WIFE’S DEATH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160692, 3 July 1920, Page 5

WIFE’S DEATH.

SOLICITOR CHARGED WITH MURDER. LONDON, July 1. The prosecution outlining the case against Greenwood, charged with poisoning his wife at Kidwelly, Wales, said the evidence would show that Greenwood bought a poisonous weed-killer in May, 1919, going as far afield as Ekiinburgh for it.

The prosecution in the Kidwelly case sufTsf 68 !' 8 that a,rsenic was administered in a glass of wine at a luncheon on the day Mrs Greenwood died. Greenwood’s gardener deposes that the weed-killer was not used in the garden.

_ Giving evidence at the inquest on Mrs Greenwood, whose body was exhumed, a Home Office analyst stated that be found rather more than a quarter of a grain of arsenic.

Mrs Greenwood was the wife of a Llanelly solicitor, and sister of Sir T. Vansittart Bowater, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1913-14. She died in June, 1919. The doctor’s certificate said the cause of death was heart disease. A post-mortem examination wa s made,- and cert yin organs sent to the Government Analyst. -The husband of the dead woman remarried six months after his first wife’s death. Subsequently the body was exhumed and an inquest ordered.