CROYDON MYSTERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 11

CROYDON MYSTERY.

INQUEST ON EXHUMED BODY. DISCOVERY OF POISON. /lustralian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received July 12, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON. July 12.

At the opening of the inquest concerning the death of' Mr. Edward Duff, one of the alleged victims of the Croydon poisoning c*se, t|je coroner announced that arsenic had been found in every tissue of the exhumed body.

The doctor's statement revealed that four-fifths of a grain had been actually found in the body, Mr. Thomas Sidney, a brother of Mrs. l)uff, said in his evidence that the couple vere happily married, although he saw Mr. Dug really angry with his wife just Wore he went on a fishing holiday. This *"as unusual, because the deceased man Was always good tempered. The inquest was adjourned.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, 6n July 2 granted an application for the exhumation of the body of Mr. Edmund Duff.

The body of Mr. Duff, formerly High Commissioner for Nigeria, was exhumed fiom a grave in Croydon Cemetery on May 18, making tho third exhumation in the same cemetery within a period of two fnonths. On March 21 two coffins were ®xbumed from a, single grave; they were those of Mrs. Violet Emelia Sidney, 69, j>f Birdhurst Road, South Croydon, and W daughter Vera, 40, whose deaths have been the subject of separate inquiries by 'he Croydon coroner, Dr. H. B. Jackson, ®ver several days. Mrs. Sidney died on March 5 and her daughter ori February 14. Mr. Duff was a son-in-law of Mrs. Sidney.