Dandelion Dead

“Could He Blow Them Away?”

In 1921, Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk living in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, was arrested. Charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them, Armstrong claimed at trial that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn.

Creator

Michael Chaplin

Status

Ended

First air date

30/10/1994

Original language

English