Woman Charged With Poisoning Husband Acquitted London, July 6. criminal trial, which was characterized throughout with emotional scenes rare in the history of English jurisprudence, had a remarkable ending to-day—the fifth day of the hearing—when Mr. Justice Horridge, without calling evidence for the defence, directed the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty.
The prisoner, Mrs. Pace, aged 36, was thus acquitted on the charge of poisoning her husband, sheep farmer of Coleford, Forest of De with arsenic.
Mrs, Pace was arrested on Muy 22 following the verdict of the coroner, after an inquest which had lasted for months, having been adjourned fourteen times. Popular sympathy throughout the trial was with her. Mr. A. A. Purcell, the Labour MI. P. for the Forest of Dean, raised a fund for her defence which quickly re hed £1,300, The crowds outside the Court cheered her daily throughout. the trial and hooted her deceased husband's relatives, These demonstrations culminated in an extraordinary scene after the verdict was known, the multitude shouting "hurrah" for the prisoner, judge and jury,
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