WELSH POISON CASE.
SOLICITOR SENT FOR TRIAL.
CHARGE OF WIFE-MURDER.
A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 17. Herbert Armstrong, clerk of the Court at Hay, Brecknockshire, was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered his wife and attempted to murder Oswald Martin. The evidence of the Government analyst showed that he found over two grains of white arsenic in each of two chocolates in a box sent to Martin.
Herbert Rowso Armstrong, who is about 50' years of age, and has been a solicitor for 27 years, was first arrested on • a charge of attempting to murder a fellow solicitor named Martin, by administering arsenic. Following his arrest, the exhumation of the body of his wife, who died 10 months before, was ordered, and in conseqnenco of the reports of the Home Office experts, who examined the remains, Armstrong was further charged with the murder of his wife. Armstrong is a graduate of Cambridge, and for many years had been a popular figure in the social life of Hay, where he was clerk to the justices-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 7
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