Trial of Herbert Rowse Armstrong
By: edited by Filson Young
Contributors: Young, Filson, 1876-1938, editor; Great Britain. Assizes (Herefordshire)
Series: Notable British trials; Notable British trials series
Publisher: W. Hodge & Co.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Trials (Murder); Murder; Cases; Uxoricide
Description: "Armstrong was tried at the Shire Hall, Hereford, for the murder of his wife; if he had been acquitted of that there was another charge on the indictment accusing him of the attempted murder of Mr. Martin, a fellow solicitor and business rival. There is support for the view that if the exhumation of Mrs. Armstrong's body, ten months after its burial, had not revealed the presence of arsenic, and led to Armstrong's conviction, other graves would have been disturbed and other tragedies brought to light. This was the last murder case tried by Lord Darling, the greatest criminal judge of his day."
Notes: Trial at the Herefordshire summer assizes, April 3-13, 1922, for the murder of his wife, Katherine Mary Armstrong.