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Harold Greenwood (solicitor)
Harold Greenwood (1874 – 17 January 1929) was an English solicitor who was accused and acquitted of murdering his wife by arsenic poisoning. He was tried at Carmarthen Assizes in 1920 and defended by Edward Marshall Hall; his case is a rare example of a legal professional being charged with murder.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sally Clark: Law Gazette )〕
==Facts==
Harold Greenwood, a Yorkshire solicitor, moved to Wales in 1898〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greenwood Murder Trial )〕 and he, his wife Mabel (née Bowater),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harold Greenwood )〕 and their four children, lived comfortably, with domestic staff, in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. Mabel was not in good health and on 16 June 1919, complained of stomach pains after eating a gooseberry pie for lunch; "it always disagrees with me", she said.〔 Greenwood gave her brandy, which caused her to vomit, and Dr Griffiths was summoned and dispensed medication. By the early hours of the 17th, however, she had died and the cause of death was certified by Griffiths as heart disease.〔 Within a few months of her funeral, Greenwood married Gladys Jones, who was much younger than Mabel, causing much local gossip.〔 Mabel had been an active and popular member of the local community〔 and in October 1919 the gossip had reached such a level that the police proposed to exhume the body for forensic examination; when Greenwood was informed of this, he replied "Just the very thing – I am quite agreeable".〔
Mabel Greenwood's remains were examined and found to contain of arsenic, but no evidence of heart disease.〔 Accordingly, an inquest was held in June 1920 at which the jury returned a unanimous verdict of "murder by arsenical poisoning ... administered by Harold Greenwood". The jury had been told that Greenwood had purchased weedkiller containing arsenic.〔 Greenwood's comment on hearing the verdict was "Oh dear!", and he was arrested on 17 June 1920.〔
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