Though there is certainly reason to suspect Mrs. Manning of foul play, allow me to play Devil's Advocate for a moment. > The natural reaction, one would have thought, on finding her husband > dead, > would have been to scream the house down, or at the very least wake the > couple next door and ask for help??? > > If she had nothing to hide, why try and mop up the blood, and go to the > trouble of shutting the razor and placing it on the table top? What was > the > bundle of clothing all about??? > > Why did it take Mrs. Manning between 3 and 4 hours to set off to report > the > death? > > Why walk to Caernarfon to her son's house, a distance of about nine > miles, > when there was a police station at Bangor within easy walking distance. > Could it have been so that Mr. R. A. Poole, Esq., would have time to > "fix" > things??? In my own family, there was a mysterious death that was explained as a sudden illness, but is believed to have actually been a suicide. The reason that no one is certain how the man died is because of the stigma such an act carried in the 1940's in my family- no one wanted to admit it then, and even now. So in my own family, I can see any of the above happening in the event of a suicide; the attempt at clean-up, the first impulse to go to someone other than the authorities, putting away the weapon, getting rid of the clothes, even trying to use your influence to keep the truth from getting out. There's an American movie where a woman comes home to find someone has committed suicide in the house. Upon discovering the body the first thing she does is to snatch up the suicide note- and eat it. I found this hilarious- it's exactly what my grandmother would have done. Despite all this, I'm not convinced that Mrs. Manning is completely innocent, but neither am I certain that she is guilty. All that seems clear to me is that the chocolate teapot should have been fired. Rachel

But what about all that moaning? Would Mrs. Manning not have gone for help at that point? Was she able to sleep through his moaning? Did she not attempt to stop him as he was obviously not doing it very quietly. Just some more thoughts. Arlene > Though there is certainly reason to suspect Mrs. Manning of foul play, > allow me to play Devil's Advocate for a moment. > >> The natural reaction, one would have thought, on finding her husband >> dead, >> would have been to scream the house down, or at the very least wake the >> couple next door and ask for help??? >> >> If she had nothing to hide, why try and mop up the blood, and go to the >> trouble of shutting the razor and placing it on the table top? What was >> the >> bundle of clothing all about??? >> >> Why did it take Mrs. Manning between 3 and 4 hours to set off to report >> the >> death? >> >> Why walk to Caernarfon to her son's house, a distance of about nine >> miles, >> when there was a police station at Bangor within easy walking distance. >> Could it have been so that Mr. R. A. Poole, Esq., would have time to >> "fix" >> things??? > > In my own family, there was a mysterious death that was explained as a > sudden illness, but is believed to have actually been a suicide. The > reason that no one is certain how the man died is because of the stigma > such an act carried in the 1940's in my family- no one wanted to admit > it then, and even now. > > So in my own family, I can see any of the above happening in the event > of a suicide; the attempt at clean-up, the first impulse to go to > someone other than the authorities, putting away the weapon, getting rid > of the clothes, even trying to use your influence to keep the truth from > getting out. > > There's an American movie where a woman comes home to find someone has > committed suicide in the house. Upon discovering the body the first > thing she does is to snatch up the suicide note- and eat it. I found > this hilarious- it's exactly what my grandmother would have done. > > Despite all this, I'm not convinced that Mrs. Manning is completely > innocent, but neither am I certain that she is guilty. All that seems > clear to me is that the chocolate teapot should have been fired. > > Rachel > > > ==== WLS-CAERNARFONSHIRE Mailing List ==== > Cewch ddanfon negeseuon Cymraeg neu Saesneg i'r rhestr hon > This list covers a bilingual area, in which messages in both Welsh and > English are welcome > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >