MARKED TO MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20402, 2 November 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARKED TO MURDER.

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'* ' 3iCj« Moody'# property, consisting of th&tt3 and marketable slo:k, could only be disposed of by her by will at her i, IBmstb rati this woman, almo# under the notv oi the trustful Hiss . I'egler. Ha was passing then Henry ■ JWilihms. It is, perhaps, unnecessary .to < - *ay thai hft used many aliases in his time, '.After a -short acquaintance they went ' - ibrnegb • th« marriage ceremony at a • itrghtty office on August 26, 1810. Smith yas described a* a picture re*toircr. He immediately went io solid' tori|t and obtained a copy of Miss Mundv's father's will, and of th« settlement. He discussed the possibility oi raising a loan on the settlement, lie had the effrontery to get. is to touch vrii.fi Miss Mundy s brother ifi regard to these matters. In the end be secured the £135 2* lid, which wan in the .hands of the trustees. After Veceiving the money at a solicitor'/. office in Weyrdbutb, he tent a telegram to himself at his lodgings, went home alone, arid opened it. Ho told the - landlady it called him to London at once ■ on special business. He departed with Mhis Moody"« money in his pocket, and fhe Weymouth landlady never saw- him again, The trust moneys were still untouched ; On September 13 he wrote his " wife" a loiter, insulting her with regard to her state of health, and on the dame day he rejoined Miss Pegler at "Bristol. It would have aeerned that Mi as Sfoody was well rid of him by now. > .Unhappily /or her it war, not the case. Eabbit— Snake. ' ' ; Somi 13 months later, in March, 1812, /H ' she was living at \Veston-snper*Mare. <• Without warning she met Smith there, ' in spite of all that had happened, *he fell under his influence immediately, jik<i a rabbit hypnotised by a snake, ' lit sounds line lurid fiction, but it is dreidfal ifact. Miss Peeler was written to and told that Smith's absence might !•' ba.ft long one, and that posribly he was - going to panada on business. The near- ' est he went to Canada was Heme Bay, Where'he and Miss Mundy took a house on-a. monthly tenancy. A little more ac£VV punfulatcd money arrived for Miss Mundy. ; -<? At Herne Bay Smith once more tackled :ihd problem of the £2500 settlement, tot 7,-'. - without success. There was only one way //" "in'which Jie could obtain the money, and •A he did npt hesitate. 'S T yi--SRie-'devoted couple-made mutual wills. .: e ,Juror she died possessed. Then, and not , till then, Mr. Smith went out and bought ,-• » b;itb. Thero bed not been one before. (TJliis" batrx, it should be noted, was with"t£i% out; any'fittings, and had to bo filled by i'-* -.bapd. "li wis- placed in an empty room 1 ■£zz-.: r V<\-.- >• ■ • •• • ■

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whether ihn 4ea,ik of ilhs Mgcdy antdde.aLa! or designed. Mm Lofty Is this last person fenoisrn to have bubn nrstSttid hy -Bmrlh. ''~8&0-3se& m a b»ih at Bisxrisutk Koxd, Higbgsie She 73-3,5 tie dangiit«r of a clergyman, and had been Jiving at B»th. Tfce fact that Mi® Mars dy, Mi is Berniism ar.'l herself vrer® _ 7?onj«n <Kak«s their zssoct&iioa vith Smith all th« users extraordinary, Before meeting her he hsd " married" .Alice KeaTjl, and ties absconded. He Ri«t Misi Lofty in ths ntrxrr.T. fA 1914 f acd " rr.-arrieri'' her en December 17 of that year. Tee mezi day she was dead m her fc&tfc in rooms 'zt High gate. Is the raorvung she had heen to art Winston solid tor arid execrated a will, feaTiri'' si! her property to her bnshsnd, " John Lloyd."

The landlady heard the eosnd of splash•rig jo the bathroom. Been after she heard the organ feeing played is Smith's tilting roam, arid them lbs front dooT slaro. la a little il«5« he wmi tack wish wee tomatoes for lljrs, Lfoyd'rf svpper. " Is *£ae doxrt rctV he asked. At Bay he had bohght flsb, and. at Blackpool, eggs ;fcr the victim. The verdict at the iwpiest again left Smith rnixettbtd, Hji immediately approached a solicitor at Shepherd's Bash to obtain probate of the vrilL It was flaring a visit to this man that he was

arrested and charged, though not at first with murder, but with causing a false entry to be made in the marriage register at Bath. Tho net quickly tightened about him in consequence of the activities of De-tcctive-Ingpisctor Neil and the police at .Aylesbury (close to where the 15 urn hams lived). On March 23, 1915, Smith was accused of tho wilful murder of Bessie Mundy, Alice Bfirriham and Margaret Lofty, Tho end of the sordid, tale is well known. Sir Edward M«rsba!lJJaH defended Smith brilliantly,'but he wag convicted and sentenced on July 1. He took the verdict badly and gasped, " I can only say I am not guilty " Tho grounds of appeal were chiefly concerned with inadmissable evidence and misdirection to the jury, as is bo often tho caass in such proceedings. All were unavailing. The hanging of Smith rwnoved from life's ilago one of tho irjsi rcmarkablo villains England has ever knows*