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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936
AT
MURDER TRIAL
DORSET ASSIZES
(Continued from Page 7.)
{quith; KC. and Mr. John Maude; for the defence, Mr. J. D. Casswell and Mr. L. R. Dunne.
Talk About Marriage The first witness.. Leonard Ed- ward Parsons, à dealer, of Bride- water, stated that he first met Mrs. Bryant at the end of 1953 and, becoming friendly with husband and wife, stayed with them different occasions.
Intimacy began at the end of
"He then asked for the bottle and tipped it in a bucket at the side of the bed. The medicine had a lot of powder in the bottom of)... the bottle."
Widow's Alleged
Statement
I DO NOT LIKE THE MAN
“SQUIRE OF BLOOMSBURY”
Struck By Car While Helping Woman
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The inquest on Wiliam Tacker Midgley, 67, known as "The Squire of Bloomsbury," was opez- ed at St. Pancras last month and adjourned.
Mr. Midgley was struck by a car after helping a blind woman across the street, and died in the Royal Free Hospital
The only evidence was that of Miss-Hannah Brook, of Maple- street. W., who said that Mr. Midgley lived at Dickens-build- ings. Herbrand-street, W.C
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Chief Inspector Bell, of Scot-1 1933. and continued on and off land Yard, read a long statement during 1934 and 1985.
He and which, he said, Mrs. Bryant made servation, despite the fact that the Mrs. Bryant had stayed together on January 1. When he saw ber man died on December 22 at Dorchester, Weymouth, Ply-on the previous day she had said:
EUROPE "Merely from looking at the or- mouth and Yeovil
"I am going to speak the truth gans," said the witness, "I came Asked if Mrs-Bryant ever made The truth will stand out in time." to the conclusion that their ja suggestion about marriage, Par-
The Chief Inspector quoted from pearance was entirely consistent sons replied: "Yes, she said she the alleged statement of Jamiary with acute arsenical poisoning. thought that she would soon be a1 as follows:--
and I felt quite certain when I widow and would I marry ber. "I know a man named Leonard came to make my final analysis That was in the summer of last Parsons. He was known as Bill that I should find arsenic. year."
Moss. He told my husband he did "When I made the analysis, I The Solicitor-General: Was it not like his lodgings and my hus- found that arsenic was in every only once that she said that-Itband asked him to come and stay organ I examined. I have made happened more than once.
with us. He slept on the couch. jan-analysis of portions of the or- Refore he left
"My husband asked Mass to find somewhere else I got on to my estimated that the body contained, gans, and by computation I have: husband and said. You know fine 409 grains of arsenic.” well the place isn't big enough.
The Solicitor-General: Have What did you want to ask, the you come to any conclusion as to man for?
what Frederick John Bryant died "I got very angry and Moss from?--I have no doubt .. what- went away on the Saturday even-soever that he died from acute ing. I did not tell Fred (her has arsenical poisoning. band) that I went away with him. "The finding of arsenic in the I took my two children Lily and finger-nails 33 parts per 1,000,000 Billy.
-supports the view strongly that the attacks on December 11 and is
ber
hotse in
October, he told Mrs. Bryant he was not coming back. She refused to let tim take his clothes.
No Weed Killer
The Solicitor-General: Have you any ever had in your possession weed-killer? No.
Have you ever taken, any weed- killer into the Bryants' house? - Never.
that Parsons. who said
Vira. Bryant had told him he was the father of her youngest child, agre- he led in cross-examination that
had left a woman after living with her for 11 years, and that she had four chüdren of his.
Mr. Casswell held up a blue bottle and suggested that on one occasion Parsons poured some of the contents on a stone in front
At Dorchester
"We went to Dorchester. Moss August were attacks of scute ar and me slept together in the same senical poisoning," added Dr. Roche bed in one room and the two child-17
Lynch
More Than Four Grains
ren in another. I stopped until Monday dinner and then got wor- He observed that the least ried about my husband and the recorded fatal dose of arsenic was 12 grains, but that quantity seem- "Bill Moss got single tickets for ed exceptional. He would
children.
jof Mrs. Bryant and that it fizzled /us back My husband was pleas-thought that doses greater
Parsons denied this.
Mr. Casswell: I suggest that you that left that bottle behind and
her.-No.
When I slept with that were generally required. ed to see me. Moss I did not allow him to have anything to do with me.
-
have
than
The Solicitor-General: When
COM-
Would there be more than that
Most certainly.
The Solicitor-General asked. Dr.)
"Three days later Bill Moss sent you are dealing with your you said to Mrs. Bryant that if you poured that down her throat me a telegram asking me to meet putation of 4.09 grains of arsenic,
him at Babylon Hill. I gave the when is that? After death. that is what would happen inside telegram to my husband. We all before vomiting and diarrhoes?
(went to Bradford Hollow.
Medicine Untouched Introduced As Husband
So the presumption is that there "There was a bit of a flare up was a quantity taken more than Parsons said that he had told SAILINGS Mrs. Bryant quite definitely that but my hsband did not strike Moss.
four grains? Very much greater. My husband had Mess back at the he would not marry her.
But is 4.09 grains a potentially He declared that Mrs. Bryant, house the same night. He stayed fatal dose in itself? Definitely. while away with him, sometimes with us nearly all the time until used the names of Harris and we went to Coombe Farm After Roche Lynch if he had ever known Moss. While at Plymouth she in-we went to live at Coombe, Moss of the case of a suicide attempt- troduced him to her sister as her came to live with us. My husband husband.
and Mess used to go about every-ing to take his life a second time by arsenic when once he had re- Mr. Casswell: Do you remember where together.
covered. "There was never any question a time at Weymouth when Mrs.
"No," replied. Dr. Roche-Lynch-|
child who was at the eye infirm again. did not like the man which he go through leads
and I do not like him. ary? Yes
There was a second visit to "I know there has been a lot of him if he is determined to try Weymouth, was there not?--Yes. talk about Moss, or Parsons,
On that occasion were the police I now know him, being the father looking for you?—Yes.
of my baby. That is not true.
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to take his life a second time, to'
choose some other mode, unless, of course, he is absolutely insane.”
Arsenic In Milk And Tea It was something about "I have never had anything to
Dr. Roche Lynch produced He was only bottle of weed-killer which, he hawker's licence, was it not? No, do with the man.
there as a lodger. I have never said, contained 68 per cent. of arrears of maintenance..
So that you were down there at been the same as a wife to him.
arsenious-cxide. He also produc Weymouth with Mrs. Bryant and What I mean is that I have Devered a bottle of milk which had in not paying for your own children? carried on with Moss (or Parsons)
it 10 grains of weedkiller, equiva- I was there to earn it.
in a bad way.
lent. to 7 grains of arsenic; and a bottle of tea with the game amount of weedkiller in it.
I suggest to you that always it
"I have not seen him since he
was you urging Mrs. Bryant to go left us on Tuesday, October 15 and away and not she urging you to I have not heard from him. take ber?It is wrong.
C
Husband II
Police Sergt. Douglas Taylor,
"
Not Insured
“I did not interfere in any way
of Sherborne, said that on Decem- with the medicine after I collected ber 23 Mrs. Bryant told him that it from the surgery and no one
The exhibits were carefully ex- amined by Mr. Justice Mackinnon and shown by him to the jury.
Dr. Roche Lynch said that among the articles he examined was a wo- He found
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Cross-examined by Mr. Casswell, Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, dydney and that his last illness began
Replying to Mr. Casswell, In- about ten days before.
On Saturday, December 21, he spector Bell said that when in the Boche Lynch said there was had sausages for breakfast and statement phrases like. "I did not nothing from which he could say that Bryant suffered from ar- made a hearty meal. Shortly after-interfere in any way with wards he was taken with pains in medicine" occurred, this was in senical poisoning as long ago 25
May auswer to questions; it was not a the stomach....
Perfectly Possible suggestion on Mrs. Bryant's part On Sergeant Taylor said that
Mr. Casewell: Supposing a man December 24 he went to Coombe evidence that for 11 to 12 years Mrs. Priscila Loveridge gave
had been doing sheep dipping and| and asked Mrs. Bryant for a bottle of medicine which had been she lived with Leonard Parsons, afterwards had eaten his food with "He left me three years six his hands without cleaning them? 22. She supplied on December gave him the bottle and he sent months ago," said Mrs. Loveridge,If he has arsenic on his hands. fectly possible for arsenie to get it to Dr. Roche Lynch. Home who added that she had had child-when he eats his food it is per Office analyst. He asked her for ren by him.
"He is a fancy woman's men," into his stomach in that way. another bottle of medicine which
Altogether more than 100 he understood had been supplied she stated in cross-examination.
by Mr. Casswell. "He is a man hibits were handed to the witness, of who would break any man's home including scores of envelopes com She said. "Another battle medicine was supplied by Dr. Me," she declared. Carthy on the Saturday evening and was left in the surgery for me on the slab.
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ME Cesswell: Have you ever I called for it. I handed it to Mrs. Ostler. I was present when
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