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Herbert Rowse Armstrong

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456:, for the murder of his wife by poison, supposedly disguised as an illness. Greenwood had been acquitted. The fact that the three men who brought the charges to the police included Armstrong's business rival and father-in-law looked suspicious to some people. It was believed by some that Armstrong was being framed. However, despite the widespread belief that he would be acquitted, the prosecution case was a strong one. Katharine Armstrong's body was riddled with arsenic and the quantity at the time of her death must have been far higher; Armstrong had made huge purchases of arsenic. The defence had to make the jury believe that Mrs Armstrong had committed suicide by getting out of bed, going downstairs and helping herself to arsenic without anyone seeing or hearing her; or that massive doses of arsenic had somehow got into her system by accident. All witnesses confirmed that towards the end she was almost paralysed. Dr 360:
generally held that Mrs Armstrong was a singularly unpleasant woman who regularly abused and humiliated her husband in public, and it did not go unnoticed that, though the local newspaper described Mrs Armstrong as a 'popular Hay lady,' few people attended her funeral. On the other hand, Mrs Armstrong, whenever separated from her husband due either to her stays in hospitals or to his service in the War, is reported to have expressed her desire for the family to be reunited at the earliest opportunity.
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will following his wife's death, giving him control of her estate, but studies suggest that it was probably forged. For some time before the Velinewydd estate affair, Armstrong's business had been in financial difficulties. Difficulties in relation to the sale of the Velinewydd estate made things even worse for him.
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nevertheless stated on the death certificate that she had died of gastritis, aggravated by heart disease and nephritis. Outwardly, Armstrong had shown nothing but forbearing concern for his wife, sitting at her bedside reading to her in the evenings, and leaving the office early whenever possible to be with her.
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despite the fact that it was the autumn and there were only twenty dandelions in the garden of Mayfield, the Armstrongs' home. The chemist was suspicious of Martin's sudden illness, and when Martin told him he had been to tea at Mayfield, Davies became even more so. Meanwhile, Dr Hincks was struck by
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Armstrong eventually invited Martin to a meeting at his home on 26 October 1921. Martin found tea laid out with cakes and buttered scones. Martin probably thought that Armstrong wanted to discuss completion of the property sale, but the two men merely discussed everyday things and office organisation
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It was subsequently discovered that a few weeks before the tea party, a box of chocolates had been anonymously sent to the Martins. Mrs Martin's sister-in-law had eaten some and become violently ill. Fortunately, some chocolates remained and when examined, some were found to have a small nozzle-like
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Whatever the truth, service in the First World War had opened up new experiences for the Major and he had had several affairs. He also went to dances in Hay and made passes at local girls. On the day of Mrs Armstrong's death, the servants closed all the curtains as a mark of respect. The first thing
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However, the evidence against Armstrong, though considerable, was nonetheless circumstantial. No one had seen the Major administering poison, and Mrs Armstrong had occasionally spoken of suicide; some medicines contained arsenic, and there were plenty of other people coming into contact with her at
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After the trial, two possible motives emerged for Katharine Armstrong's poisoning. First, Armstrong had decided he wanted a different, more congenial wife. Second, Katharine had written a will in 1917 leaving the bulk of her estate not to her husband, but to their children. Armstrong produced a new
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It would seem that there had been problems in the marriage. Though authors who have studied the case have assumed that the Armstrongs' marriage was a failure due to the domineering attitude of Mrs Armstrong to her husband, the precise nature of the Armstrongs' relationship is far from clear. It was
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Scotland Yard moved slowly so as not to warn Armstrong of their suspicions. They arrested him on 31 December 1921, and he was charged with the attempted murder of Oswald Martin. He maintained he was innocent. When he was arrested, the police found a packet of arsenic in his pocket and many more in
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Oswald Martin was Armstrong's only rival solicitor in Hay. They were representing opposing parties in a property sale, the Velinewydd estate, which could have resulted in Armstrong's client losing and Armstrong having to pay a large sum to Martin's client. The details of the transaction remain
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Mrs Armstrong's condition began to improve at Barnwood, and she was discharged home on 22 January 1921. Shortly after her return home her condition deteriorated again and she died a month after her return on 22 February 1921 at the age of 48. Hincks was puzzled by Mrs Armstrong's symptoms, but
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tended to grow. One small pouch was found on his person following his arrest, and there was no reasonable explanation offered for his carrying it around, particularly as the arrest was in December. Armstrong did not come off well under questioning by Mr Justice Darling concerning this point.
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Mayfield. The prosecution failed to show how it was Armstrong and only Armstrong who administered poison, and no one else. As for the Martin poisoning, other than gaining Armstrong a little time, the death of Oswald Martin would not in any way have relieved the Major's business problems.
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although Martin could have raised the matter himself. Armstrong spoke of being lonely after the death of his wife. During the meeting over tea, Armstrong picked up a scone, said, "'scuse fingers" and handed it to Martin, who ate it. After returning home, Martin became violently ill.
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The Armstrong family moved into an imposing family home called Mayfield in the village of Cusop Dingle not far from Hay where Armstrong ran his law firm of Cheese & Armstrong. Armstrong was a hard-working man and rose in the social community of the town. He was appointed
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hole in the base. Dr Hincks contacted the Home Office and explained his suspicions about what had happened to Martin, later voicing suspicions about Mrs Armstrong's death. Samples of the chocolates and Martin's urine were examined and found to contain arsenic, and the
388:. It appeared that the money entrusted to Armstrong as a deposit on the sale was gone. Martin kept mentioning the matter of completion to Armstrong, but the latter repeatedly delayed and it remained uncompleted by the time of Armstrong's trial. 660:. The judge who re-examined the case concluded that although the prosecution had presented a serious case against Armstrong, the trial judge had erred in law in his summing up, and that his conviction was therefore unsound. 1267:. pp. 53–85: "A Tale of Two Lawyers": The author compares the cases against Greenwood and Armstrong. He also points out a counter theory that Armstrong may have been innocent but framed by Martin, Davies, and Hincks. 750: 504:
Mr Justice Darling stated that he concurred with the jury's view, and that it was absurd and unsupported by any evidence that Mrs Armstrong had committed suicide. He then sentenced Armstrong to death. On 16 May 1922, the
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Armstrong's home in Cusop was subsequently owned by Martin Beales, a solicitor working in Armstrong's former office in Hay. Beales believed that Armstrong was innocent and published a book arguing his case.
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reported that when asked by the prison governor on the morning of the execution if he had anything to say, Armstrong's last words were "I am innocent of the crime for which I have been condemned to die."
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how similar Martin's symptoms were to those of Katharine Armstrong. Hincks, Martin, and Davies discussed the situation, and Davies warned the Martins against receiving gifts from Armstrong.
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insisted that the fatal dose must have been taken within twenty-four hours of death, and Dr Hincks affirmed that for Mrs Armstrong to have taken it herself was "absolutely impossible".
1376: 452:, one of the leading criminal trial barristers of the day. Public and media interest was enormous. A year earlier there had been a trial at Carmarthen Assizes of another solicitor, 619:
in 1995. As well as telling the main story of Armstrong's crimes, the series develops the courtship of Martin and his wife and shows the effects of events on Armstrong's children.
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Rose, Andrew; 'Lethal Witness', Sutton Publishing 2007, Kent State University Press 2009; Chapter Nine ('Excuse Fingers'). Discusses Spilsbury's major role as prosecution witness.
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In May 1919, Katharine Armstrong's health first began to weaken, with certain symptoms that the local physician, Dr Thomas Hincks, diagnosed as a case of brachial
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on 31 May 1922. Ellis claimed that before the trap was opened on the gallows Armstrong called out, "Kitty I'm coomin to ye!" although this is unconfirmed. The
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Armstrong's offices in Hay-on-Wye in 2014; he was arrested here on 31 December 1921. The building is still used by a firm of solicitors
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from St Catharine's in 1901. Initially practising in Liverpool, later Newton Abbot, he successfully applied for a vacancy in
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Armstrong made no confession and adamantly maintained his total innocence to the end. On 13 April 1922 at
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Martin's father-in-law, John Davies, the chemist (pharmacist) in Hay, had made several sales of
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Famous Trials 2: Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Field and Gray, George Joseph Smith, Ronald True
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becoming a serial killer under the ghostly influence of Armstrong (played by
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that Armstrong did on returning home from the office was to open them again.
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Armstrong's trial for the murder of his wife began at Hereford before
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is caught with packets of arsenic, resembling Armstrong's case. In
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unclear; Martin subsequently said there was a question about the
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and rose to the rank of captain. In 1914 he was called up in the
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Armstrong was also the subject of a 1994 TV mini-series called
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Exhumation of a Murder: The Life and Trial of Major Armstrong
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The Armstrong case seems to have loosely inspired the novel
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Beyond Suspicion: True Stories of Unexpected Killers
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Then Armstrong had to explain his habits concerning
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and examined by the eminent Home Office pathologist
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English solicitor and convicted murderer (1869–1922)
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Index

Herbert W. Armstrong
Major

Plymouth
Gloucester Prison
Gloucester
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
British Army
World War I
Territorial Decoration
TD
MA
hanged
Cusop Dingle
Hay-on-Wye
arsenic poisoning
Plymouth
Edge Hill
sizar
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
MA (Cantab.)
Hay-on-Wye
Breconshire
West Teignmouth
clerk to the justices
Volunteer Force
First World War
Royal Engineers
Territorial Force
neuritis

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