Wanganui farmer, Walter Bolton was born in 1888 and grew up in the village of Mangamahu close to Wanganui. In 1913, he married local girl Beatrice Mabel Jones. They lived the usual life of a farming family at that time but unfortunately Beatrice died in July 1956 after a long and debilitating illness. An autopsy found traces of arsenic in her body, and a police investigation was launched. Further tests found small amounts of arsenic in Beatrice’s tea and the police decided that the amount she drank over the previous year was enough to kill her. Officials suspected foul play and tested water on the Bolton’s farm. They found the water contained arsenic, and traces of the poison was also found in Walter and one of his daughters. However, in the year before Beatrice’s death, it was discovered that Walter had paid for his wife’s expensive medical care, which seemed inconsistent with a systematic attempt to poison her. Beatrice’s sister, Florence Doherty, who often cared for Beatrice was initially suspected of her murder.
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