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Blackpool. They turned down what
Mrs. Marsden had to offer at 25 Ade-
laide Street because there was no
adjoining bath.

“Must have a _ bath,’ muttered
Smith, as they turned away to look
elsewhere.

They found what they wanted at
Mrs. Crossley’s establishment a few
blocks away.

Death From Drowning

The next evening the new Mrs.
Smith had a bath.

And while she was in the tub, her
husband stepped out for a minute to
a neighborhood delicatessen for
a late supper. When he came back he

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mounted the stairs to the flat. A
minute later he dashed downstairs to
tell Mrs. Crossley that there must be
something the matter with his wife.
He couldn’t make her hear in the
bathroom.

It seems rather odd that he didn’t
investigate because the bathroom door
wasn’t locked..

He and the landlady entered the
bathroom and found the young bride,
dead in a tubfull of water.

Two days later there was an in-
quest and the bereaved husband gave
his evidence in broken tones. The
verdict was death from drowning.

At the funeral the next day, the
few relatives that got there in time,
saw the distraught Smith. But not for
long. Right after the funeral he ex-
cused himself and that afternoon sold
off the dead woman’s clothes to a
second-hand store. The next day he
was in London meeting his wife’s
lawyers and arranging for a probate
of her will. Smith had thoughtfully
made her take out a $2,500 insurance
policy with himself as beneficiary.

With these matters cleaned up he
hurried back to the long suffering
Edith Pegler. He told her that he
had been to Spain, collected up a lot
of antiques and sold them at a pretty
good price.

Again the couple wander from town
to town, stopping in lodgings.

It’s now September, 1914, just ten
months after the death of Alice
Burnham. World War I had broken
out the month before, and Europe’s
chancellories were in a tailspin.

But with Smith, it is business as
usual; walking along the seafront one
day, he spotted a 21-year-old domestic

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She was watching the ocean when
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