23. Mrs Thompson was charged along with a twenty-year-old ship steward. Bywntors. with murdering her husband at, Ilford. At the previous hearing letters were read suggesting attempts at poisoning deceased. Tin- Ilford prisoners were emnniitled for conspiracy to murder, ami Mrs Thompson also with feloniously administering poison ’with intent to murder and soliciting Bywat ers'to commit minder. Mrs Thompson was carried out in a, faint. The Home Office analyst testified that he found traces of alkaloid in the murdered man’s organs, which gave the reactions of poison. No other poison ous substance was detected.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 25 November 1922, Page 5
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