CEMETERY DRAMA.

Western Star, 29 November 1935, Page 4

CEMETERY DRAMA.

BODY EXHUMED. ' SUSPICIONS OF POISON. GRIM GRAVEYARD SCENE. While th € village of Caunton, Nottinghamshire, slept, the body of Mrs Louisi Baguley. aged 87, a property owner who had lived in Burton Joyce, and who died is May this year, w.as exhumed) shortly before midnight from a grave iu the churchyard there. Mrs Baguley died in a Nottingham' nursing home, and the request for the exhumation followed the discovery ofl traces of morphia in the body of heij daughter, Miss Ada, Louisa Baguley, aged 50, who died at the s ame place on 1 September 11, and whose cremation had! been stopped. It was a scene reminiscent of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The figures of the gravediggers wer € sharply silhouetted in the darkness by flashlights which shone into the opened grave.| Round about s tood members of the Nottingham and Newark police. | In the torchlight four men took up' the coffin as it came to the surface and! bore it to a hearse drawn up by thq side of tlie church. The body was then; driven to Nottingham and a- pathological examination made before the inquest on, Miss Baguley was resumed. Eailier in the day Miss Waddington, the middle-aged proprietress of the nursing home in Devon Drive, Sherwood, Nottingham, where Mr s and Miss Baguley died, told of events which preceded thei r deaths.

“I knew nothing of the proposed exhumation,” she said, “but I think everything should b e cleared up as quickly as possible. Mr s Baguley and her daughter were brought to my house by visitors, who said that they needed expert care. The mother wa§ suffering from nothing specifically, except old age. The daughter, however, had creeping! paralysis.

“If there is any mystery at all it has been caused, I suppose, by the fact that under the will which the daughter made, I have been given a certain sum of money and property. I suppose there must be a lot of awful suspicion; about now that it ha s been found that there was morphia in the body. I have no morphia in my house. “So far as the will is concerned it amounts to this. Mrs Baguley, before she died in May, had suggested making her money over to me, so as to cover expenses. As patient s they paid 30s a week, but a fter her mother’s* death Miss Baguley thought that it would be better if she—to whom the money and property had been left—could leave it to me i n he r will. The legacy i B just tha rent from half a dozen or so cottages in Burton Joyce and War Stock, amounting to £500.”