Jenny Morgan

Unsolved Murders

Age: 46

Sex: female

Date: 22 Jan 1923

Place: 125 Caerleon Road, Newport, Monmouthshire

Jenny Morgan died from arsenic poisoning on 22 January 1923 at 125 Caerleon Road, Newport.

Her 23-year-old son, a clerk, was charged with her murder following the inquest, but acquitted at the magistrates hearing on Tuesday 24 April 1923 and formally discharged at the Monmouthshire Assizes on Friday 29 June 1923. He had lived at 49 Morden Road in Newport.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

see National Archives - MEPO 3/849, ASSI 6/58/7

see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 07 February 1923

see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 25 April 1923

see Northern Whig - Saturday 10 March 1923

see Londonderry Sentinel - Thursday 10 May 1923

see Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday 27 March 1923

see Shields Daily News - Tuesday 20 February 1923

see Pall Mall Gazette - Tuesday 20 February 1923

see Sunday Illustrated - Sunday 04 March 1923 (image of Jenny Morgan)

see Southern Reporter - Thursday 15 March 1923

see Pall Mall Gazette - Wednesday 07 March 1923

see Berks and Oxon Advertiser - Friday 29 June 1923

see Unsolved 1923