DOGATHA CHRISTIE

A PET dog may have solved a notorious 160-year-old murder after digging up a bottle of poison buried in the garden.

- BY JAMES CAVEN

Stanley the Labrador unearthed the blue vial under his lawn in Clyst Honiton, UK.

His owner Paul Phillips, 49, thought it was a pipe - until he saw the words "Not To Be Taken" on the glass.

Paul then discovered a woman who had lived two doors down to him, Mary Ann Ashford, killed her husband William in 1865 by poisoning his tea.