
Dandelion Dead
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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Cast

Peter Vaughan
Dr. Hinks

Bernard Hepton

Don Henderson

Lesley Sharp
Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies

Diana Quick
Marion Glassford-Gale

Michael Kitchen
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong

David Thewlis
Oswald Martin

Sarah Miles
Catherine Armstrong

Robert Stephens
Henry Vaughan

Roger Lloyd Pack
Phillips

Patrick Godfrey
Griffiths

Paul Brooke
Arthur

Amanda Walker
Bessie





























