"I CAN'T TELL YOU"

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 86, 6 July 1928, Page 2

"I CAN'T TELL YOU"

FARM POISON DRAMA. WIDOW'S ORDEAL. LONDON, Juno 1. TJio Coleford inquest on Harry Pace, a well-known sheep farmer, of Fetter Hill, in the Forest of Dean, who died on January 10 from what is alleged to have been arsenic poison, is 'approaching a record length, and reached an emotional climax when "the tragic widow" elected to go into the witness box after the Coroner had warned her that she need not do so. She underwent several hours of cross-examination, in the course of which she denied that she had. destroyed packages or bottles or concealed anything. "I can't tell you, Sir, I dan'jt tell you," she replied to the Coroner's reqiiest to tell the jury how her busband came to have nine grains of arsenic in his body. Mrs-. Pace declared that her husband during his illness often threatened to commit suicide, and she had once prevented him from throwing himself out of a. window. She said she had nursed him conscientiously, and had never given him poison.