A FARMER’S DEATH.

Wairarapa Age, 24 May 1928, Page 5

A FARMER’S DEATH.

MURDER CHARGE AGAINST WIDOW. DEATH DUE TO POISONING. VEHEMENT DENIAL. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 22. At the conclusion of a Coroner’s inquiry at Coleford, Mrs. Beatrice Pace, 35, was arrested as the result of the jury’s verdict and charged with the murder of her husband Harry Pace, 36, a Forest of Dean farmer, by arsenical poisoning. Pace, died on June 10. The police stopped the funeral. An inquiry occupied nineteen weeks, considerable attention being focussed on the medical evidence that death -was due to arsenic poisoning and the evidence of relatives suggested ill-feeling between Pace and. his wife. Pace’s life was insured in 1924. He became suddenly ill in 1925, and in July, 1927, following a meal, again fell suddenly ill. He was taken to hospital, where Ko recovered and returned home again. He again became suddenly ill on January 6, complained of sensations in the stomach and throat, and died on January 10. The wife swooned upon hearing the verdict and shouted: “I didn’t! I didn’t! I wouldn’t! I couldn’t!” Women and girls in the Court wept lyMrs. Pace has five children, including a baby in arms.—(Australian Press Association.)