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afternoon fairly bubbling over with excitement. She’d met her husband again, and all was forgiven.

Could it have been hypnotic in- fluence as some suggested.

So the loving couple traveled around again for a couple of months until they arrived at Herne Bay, 12 miles from Margate, on England’s southeast coast.

Here Smith rented a house, and just to get things shipshape, suggested that his wife make a will, leaving him everything she had. And just to show that everything was on the level, he made a similar will in his wife’s favor.

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For Smith by now had a plan work- ing in his mind—a faultless plan to get rid of Miss Mundy.

The groundwork he laid the day after they arrived at Herne Bay.

Murder in the Bathtub

Mrs. Williams, it seems, was not feeling very well.

Whether Smith suggested she didn’t look well, or what it was we don’t know. Anyway the solicituous Smith took her round to Dr. French. The doctor didn’t see anything greatly the matter with her. A trifle out of sorts, nothing serious. The weather might account for it, it was oppressively hot for a day or two.

That night the slightly feverish woman decides to take a bath, and in a few minutes, without a struggle, she drowns in the bath.

Smith, without draining the water, dashes round the corner for Doctor French and on their return the pair take the dead woman out of the tub.

Of course there’s an inquest, attend- ed by Smith, the bereaved husband, who is speechless with grief. And the jury come to the verdict that Mrs. Henry Williams came to her death because “while taking a bath she had an epileptic seizure, causing her to fall back into the water and be drowned thus, the said deceased died from misadventure.”

Within 24 hours Smith was working on the lawyers and in due course got all Miss Mundy’s money.

Her relatives in Bristol were natur- ally startled at the quick demise of the young woman, but there was the inquest. The matter had been probed and found accidental.

Somehow Smith couldn’t get Edith Pegler out of his mind; so he con- tacted her, and they resumed house- keeping at Margate. It’s curious how Edith seems to have been ready to resume life with Smith whenever he walked in the front door.

But again he’s back at his old tricks —these long business trips that keep him away for months.

This time it’s Alice Burnham. He had spotted her in church one Sun- day at Southsea. What on earth Smith was doing in a church one’ll never know.

Alice was 25, good looking and com- panion to an elderly invalid. And besides she had $700 in the bank.

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Once the ice was broken it was the same old story: She was engaged on October 15 and married him at Ports- mouth on November 4. Smith married under his correct name this time.

Although Smith didn’t know it, there was one flaw in his performance this time. Usually he studiously avoided meeting the relatives of his brides or any of their friends.

This time he visited the Burnham home, and met Alice’s father. The old man sized Smith us, and didn’t like what he saw.

On December 10, Mr. and Mrs. Smith went looking for rooms in

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